‘Because of sleepwalking, over one billion Chinese people have awakened’
In the seventy second episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast I’m facing down a bleak reality: My Country Does Not Dream (我的祖国不要做梦 / wǒde zǔguó bù zuò mèng). But I’m not doing it alone! The London Chinese Science Fiction Group have deployed a team of Han Song aficionados (and one critic) to console my exhausted brain as the daytime hours fall away, revealing a sombre somnambulant city behind the city: Beijing.
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// NEWS ITEMS //
- Article in Sixth Tone: Infinite Scroll: The Making of China’s Web Fiction Epics
- Words from Shen Yang in Telegraph article: What life’s really like in locked-down Shanghai
- Short story Meta-Shanghai by Angus himself is published in Ab Terra 2021
- Watch/Listen as Jack Hargreaves reads from Chen Chuncheng’s Submarines in the Night
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// WORDS OF THE DAY //
(梦游 – mèngyóu – sleepwalking)
(吊儿郎当 – diào’er lángdāng – sloppiness)
(躺平 – tǎngpíng – lie flat, as resistance to the 996 work system)
(闭眼 – bì yǎn – eyes closed)
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// MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE //
- Jin’s musical pairing: Space – Just Blue (1978) (the theme tune from CCTV’s Animal World 动物世界)
- Scarlet’s musical pairing: 我们走在大路上 – We Walk on the Great Road [Cultural Revolution version]
- Terminator (Danny C remix) from Mark Fisher’s accelerationism mix
- New wave scifi, and emergence of the New Weird in the 90s
- Guangzhao’s writeup of his group’s event on this story
- 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep by Jonathan Crary
- The forthcoming English translations of Han Song’s Hospital trilogy
- China 2185: Liu Cixin’s cyberpunk novel
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