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.
Tag Archives: genre
Ep 58 – A Que and Flower of the Other Shore with Xueting Ni
Here to help me find sympathy for the undead is the tale’s translator, Xueting Ni. The story will feature in her anthology of translated Chinese sci-fi: Sinopticon.
Ep 52 – Monkey King: Journey to the West with Julia Lovell
In the fifty second episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast we are departing from the Tang Empire on a haphazard Journey to the West (西游记 / Xī Yóu Jì). Talking me through the transformations is Julia Lovell, translator of JttW’s latest, extremely readable English translation.
Ep 46 – The Flock of Ba Hui with Dylan Levi King
We have quite a beast to wrestle with this episode. Lovecraftian fiction, from the Chinese internet, curated, translated and packaged in paratexts by two particularly unorthodox individuals.
Ep 33 – Jin Yong and Legend of the Condor Heroes with Gigi Chang
Condor Heroes is a huge entry in Chinese literature (both highbrow and lowbrow), and pop culture in general. In this first episode of the podcast’s Wuxia season, I begin to get to grips with this absolute behemoth of genre fiction.
Ep 16 – Chen Zijin and The Untouched Crime with Michelle Deeter
This novel is a murder mystery with a twist set in… well, the setting depends on whether you’re reading the original Chinese, or our guest Michelle Deeter’s English translation, published by Amazon Crossing. I bet you want to know why.
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