Crystal Boys

Howard Goldblatt is an American literary translator and sinologist, widely regarded as the foremost English-language translator of modern and contemporary Chinese fiction. Born in California in 1939, he first encountered Chinese while serving with the US Navy in Taiwan in the early 1960s, staying on to study at the Mandarin Center before returning to the United States. He taught at San Francisco State University and the University of Colorado Boulder, and was research professor of Chinese at the...