Frederik H. Green with Fiammetta Hsu

9 JULY 2021 — friday

The Mechanics' Institute presents Frederik H. Green, translator and professor of Chinese Literature at San Francisco State University, and Fiammetta Hsu, daughter of the widely read Chinese author Xu Xu, who is in the process of archiving the personal correspondence of her late father; they will discuss the life and work of Xu Xu, as well as Green's translations of Xu Xu's work in the book Bird Talk and Other Stories by Xu Xu: Modern Tales of a Chinese Romantic, free, online, Noon-1:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.milibrary.org/events/bird-talk-and-other-stories-xu-xu-modern-tales-chinese-romantic-jul-09-2021)