Co-hosted by Yale Club of Beijing and Yale Center Beijing

Event Time

Thursday, May 7, 2026

Registration

18:30-19:00

Book Talk and Q&A

19:00-20:30

Location

Yale Center Beijing 
36th Floor Tower B of IFC Building 8 Jianguomenwai Avenue Chaoyang District, Beijing (Yong'anli Subway Station, Exit C) 

Registration and Fees

Please click “HERE” to register. Please send an email to yalecenterbeijing@yale.edu if there are any problems. 

Ticket: RMB 30 for the members of Yale community; RMB 50 for regular admission. This price includes canapes.

*The registration fee is non-refundable. Unless due to a force majeure reason, Yale Center Beijing will not refund any part of the registration fee if a participant fails to attend the event.

Walk-ins will not be accepted.

The event will be in English

Note: Seats are available on a first-come-first-served basis.

The Event

Join Daniel Tam-Claiborne MA ’14, a multiracial writer, multimedia producer, and nonprofit director, for a reading and conversation about his debut novel, Transplants, a finalist for the 2023 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. The novel follows two young women—Lin, a Chinese university student navigating isolation and scrutiny on a rural campus, and Liz, a Chinese American teacher grappling with grief and questions of identity—who form an unlikely friendship across borders.

Drawing on his five years living and working in Greater China, Tam-Claiborne centers his work around identity, belonging, and the intersections of Asian American and transnational experience, while also addressing issues of migration, race, and power.

The Speaker

Daniel Tam-Claiborne MA ’14
Writer, Multimedia Producer

Daniel Tam-Claiborne is a multiracial writer, multimedia producer, and nonprofit director. His debut novel, Transplants (Simon & Schuster, 2025), was a finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction and longlisted for the 2026 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. He is the author of the short story collection What Never Leaves, and his writing has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, HuffPost, Catapult, Literary Hub, Off Assignment, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. A 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, he has also received fellowships and residencies from the U.S. Fulbright Program, Poets & Writers, Bread Loaf, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Swatch Art Peace Hotel, and others. Daniel holds degrees from Oberlin College, Yale University, and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.