Jane Jian

Lin Yao-teh

Walis Nokan

Walis Nokan, born in 1961 in the village of Mihu, on the island of Taiwan, is a writer from the Atayal indigenous population group. He was a primary school teacher and leads many writing workshops. In the 1990s, his literary production increasingly affirmed its roots in Atayal culture. His creativity, both in his prose works and in his poems, has earned him numerous awards and distinctions. He is the author of one of the short stories of the Taipei, histoires au coin de la rue, published in 2017 by l'Asiathèque.

Lo Yi-chin

Lo Yi-chin, né en 1967 à Taipei, est un écrivain régulièrement récompensé par les prix littéraires. D’abord auteur de nouvelles à la fin des années 1980, il écrit depuis aussi des romans ainsi que des chroniques pour les journaux. Son roman L’Hôtel Xixia), paru en 2008 et couronné par le prix Hongloumeng en 2010, est généralement considéré comme le plus représentatif de son œuvre. Plus récemment, il a également publié des recueils de courts récits évoquant la vie de tous les jours sur un ton plus léger, comme Mes petits garçons.

Wu Ming-yi

Wu Ming-yi, born in 1971 in Taiwan, teaches at Dong Hwa National University. Known for his environmental commitments, he is the author of several literary works, among which collections of short stories and novels. Two of his novels have been published in French: The Sleep Navigation Lines (You Feng, 2013) and The Man with the Faceted Eyes (Stock, 2014). This latest novel received the award 2014 Island Book Fiction, awarded at the International Book Fair islander of Ouessant.

Chi Ta-Wei

Chi Ta-wei is a Doctor of Comparative Literature from the University of California (UCLA), he teaches literature at National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan). He is an important figure in advocacy movements homosexual in the Chinese world.

Chang Wan-k'ang

Chou Tan-ying

Tan-Ying Chou is a lecturer at Bordeaux Montaigne University. Her research interests focus on bilingual writer Eileen Chang. In 2016, she translated Exercices de style by Raymond Queneau into Chinese, and into French a short story by Long Yingzong, "Le petit bourg aux papayers".

Shu Kuo-chih

Lise Pouchelon

Lise Pouchelon trained in Chinese and Japanese languages and literature at University Lyon III and University Aix-Marseille, enriching her understanding of these cultures during university stays in Japan and China. Her Master's thesis was devoted to the novel "L'Hôtel Xixia" by Taiwanese writer Lo Yi-chin, at the Institut de recherches asiatiques (IrAsia, Université d'Aix-Marseille), where she developed her expertise in the translation of modern and contemporary Chinese literature. Today, she works as a professional editor, drawing on her linguistic skills and experience in editorial communication.

Marie-Paule Chamayou

Marie Laureillard

Marie Laureillard is a lecturer in Chinese studies authorized to supervise research at the Université Lumière-Lyon 2 and a member of the Institut d'Asie Orientale (IAO). She conducts research on the history of modern art and aesthetics of China and Taiwan, as well as Chinese-language poetry.

Chingjin Wu-Soldani

Mélie Chen

Editor since November 2019 at Éditions Stock, Mélie Chen has a dual career as an editor and translator - from Chinese. At the end of her studies at the Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon in 2016, she was received first in the aggregation of Chinese. At the same time, she began to move towards publishing at an early age.

Coraline Jortay

Coraline Jortay holds a doctorate in Chinese literature at the Université libre de Bruxelles, where she defended a thesis on gender representations and identity construction among Chinese-speaking authors of the twentieth century. Also a literary translator, she won the 2nd and 3rd prizes of the 2013 China International Translation Competition with the short stories “Up”, by Wang Xiangfu, and “The Letter”, by Liu Qingbang, published in the collection Tranchant de moon and other contemporary news from China (Ming Books, 2016). She has also translated Walis Nokan's collection Les paths des rêve et autres microfictions (L’Asiathèque, 2018).

Gwennaël Gaffric

Gwennaël Gaffric (born 1987) is a lecturer in Chinese studies at the Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, where he teaches Chinese language and culture. He is the author of several articles in French, English and Chinese on Chinese-language literature (China, Hong Kong and Taiwan). His recent research focuses on contemporary science fiction in Chinese. He is also one of the leading translators from Chinese of general literature, science fiction, fantasy and the humanities (literary studies, philosophy). His translations include the best-selling volumes of Liu Cixin's Three-Body Problem trilogy. He regularly translates for L'Asiathèque, where he heads the "Taiwan Fiction" collection. He has also published at L'asiathèque: La littérature à l'ère de l'anthropocène (2019).

Olivier Bialais

Olivier Bialais holds a master's degree in Chinese literature from the National Institute of Oriental Languages ​​and Civilization (Inalco). He has lived in Taiwan for over six years, two of which were spent as a research assistant in the Department of Literature and Philosophy at Academia Sinica. He then spent several years in South Korea, notably as a French teacher at the Korean Defense Language Institute. Returning to France, he is now librarian at the Chinese fund of the municipal library of Lyon. He has translated texts by various Taiwanese authors, including Chen Xue for Jentayu, but also Chu Tien-wen, Chu Tien-hsin and Kuo Cheng.

Damien Ligot

Damien Ligot is a teacher of Chinese and translator of this language. A former student of the Institute of Anthropology at the National Tsing Hua University in Hsinchu (Taiwan), he holds a PhD in Studies on Asia and its diasporas (Jean Moulin Lyon III University, January 2012). Musician and lover of performing arts, he has observed the cultural pluralism of Taiwan for more than fifteen years through this prism. He is also interested in palaeography, the history of religions and popular beliefs, traditional medicines, trance phenomena, as well as the multiple expressions of shamanism in the contemporary world.
He translated in particular (from Chinese to French):
Lay Chih-ying, "Libellule rouge", in the collection of short stories Formosana - Histoire de démocratie à Taiwan, L'Asiathèque, 2021
Chang Wan-k’ang, “Videoman”, in the collection of short stories Taipei - Histoires au coin de la rue, L’Asiathèque, 2017
Ping Lu, “Virtual Taiwan”, in the Special Taiwan issue, Editions Jentayu, 2016