
Ep 62 - Liu Cixin and The Wandering Earth with Jairo Morales
The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast
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"It's something that we are always wondering how amazing is the fact that having China as a authoritarian country, but at the same time being one of the most advanced in technologies," he says. "Some things are mind-numbingly backwards and really a lot of the society is still a peasant." In South Korea, just like China, they have some two, three apps and everything is connected. But I think it's much more of a crazy contrast to travel from Shanghai to the countryside outside Tokyo or Japan.
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