Ep 73 - A Que and Farewell, Doraemon with Eero Suoranta

The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast

‘This cartoon will never end’

In the seventy third episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast, Eero Suoranta and I are saying Farewell, Doraemon (再见，哆啦A梦 / zàijiàn, duōlaAmèng). This is the second time a story by A Que has appeared on the show, and I feel that I now know the writer’s soul: tender in spirit, thoughtful in action, of limpid and eerie atmosphere, and shy about everything except postmodern intertextual showmanship. Pass with us through a loop in time hidden in a lonely river, to drown in nostalgia (from the Greek nostos ‘return home’ + algos ‘pain’).

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// NEWS ITEMS //

• READ: a review of Zhang Yueran’s Cocoon, tr. Jeremy Tiang

• WATCH: Ma Yuan: The Chinese Avant-garde, Metafiction and Post-postmodernism

• ATTEND: the Festival of Chinese Translation at Aberdeen Uni

• META NEWS: I’ll be hosting an event on Empires of Dust

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// WORDS OF THE DAY //

(动画 - dònghuà - animation )

(90后 - jiǔ líng hòu - 90s kids)

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// MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE //

• Eero’s musical pairing: Moonmin Took My Head by Ritual

• Angus’ musical pairing: Roads by Portishead

• Video CDs

• Cara Healey’s theory of generic hybridity

• Flower of the Other Shore

• Ye Yonglie’s Little Smarty

• Finnconn 2022

• Sadan aaveen öinen paraati - Xia Jia’s A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight, in Finnish

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