‘I am clearly an exemplary specimen of a cat, but lately I’ve been pondering something: what does a human do to be regarded as exemplary?’’

In the eighty third episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast, we are getting garfed on by My Cat Hates Me, the webcomic-turned print book by Bai Cha. Keeping the menagerie in line on this episode is Jemma Stafford, translator of the book and also quite a number of video games. So don your catboy ears, say ‘miaomiao~’, and brace yourself for a heady dosage of internet animal culture.

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// NEWS ITEMS //

Translation of Eileen Chang’s Written on Water to be republished by NYRB
Riverhead Books appoints an editor to specialise in translated Chinese works
Journey Planet magazine publishes Chinese sci-fi issue

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// WORD OF THE DAY //

(不作不死 – bù zuò bù sǐ – no zuo no die, ie. one would not be in trouble had one not asked for it)

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// MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE //

Anime Cafe Host reviews My Cat Hates Me
Bristol Translates, and their workshops
Gujian 3 and Chinese Paladin
Zen Cats, a purrfect Buddhist text

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