Ep 67 - Lo Yi-Chin and Faraway with Jenna Tang

Maybe I would only begin to understand these things when I became fatherless too, having no-one to lean on, the bitter solitude of not knowing what you ought to say before the world

In the sixty seventh of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast we are going Faraway (遠方 / Yuǎnfāng) with Lo Yi-Chin. Lighting lamps with me as time, memory, and family dissolve into an indistinct fog is the writer, translator, and mega-linguist Jenna Tang.

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// WORD OF THE DAY //

(遠方 - yuǎnfāng - far away (or should it be ‘faraway’?)

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// MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE //

• Wintry Night 寒夜 by Li Qiao 李喬

• Happy Stories, Mostly by Norman Erikson Pasaribu

• 1988: I Want to Talk with the World by Han Han

• Bo Ke Lai 博客來 - International Taiwanese bookstore 海外專館

• Taiwanese writers Jian Zheng 簡媜 and Qi Jun 琦君