‘I’ve never broken any rules, not even rules at school. Why would I blackmail someone?’
’In the ninety second episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast we are getting duped by Bad Kids (坏孩子 – huài háizi). Fleeing the proverbial orphanage with me is the book’s translator, Michelle Deeter, here to mark a breadcrumb trail through the dark children’s palace that author Zijin Chen has constructed for the benefit and perturbation of all.
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// NEWS ITEMS //
- READ: ‘The Sacred Clan’: Liang Hong turns to fiction to explore rural China
- READ: The Bug Princess by Yang Shuangzi
- VISIT: an exhibit on poet Su Shi at West Lake Museum in Hangzhou
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// WORD OF THE DAY //
(骄傲 – jiāo’ào – pride)
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// MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE //
- Children’s palaces of China and the Soviet Union
- The Untouched Crime, also by Zijin Chen
- Amazon Crossing’s translated Chinese titles
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