The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast
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The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast
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!
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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...
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 a...
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...
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.’
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 six...
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 th...
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 th...
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...
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...
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. Sh...
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...
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...
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 boister...
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/r...
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 Fict...
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...
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 Translat...
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 e...
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 six...
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 Cur...
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”
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, D...
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...
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 Lookin...
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 tak...
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 body
In the sixty ninth episode of The Translated Chines...
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...
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 yo...
Ep 66 - Ba Jin and Hong Kong Nights with Luo Tianqi
The rocking of the boat created the illusion that all the lights were moving
In the sixty sixth episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcas...
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 lives
In the sixty fift...
Ep 64 - Chen Qiufan and Coming of the Light with Francesco Verso
‘Suppose the universe is a program. Everything that we can observe is the result of the machine-executable code. But the cosmic microwave background c...
Ep 63 - Murong Xuecun and Dancing Through Red Dust with Harvey Tomlinson
In my innocent youth, I was a paragon of virtue, but after wandering for so long in the red dust of this world I had joined the forces of evil
I...
Ep 62 - Liu Cixin and The Wandering Earth with Jairo Morales
Before us stood the long abandoned skyscrapers of Manhattan, the Sun's weak light casting their long shadows across the quiet ice of the New York Harb...
Ep 61 - Chen Xiwo and The Book of Sins with Nicky Harman
I loathe reason. Reason is the sort of rubbish you can indulge in when life is sweet, like love and honour. I totally reject it.
In the sixty fi...
Ep 60 - Chan Ho-kei and Second Sister with Michelle Deeter
Just as Nga-Yee thought everything was going back to normal, Siu-Man stepped from the window of their twenty-second-story flat
In the sixtieth e...
Ep 59 - More Than One Child with Shen Yang and Nicky Harman
It is a long and painful process to see oneself clearly, as is the process of returning to one’s childhood.
In the fifty ninth episode of The Tr...
Ep 58 - A Que and Flower of the Other Shore with Xueting Ni
The moment I was bitten, I died and became another thing. Now I am loitering on the other shore of the Styx, listening to the past from beyond its wav...
Ep 57 - Chih-Ying Lay and Home Sickness with Darryl Sterk
‘Chopin always reminds me of being lovelorn in Penang’
[ this is episode 5 of our Taiwan Season ]
In the fifty seventh episode of The Tran...
Ep 56 - Pai Hsien-yung and Taipei People with Nadia Ho
‘According to the ancient precepts, grief supersedes all formalities’
[ this is episode 4 of our Taiwan Season ]
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Ep 55 - Wu Ming-yi and The Man with the Compound Eyes with Cara Healey
‘Only if you go to places nobody’s ever been can you see the colours nobody’s ever seen’
[ this is episode 3 of our Taiwan Season ]
In the...