‘Generation after generation, people have lived in this massive sick ward we call the universe ’ In the eighty fourth episode of the Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast, we are lost deep inside Hospital, the first entry in an abyssal trilogy by show favourite Han Song. Old-time wardmates Michael Berry and Mingwei Song are here too, groaning in the darkness. - // NEWS ITEMS // Tencent’s Three Body Problem series arrives… on Youtube! A podcast interview w/ Yan Ge & Jeremy Tiang on Strange Beasts of China Bookshop.org puts out a Lunar New Year reading list 🐇🐇🐇 New book: New Medieval Books: A History of Chinese Literature by Zhang Longxi - // WORDS OF THE DAY // (生存 – shēngcún – survival) (痛苦 – tòngkǔ – pain) - // MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE // Remains of Life, tr by Michael Lu Xun’s Diary of a Madman // [FULL TEXT] Life extension gene therapy & the first gene edited babies The Reincarnated Giant - CUP’s Chinese sci-fi anthology Han Song’s Weibo account Translation, Disinformation, and Wuhan Diary - Michael’s meta-book