- 1 hour 10 minutesFOW063 – Chinese Science Fiction (with Virginia Conn) [EN]
Guest: Dr Virginia Conn
Shownotes
WARNING: This episode contains spoilers for »Pacific Rim 2«
- Darko Suvin
- »Little Smartie Travels to the Future« bv Ye Yonglie
- Translations by Lena Henningsen et al and Nick Stember
- Cultural Revolution
- Great Leap Forward
- Lu Xun
- May 4th Movement
- Liang Qichao
- 1989: Song Mingwei
- 1991: Science Fiction Convention
- Magazine »Science Fiction World« 科幻世界
- »Three Body Problem« by Liu Cixin
- »Folding Beijing« by Hao Jingfang
- Scar literature
- »Invisible Planets« and »Broken Stars«, two collections of Chinese Sci-Fi edited and translated by Ken Liu
- »Vagabonds« by Hao Jingfang
- »Wandering Earth« by Liu Cixin (also a movie on Netflix)
- »The Fat Years« by Chan Koonchung
- Techno-orientalism
- FOW045 – Mythbusting China’s Social Credit System
- Ning Ken’s »the ultra unreal«
Book recommendations
- »Three Body Problem« trilogy by Cixin Liu
- German title: »Die Drei Sonnen« (2016, 2018, 2019)
- »Folding Beijing« and »Vagabonds« by Hao Jingfang
- German titles: »Peking falten« (2017), »Wandernde Himmel« (2018)
- »Waste Tide« by Chen Qiufan/Stanley Chen
- German Title: »Die Siliziuminsel« (2019)
- more recent publication on AI: »AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future« with Kai-fu Lee, read her review the LA Review of Books to find out what Virginia thinks about it
- Xia Jia
- in German: u.a. in »Kapsel: Fantastische Geschichten aus China. Band 2: In den Wolken«
- »Invisible Planets« and »Broken Stars«, two collections edited and translated by Ken Liu
- »Sinopticon«, edited by Christina Xueting Ni (publication date: November 2021)
- »The Way Spring arrives«, (publication date: March 2022)
For listeners in the US, we recommend finding and supporting your local indie book store if you want to buy any of these books, e.g. using https://www.indiebound.org/indie-store-finder
For listerners in Germany:
Wo kaufen? Beim Science-Fiction-Buchladen unseres Vertrauens: Otherland in Berlin. Abholung in Berlin oder Lieferungen in ganz Deutschland:
Otherland Buchladen in Berlin
Tel: 030-69 50 51 17
E-Mail: [email protected]
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11 November 2021, 7:49 pm - FOW062 – Was ist los in Myanmar? (mit David Brenner)
Hintergrund und Geschichte 29:43, dann geht es um gegenwärtige Konflikte und ab 49:45 um die derzeitige Gewalt gegen die Zivilbevölkerung.
- David Brenner
- Twitter: @DavBrenner
- Website
- University of Sussex, Department of International Relations: @IRSussex
- Buch: „Rebel Politics – A Political Sociology of Armed Struggle in Myanmar’s Borderlands„
- Putsch am 2. Februar 2021
- Unabhängigkeit 1948
- Internationaler Gerichtshof (ICJ) in Den Haag
- General Min Aung Hlaing
- Wahlen in 2015 und 2020
- General Aung San
- Panglong-Abkommen
- 1962: Putsch unter General Ne Win
- Mary Callahan, Making Enemies
- Yunnan (Provinz in China)
- Goldenes Dreieck
- Kuomintang (Partei aus China, die 1949 Buergerkrieg gegen die Kommunistische Partei verlor)
- Alfred McCoy, „The Politics of Heroin in South East Asia“
- EAOs: ethnic armed organisations
- Kachin
- Karen
- Wa
- CDM: Civil Disobedience Movement
- Zivilregierung: CPRH (Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw)
- 1988: Studierendenbewegung
- Aung San Suu Kyi in Den Haag
- Firma „Total“
- Wo mehr nachlesen und Medien unterstützen?
Eigenwerbung
- Fernostwärts unterstützen
- Unser zweiwöchentlicher Fernostwärts Newsletter
Episodenbild: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 by UN Geneva
18 April 2021, 5:17 pm - David Brenner
- 1 hour 3 minutesFOW061 – Punk in Wuhan (with Nathanel Amar) [EN]
- Guest: Nathanel Amar
- Foreign Beatles cover band Dalu Yuedui
- Cui Jian
- dakou CDs
- Teresa Teng
- Underground Baby
- Boredom Collective
- SMZB (Shengming zhi bing)
- SMZB singing „大武漢“ in Taipei during their Taiwan Tour
- Songs not included in the official release of SMZB’s „Once Upon a Time“ album: „Pearl of the Orient„, „Mao’s great famine„, „Happy Concentration Camps“ and „Red Riot„
- Vox Livehouse and Wuhan Prison
- Chinese Football
- Play to Death
- Angry Dog Eyes
- 2015 Documentary „Never release my fist“ by Wang Shuibo
- FOW041 – Chengdu Bling: Hip-Hop in China (with Lauren Teixeira) [EN]
- FOW054 – Elektronische Musik in China (mit Carmen Herold)
Self-promotion
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Photo: SMZB via Christian Kock on Flickr under CC BY 2.0
7 February 2021, 12:35 pm - 59 minutes 25 secondsFOW060 – Being Queer in China (with Zeyi Yang) [EN]
- Zeyi Yang
- Zeyi’s story about how a two gay Chinese men became two gay Chinese dads
- episode FOW028 about LGBTQ* rights in Taiwan
- Queer Chinese movies from a while back: „Lanyu“ (2001), „Farewell my Concubine“ (霸王别姬/Ba Wang Bie Ji, 1993)
- Danmei
- Chen Qing Ling 陈情令 / The Untamed (available on Netflix)
- Rough Translation episode with Emily Feng on the „scandal“ around Xiao Zhan
- Web series „Addicted“ (上瘾/Shàngyǐn)
- Queer as Folk (TV Series)
- Zeyi’s article about China’s „subtitle army“ for queer content
- episode FOW029 about LGBTQ* rights in Hong Kong
- Recommendations
- Sixth Tone
- „Beijing Comrades“ by Bei Tong (basis for „Lanyu“)
- „All in my family“ (2019) by Hao Wu
Self-promotion
- Support Fernostwärts
- Read our biweekly Fernostwärts Newsletter (in German)
Photo: Postcards from ShanghaiPRIDE via 上海骄傲节 ShanghaiPRIDE
21 December 2020, 10:19 am - FOW059 – Language, Dialect & Nationalism in China (with Gina Tam) [EN]
- Gina Tam
- Gina’s book
- Freely available first chapter (access to the entire book for some university libraries)
- Blog article: What Makes a Language Policy Revolutionary?
- FOW episode #41 on Chinese rap music with Lauren Texeira
- fangyan 方言: not quite “dialect”, not quite translatable
- Chao Yuen Ren
- Different ways to represent the sounds of Chinese without writing Chinese characters:
- The Great Leap Forward
Self-promotion
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- Read our biweekly Fernostwärts Newsletter (in German)
Photo: First Putonghua teaching achievement exhibition in 1958 via Age of Revolutions
12 November 2020, 9:24 pm - 1 hour 23 minutesFOW058 – US-China Relations, Then and Now (with Graham Webster) [EN]
Self-promotion
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Photo: Richard Nixon and Zhou Enlai speaking at a banquet at the Great Hall of the People. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
22 October 2020, 10:11 am - 44 minutes 31 secondsFOW057 – Chinese Journalism (with Shen Lu) [EN]
- Shen Lu’s portfolio site
- Caixin investigation series on COVID-19
- Early Sanlian article on a new form of lung disease in Wuhan
- Profile of Doctor Ai Fen
Self-promotion
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Photo: Screenshot of a Caixin article on their reporters in Wuhan
20 May 2020, 10:48 am - 46 minutes 52 secondsFOW056 – Lockdown experiences in Wuhan (with Rui Zhong) [EN]
- Wuhan
- Doctors Ai Fen and Li Wenliang
- American journalists expelled
- Caixin
- Wilfred Chan on Twitter
- Fang Fang’s diary
- Reganmian cartoon as seen in our Fernostwärts Newsletter
- The Paper
- Sixth Tone
- David Paulk on Twitter
- Zhongnanhai
- Articles by Rui Zhong
- Rui Zhong on Twitter
- Fernostwärts Newsletter #18
Self-promotion
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Photo: Panorama of Hankow and Wuchang by 射手座2017 under CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
6 May 2020, 11:23 am - 1 hour 4 minutesFOW055 – Taiwans absurder internationaler Status (mit Klaus Bardenhagen)
- Klaus Bardenhagen
- Weltreporter
- Koxinga
- Chiang Kai-shek
- 228-Massaker
- Weißer Terror
- FOW036 – Dealing With A Difficult Past: Transitional Justice In Taiwan (with Chris Horton) [EN]
- UN-Resolution 2758
- Chiang Ching-kuo
- Taiwan Relations Act
- Lee Teng-hui
- Montevideo-Konvention
- Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen discusses free trade pact with Colorado (The Standard)
- Taiwan und die WHO (Guardian)
- Ausweichtaktik der WHO zu Taiwan (Twitter)
- Taiwan says WHO not sharing coronavirus information it provides, pressing complaints (Reuters)
- 2003: Taiwan left isolated in fight against SARS (Nature)
Eigenwerbung
- Fernostwärts unterstützen
- Unser zweiwöchentlicher Fernostwärts Newsletter
Photo: 17th century watercolor drawing of the Dutch East India Company’s Fort Zeelandia on the island of Formosa. The survey image includes a legend identifying government buildings, markets, neighbourhoods etc. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
1 April 2020, 2:57 pm - 1 hour 23 minutesFOW054 – Elektronische Musik in China (mit Carmen Herold)
- Zhao Dai auf Facebook, Instagram (WeChat: zhaodaiclub)
- Lantern Club
- Label Svbkvlt aus Shanghai
- Shanghai Community Radio
- Duck Fight Goose
- Resident Advisor
- East Palace, West Palace
- Lyu Zhi Qiang
- Slowcook
- Michael Cignarale
- Knopha
- Zhiqi, einer der Co-Founder von Zhao Dai
- 33EMYBW (San San)
- T.K.L
- Yu Su
- GOOOOOSE
- Hyph11e
- Tzusing
- Zaliva-D
- Men’s Lies (WeChat: menslies)
Eigenwerbung
- Fernostwärts unterstützen
- Unser zweiwöchentlicher Fernostwärts Newsletter
Photo: 招待所 Zhao Dai
4 March 2020, 2:22 pm - 45 minutes 47 secondsFOW053 – The State of the Hong Kong Protest Movement (with Mary Hui) [EN]
- Our previous episodes about Hong Kong
- Mary Hui
- Quartz on Hong Kong
- Arrest numbers (updated regularly)
- In-depth Washington Post report comparing the Hong Kong police’s use of force with their own guidelines on use of force
- IPCC (police watchdog) report delayed
- Lancet study on PTSD and depression in Hong Kong
- Hong Kong Free Press
- RTHK (Radio Television Hong Kong)
- South China Morning Post
Self-promotion
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- Read our biweekly Fernostwärts Newsletter (in German)
Photo: CC-BY Katharin Tai (Protest in Chater Garden on 19 January 2020)
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