10 Years Ago: Officially Married
Officially Married—Ganzhou, Nanchang and Back (Chapter 41 from our book «Loving China, Loving Bulgaria: a quest for meaning and love».) In Nanchang, Lily had booked...
Category: English
MY NEW BOOK: Loving China, Loving Bulgaria
This is a true story, told in essays and verse. This is the inner journey of two people toward one another, in quest for the...
Bulgarian Kindness in the Memories of a Chinese Girl
By Xiao Li Translated by: Petko Hinov (See also the Bulgarian translation) I came to live in Bulgaria in 2011. Here I met many kind-hearted...
Our Family Culture
(a chapter from my book “Loving China, Loving Bulgaria”) The circle was now closed. I had returned to the place where I had spent the...
Ако си дал / If You Have Given
If You Have Given (Ilya Velchev, translated by Petko Hinov) If you have given to the hungry even a crumble from your bread If you...
More English Poems (2014)
* * * Tonight in my dream I woke up at home – in my childhood. And when morning came I woke up again –...
The Tears of Love between Nostalgia and Beauty In “A Dream of Red Mansions” and Bulgarian literature and culture
Сълзите на любовта между носталгията и красотата в романа «Сън в алени покои» и българската литература by Petko Hinov (Bulgaria) A. Introducing «A Dream of...
The Incorrigible Virgin
A True Story by Petko Hinov (Han Pei) All this happened in the late spring of last year. All that day I had been making...
As Sadness Gently Rustles… (Poems in English)
Petko Hinov English Poems Collection One, 2009-2011 Etudes of Gloom (2009) SOMETIMES, AS SADNESS GENTLY RUSTLES My memories of dreamt-of lands More deadly than a...
Bulgarian Poetry in English: D. Debelyanov — Remember, remember…
Remember? Remember the quiet old yard, The quiet old house in the white cherry blooms?— Oh, please, do not shimmer in my prisoned heart Meaningless...
One Ordinary Evening
By Petko Hinov From the original Bulgarian essay: https://petkohinov.com/?p=1134 One ordinary evening. The rains showered, the clouds melted and of them remained only serenely-white tatters—now...
Selected Essays on Chinese Classic Novels
«Baochai Chasing Butterflies»： Mood and Thoughts A fascinating analysis of the symbolism of butterflies and fans in classical Chinese culture, with lots of references to...
