All the magic lay within their own bodies
In the seventy first episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast we are stepping into A Looking Glass World (单筒望远镜 / Dāntǒng Wàngyuǎnjìng). This is our second encounter with Tianjin’s bard Feng Jicai, and our first (sort of!) with his publisher-in-translation, Daniel Li of Sinoist Books.
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// NEWS ITEMS //
- Generations of Voices in Chinese Literature: a panel hosted by The World of Chinese
- New Sino-SF just dropped: New Voices in Chinese Science Fiction
- Shenyang in translation: Rouge Street by Shaung Xuetao tr. JT himself
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// WORD OF THE DAY //
(庚子年 – gēng zi nián – gengzi year AKA the year of the metal rat)
(from the 60 year cycle of the Chinese calendar)
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// MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE //
- Skedaddle – a font with Victorian hotel vibes
- Sinoist Books’ new subscription package
- Paul Richardson & Chu Xiaoying’s 2015 market report on Chinese publishing
- the post cultural-revolution scar literature movement
- the Feng Jicai institute 天津大学冯骥才文学艺术研究院
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