Chinese literature is tough to find in English. One editor hopes to change that

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Women, Seated by Zhang Yueran (Riverhead Books)A nanny for a wealthy family plots to kidnap the child in her care. The novel is the first in a new effort from Riverhead Books, led by editor Han Zhang, to publish more translated Chinese language literature. But ask an average reader for a Chinese writer? Women, Seated asks important questions about class, labor and feminism. “I think, for a long time, the perception of Chinese literature among Western readers has been quite fixed,” said the book’s author Zhang Yeuran.