LIVE VIRTUAL CONVERSATION | 1PM (NEW YORK) | 7PM (PARIS)
Join us for our fourth annual “Frankfurt in Paris” book talk organized in partnership with Columbia University Press.
This year’s edition will feature Kaiser Kuo, host of Sinica Podcast, and writer/translator Jeremy Tiang in conversation about Tawainese author Lo Yi-Chin’s novel Faraway ( CUP 2021).
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Speakers
Kaiser Kuo is host of the Sinica Podcast, a weekly discussion of current affairs in China, and is director of SupChina's Sinica Network, which includes nine China-focused podcasts. Kaiser spent a year in China after graduating from U.C. Berkeley, and during that time co-founded the seminal heavy metal band Tang Dynasty, which went on to become one of China's most successful rock groups. After several years in graduate school in the U.S., Kaiser moved back to China in 1996 and lived in Beijing for 20 years, first rejoining Tang Dynasty then going on to work at the intersection of technology and media, as an editor for an internet startup, as China bureau chief for Silicon Valley tech magazine Red Herring, and later as communications director for Chinese internet companies Youku and Baidu. In 2016, he left Beijing after the Sinica Podcast, which he and Jeremy Goldkorn started in 2010, was acquired by SupChina.
Jeremy Tiang is a novelist, playwright and literary translator from Chinese. His translations include novels by Yeng Pway Ngon, Yan Ge, Liu Xinwu, Su Wei-chen, Zhang Yueran, Shuang Xuetao, Geling Yan, Chan Ho-Kei and Li Er, as well as plays by Chen Si'an, Wei Yu-Chia, Quah Sy Ren and Han Lao Da. He is an International Booker Prize judge for 2022, and will be the Princeton University translator-in-residence in spring 2022. His novel State of Emergency won the Singapore Literature Prize in 2018. Originally from Singapore, Jeremy now lives in Flushing, Queens.
