The Wellsweep Press was a UK-based independent publishing house, specialising in the publication of literary translation from Chinese. It was founded by poet and literary translator
John Cayley in the 1980s, and published books from 1988 through the 1990s. It played a particularly important role in publishing contemporary and avant-garde Chinese literature in translation in the 1990s.
Publications
* (1988) ''Songs of my heart : yong huai shi: the Chinese lyric poetry of
Ruan Ji
Ruan Ji (210–263), courtesy name Sizong, was a Chinese musician, poet, and military officer who lived in the late Eastern Han dynasty and Three Kingdoms period. He was one of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove. The guqin melody ''Jiukuang'' ( ...
'', tr. Graham Hartill and Wu Fusheng. (Wellsweep Chinese Poets 1)
* (1989) ''Wine flying: a Chinese quatrain'', by Qi Qian, tr. John Cayley
* (1990) ''The deep woods' business: uncollected translations from the Chinese'', by
Arthur Cooper
* (1990) ''Plantains in the rain: selected Chinese poems of
Du Mu'', tr. by R.F. Burton (Wellsweep Chinese Poets 3)
* (1990) ''Poems of the West Lake: translations from the Chinese'', by
A. C. Graham
* (1991) ''Blades from the willows'', by
Huanzhulouzhu
Li Shoumin ( zh, t=李壽民, w=Li Shou-min; 1902–1961), better known by his pen name Huanzhulouzhu ( zh, t=還珠樓主, w=Huan-chu-lou-chu, l='Owner of Building of Returning the Pearl', links=no), was a Chinese ''wuxia'' and ''xianxia novel, ...
, tr. Robert Chard
* (1992) ''The frozen torch: selected prose poems'', by Shang Ch'in, tr.
N.G.D. Malmqvist (Wellsweep Chinese Poets 4)
* (1993) ''Ritual & diplomacy: the
Macartney mission to China, 1792-1794 ; papers presented at the 1992 conference of the British Association for Chinese Studies marking the bicentenary of the Macartney mission to China'', ed. by Robert A. Bickers.
* (1993) ''Ruan Ji's island & (
Tu Fu) in the cities'', by Graham Hartill
* (1994) ''Under-sky underground'', ed. by Henry Y.H. Zhao and John Cayley, with foreword by
Jonathan D. Spence (Chinese Writing Today 1)
* (1994) ''The lost boat : avant-garde fiction from China'', ed. by Henry Y.H. Zhao
* (1994) ''Whistling free : the complete non-dramatic lyrics of
Ma Zhiyuan'', tr. by William Dolby.
* (1994) ''From the first emperor to Khublai Khan: an introduction to studying Chinese history'', by T H Barrett
* (1995) ''Non-person singular: selected poems'' by
Yang Lian, tr.
Brian Holton (translator) (Wellsweep Chinese Poets 6)
* (1996) ''Abandoned wine'', ed. by Henry Y.H. Zhao and John Cayley, with foreword by
Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet, essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist. His early poetry has been associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance and he has been described as the "poet laureate ...
(Chinese Writing Today 2)
Digital poetry
[John Cayley's website. http://www.shadoof.net/in/inhome.html Retrieved 28 October 2018]
* (1993) ''Indra's net, or, Hologography'', by John Cayley.
* (1993) ''Collocations: Indra's net II'', by John Cayley
* (1993) ''Moods & conjunctions: Indra's net III'', by John Cayley
* (1995) ''An essay on the golden lion: Indra's net IV'', by John Cayley
* (1995) ''Leaving the city: Indra's net V'', by John Cayley
* (1995) ''Book unbound: Indra's net VI'', by John Cayley
* (1995) ''The speaking clock: Indra's net VII'', by John Cayley
* (1996) ''Pressing the REVEAL CODE key: Indra's net VIII'', by John Cayley
* (1996) ''Oisleánd: Indra's net IX'', by John Cayley
References
External links
John Cayleyat Brown University.
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Publishing companies of the United Kingdom
Chinese literature