Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh

Howard Goldblatt  is a literary translator  of numerous works of contemporary Chinese fiction from mainland China and Taiwan, including Nobel Prize– winner Mo Yan, five of whose works are published by Arcade (The Garlic Ballads;   The Republic of Wine;   Big Breasts and Wide Hips; Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out; Shifu, You' ll Do Anything for a Laugh). He has also translated works by  Liu Zhenyun (I Did Not Kill My Husband; The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon; Remembering 1942, which are published by Arcade), Huang Chunming (The Taste of Apples), and Chen Ruoxi (The Execution of Mayor Yin). He taught modern Chinese literature and culture for more than a quarter of a century. He lives in Lafayette, Colorado.