Ep 78 - Gu Hongming and Bonnie Prince Tuan with Lee Moore
The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast
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Moja: A Novel About the Boxers
Sandalwood is a work of fiction and it uses characters, POVs. So it's hard to like extract what Moja's point of view might be. There's a local rebellion that happens in Qingdao - the place he sets all his novels. A survivor of an attack on a town by the Germans, a massacre goes off for a chapter after they're trained by the boxers. He comes back, he adopts the persona of UFA, the general,. what the... Song dynasty. The leader was a recently retired Lao Xung, like an old man, Chinese opera player. His sidekicks were dressed up as Sun Wukong, the Monkey King and
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