Exploring Historical Use of Poisons in China and Ketamine in the Party State

‘Chopin always reminds me of being lovelorn in Penang’

[ this is episode 5 of our Taiwan Season ]

In the fifty seventh episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast we are suffering from Home Sickness (匿逃者 / Nì Táo Zhě), a short story collection by Chih-ying Lay. Here to ease this terrible affliction is the book’s translator: reformed Buddhist and agile herper Darryl Sterk.

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// NEWS ITEMS //

• Healing with Poisons - a book on the interwining of classical Chinese medicine & poison
• Ketamine and the Return of the Party-State - DLK’s political history of ket vs the CCP
• A&Qs on 'Sinofuturisms' - compiled in Verge: Global Asias by Virginia L Con & 胡子哥
• TrChFic bags a spot in the Feedspot Literature Podcasts list

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// WORD OF THE DAY //

(亲源关系 - qīnyuán guānxì - phylogenetic relationship)

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// MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE //

• Herping - not a word I’d heard before!
• Small publishers Honford Star, Balestier Press, and Linda Leith
• Sailing to Ireland: Essays on W. B. Yeats and the Celtic Renaissance
• Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale
• Lessons in Essence by Dana Standridge
• The Mystery Religions of Gladovia by Bradley Winterton
• Kant’s noumena & the Buddhist concept of ‘convenient means’