Shengchi Hsu

Shengchi Hsu

Introduction

Shengchi Hsu is an English-Chinese translator. He now lives and teaches in Taichung, Taiwan after over two decades in the U.K.

His translations cover prose and poetry, including “A Daughter” by Lin You-hsuan and “Violet” by Hsu Yu-cheng in Queer Taiwanese Literature: a Reader, and eight classical Taiwanese Han poems in the PN Review. He has most recently won acclaim for his translation of Qiu Miao-jin’s first award-winning short story “Cage.”

Stories translated by Shengchi Hsu

Shengchi has translated stories by Lisa MacDonald and Elissa Hunter-Dorans from English to Mandarin.


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In June 2025, Tâigael: Stories from Taiwanese and Gaelic will be published in handsome paperback edition, as well as in EPUB. Four stories by four writers in four languages, with linked audio here on this website! Pre-order here!

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