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 episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast we are solving the case of Second Sister (網內人 / Wǎng Nèi Rén), penned by crime connoisseur Chan Ho-kei. Logged on with guest-level access and ready to follow the trail wherever it leads is 3-time visitor to the show Michelle Deeter. In the events that follow we hack into moral frameworks, digital archives, memory glitches, and urban navigation.

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// NEWS ITEMS //

• Gŵyl Haf & Borderless Book Club - International Translation Day event
• AI 2041: Why the Future is Already Here, with Kai-Fu Lee
• Chen Qiufan does an animated TED video to help promote AI 2041
• a TrChFic 80 minute breakdown of ChQF’s Coming of the Light
• Dark as a Boy - an excerpt of Ho Fok Song’s Maze Carpet, tr by Natascha Bruce

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// WORD OF THE DAY //

(人肉搜索引擎 - rénròu sōusuǒ yǐnqíng - human flesh search engine)

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// MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE //

• Stress in Hong Kong
• Social engineering within hacking
• Jung’s concept of the persona
• Form and Ideology in Crime Fiction by Stephen Knight
• The Untouched Crime by Zijin Chen
• A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan