Eileen Chengyin Chow () is a sinologist, Chinese translator and University Teacher. She works for the

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and for the

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. She graduated in literature from

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and studied her Ph.D. in

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. Together with Carlos Rojas, in 2009 she translated to English ''

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'', the longest novel written by the

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novelist

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. The novel was shortlisted for the

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and was awarded France's Prix Courrier International in 2008. She is director of the

Cheng Shewo Cheng Shewo (; 28 August 18981 January 1991) was a journalist, publisher, and educator of the Republic of China. He was the founder of Shih Hsin University in Taiwan. Biography Cheng was born in Nanjing in 1898, with his ancestral home in Xiangx ...

Institute of Chinese Journalism at the Shih Hsin University. She is the granddaughter of

, a journalist, publisher, and educator of the

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, who founded the

, and the niece of Taiwanese sociologist Lucie Cheng.

Selected publications

* Rojas, C., and E. C. Y. Chow. ''Rethinking chinese popular culture: Cannibalizations of the canon'', 2008. * Yu, H.

: A Novel by Yu Hua. Translated by Carlos Rojas and E. Cheng-yin Chow. Pantheon, 2009. * Rojas, C., and Eileen Cheng-yin Chow, eds. ''The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Cinemas''. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. * Rojas, C., and E. Chow, eds. ''Oxford Handbook of Chinese Cinemas''. Oxford University Press, 2013 *

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, translated by Eileen Cheng-yin Chow: ''1949: China, Trauma and Memory,'' Los Angeles Review of Books, 2020.

References

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