“You can give me your empty words if you like; I’ve come to fill out the forms permitting us to withdraw from society.”
In the seventy seventh episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast we are turning our cheek to Lenin's Kisses (受活 / shòu huó) by Yan Lianke. Yes, I’m finally dealing with him – and not alone. Piotr Machajek is here to show me how to Liven, as we look into the pros and cons of entering and retreating from a society that just cannot leave things be.
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// NEWS ITEMS //
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// WORDS OF THE DAY //
(狗带 - gǒu dài - go die)
(入世，出世 - rùshì, chūshì - enter society, withdraw from society)
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// MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE //