Ep 89 - Zhang Yueran and Cocoon with Jeremy Tiang
The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast
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Renkong Shao-Ni
I'm reading a book by the Malaysian author, Gung Wanhui, called Renkong Shao-ni. It's about a dystopian future in which the city has been abandoned and everything is falling apart. And as you read the book, you've realized that it's a somewhat amplified version of March 2020. The narrator is kind of having a really intense pandemic experience. Some of this might be hallucination or memory,. Or perhaps this is a fictional version of the pandemic that went a lot worse than it did.
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