Ep 71 - Feng Jicai and A Looking-Glass World with Daniel Li

'All the magic lay within their own bodies'

In the seventy first episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast we are stepping into A Looking Glass World (单筒望远镜 / Dāntǒng Wàngyuǎnjìng). This is our second encounter with Tianjin’s bard Feng Jicai, and our first (sort of!) with his publisher-in-translation, Daniel Li of Sinoist Books.

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// NEWS ITEMS //

• Generations of Voices in Chinese Literature: a panel hosted by The World of Chinese

• New Sino-SF just dropped: New Voices in Chinese Science Fiction

• Shenyang in translation: Rouge Street by Shaung Xuetao tr. JT himself

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// WORD OF THE DAY //

(庚子年 - gēng zi nián - gengzi year AKA the year of the metal rat)

(from the 60 year cycle of the Chinese calendar)

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// MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE //

• Skedaddle - a font with Victorian hotel vibes

• Sinoist Books’ new subscription package

• Paul Richardson & Chu Xiaoying’s 2015 market report on Chinese publishing

• the post cultural-revolution scar literature movement

• the Feng Jicai institute 天津大学冯骥才文学艺术研究院

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