Ep 52 - Monkey King: Journey to the West with Julia Lovell

‘An unruly monkey like you has to be restrained somehow, otherwise you’ll never reform’

In the fifty second episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast we are departing from the Tang Empire on a haphazard Journey to the West (西游记 / Xī Yóu Jì). Talking me through the transformations is Julia Lovell, translator of JttW’s latest, extremely readable English translation.

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// NEWS ITEMS //

• A new Can Xue translation is on the way

• Yang Lian and Brian Holton win first Sarah Maguire Prize

• ‘Jia Pingwa: Master Storyteller of Rural China’ event, Fri 9 Apr

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// WORD OF THE DAY //

(游 - yóu - journey)

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// MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE //

• Can’t Get You Out of My Head, (Dir. Adam Curtis, 2021)

• The Sinister Way by Richard von Glahn

• Transforming Monkey by Hongmei Sun

• The Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel by Andrew Plaks

• Cultural Syncretism (in a silly video game)

• (Breaking the) rules of fantasy fiction

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