The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast Ep 9 - Eileen Chang and Lust, Caution with Claire Hao
May 26, 2019
01:22:24
"Alive, her body belonged to him; dead, she was his ghost"
In the ninhth episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast, we are looking at Lust, Caution (色，戒 / Sè, Jiè) by a certain someone called Eileen Chang. Heard of her?
It’s a tale of forbidden love and political intrigue set at a precarious time and indeed a precarious place in Chinese history: the Japanese-occupied foreign concessions of WW2-era Shanghai.
The translation I read is from the Penguin Pocket Classics Edition. Julia Lovell was the translator. Co-hosting with me on this episode is the amazing Claire Hao.
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