I was pointed in the direction of this website "Read Paper Republic" which is potentially a fantastic resource for Chinese short story translations. And possibly an outlet for some of Bill's work.
We at Paper Republic are a collective of literary translators, promoting new Chinese fiction in transl…
I have noticed that Amazon do not appear to list William Dolby as the translator of Mr Ma and Son which certainly needs to be remedied. Indeed Ms. Julia Lovell gets a mention as introducing the work but Bill's name does not receive equal status.
However, to do justice to his work I found this…
In my efforts to find all that William Dolby produced throughout his career I am trying to locate a work titled "Whistling Free: The Complete Non-dramatic Lyrics of Ma Zhiyuan (1260-1325) ", I assume a work that he translated. Anybody, with an idea as to how to obtain a copy of the title, please do …
Over the last few days we have attempted to find other work completed by William Dolby. We know of some not-yet-located books that he wrote or translated:
