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The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast
Angus Stewart
A podcast about English translations of Chinese literature, hosted by Angus Stewart. All eras, all genres, all ideologies. Shanghai villas, Beijing alleys. Frozen Manchuria, Sichuan furnaces. Sanmao's Sahara, Liu Cixin's apocalypse. That's where this podcast lives!
Episodes
94
The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast · Feb 10, 2024
The 100th Episode Party
In the one hundredth episode of the Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast, we are throwing a goodbye party! Friends, listeners, and past guests joined me for a little reminiscing and musing. I drank precisely one …
2:02:08The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast · Jan 7, 2024
Ep 99 - Mo Yan and The Republic of Wine with Dylan Levi King, Michelle Deeter, and Martin Winter
‘I wrote the asinine words ‘liquor is literature’ and ‘people who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature’ when I was good and drunk, and you must not take them to …
3:49:19The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast · Oct 31, 2023
Ep 98 - The Book of Beijing with Shi Yifeng and Carson Ramsdell
I supposed every last one of this country’s 1.3 billion inhabitants all had their own obsessions with the giant germ cell.In the ninety eighth episode of the Translated Chinese fiction podcast I am joined …
1:43:21The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast · Oct 13, 2023
Ep 97 - Lin Yi-han and Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise with Jenna Tang
‘Starting to write a suicide note would be too melodramatic. If she wrote it, it would only contain one line: This love makes me so uncomfortable.’In the ninety seventh episode of the Translated Chinese …
1:55:36The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast · Sep 23, 2023
Ep 96 - Puppet Flower with Chen Yao-chang and Chen Tung-jung
‘the man spun instinctively to face them, both hands covering his chest, looking almost sorrowful as blood glazed his fingers’In the ninety sixth episode of the Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast we are entering into …
1:43:28The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast · Sep 3, 2023
Ep 95 - Shi Tiesheng and My Travels in Ding Yi with Chloë Starr
Trembling hands seem to check for the forgotten secret language. Withered bodies, like finding some long-forgotten receipt. Where have you been all these years? The mountains echo again, spring’s call is finally answered: I …
1:12:59The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast · Jul 29, 2023
Ep 93 - Xu Zechen and Running through Beijing with Eric Abrahamsen
‘It’s just life, right? One place is as good as another’In the ninety third episode of the Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast we are Running through Beijing (跑步穿过中关村 - pǎobù chuānguò zhōngguāncūn) in the loping …
1:27:06The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast · Jul 15, 2023
Ep 92 - Zijin Chen and Bad Kids with Michelle Deeter
‘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 - …
1:24:28The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast · Jun 30, 2023
Ep 91 - Yu Xiuhua and Moonlight Rests on My Left Palm with Fiona Sze-Lorrain
‘The “exquisite bridges and flowing water” one finds in poetry are not written by real farmers, but those who claim to love rural life when they most fear it.’In the ninety first episode of …
1:15:01The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast · May 7, 2023
Ep 89 - Zhang Yueran and Cocoon with Jeremy Tiang
‘The man in the bed looks at her. An enormous force seems to be pulling him into a world behind him, a world whose gates will soon be shut forever. She strokes his forehead …
1:07:43The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast · Feb 12, 2023
Ep 85 - Mo Yan and Sandalwood Death with Stefan Rusinov
‘The final cut – the coup de grace – entered Qian’s heart, from which black blood the colour and consistency of melted malt sugar slid down the knife blade'In the eighty fifth episode of …
1:35:17The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast · Jan 27, 2023
Ep 84 - Han Song and Hospital with Michael Berry and Mingwei Song
‘Generation after generation, people have lived in this massive sick ward we call the universe ’In the eighty fourth episode of the Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast, we are lost deep inside Hospital, the first …
1:53:25
The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast · Dec 18, 2022
Ep 82 - Wang Anyi and The Sanctimonious Cobbler with Lehyla Heward
‘If you lived in one of the lanes of Puxi, the moment you stepped out your door, you would find yourself in the thick of urban life in all its boisterous variety.'In the eighty …
2:20:55
The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast · Nov 20, 2022
Ep 81 - Xiu Xinyu and The Stars We Raised with Yen Ooi
A star’s coming of age was the process of slowly getting uglier.In the eighty first episode of the Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast, writer/researcher Yen Ooi and I are gazing up at The Stars We …
2:02:52
The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast · Oct 24, 2022
Ep 80 - Chiou Charng-Ting and Raining Zebra Finches with May Huang
‘In the same spot where Father died, the dead body of a deer lay prostrate in the rain.’In the eightieth episode of the Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast, it’s Raining Zebra Finches (斑胸草雀 / bān …
1:16:36
The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast · Oct 8, 2022
Ep 79 - Mu Ming and Express to Beijing West Railway Station
‘History is nothing more than a complex construction of records and observations’In the seventy ninth episode of the Translated Chinese Fiction podcast, we’re riding the Express to Beijing West Railway Station (开往西站的特别列车 / kāiwǎng …
2:10:14
The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast · Sep 25, 2022
Ep 78 - Gu Hongming and Bonnie Prince Tuan with Lee Moore
‘Then each Boxer lad who loves fighting and fun, let him follow the bonnets of bonnie Prince Tuan’In the seventy eighth episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast we are riding to war behind …
1:42:40
The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast · Aug 21, 2022
Ep 77 - Yan Lianke and Lenin’s Kisses with Piotr Machajek
“You can give me your empty words if you like; I’ve come to fill out the forms permitting us to withdraw from society.”In the seventy seventh episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast we …
2:03:49
The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast · Aug 6, 2022
Ep 76 - Huang Fan and Zero with The Hugonauts
“Unmasking a universally accepted lie or overturning an irreplaceable idol will produce something akin to a mental collapse.”In the seventy sixth episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast we are hitting Zero (零 / …
1:35:05
The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast · Jul 23, 2022
Ep 75 - A Yi and The Curse with Jeffrey Kinkley
“Are you going to let your son die for nothing?”In the seventy fifth episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast we are surviving The Curse (杨村的一则诅咒 / yáng cūn de yī zé zǔzhòu). My …
2:11:18
The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast · Jul 2, 2022
Ep 74 - Zou Tao and The Fox Spirit of Bluestone Mountain with Timothy Gouldthorp
There is a saying that accurately describes Young Master Zhou’s state of mind: “Willing to die beneath the flower and linger as an amorous ghost”In the seventy fourth episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction …
1:29:40
The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast · Jun 7, 2022
Ep 73 - A Que and Farewell, Doraemon with Eero Suoranta
‘This cartoon will never end’In the seventy third episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast, Eero Suoranta and I are saying Farewell, Doraemon (再见，哆啦A梦 / zàijiàn, duōlaAmèng). This is the second time a story …
2:43:40
The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast · May 5, 2022
Ep 72 - Han Song and My Country Does Not Dream with the London Chinese Science Fiction Group
‘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 …
1:57:24
The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast · Apr 24, 2022
Ep 71 - Feng Jicai and A Looking-Glass World with Daniel Li
'All the magic lay within their own bodies'In the seventy first episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast we are stepping into A Looking Glass World (单筒望远镜 / Dāntǒng Wàngyuǎnjìng). This is our second …
2:08:53
The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast · Mar 26, 2022
Ep 70 - The Adventures of Ma Suzhen with Paul Bevan
‘There is never anything so difficult that it cannot be resolved’In the seventieth episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast we are taking part in The Adventures of Ma Suzhen (马素贞复仇记 / Mǎ Sùzhēn …
1:32:54
The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast · Mar 9, 2022
Ep 69 - Xue Mo and The Women, the Camels, and the Dholes with Sarah Lam and Nicola Clayton
You couldn’t get to grips with fate, but the enemy you could see and touch was your own bodyIn the sixty ninth episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast we are riding with The …
1:39:38
The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast · Feb 21, 2022
Ep 68 - Amang and Raised by Wolves with Steve Bradbury
In-your-face. I want more in-your-face, if you please.In the sixty eighth episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast we are being Raised by Wolves (狼養的 / Láng Yǎng De), just like Amang and her …
1:29:41
The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast · Feb 12, 2022
Ep 67 - Lo Yi-Chin and Faraway with Jenna Tang
Maybe I would only begin to understand these things when I became fatherless too, having no-one to lean on, the bitter solitude of not knowing what you ought to say before the worldIn the …
2:09:11
The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast · Jan 24, 2022
Ep 66 - Ba Jin and Hong Kong Nights with Luo Tianqi
The rocking of the boat created the illusion that all the lights were movingIn the sixty sixth episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast we are adrift in Hong Kong Nights (香港之夜 / Xiāng …
2:11:39
The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast · Jan 5, 2022
Ep 65 - Ge Fei and The Invisibility Cloak with Giray Fidan and Rauno Sainio
The best attributes of anyone or anything usually reside on the surface, which is where, in fact, all of us live out our livesIn the sixty fifth episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast …
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