The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast
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Ep 54 - Qiu Miaojin and Notes of a Crocodile with Conor Stuart
‘Some desires, once formed, are impossible to fulfil, so they become frustrations instead. That’s the problem with going forth into new worlds’
[ this is episode 2 of our Taiwan Season ]
In the fifty fourth episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast we are thumbing through the Notes of a Crocodile (鳄鱼手记 / Èyú Shǒujì). Joining me on the lookout for the shy and elusive reptiloid is Conor Stuart.
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(三八 - Sānbā - usually derogatory adjective used to describe ‘frivolous’ women)
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