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Brendan O'Kane

Brendan O'Kane is a host at Popup Chinese, a translator at Paper Republic, a contributing editor to Pathlight magazine, and (more recently) an MA student at the University of Pennsylvania. Follow him on twitter at @bokane

Articles

China and the Nobel Prize: Four Essays on Classic Chinese Authors
On Lao She, Pearl S. Buck, Qian Zhongshu, and Wu Cheng'en
Brendan O'Kane, Charles W. Hayford, Julia Lovell, Paul FrenchOct 13, 2013
A Monument to What Might Have Been: Qian Zhongshu's "Fortress Besieged"
Qian Zhongshu is a tough sell for the Nobel Prize, but he deserves it for Fortress Besieged alone.
Brendan O'KaneOct 13, 2013