‘Chopin always reminds me of being lovelorn in Penang’[ this is episode 5 of our Taiwan Season ]In the fifty seventh episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast we are suffering from Home Sickness (匿逃者 / Nì Táo Zhě), a short story collection by Chih-ying Lay. Here to ease this terrible affliction is the book’s translator: reformed Buddhist and agile herper Darryl Sterk.-// NEWS ITEMS //Healing with Poisons - a book on the interwining of classical Chinese medicine & poisonKetamine and the Return of the Party-State - DLK’s political history of ket vs the CCPA&Qs on 'Sinofuturisms' - compiled in Verge: Global Asias by Virginia L Con & 胡子哥TrChFic bags a spot in the Feedspot Literature Podcasts list-// WORD OF THE DAY //(亲源关系 - qīnyuán guānxì - phylogenetic relationship)-// MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE //Herping - not a word I’d heard before!Small publishers Honford Star, Balestier Press, and Linda LeithSailing to Ireland: Essays on W. B. Yeats and the Celtic RenaissanceWarriors of the Rainbow: Seediq BaleLessons in Essence by Dana StandridgeThe Mystery Religions of Gladovia by Bradley WintertonKant’s noumena & the Buddhist concept of ‘convenient means’

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“What did the council decide on item 42?” — answered with the speaker and the moment.

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