The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast
1) 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 prec...Show More
2) 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 heart.’In ...Show More
3) 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 jo...Show More
4) 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 Chine...Show More
Ep 97 - Lin Yi-han and Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise with Jenna Tang
1:55:36 | Oct 13th, 2023
5) 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 a...Show More
6) Ep 95 - Shi Tiesheng and My Travels in Ding Yi with Chloe 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...Show More
7) Ep 94 - Li Er and Cherries on a Pomegranate Tree with Dave Haysom
In the space marked ‘pregnant’, the machine had quite clearly printed the word ‘no’In the ninety fourth episode of the Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast we are entering election season. The heroine o...Show More
8) Ep 93 - Xu Zechen and Running though 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 ...Show More
9) 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 - h...Show More
10) 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 the Transl...Show More
Ep 91 - Yu Xiuhua and Moonlight Rests on my Left Palm with Fiona Sze-Lorrain
1:15:01 | Jun 30th, 2023