Dylan Levi King is a translator and writer from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, currently living in East Tokyo. He has translated novels by Jia Pingwa (The Shaanxi Opera, with Nicky Harman), Dong Xi (Record of Regret), and Mai Jia (The Colonel and the Eunuch).
‘Your friends might never know you intimately. There are those that will know you intimately but never be your friend.’
Jia Pingwa on friendship.
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