Ep 62 - Liu Cixin and The Wandering Earth with Jairo Morales
The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast
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The Three Body Problem: A Guide to Translating Chinese Books to Spanish
There's an interesting story like some other publishers and offers that are involved. I think the very opening move was made by a guy working in the Chinese. He saw potential for Chinese sci-fi. And one of the things that I really am grateful of the Spanish publishers is that they translate directly from the source language to the Spanish. They don't use a English translation. You know, so that's why we have, since the beginning, since the three body problem, we have this kind of translator. But yeah, I honestly don't know how difficult it might be. Even Spanish is a rich language. We have a lot of words. We don't have just monocilabs
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