If anyone is reading this notebook — don’t come looking for me. Don’t.

In the forty sixth episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast we are undergoing black initiation into The Flock of Ba Hui (巴虺的牧群 / Bāhuī de Mùqún). Returning to the show to rescue me from the abyss - or hurl me into it - is the extremely online Dylan Levi King. We have quite a beast to wrestle with this episode. Lovecraftian fiction, from the Chinese internet, curated, translated and packaged in paratexts by two particularly unorthodox individuals.

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// NEWS ITEMS //

• Women Writing China: Female Authors and Chinese Literature

• How a Music Streaming Site Became a Safe Space for Leftist Listeners

• Peking Noir with Paul French

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// WORD OF THE DAY //

(邪神呼唤 - Xiéshén Hūhuàn - the call of Cthulhu)

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// MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE //

• the Cthulhu mythos

• the Ring of Wonder

• the Yi People

• Western Xia as 'lost civilisation'

• Yi Izzy Yu & John Branscum on Ji Yun's weird fiction

• Racism in Lovecraft's writing

• 'Neoreaction' and the fantasy/horror genre

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