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Authors: Hang Dong

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A Tabby-cat's Tale

Copyright © 2000 Han Dong
All rights reserved by and controlled through Han Dong
Translation copyright © 2014 by Nicky Harman

A Tabby-cat's Tale
(《花花传奇》) was first published in a short story collection,
My Plato
(《我的柏拉图》), published by Shaanxi Shifan Daxue Chubanshe (陕西师范大学出版社).

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About the author

Han Dong
, 韩东, was born in 1961 in Nanjing. After graduating in philosophy and lecturing in Xi'an and Nanjing, he relinquished teaching in 1993 to make his living as a writer. In the 1980s, Han Dong became an important avant-garde poet, and edited the influential poetry magazine
Them
(《他们》). He is also known as an essayist, short story writer, blogger and novelist. His first novel,
Banished!
, was translated into English in 2009. He has made several literary tours in the West, and has been writer-in-residence in Gutenberg, Germany and Saint-Nazaire, France. His English-language home page can be found
here
.

About the translator

Nicky Harman
lives in the UK. She taught on the MSc in Translation at Imperial College until 2011 and now translates full-time from Chinese. She has translated authors such as Chen Xiwo, Han Dong, Hong Ying, Dorothy Tse, Xinran, Yan Geling and Zhang Ling, and she is a regular contributor to
Words Without Borders
and
Paper Republic
. In 2012, she was one of the judges for the Harvill Secker Young Translators Prize. Follow her on Twitter:
@cfbcuk
.

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