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Ep 39 - Zhou Haohui and Death Notice with Zac Haluza

October 10, 2020

executioner: ᴇᴜᴍᴇɴɪᴅᴇs

In the thirty ninth episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast, we are looking at Death Notice (死亡通知单 / Sǐwáng Tōngzhī Dān), a fast paced crime thriller with a mean streak. Joining me to inspect the corpses is its polymath translator, Zac Haluza. Expect to be surprised by just how much this work was adapted in translation.

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(時差 / shíchā / time difference)

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Ep 35 - Necropolis Immortal with Etvolare

July 18, 2020

...the lid of the stone coffin slowly shifted open, filling the chamber with a rancid stench of decay. Two blackened arms reached out from the interior...

In the thirty fifth episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast, we are looking at Necropolis Immortal (仙墓 / Xiān Mù), written by Immortal Amidst Snow in July. Our guest is the novel's irrepressible translator, Etvolare.

Necropolis Immortal blends two particularly Chinese genres: xianxia, and tomb raiding. It's not quite the tomb raiding one associates with Indiana Jones and Lara Croft, as Etvo explains in our interview.

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Nick Stember's essay on Sinophilia: Sinophiles between Flatland, Fetish, and Feuilleton
Ge Fei's Peach Blossom Paradise available for pre-order
Tang Fei to be guest of next London Chinese Sci-fi Group meeting

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(墓 / Mù / Tomb)

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Ep 16 - Chen Zijin and The Untouched Crime with Michelle Deeter

October 22, 2019

"Remember, if the police come by in the next few days, just answer their questions the way I taught you."

In the sixteenth episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast, we are looking at Chen Zijin's The Untouched Crime (无证之罪/wú zhèng zhī zuì)

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. So, you’d better hit play. Right?

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Ep 3 - Murong Xuecun and Leave Me Alone

March 15, 2019

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"I lit up a cigarette and thought that you shouldn't torture yourself by trying to go against life's grain. The dissolute will take advantage of the young. If you could be happy for a while, then settle for that."

In this episode we are looking at: Leave Me Alone (成都，今夜请将我遗忘 // Chéngdū, Jīnyè Qǐng Jiāng Wǒ Yíwàng) It's the 2014 UK edition published by Fortysix

Murong Xuecun's 2010 People's Literature Prize acceptance speech https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/world/asia/murong-xuecuns-acceptance-speech-for-the-2010-peoples-literature-prize.html

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