
Ling Yu’s Daughters: Translator’s Preface and Three Poems
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Nicholas Y. H. Wong is an assistant professor in the School of Chinese at The University of Hong Kong. He teaches Chinese-English translation and writes on labor, language, anti-colonialism, and capitalism in Chinese writing from the Malay world. As a Brill Fellow at the Scaliger Institute, Leiden University, he did archival research on “The Labor Question in Translation: Dutch Sinology and Chinese Miners in the East Indies.” His English translations include Huang Chong-kai’s “Ramón, Adolfo, Ernesto, and Che” (2021, Renditions 96) and Ling Yu’s poetry collection, Daughters (2025, Balestier Press). As Zhou Sivan, he has published three poetry chapbooks.