<p><em>‘I wrote the asinine words ‘liquor is literature’ and ‘people who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature’ when I was good and drunk, and you must not take them to heart.’</em></p><p>In the ninety ninth episode of the Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast we’re taking a lengthy holiday with <a href="https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2012/yan/facts/"><strong>Mo Yan</strong></a> in <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/472276.The_Republic_of_Wine"><strong><em>The Republic of Wine</em></strong></a>, so get your visa stamped and your baijiu in hand. This time there are two discussions. First, sober, with returnees <a href="https://www.dylanleviking.com/"><strong>Dylan Levi King</strong></a> and <a href="https://michelledeeter.com/"><strong>Michelle Deeter</strong></a>. Then, drunk with <strong>DLK</strong> and poet/translator <a href="https://thechinaproject.com/2023/03/24/talking-contemporary-chinese-poetry-with-translator-martin-winter/"><strong>Martin Winter</strong></a>. Listen all the way through, comrade, to hear two of us curse then proclaim our love for a prominent figure in the field. This is the penultimate episode; the time for tomfoolery is almost over.</p><p>-</p><p><strong>// NEWS ITEMS //</strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://www.feministpress.org/books-n-z/tongueless"><em>Tongueless</em></a> by Lau Yee-wa</li><li><a href="https://chajournal.blog/2024/01/03/knight/">Helen Wang interviews Sabina Knight</a></li><li><a href="https://www.nyrb.com/products/mourning-a-breast"><em>Mourning a Breast</em></a> by Xi Xi</li></ul><p>-</p><p><strong>// WORD OF THE DAY //</strong></p><p>(酒量 – jiǔliàng – capacity for liquor)</p><p>-</p><p><strong>// MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE //</strong></p><ul><li><a href="http://www.coldbacon.com/writing/luxun-calltoarms.html#Madman"><em>The Diary of a Madman</em></a><em> </em>- Lu Xun</li><li><a href="https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/446826/lapvona-by-moshfegh-ottessa/9781529115727"><em>Lapvona</em> - Ottessa Moshfegh</a> // (plus her stories set in <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/dpxppz/medecine-v14n12">Yunnan</a>, <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/the-man-in-xinjiang">Xinjiang</a>, and <a href="https://www.aesop.com/us/r/the-fabulist/nanjing/">Jiangsu</a>)</li><li>UK's <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67658106">Eat Out to Help Out</a> &amp; Japanese govt’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/17/japan-government-launches-competition-to-get-people-drinking-alcohol-drinks-tax-revenue">Sake Viva!</a> drive</li><li><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uFh-llMMM-E_ahKTDwPVghYG9Jfv5Y0G/view?usp=sharing"><em>Cannibalism in Joyce and Mo Yan</em></a></li><li><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UOkVr9e2a-4HelzSKJOtwHA6ujadPj0B/view?usp=sharing"><em>Postsocialism and Cultural Politics</em></a></li></ul> --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/angus-stewart1/message

The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast

Angus Stewart

Ep 99 - Mo Yan and The Republic of Wine with Dylan Levi King, Michelle Deeter, and Martin Winter

JAN 7, 2024229 MIN
The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast

Ep 99 - Mo Yan and The Republic of Wine with Dylan Levi King, Michelle Deeter, and Martin Winter

JAN 7, 2024229 MIN

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<p><em>‘I wrote the asinine words ‘liquor is literature’ and ‘people who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature’ when I was good and drunk, and you must not take them to heart.’</em></p><p>In the ninety ninth episode of the Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast we’re taking a lengthy holiday with <a href="https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2012/yan/facts/"><strong>Mo Yan</strong></a> in <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/472276.The_Republic_of_Wine"><strong><em>The Republic of Wine</em></strong></a>, so get your visa stamped and your baijiu in hand. This time there are two discussions. First, sober, with returnees <a href="https://www.dylanleviking.com/"><strong>Dylan Levi King</strong></a> and <a href="https://michelledeeter.com/"><strong>Michelle Deeter</strong></a>. Then, drunk with <strong>DLK</strong> and poet/translator <a href="https://thechinaproject.com/2023/03/24/talking-contemporary-chinese-poetry-with-translator-martin-winter/"><strong>Martin Winter</strong></a>. Listen all the way through, comrade, to hear two of us curse then proclaim our love for a prominent figure in the field. This is the penultimate episode; the time for tomfoolery is almost over.</p><p>-</p><p><strong>// NEWS ITEMS //</strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://www.feministpress.org/books-n-z/tongueless"><em>Tongueless</em></a> by Lau Yee-wa</li><li><a href="https://chajournal.blog/2024/01/03/knight/">Helen Wang interviews Sabina Knight</a></li><li><a href="https://www.nyrb.com/products/mourning-a-breast"><em>Mourning a Breast</em></a> by Xi Xi</li></ul><p>-</p><p><strong>// WORD OF THE DAY //</strong></p><p>(酒量 – jiǔliàng – capacity for liquor)</p><p>-</p><p><strong>// MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE //</strong></p><ul><li><a href="http://www.coldbacon.com/writing/luxun-calltoarms.html#Madman"><em>The Diary of a Madman</em></a><em> </em>- Lu Xun</li><li><a href="https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/446826/lapvona-by-moshfegh-ottessa/9781529115727"><em>Lapvona</em> - Ottessa Moshfegh</a> // (plus her stories set in <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/dpxppz/medecine-v14n12">Yunnan</a>, <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/the-man-in-xinjiang">Xinjiang</a>, and <a href="https://www.aesop.com/us/r/the-fabulist/nanjing/">Jiangsu</a>)</li><li>UK's <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67658106">Eat Out to Help Out</a> &amp; Japanese govt’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/17/japan-government-launches-competition-to-get-people-drinking-alcohol-drinks-tax-revenue">Sake Viva!</a> drive</li><li><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uFh-llMMM-E_ahKTDwPVghYG9Jfv5Y0G/view?usp=sharing"><em>Cannibalism in Joyce and Mo Yan</em></a></li><li><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UOkVr9e2a-4HelzSKJOtwHA6ujadPj0B/view?usp=sharing"><em>Postsocialism and Cultural Politics</em></a></li></ul> --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/angus-stewart1/message