Ep 41 - Lao She and Cat Country with Molly Silk

It is not often that one has the opportunity to observe the extinction of an entire civilisation

In the forty first episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast, we are venturing into Cat Country (猫城记 / Māo Chéng Jì), a science fiction oddity of the Republic of China. Helping me save the nation and stay off the damned reverie leaves is Molly Silk, a doctoral researcher of Chinese Space Policy.

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// NEWS ITEMS //

• Little Smarty Travels to the Future comic now available in translation

• Chinese Science Fiction Goes Global by Regina Kanyu Wang

• Celestial Empire: The Emergence of Chinese Science Fiction by Nathaniel Isaacson

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// WORD OF THE DAY //

(迷叶 / Mí Yè / reverie leaves)

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// MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE //

• The Wandering Earth: A Device for the Propagation of the Chinese Regime’s Desired Space Narratives? by Molly herself

• The Trial by Franz Kafka

• Lao She in London

• I Am a Cat by Natsume Sōseki

• The Cat Returns (2002, dir. Hiroyuki Morita)

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