title: Sylvia Li-chun Lin
text: # Sylvia Li-chun Lin
  
  Sylvia Li-chun Lin (Shanhua, Tainan, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese-born Chinese–English translator and a former associate professor of Chinese Literature at the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Notre Dame. She has translated over a dozen novels with her husband Howard Goldblatt.
  
  ## Awards
  
  * Liang Shih-chiu Literary Translation Prize
  * 2000 – National Translation Award for translation of Notes of a Desolate Man by Chu T’ien-wen
  * 2011 – Man Asian Literary Prize for Three Sisters by Bi Feiyu
  
  ## Works
  
  ### Translations
  
  | Author | English title | Original title | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Chu T’ien-wen | Notes of a Desolate Man | 荒人手記 | with Howard Goldblatt |
  | Bi Feiyu | The Moon Opera | 青衣 | with Howard Goldblatt |
  | Bi Feiyu | Three Sisters | 玉米 | with Howard Goldblatt |
  | Bi Feiyu | Massage | 推拿 | with Howard Goldblatt |
  | Liu Zhenyun | The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon | 我叫刘跃进 | with Howard Goldblatt |
  | Liu Zhenyun | I Did Not Kill My Husband | 我不是潘金莲 | with Howard Goldblatt |
  | Liu Zhenyun | Remembering 1942 | 温故一九四二 | with Howard Goldblatt |
  | Shih Shu-ching | City of the Queen | 她名叫蝴蝶 | with Howard Goldblatt |
  | Li Ang | The Lost Garden | 迷園 | with Howard Goldblatt |
  | Alai | The Song of King Gesar | 格萨尔王 | with Howard Goldblatt |
  | Alai | Red Poppies | 尘埃落定 | with Howard Goldblatt |
  | Xi Ni Er | The Ernest Mask | 认真面具 | with Howard Goldblatt |
  | Li Yung-p'ing | Retribution: the Jiling Chronicles | 吉陵春秋 | with Howard Goldblatt |
  | Mo Yan | Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh | 师傅越来越幽默 | with Howard Goldblatt |
  | Song Ying | Apricot's Revenge | 杏烧红 | with Howard Goldblatt |
  | Beila | The Cursed Piano | 魔咒钢琴 | with Howard Goldblatt |
  | You Jin | Teaching Cats to Jump Hoops | 听, 青春在哭泣 | |
  
  ### Academic
  
  * Representing Atrocity: The 2/28 Incident and White Terror in Fiction and Film. Columbia University Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-231-14360-8.
  * Push Open the Door: Poetry from Contemporary China. Copper Canyon Press 2011. ISBN 978-1556593307.
  * Documenting Taiwan on Film: Issues and Methods in New Documentaries. Routledge. 2012. ISBN 978-0-415-68511-5. (co-edited with Tze-lan D. Sang)
  