‘This cartoon will never end’
In the seventy third episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast, Eero Suoranta and I are saying Farewell, Doraemon (再见，哆啦A梦 / zàijiàn, duōlaAmèng). This is the second time a story by A Que has appeared on the show, and I feel that I now know the writer’s soul: tender in spirit, thoughtful in action, of limpid and eerie atmosphere, and shy about everything except postmodern intertextual showmanship. Pass with us through a loop in time hidden in a lonely river, to drown in nostalgia (from the Greek nostos ‘return home’ + algos ‘pain’).
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// NEWS ITEMS //
READ: a review of Zhang Yueran’s Cocoon, tr. Jeremy Tiang
WATCH: Ma Yuan: The Chinese Avant-garde, Metafiction and Post-postmodernism
ATTEND: the Festival of Chinese Translation at Aberdeen Uni
META NEWS: I’ll be hosting an event on Empires of Dust
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// WORDS OF THE DAY //
(动画 - dònghuà - animation )
(90后 - jiǔ líng hòu - 90s kids)
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// MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE //
Eero’s musical pairing: Moonmin Took My Head by Ritual
Angus’ musical pairing: Roads by Portishead
Cara Healey’s theory of generic hybridity
Ye Yonglie’s Little Smarty
Sadan aaveen öinen paraati - Xia Jia’s A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight, in Finnish
