Eleanor Goodman
Poet, scholar, and accomplished translator between Chinese and English; research associate at Harvard's Fairbank Center and translator of Zheng Xiaoqiong's work including In the Roar of the Machine.
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May 6, 2026 • 1h 12min
The Poetry of Zheng Xiaoqiong: A Conversation with Translator Eleanor Goodman
Eleanor Goodman, poet, scholar, and noted translator of contemporary Chinese poetry, discusses Zheng Xiaoqiong, a Sichuan-born factory worker turned influential poet. They explore how they met, Zheng's move from assembly line to literary recognition, her resistance to being labeled a migrant-worker writer, bodily feminism in her verse, and the ethics and craft of translating factory-specific voices.
