"Alive, her body belonged to him; dead, she was his ghost"In the ninhth episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast, we are looking at Lust, Caution (色，戒 / Sè, Jiè) by a certain someone called Eileen Chang. Heard of her?It’s a tale of forbidden love and political intrigue set at a precarious time and indeed a precarious place in Chinese history: the Japanese-occupied foreign concessions of WW2-era Shanghai.The translation I read is from the Penguin Pocket Classics Edition. Julia Lovell was the translator. Co-hosting with me on this episode is the amazing Claire Hao.- // Discussed this Episode //Except of the story available on the Pocket Penguins websiteJulia Lovell/Han Shaogong article- // Handy TrChFic Links //Buy Me a CoffeeBonus Shows on Patreon INSTAGRAM // TWITTER // DISCORD

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