Ep 95 – Shi Tiesheng and My Travels in Ding Yi with Chloë Starr

Another mind, another world. Become embodied with Buddha and confer with Christ as we puzzle out the life of Ding Yi and his spirit companion.

Ep 91 – Yu Xiuhua and Moonlight Rests on My Left Palm with Fiona Sze-Lorrain

In the ninety first episode of the Translated Chinese Podcast, we are travelling half across China to fuck you.

Ep 89 – Zhang Yueran and Cocoon with Jeremy Tiang

We are enfolding ourselves within Cocoon, the dreamlike and sometimes upsetting dual-bildungsroman and return to realism by post-85 author Zhang Yueran. All time is one time, you poor thing; so join us, that we may unriddle the past together.

Ep 79 – Mu Ming and Express to Beijing West Railway Station

We’re riding the Express to Beijing West Railway Station (开往西站的特别列车 / kāiwǎng xī zhàn de tèbié lièchē), and I’ll be buying my ticket from none other than the author herself, Mu Ming.

Ep 69 – Xue Mo and The Women, the Camels, and the Dholes with Sarah Lam and Nicola Clayton

In this tale we get material, we get Buddhist, we get into self-help, we get really close to death, and we take up a rifle loaded with… weirdly sentient bullets. It will make sense when we explain it… maybe…

Ep 67 – Lo Yi-Chin and Faraway with Jenna Tang

Lighting lamps with me as time, memory, and family dissolve into an indistinct fog is the writer, translator, and mega-linguist Jenna Tang.

Ep 66 – Ba Jin and Hong Kong Nights with Luo Tianqi

Grab a seat on deck, comrade, brush up on your Bakunin, and let go of your transient identity as sights become sounds, and sounds become sights.

Ep 57 – Chih-Ying Lay and Home Sickness with Darryl Sterk

In the fifty seventh episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast we are suffering from Home Sickness. Here to ease this terrible affliction is the book’s translator: reformed Buddhist and agile herper Darryl Sterk.

Ep 56 – Pai Hsien-yung and Taipei People with Nadia Ho

Joining me to question the merits of nostalgia and muse aimlessly on umbrellas and the like is a genuine Taibei ren; the effortlessly hip Nadia Ho.

Ep 51 – Li Juan’s Xinjiang non-fiction with Christopher Payne and Jack Hargreaves

We’re heading into the far west to come face-to-face with Li Juan, a Han Chinese writer who has found some degree of fame writing soulfully about her experiences living among the Kazakh herders of Xinjiang Province.