Ep 84 - Han Song and Hospital with Michael Berry and Mingwei Song

‘Generation after generation, people have lived in this massive sick ward we call the universe ’In the eighty fourth episode of the Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast, we are lost deep inside Hospital, the first entry in an abyssal trilogy by show favourite Han Song. Old-time wardmates Michael Berry and Mingwei Song are here too, groaning in the darkness.-// NEWS ITEMS //Tencent’s Three Body Problem series arrives… on Youtube!A podcast interview w/ Yan Ge & Jeremy Tiang on Strange Beasts of ChinaBookshop.org puts out a Lunar New Year reading list 🐇🐇🐇New book: New Medieval Books: A History of Chinese Literature by Zhang Longxi-// WORDS OF THE DAY //(生存 – shēngcún – survival)(痛苦 – tòngkǔ – pain)-// MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE //Remains of Life, tr by MichaelLu Xun’s Diary of a Madman // [FULL TEXT]Life extension gene therapy & the first gene edited babiesThe Reincarnated Giant - CUP’s Chinese sci-fi anthologyHan Song’s Weibo accountTranslation, Disinformation, and Wuhan Diary - Michael’s meta-book