“Ai-ya! Don’t go on at me!”
“Well if I don’t, who’s going to?”
In the fifteenth episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast, we are looking at Yan Ge’s The Chilli Bean Paste Clan (我们家/wǒmen jiā)
This is a s-p-i-c-y novel published by Balestier Press about a dysfunctional family and its depraved, conflicted, and frequently disoriented patriarch. Yan Ge has said that it was inspired by her years spent growing up the the chilli bean paste production capital of Sichuan Province. Our guest for this episode is Yan Ge’s translator, advocate, and friend, Nicky Harman.
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// Discussed this Episode //
- 1st chapter online – available from The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing
- Nü Voices Women and Chinese Scifi Episode
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