Just as Nga-Yee thought everything was going back to normal, Siu-Man stepped from the window of their twenty-second-story flat
In the sixtieth episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast we are solving the case of Second Sister (網內人 / Wǎng Nèi Rén), penned by crime connoisseur Chan Ho-kei. Logged on with guest-level access and ready to follow the trail wherever it leads is 3-time visitor to the show Michelle Deeter. In the events that follow we hack into moral frameworks, digital archives, memory glitches, and urban navigation. Switch off your VPN (we’re in Hong Kong this time), take a quick glance over your shoulder, and enjoy!
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// NEWS ITEMS //
- Gŵyl Haf & Borderless Book Club – International Translation Day event with Sinoist Books, Nicky Harman, and Jun Liu on an upcoming Jia Pingwa translation
- AI 2041: Why the Future is Already Here, with Kai-Fu Lee – Chen Qiufan’s co-author gets interviewed by the Intelligence Squared podcastChen Qiufan does an animated TED video to help promote AI 2041
- a TrChFic 80 minute breakdown of ChQF’s Coming of the Light
- Dark as a Boy – read an excerpt of Ho Fok Song’s Maze Carpet, translated by Natascha Bruce
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// WORD OF THE DAY //
(人肉搜索引擎 – rénròu sōusuǒ yǐnqíng – human flesh search engine)
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// MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE //
- Stress in Hong Kong
- Social engineering within hacking
- Ad Infinitum by Oh the CIty – Michelle’s musical pairing
- Mr Robot Season 1 OST by Mac Quayle – Angus’ musical pairing
- Jung’s concept of the persona
- Form and Ideology in Crime Fiction by Stephen Knight
- The Untouched Crime by Zijin Chen
- A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
- Metazoa: Animal Minds and the Birth of Human Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith
- The Oxford Bar – Ian Rankin’s local
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