The village of Mibeizhuang produces 90% of China’s funeral supplies, but “civilized memorial” regulations and trends towards more eco-friendly funeral ceremonies are leading to a downturn in the village’s economy.
Infinite flow/timeloop conversation has reminded me of Kill That Groundhog by Fu Qiang (translated by Andy Dudak), which iirc was on the Hugos shortlist last year: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/fu_12_23/
I really enjoyed it! It’s definitely more on the concept-based end of the scifi spectrum, rather than the character-based, but imo it really pulls it off. Recommended.
#MLCWatchParty I thought I had a thread for this, but I can’t find it now? Anyway! Today I have finished episodes 16 and 17, and am watching episode 18.
I feel very sorry for Xiao Zijin, having just got married only for his wife to be hung up on the dead ex whose she’d finally let go of like a week ago. :(
There’s a manhua stand at Fantasy Basel and they had #DesharowMerman vol 1 in German! Has anyone read that yet? I tried reading the fan translation a while ago and couldn’t get through it, so I’m happy to find a different version. 🧜♂️
Urgent #translation job: potentially looking for someone who can translate ~200 words of Steam page copy from English into #Chinese, before 15:00 CEST on Thursday 9th May. Paid at a good rate, obviously.
(We will know by tomorrow if we need this for certain!)
@villainousfriend I self-publish tabletop games in English and have translated one of my games into Chinese. I am happy to have a look and translate it for you.
Has anyone read Death Notice by Zhou Haohui? I picked it up on impulse at the weekend and I’m nearly halfway through so far. To be honest, I’m still waiting to be gripped. It seems like a fairly standard crime thriller—but maybe I’m just out of practice at reading the genre. Or perhaps it’s just about to get good!
Also: please ‘enjoy’ some of the most egregious #menWritingWomen I’ve seen in a long while. (Sorry, no alt text, because a page is too many characters.) Mu Jianyun also likes to opine that men are scum whenever she feels no one has noticed her gender enough lately, sigh.
I hope she’s the murderer—that would be the only redeeming plot development for this crumminess.
Update: yesterday in Chinese class, she gave me a wangxian keychain she got at a comics fair, because they should go to someone who appreciates them. 😂
I also gave her back volume one of Thousand Autumns, so next week she'll lend me volume two, woo!