This time we reflect on an all-too-real #MeToo novel centred around the titular girl and the cram school teacher who abused her all through her teens.
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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 88 – Dorothy Tse and Quarantine with Natascha Bruce
Are you me? Am I you? Do I wish I were you? Do you wish you were me, talking to Natascha Bruce, the razor-sharp translator of Dorothy Tse, about time, desire, and bottomless holes – is that your magic wish?
Ep 82 – Wang Anyi and The Sanctimonious Cobbler with Lehyla Heward
Wandering with me down the longtang to cast an eye across the little affairs and petites affaires of shopkeeper Shanghai is friend of the pod and Malta-based scholar Lehyla Heward.
Ep 81 – Xiu Xinyu and The Stars We Raised with Yen Ooi
Once more, a Chinese science fiction story is taking us down to the countryside for melancholy reflections on the pains of growing up. Yen and I dig into the pains of publishing too, from gender to generation and from style to synthesis.
Ep 80 – Chiou Charng-Ting and Raining Zebra Finches with May Huang
In our discussion we’ll be testing the limits of our earthly knowledge and dreaming of other philosophies. When nature stops hiding and springs the inexplicable upon us, where else is there to turn?
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 68 – Amang and Raised by Wolves with Steve Bradbury
Revel in trash. Bound down a mountain. Take a ride on a nuclear sub. Argue furiously in favour of your preferred adverb. Do all these things, and you will channel the spirit of the wolf.
Ep 59 – More Than One Child with Shen Yang and Nicky Harman
In the fifty ninth episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast we are talking with someone who is More Than One Child (隐形小孩 / Yǐnxíng Xiǎohái), a woman as friendly as she is fearless: Shen Yang.
Ep 54 – Qiu Miaojin and Notes of a Crocodile with Conor Stuart
In the fifty fourth episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast we are thumbing through the Notes of a Crocodile (鳄鱼手记 / Èyú Shǒujì). Joining me on the lookout for the shy and elusive reptiloid is Conor Stuart.
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