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Once you've registered, joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the Zoom webinar at: https:\/\/myumi.ch\/E7rRM\n\nMalaysian-Taiwanese novelist Chang Kuei-hsing (b. 1956, publishes as Zhang Guixing) has spent\ndecades doing for tropical Asia what Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez did for Latin America: enchanting\na land with a violent history. Set in wartime Sarawak, *The Crossing of the Boars* (Ye zhu du he,\n2018, rev. 2024), released in English this year, dazzles with a wartime mystery enmeshed in an\necological fantasia: ghostly colonists mating like guppies, macaques mirroring Japanese war\ncriminals, bomber storks, ominous urinating porcupines, wildfire-igniting squirrels, monstrous\nquagmires, vengeful flying she-vampires, and herd upon herd of insatiable bearded pigs.\n\nChristopher Rea discusses how he and Julie M. Wang rendered this award-winning novel into\nEnglish, including the process of researching a historical epic whose architectonic sentences\nteem with flora and fauna found only in Borneo. In doing so, he offers answers to a more\ngeneral question: When faced with a challenging text, how can a translator get out alive?\n\nChristopher Rea is professor of modern Chinese literature at the University of British Columbia.\nHis book-length translations from Chinese into English include *China\u2019s Chaplin: Comic Stories\nand Farces by Xu Zhuodai* (Cornell, open access), *The Book of Swindles and More Swindles from\nthe Late Ming* (both with Bruce Rusk, Columbia), *Humans, Beasts, and Ghosts by Qian Zhongshu*\n(Columbia), and Zhang Guixing\u2019s *The Crossing of the Boars: A Novel* (with Julie M. Wang,\nColumbia, 2026). 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