‘Because of sleepwalking, over one billion Chinese people have awakened’In the seventy second episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast I’m facing down a bleak reality: My Country Does Not Dream (我的祖国不要做梦 / wǒde zǔguó bù zuò mèng). But I’m not doing it alone! The London Chinese Science Fiction Group have deployed a team of Han Song aficionados (and one critic) to console my exhausted brain as the daytime hours fall away, revealing a sombre somnambulant city behind the city: Beijing.-// NEWS ITEMS //Article in Sixth Tone: Infinite Scroll: The Making of China's Web Fiction EpicsWords from Shen Yang in Telegraph article: What life's really like in locked-down ShanghaiShort story Meta-Shanghai by Angus himself is published in Ab Terra 2021Watch/Listen as Jack Hargreaves reads from Chen Chuncheng's Submarines in the Night-// WORDS OF THE DAY //(梦游 - mèngyóu - sleepwalking)(吊儿郎当 - diào'er lángdāng - sloppiness)(躺平 - tǎngpíng - lie flat, as resistance to the 996 work system)(闭眼 - bì yǎn - eyes closed)-// MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE //New wave scifi, and emergence of the New Weird in the 90sGuangzhao’s writeup of his group’s event on this story24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep by Jonathan CraryThe forthcoming English translations of Han Song’s Hospital trilogyChina 2185: Liu Cixin’s cyberpunk novel

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