“Are you going to let your son die for nothing?”In the seventy fifth episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast we are surviving The Curse (杨村的一则诅咒 / yáng cūn de yī zé zǔzhòu). My partner for this investigation is literary Sinologist Jeffrey Kinkley. What exactly are we dealing with here? A tale of a backfiring curse, or a backfiring society? For realist writing to penetrate our often nightmarish world and scratch The Real, does it have to get weird first? Detective K and I are on the case. Don’t expect comforting answers.-// NEWS ITEMS //Next London Chinese Sci-fi Group meeting on July 31st: The Strange Girl by Xiu Xinyu, tr Emily JinCaroline Jortay announces publication date for HK Lit anthology from Editions JentayuChinese woman wrote her own alternate history of Russia on Wikipedia-// WORD OF THE DAY //(游离 - yóulí - to disassociate)-// MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE //Rudolph Wagner on Chinese Scifi as Lobby LiteratureThe Woodpecker, the Chinese justice ministry’s literary journalL'Étranger, by Albert CamusTwo Lives - a recent A Yi short story collectionJeffrey’s own Corruption and Realism in Late Socialist China

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