Bilingual books connect China, Brazil with stories

Bridging Brazilian and Chinese literature can be a challenge for any publisher, but the Brazilian university Unicamp took the task upon itself by publishing books from Brazil and China in a bilingual format.

Under the umbrella "Classics from Chinese and Brazilian Literature", Unicamp, in partnership with the Confucius Institute, published two books — one from each country — between 2022 and 2024: Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk, written by Lu Xun in 1926-27, and The Alienist by Machado de Assis in 1882.

The director of the publishing firm, Edwiges Maria Morato, said project partners from China and Brazil want to make Chinese literature better known to Brazilians and vice versa.