Ep 53 - The Membranes with Chi Ta-wei and Ari Larissa Heinrich
‘Two peach trees, two entirely different universes.’
[ this is episode 1 of our Taiwan Season ]
In the fifty third episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast we are peeling back The Membranes (膜 / Mó). Joining me at their respective computer terminals in the ocean floor biodome are its author Chi Ta-wei and translator Ari Larissa Heinrich.
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// NEWS ITEMS //
PANEL: Exploring Chinese Science Fiction Multi-Dimensionally
PREORDER: Vessel - a memoir by Cai Chongda
UPCOMING: The London Chinese Science Fiction Group to have Han Song on as a guest
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// WORDS OF THE DAY //
(赞 - zàn - ‘like’, as in Facebook, Wechat etc)
(情 - qíng - emotion, affection, sentiment)
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// MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE //
80s & 90s sci-fi and cyberpunk: should it be left behind?
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// Episode Sponsor //
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// Handy TrChFic Links //
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!
- No. of episodes: 100
- Latest episode: 2024-02-10
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