Podcasts about Ma Jian

This episode we're talking about our Favourite Reads of 2022! (Some of them were even published in 2022!) We discuss our favourite things we read for the podcast and our favourite things we read not for the podcast. Plus: Many more things we enjoyed this year, including video games, manga, graphic novels, food, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards Favourite Fiction For the podcast Anna Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez, translated by Megan McDowell, narrated by Tanya Eby Episode 158 - Audiobook Fiction Jam Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg Episode 160: Biographical Fiction & Fictional Biographies Matthew Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori, narrated by Nancy Wu Episode 158 - Audiobook Fiction Meghan Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler Episode 164 - Military Fiction Not for the podcast Jam Thirsty Mermaids by Kat Leyh Episode 147 - Contemporary Fantasy Matthew Semiosis by Sue Burke Meghan Black Helicopters by Caitlín R. Kiernan Anna The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa, translated by Philip Gabriel Favourite Non-Fiction For the podcast Matthew Soviet Metro Stations by Christopher Herwig and Owen Hatherley Episode 141 - Architecture Non-Fiction Meghan The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers by Emily Levesque Episode 149 - Astronomy & Space Anna Unholy: How White Christian Nationalists Powered the Trump Presidency, and the Devastating Legacy They Left Behind by Sarah Posner Episode 162 - Investigative Journalism Jam Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century by Charles King Episode 145 - Anthropology Non-Fiction Not for the podcast Meghan Fashion Is Spinach: How to Beat the Fashion Racket by Elizabeth Hawes Anna Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories that Make Us by Rachel Aviv Jam Into the Minds of Babes: How Screen Time Affects Children From Birth to Age Five by Lisa Guernsey Matthew X-Gender, vol. 1 by Asuka Miyazaki, translated by Kathryn Henzler, adapted by Cae Hawksmoor Other Favourite Things of 2022 Anna Tasting History with Max Miller Debunking the Myths of Leonardo da Vinci Jam Dirty Laundry/“Garbage Tuesday” French tacos (Wikipedia) Matthew Unpacking Meghan Favourite manga: Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!, vol. 1 by Sumito Oowara, translated by Kumar Sivasubramanian Runner-Ups Anna Video Games: Crashlands Wobbledogs YouTube: Ryan Hollinger (horror movie reviews) Podcasts:  American Hysteria Maintenance Phase You Are Good Other (Audio)Books: Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf (Wikipedia) Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland by Jonathan M. Metzl Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty The Invisible Kingdom by Patrick Radden Keefe Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything by Kelly Weill I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara Jam Favourite classic:  The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Episode 151 - Classics Favourite manga:  Witch Hat Atelier by Kamome Shirahama, translated by Stephen Kohler (Wikipedia)  Favourite Album:  Laurel Hell by Mitski (Wikipedia) Working for the Knife (YouTube) Favourite AAA video game:  Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Wikipedia) Favourite indie video game:  Wytchwood Favourite Wordle spin-off:  Worldle Matthew Video game: Hyper Light Drifter Manga Dai Dark by Q Hayashida, translated by Daniel Komen My Dress Up Darling by Shinichi Fukuda, translated by  Taylor Engel Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun by Izumi Tsubaki, translated by Leighann Harvey Descending Stories by Haruko Kumota, translated by Matt Treyvaud Yotsuba&! by Kiyohiko Azuma, translated by Amy Forsyth Biomega, vol. 1 (just the first volume really, it does not stick the landing) by Tsutomu Nihei, translated by John Werry Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service by Eiji Otsuka and Housui Yamazaki, translated by Toshifumi Yoshida Disappearance Diary by Hideo Azuma, translated by Kumar Sivasubramanian and Elizabeth Tiernan Graphic novels: Beetle and Hollowbones by Aliza Layne A Gift for a Ghost by Borja González, translated by Lee Douglas Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels by Scott McCloud Books Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots Meghan Favourite new-to-me author: Zviane Favourite work of translation: The Route of Ice and Salt by José Luis Zárate, translated by David Bowles Podcast non-fiction runner up:  Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism by Barnabas Calder Podcast fiction runner up: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys Non-fiction The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute by Zac Bissonnette Sum It Up: 1,098 Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective by Pat Summitt and Sally Jenkins Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash by Eka Kurniawan, translated by Annie Tucker Runner up graphic novels: Himawari House by Harmony Becker Taproot by Keezy Young Shadow Life by Hiromi Goto and Ann Xu Sunny Sunny Ann! by Miki Yamamoto, translated by Aurélien Estager (French) L'homme qui marche by Jirō Taniguchi, translated by Martine Segard (French, available in English as The Walking Man) Something Is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell'Edera  Le petit astronaute by Jean-Paul Eid (French) Tony Chu détective cannibale by John Layman with Rob Guillory (French, available in English as Chew) Radium Girls by Cy. (French) Queen en BD by Emmanuel Marie and Sophie Blitman (French) Memento mori by Tiitu Takalo (French) Enferme-moi si tu peux by Anne-Caroline Pandolfo and Terkel Risbjerg (French) Links, Articles, Media, and Things Episode 140 - Favourite Reads of 2021 Episode 142 - Sequels and 2022: The Year of Book Two ChatGPT (Wikipedia) There no longer appears to be an easy way to find images sent through Google Chat anymore, so no screenshots of fake podcast co-hosts discussing reptile fiction. Sorry! I Am a Cat by Natsume Sōseki (Wikipedia) Brian David Gilbert - The Perfect PokéRap 24 Travel Non-Fiction Books by BIPOC Authors America in an Arab Mirror: Images of America in Arabic Travel Literature by Kamal Abdel-Malek Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun by Faith Adiele Due North: A Collection of Travel Observations, Reflections, And Snapshots Across Colors, Cultures and Continents by Lola Akinmade Åkerström All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Bashō, translated by Nobuyuki Yuasa The Travels of Ibn Battutah by Ibn Battuta Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana by Stephanie Elizondo Griest A Stranger in the Village: Two Centuries of African-American Travel Writing edited by Farah Jasmine Griffin & Cheryl J. Fish I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey by Langston Hughes Red Dust: A Path Through China by Ma Jian, translated by Flora Drew A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid An African in Greenland by Tété-Michel Kpomassie Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef's Journey to Discover America's New Melting-Pot Cuisine by Edward Lee The Adventure Gap: Changing the Face of the Outdoors by James Edward Mills The Middle Passage by V.S. Naipaul Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move by Nanjala Nyabola Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam by Andrew X. Pham An Indian Among los Indígenas: A Native Travel Memoir by Ursula Pike Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria by Noo Saro-Wiwa From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet by Vikram Seth Ten Thousand Miles Without a Cloud by Sun Shuyun Richard Wright's Travel Writings: New Reflections by Virginia Whatley Smith Kinky Gazpacho: Life, Love & Spain by Lori L. Tharps Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, January 3rd we'll be talking about Sports non-fiction! Then on Tuesday, January 17rd we'll be discussing our 2023 Reading Resolutions!

On this journey, I considered how history continues to exist despite efforts to erase it and  the vulnerability of protests to manipulation. Book in focus: Beijing Coma by Ma Jian (China) As always, you can find further resources and other reviews of this book on the website: www.booknomadpocast.com/reviews/beijing-coma Disclaimer: book features ≠ endorsements. We speak as readers, not experts.

When you've stared at the past for so long that time dissolves, you'll be able to wake from your slumber In the forty seventh episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast we are falling into Beijing Coma (肉之土 / Ròu Zhī Tǔ). Avid Ma Jian reader Ronald Torrance is here to guide me from perimeter to epicentre of this colossal novel, and the weighty events it reckons with. Even without politics, stakes are high here: life/death, time/memory, flesh/history, and the intimate bonds that can exist between translators and writers. - // NEWS ITEMS // Pen Fairy The TrChFic Mailing List Lost in Translation: The World of Chinese Literature in English ‘The atmosphere has become abnormal': Han Chinese views from Xinjiang - // WORD OF THE DAY // (地标 - Dìbiāo - Landmark) - // MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE // The People's Republic of Amnesia by Louisa Lim Beijing from Below: Stories of Marginal Lives in the Capital's Centre by Harriet Evans Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeline Thien What Has Passed Shall in Kinder Light Appear by Baoshu Prisoner of the State by Zhao Ziyang Death Fugue by Sheng Keyi Balloon by Pema Tseden The loneliness of Yan Lianke Mo Yan & censorship How China's censors are taught about 'restricted topics' Meng Po and her memory-erasing soup Cui Jian, rock music, and socialist/patriotic anthems at Tiananmen - // Handy TrChFic Links // Episode Transcripts Help Support TrChFic The TrChFic Map INSTAGRAM // TWITTER // DISCORD // HOMEPAGE

This episode of the Sinica Podcast, recorded in June 2017, is running as a bonus this week. The arrest of Stephen Bannon yesterday on August 20, 2020, has brought renewed media attention to Guō Wénguì 郭文贵, a business associate of Bannon’s who is wanted by the Chinese government. The Wall Street Journal has recently reported that the federal authorities are examining the pair’s business dealings. Alexandra Stevenson and Mike Forsythe, journalists for the New York Times, joined Kaiser and Jeremy in 2017 to share their thoughts on Guo’s uncertain personal history and his quest to shine a light on the murky world of Chinese elite politics. The original description of the podcast, including many useful references of the people in Guo’s complicated backstory, is reproduced below:The life and times of Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui 郭文贵 reads much like an epic play, so it is fitting that we have included with this podcast a dramatis personæ to explain the many characters in Guo’s story. Scroll to the bottom, below the recommendations, to follow along with them in order of appearance.New York Times journalists Mike Forsythe and Alexandra Stevenson have spent over a dozen hours with the turbulent tycoon at the New York City penthouse overlooking Central Park where he resides in exile, listening to his stories and carefully investigating his most scandalous claims. Mike has for years been a leading reporter on the intersection of money and power in elite Chinese politics, first at Bloomberg and then at the Times. Alex, as a reporter at the Financial Times and now the New York Times, has focused on covering hedge funds, emerging markets, and the world of finance.Are Guo’s myriad corruption allegations, which go as high as China’s anti-corruption chief, Wang Qishan 王岐山, credible? Is even Guo’s own life history verifiable? Who is he really, and why is he on this quest to unveil the shadowy world of Chinese elite politics? Mike and Alex don’t have all the answers, but they are two of the best people in the world to shed light on what is profound and what is puffery in Guo’s version of events.The life and times of Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui 郭文贵 reads much like an epic play, so it is fitting that we have included with this podcast a dramatis personæ to explain the many characters in Guo’s story. Scroll to the bottom, below the recommendations, to follow along with them in order of appearance.New York Times journalists Mike Forsythe and Alexandra Stevenson have spent over a dozen hours with the turbulent tycoon at the New York City penthouse overlooking Central Park where he resides in exile, listening to his stories and carefully investigating his most scandalous claims. Mike has for years been a leading reporter on the intersection of money and power in elite Chinese politics, first at Bloomberg and then at the Times. Alex, as a reporter at the Financial Times and now the New York Times, has focused on covering hedge funds, emerging markets, and the world of finance.Are Guo’s myriad corruption allegations, which go as high as China’s anti-corruption chief, Wang Qishan 王岐山, credible? Is even Guo’s own life history verifiable? Who is he really, and why is he on this quest to unveil the shadowy world of Chinese elite politics? Mike and Alex don’t have all the answers, but they are two of the best people in the world to shed light on what is profound and what is puffery in Guo’s version of events.Dramatis personæ:To read more on Guo Wengui himself, see our narrative explainer and a compilation of more recent news on Guo from SupChina and beyond.In order of mention in the podcast:1. Yue Qingzhi 岳庆芝, Guo Wengui’s wife, lives in New York, according to Guo. Yet she has not been seen in public nor by Mike and Alex, even though they have spent entire days at Guo’s penthouse. 2. Wang Qishan 王岐山, the leader of Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign, secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI).3. Li Keqiang 李克强, the current premier of China’s State Council, formerly a Party secretary in Henan Province where Guo claims to have met him.4. Wu Yi 吴仪 served in top ministerial positions negotiating trade and managing public health in the early 21st century. Guo claims to have developed a relationship with her back in Henan.5. Wu Guanzheng 吴官正 served as secretary for CCDI from 2002 to 2007.6. Ma Jian 马建, the now-jailed close associate of Guo who served as vice minister of State Security from 2006 to 2015.7. Liu Zhihua 刘志华, the former vice mayor of Beijing who was dismissed in 2006. Liu received a suspended death sentence for taking bribes of over 6 million yuan ($885,000) in October 2008.8. He Guoqiang 贺国强, the predecessor to Wang Qishan as secretary of the CCDI. Guo alleges that his son He Jintao 贺锦涛 had a financial stake in Founder Securities at the time Guo tried to muscle his way into the company (the Times has confirmed this).9. HNA Group, formerly Hainan Airlines, a politically connected business conglomerate that burst onto the public scene in 2016, scooping up foreign companies left and right.10. Hu Shuli 胡舒立, the editor-in-chief of business news and investigative outlet Caixin (disclosure: Caixin partners with SupChina on the Business Brief podcast).11. Li You 李友, Guo’s former business partner. In 2016, he was sentenced to four and a half years in prison and fined 750 million yuan ($110 million) for insider trading.12. Yao Mingshan 姚明珊, the wife of Wang Qishan.13. Meng Jianzhu 孟建柱, the current secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, which controls the police and security services.14. Xiao Jianhua 肖建华, another billionaire tycoon who had experience dealing at the top levels of the Chinese government. Xiao was apparently abducted by Chinese authorities in Hong Kong in late January 2017 and has not been seen in public since then.15. Zhang Yue 张越, a former provincial Party secretary in Hebei Province.16. Meng Huiqing 孟会青, a now-jailed former CCDI official.17. Fu Zhenghua 傅政华, the deputy minister of Public Security.18. Yao Qing 姚庆, grandson of revolutionary and former vice premier Yao Yilin 姚依林, and nephew-in-law of Wang Qishan.19. Guo’s two children, his son, Mileson Kwok 郭强 (Guo’s English name is Miles!), and his daughter, Guo Mei 郭美, whom Guo claims went to New York University with Ma Jian’s daughter.20. A “dissident-minder from Guobao” (Ministry of Public Security 国保 guó bǎo), identified later in the podcast as Sun Lijun 孙立军, one of two people Guo claims to have met with in Washington, D.C., in late May 2017.21. Amanda Bennett, the director of Voice of America (VOA), which aired an interview with Guo on April 19 that Guo and some VOA journalists complained was cut short.

Die US-Amerikanerin Lisa Taddeo hat mit «Drei Frauen» einen internationalen Bestseller gelandet – eine detailversessene Recherche über das Begehren der Frauen. Julian Schütt bringt den Roman an den BuchZeichen-Stammtisch, wo über Neuerscheinungen gesprochen wird, die zu reden geben. Viel Beachtung gefunden hat auch der Roman, den Michael Luisier vorstellt: «Traum von China» des chinesischen Autors Ma Jian, der in London im Exil lebt. Das Buch ist eine Satire über und Abrechnung mit Xi Jinpings Vision eines erstarkten und mächtigen China zum Preis von mehr Überwachung und weniger Freiheit für die einzelnen Bürgerinnen und Bürger. In «Der Fuchs» läuft der mittlerweile über 80-jährige britische Altmeister des Spionage-Thrillers Frederick Forsyth nochmals zur Hochform auf. Felix Münger bringt das Buch mit, in dem ein jugendlicher Hacker rund um den Globus in hochgeheime Computersysteme eindringt und damit für ziemlich viel Unordnung im internationalen Machtgefüge sorgt. Buchhinweise: Lisa Taddeo. Three Women. Drei Frauen. Piper, 2020. Ma Jian. Traum von China. Rowohlt, 2019. Frederick Forsyth. Der Fuchs. C. Bertelsmann, 2019.

"We thought it could only happen back in mainland China, but in the past five years this horrible stuff has actually happened in Hong Kong." – Ma Jian (via interpreter). Jordan, Sam, Alex P and special guest Ma Jian talk about the 2019 Hong Kong protests and what the gaming community can do to help. In October 2019, a professional Hearthstone player from Hong Kong known as Blitzchung won a match at the Hearthstone Grandmasters in Taipei, and used a post-match interview to speak in support of the Hong Kong protests. The next day, Hearthstone publisher Blizzard, which is part owned by a Chinese company called Tencent, announced that they had suspended Blitzchung for 12 months, wouldn’t give him his prize money, and would no longer work with the two casters involved in the interview, citing violation of a competition rule that forbids competitors from “engaging in any act that, in Blizzard’s sole discretion, brings you into public disrepute, offends a portion or group of the public, or otherwise damages Blizzard’s image”. Blizzard eventually restored the prize money and lessened the ban to six months, but the event has raised questions for video game companies and players. In this episode, we ask Ma Jian to help us contextualise the protests, consider the roles of the UK and the US, examine Blizzard’s actions, and ask what video game players can do. Our conversation with Ma Jian was facilitated by a Mandarin/English interpreter, so listeners may find this episode requires more concentration than usual. Ma Jian was born in China and is from a different generation than the students leading the protests in Hong Kong, but as someone who has faced punishment for his criticism of the Chinese Communist Party, his perspective is valuable. As the interpreter (who is from Hong Kong) told us that even he finds it hard to keep up with what is happening at the protests, we urge people to get the latest news from sources in Hong Kong where possible. Links: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/oct/08/blitzchung-hearthstone-blizzard-banned-hong-kong-protests https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/blog/23179289? https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/101819%20Wyden%20Letter%20to%20Activision%20Blizzard%20RE%20Hong%20Kong.pdf https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50091931 https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-10-26-gaming-beyond-the-great-firewall-of-china https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d3a5dx/blizzard-like-any-corporation-cant-be-trusted-to-care-about-anything-past-profits https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/1115314/china-dream/9781784708696.html This week’s snack was: Hong Kong egg tarts! You can buy your own at Bun House on Lisle Street, London. Join the conversation at https://glasshouse.games Send your thoughts to community@glasshouse.games Follow @GHGshow on Twitter and Instagram

Der Nationalismus als neue kollektive Vision. Ein Mann, der den neuen „Traum von China“ von Amts wegen umsetzen soll, dem aber immer wieder sein eigenes Denunziantentum in die Quere kommt. Ma Jians Roman ist eine bitterböse Satire.

Aus der Bestenliste-Jury diskutieren die Literaturkritiker Gregor Dotzauer, Martin Ebel und Christoph Schröder mit Carsten Otte über Bücher von Clarice Lispector, Karl-Heinz Ott, Ma Jian und Ian McEwan.

With 1.7 out of 7.4 million people protesting in Hong Kong, the Chinese Government is under scrutiny as never before (1:35-23:40). In the latest of a series of devastating results, the federal court has dismissed a significant case that ASIC launched against Westpac. Is ASIC too hard, too soft, or just incompetent? (23:40-36:50). Donald Trump wants to buy Greenland, however, the Danish Prime Minister says she has no interest. Is this the biggest real-estate deal on earth, or a decision for the locals? (36:50-44:19). Scott Hargreaves and Dr Chris Berg are joined by Daniel Wild and Dr Zac Gorman to discuss these questions and share their culture picks, including China born British writer, Ma Jian, and his book China Dream, Toy Story 4 and its commentary on communism, Karl Popper's old classic The Open Society and Its Enemies, and Steve Smith's remarkable comeback in the latest Ashes series. (46:50-59:04).   Show Notes: What If Everyone's Wrong About China?  Tyler Cowen, Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-19/china-s-liberalization-shouldn-t-be-ruled-out-just-yet?utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_content=economics&utm_medium=social&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-economics&utm_source=twitter Engineers of the Soul: Ideology in Xi Jinping's China by John Garnaut, https://sinocism.com/p/engineers-of-the-soul-ideology-in The State Strikes Back: The End of Economic Reform in China https://www.piie.com/bookstore/state-strikes-back-end-economic-reform-china ASIC loses landmark case against Westpac, Tim Boyd, Financial Review https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/asic-loses-landmark-case-against-westpac-20190813-p52ggy Why does Donald Trump want to buy Greenland?  Phillip Inman, The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/19/why-does-donald-trump-want-to-buy-greenland Donald Trump, Twitter https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1163961882945970176?s=20 Dr Jennifer Marohasy at Climate Change Concern Forum in Maroochydore, Institute of Public Affairs, YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVlu-7_FxD8&feature=youtu.be   Culture Picks: Chinese Dream, Ma Jian https://www.amazon.com/China-Dream-Ma-Jian/dp/178474249X Toy Story 4 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1979376/ The Open Society and Its Enemies, Karl R.Popper https://www.amazon.com/Open-Society-Its-Enemies-One/dp/0691158134 Steve Smith's comeback at The Ashes https://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/smith-wade-centuries-steer-resurgent-australia-to-commanding-position-20190805-p52dsz.html  

'The Tiananmen Square uprising: when Chinese workers and students fought for freedom'. A discussion at Ideas for Freedom 2019, led by Dr. Camila Bassi (Sheffield Hallam University, Workers' Liberty) 30 years ago, an uprising of workers and students faced the military might of the Chinese state. What were the demands of the uprising, and why was it crushed so brutally? What are the lessons for those fighting for democracy against authoritarian regimes today? Note: the text referred to but not read out at 39.50 can be found here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1GDW0FlRzQVvIcUEvsZ6W3lJFUIHRxp0M The novel referred to is Ma Jian's "Beijing Coma", the autobiographical account is "Almost a Revolution: The Story of a Chinese Student's Journey from Boyhood to Leadership in Tiananmen Square" by Shen Tong, and one of the other historians referred to is Rana Mitter Check out this article workersliberty.org/story/2019-03-30/road-tienanmen-square-workers-and-students-chinafreedom

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Bride Test, Somewhere Only We Know, Furious Hours, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Amazon Kindle Unlimited, Always Smile by Alice Kuipers from KCP Loft, and The Invited by Jennifer McMahon. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Books discussed on the show: The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna: A Novel by Juliet Grames Somewhere Only We Know by Maurene Goo The Bride Test by Helen Hoang The Art of Noticing: 131 Ways to Spark Creativity, Find Inspiration, and Discover Joy in the Everyday by Rob Walker Soon the Light Will Be Perfect: A Novel by Dave Patterson Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House by Ben Rhodes Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race by Lara Prior-Palmer What we're reading: A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma's Table by Rick Bragg More books out this week: Beautiful Revolutionary by Laura Elizabeth Woollett Such a Perfect Wife: A Novel (Bailey Weggins Mysteries) by Kate White The East End by Jason Allen Jaclyn Hyde by Annabeth Bondor-Stone and Connor White Only Ever Her by Marybeth Mayhew Whalen Monsieur Mediocre: One American Learns the High Art of Being Everyday French by John von Sothen The Death of Noah Glass by Gail Jones Exiles of Eden by Ladan Ali Osman The Missing of Clairdelune: Book Two of The Mirror Visitor Quartet by Christelle Dabos and Hildegarde Serle How We Disappeared: A Novel by Jing-Jing Lee Shouting at the Rain by Lynda Mullaly Hunt Original Prin by Randy Boyagoda New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent by Margaret Busby Just South of Home by Karen Strong Riding the Elephant: A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations by Craig Ferguson Hurricane Season by Nicole Melleby Outside the Gates of Eden by Lewis Shiner The Lingering by Sji Holliday The Last Time I Saw You: A Novel by Liv Constantine Stop Doing That Sh*t: End Self-Sabotage and Demand Your Life Back by Gary John Bishop The Yankee Widow by Linda Lael Miller The Woman in the Blue Cloak by Deon Meyer How It Feels to Float by Helena Fox Finale: A Caraval Novel by Stephanie Garber Loudermilk: Or, The Real Poet; Or, The Origin of the World by Lucy Ives Finding Orion by John David Anderson Nocturna by Maya Motayne The Guest Book: A Novel by Sarah Blake No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us by Rachel Louise Snyder The Body in the Wake: A Faith Fairchild Mystery by Katherine Hall Page The Unpassing: A Novel by Chia-Chia Lin Cinderella Liberator by Rebecca Solnit and Arthur Rackham Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki, Rosemary Valero-O'Connell (Illustrator) Love from A to Z by S. K. Ali China Dream by Ma Jian and Flora Drew Above the Ether by Eric Barnes The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience by Lee McIntyre Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis by Jared Diamond Juliet the Maniac: A Novel by Juliet Escoria With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo Middlegame by Seanan McGuire The Absence of Sparrows by Kurt Kirchmeier Last Things by Jacqueline West Black Mountain (An Isaiah Coleridge Novel) by Laird Barron Light from Other Stars by Erika Swyler Gather at the River: Twenty-Five Authors on Fishing by David Joy and Eric Rickstad Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors: A Novel by Sonali Dev Is, Is Not: Poems by Tess Gallagher The Archive of Alternate Endings: Stories by Lindsey Drager Her Royal Highness by Rachel Hawkins The Daughter's Tale: A Novel by Armando Lucas Correa Under the Moon: A Catwoman Tale by Lauren Myracle and Isaac Goodhart The Farm: A Novel by Joanne Ramos Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens by Tanya Boteju Hope and Other Punchlines by Julie Buxbaum Westside by W.M. Akers The Charmer in Chaps by Julia London The Cowboy and His Baby by Jessica Clare HUMANS: A Brief History of How We Fcked It All Up by Tom Phillips Million Mile Road Trip by Rudy Rucker The Flight Portfolio by Julie Orringer A Devil Comes to Town by Paolo Maurensig, Anne Milano Appel Nightingale by Paisley Rekdal Again, but Better: A Novel by Christine Riccio Aurora Rising (The Aurora Cycle) by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff A Craftsman’s Legacy: Why Working with Our Hands Gives Us Meaning by Eric Gorges and Jon Sternfeld The Laws of the Skies by Grégoire Courtois and Rhonda Mullins Sleepless Night by Margriet de Moor and David Doherty Scott Pilgrim Color Collection Box Set by Bryan Lee O'Malley Nuking the Moon: And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Left on the Drawing Board by Vince Houghton Queer Heroes by Arabelle Sicardi and Sarah Tanat-Jones Angel Bones by Ilyse Kusnetz The Unspeakable Mind: Stories of Trauma and Healing from the Frontlines of PTSD Science by Shaili Jain  A Job You Mostly Won't Know How to Do: A Novel by Pete Fromm No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir by Ani DiFranco Atomic Frenchie, Vol. 2 by Tom Sniegoski and Tom McWeeney All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership by Darcy Lockman The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making by Jared Yates Sexton After the Party: A Novel by Cressida Connolly A Life in Movies: Stories from 50 Years in Hollywood by Irwin Winkler Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage by Bette Howland The Unquiet Heart by Kaite Welsh State of the Union: A Marriage in Ten Parts by Nick Hornby The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter by John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker Rabbits for Food by Binnie Kirshenbaum The Paris Diversion: A Novel by Chris Pavone At Home with Muhammad Ali by Hana Ali Llama Destroys the World by Jonathan Stutzman, Heather Fox (Illustrator) The Conviction of Cora Burns by Carolyn Kirby Electric Forest by Tanith Lee Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings The Latte Factor: Why You Don't Have to Be Rich to Live Rich by David Bach and John David Mann Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague by David K. Randall Queer X Design: 50 Years of Signs, Symbols, Banners, Logos, and Graphic Art of LGBTQ by Andy Campbell When Darkness Loves Us (Paperbacks from Hell) by Elizabeth Engstrom Folded Wisdom: Notes from Dad on Life, Love, and Growing Up by Joanna Guest The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek: A Novel by Kim Michele Richardson The Shadow King: The Life and Death of Henry VI by Lauren Johnson The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont by Shawn Levy

When the moon hits your eye, like a Bing Pizza Pie, that’s amore! We are joined this time by another lovely Real Human Bing, Kelsey, to talk about that oh so delicious treat, Pizza! After getting to know our guest with some Real Human Bing Questions, we dive into that pool of goodness comfort food known as pizza. Our Real Human Bing Search brings up topics like: What’s the origin of pizza? When did it come to North America? What’s the best kind of pizza? Is NYC water great? What’s the pronunciation of the name Horge? How’d we end up at that subject? You’ll have to listen to find out! This time we end with some surreal, but ultimately sentimental Picks of the Week! Hope you enjoy our nice fun conversation friends! Endnotes: Oscars, you messed up again! (1 of 2) - https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/burning-2018 The advertisement director’s philosophy on this: “Keep it ALL in!” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah5vJleVuJQ Oscars, how could you??! (2 of 2) - https://www.rochestercitynewspaper.com/rochester/film-review-if-beale-street-could-talk/Content?oid=9274618 China Dream by Ma Jian - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/nov/22/china-dream-by-ma-jian-review Umami YouTube channel- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqrrxZeeFSNCjGmD-33SKMw We’ll miss you studentsa! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFkTu8Y1KLs

The life and times of Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui 郭文贵 reads much like an epic play, so it is fitting that we have included with this podcast a dramatis personæ to explain the many characters in Guo’s story. Scroll to the bottom, below the recommendations, to follow along with them in order of appearance. New York Times journalists Mike Forsythe and Alexandra Stevenson have spent over a dozen hours with the turbulent tycoon at the New York City penthouse overlooking Central Park where he resides in exile, listening to his stories and carefully investigating his most scandalous claims. Mike has for years been a leading reporter on the intersection of money and power in elite Chinese politics, first at Bloomberg and then at the Times. Alex, as a reporter at the Financial Times and now the New York Times, has focused on covering hedge funds, emerging markets, and the world of finance. Are Guo’s myriad corruption allegations, which go as high as China’s anti-corruption chief, Wang Qishan 王岐山, credible? Is even Guo’s own life history verifiable? Who is he really, and why is he on this quest to unveil the shadowy world of Chinese elite politics? Mike and Alex don’t have all the answers, but they are two of the best people in the world to shed light on what is profound and what is puffery in Guo’s version of events. Recommendations: Jeremy: The Skeptics Society, a website that publishes articles to debunk pseudoscientific, health-related, and religious myths. Alex: Janesville: An American Story, by Amy Goldstein of the Washington Post. It tells how a town in Wisconsin had the General Motors plant leave in 2008, despite Obama’s promise that jobs would stay there. Mike: Betraying Big Brother, an upcoming book by his wife, Leta Hong Fincher, explains what happened to the Feminist Five and what their stories say about the rise of feminism and the control of women in China. Leta’s last book, Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China, published in 2014, was on a similar subject. Kaiser: Beasts of No Nation, a Netflix special by Cary Fukunaga based on the book of the same title by Uzodinma Iweala. The story follows the life of a child soldier in an unnamed West African country.   Dramatis personæ: To read more on Guo Wengui himself, see our narrative explainer and a compilation of more recent news on Guo from SupChina and beyond. In order of mention in the podcast: Yue Qingzhi 岳庆芝, Guo Wengui’s wife, lives in New York, according to Guo. Yet she has not been seen in public nor by Mike and Alex, even though they have spent entire days at Guo’s penthouse.  Wang Qishan 王岐山, the leader of Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign, secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI). Li Keqiang 李克强, the current premier of China’s State Council, formerly a Party secretary in Henan Province where Guo claims to have met him. Wu Yi 吴仪 served in top ministerial positions negotiating trade and managing public health in the early 21st century. Guo claims to have developed a relationship with her back in Henan. Wu Guanzheng 吴官正 served as secretary for CCDI from 2002 to 2007. Ma Jian 马建, the now-jailed close associate of Guo who served as vice minister of State Security from 2006 to 2015. Liu Zhihua 刘志华, the former vice mayor of Beijing who was dismissed in 2006. Liu received a suspended death sentence for taking bribes of over 6 million yuan ($885,000) in October 2008. He Guoqiang 贺国强, the predecessor to Wang Qishan as secretary of the CCDI. Guo alleges that his son He Jintao 贺锦涛 had a financial stake in Founder Securities at the time Guo tried to muscle his way into the company (the Times has confirmed this). HNA Group, formerly Hainan Airlines, a politically connected business conglomerate that burst onto the public scene in 2016, scooping up foreign companies left and right. Hu Shuli 胡舒立, the editor-in-chief of business news and investigative outlet Caixin (disclosure: Caixin partners with SupChina on the Business Brief podcast). Li You 李友, Guo’s former business partner. In 2016, he was sentenced to four and a half years in prison and fined 750 million yuan ($110 million) for insider trading.   Yao Mingshan 姚明珊, the wife of Wang Qishan. Meng Jianzhu 孟建柱, the current secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, which controls the police and security services.   Xiao Jianhua 肖建华, another billionaire tycoon who had experience dealing at the top levels of the Chinese government. Xiao was apparently abducted by Chinese authorities in Hong Kong in late January 2017 and has not been seen in public since then. Zhang Yue 张越, a former provincial Party secretary in Hebei Province. Meng Huiqing 孟会青, a now-jailed former CCDI official. Fu Zhenghua 傅政华, the deputy minister of Public Security. Yao Qing 姚庆, grandson of revolutionary and former vice premier Yao Yilin 姚依林, and nephew-in-law of Wang Qishan. Guo’s two children, his son, Mileson Kwok 郭强 (Guo’s English name is Miles!), and his daughter, Guo Mei 郭美, whom Guo claims went to New York University with Ma Jian’s daughter. A “dissident-minder from Guobao” (Ministry of Public Security 国保 guó bǎo), identified later in the podcast as Sun Lijun 孙立军, one of two people Guo claims to have met with in Washington, D.C., in late May 2017. Amanda Bennett, the director of Voice of America (VOA), which aired an interview with Guo on April 19 that Guo and some VOA journalists complained was cut short.

Tobias och Elma fortsätter på sitt uppdrag att övertygande prata halvsanningar om saker de bara vet pyttelite om – den här gången om kinesiska staten! Lyssna här till deras djupdykning i författaren Ma Jians roman Nudelbagaren. Som bonus finns även ett segment toaletthumor för den som tycker att bokpoddar tenderar att bli torra.

Tobias och Elma fortsätter på sitt uppdrag att övertygande prata halvsanningar om saker de bara vet pyttelite om – den här gången om kinesiska staten! Som bonus finns även ett segment toaletthumor för den som tycker att bokpoddar tenderar att bli torra.

What would happen if a story were successively translated by a series of novelists, each one working only from the version immediately prior to their own – the aim being to preserve that story’s style? Adam Thirlwell's Multiples set out to explore this idea. To celebrate its UK publication, several writers from the anthology - Tash Aw, A.S. Byatt, Joe Dunthorne, Adam Foulds, Ma Jian and Francesco Pacifico - joined Adam Thirlwell at the Bookshop to talk about the project. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ma Jian’s criticisms of China’s government led to it placing a blanket ban on all his future books in 1987. He participated in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, and now lives in Europe. Ma’s new novel The Dark Road, researched through extensive travel in remote parts of China in 2008-9, is a magic realist tale exploring the terrible effects of the One Child Policy on Chinese women. In this event, recorded live at the 2013 Edinburgh International Book Festival, he talks to Rosemary Goring about his research, his travels and his new book.

Ma Jian’s criticisms of China’s government led to it placing a blanket ban on all his future books in 1987. He participated in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, and now lives in Europe. Ma’s new novel The Dark Road, researched through extensive travel in remote parts of China in 2008-9, is a magic realist tale exploring the terrible effects of the One Child Policy on Chinese women. In this event, recorded live at the 2013 Edinburgh International Book Festival, he talks to Rosemary Goring about his research, his travels and his new book.

A few days after the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, Ma Jian discussed his Tiananmen novel Beijing Coma with the Independent's literary editor Boyd Tonkin, interspersed with extracts from the novel read by his translator Flora Drew. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.