Ep 09: Podcasters’ Second Party!

Where there is a past, there is a future. The party is not over, as we continue our megacrossover, this time tackling modern Chinese literature! What could Salinger be doing with the North Koreans? Included in this episode we also have: lamppost sexuality, mantou typography, disposable(?) wuxia, and the philosophy of chicken nuggets…

“One morning, Salinger was woken from sleep by deafening noises. Dazed, he gazed outside the window and saw a row of gleaming Baekdu bulldozers, which had been modified from Chonma-ho battle tanks, bearing down on his cabin.”

—Salinger and the Koreans

Listen to this episode from The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast on Spotify. 'One morning, Salinger was woken from sleep by deafening noises. Dazed, he gazed outside the window and saw a row of gleaming Baekdu bulldozers, which had been modified from Chonma-ho battle tanks, bearing down on his cabin.'

The Chinese Literature Podcast 

Sealed Off  by Eileen Chang

Rereading the Stone 

Shanghai Foxtrot by Mu Shiying

文化土豆 Culture Potato 

A Bond Undone, Chapter 1 by Jin Yong

The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast

Salinger and the Koreans by Han Song

// ALSO MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE //

• Eileen Chang's time in Shanghai and Hong Kong

• Distortion of time during lockdown

• Mu Shiying, a somewhat forgotten Shanghai modernist

• Modernism & 'mechanophilia'

• Jin Yong & the origins of modern Wuxia

• Chinese pen names

• China’s Image in Han Song’s Science Fiction

• the concept of the 'observer' in quantum physics