China in a Teacup

XIANG Biao 项飙is a renowned Chinese social anthropologist and migration researcher known for his studies on global mobility, labour migration and transnationalism. He studied sociology at Peking University in China and completed his doctorate in social anthropology at Oxford University. He has been working there since 2004. Xiang has received several awards for his academic work. In 2008, he received the prestigious Anthony Leeds Prize for his book Global Bodyshopping and in 2012 the William L. Holland Prize for his article ‘Predatory Princes’. His book 跨越边界的社区 (Kuàyuè biānjiè de shèqū), which was published in 2005 under the English title Transcending...

Baoshu 宝树 (Li Jun), who was born in 1980 and is one of the Chinese science fiction authors of the so-called second wave, was Writer-in-Residence at the Confucius Institute Heidelberg in October 2024. His novel The Redemption of Time (translation by Ken Liu), which was published in German under the title Botschafter der Sterne in 2021, was recognized by Liu Cixin himself as a sequel to his award-winning Trisolaris trilogy. It was also his international breakthrough. Further short stories in German translation appeared in the anthologies Zerbrochene Sterne (ed. Ken Liu) and Quantenträume (ed. Jing Bartz) as well as in...

In dieser Folge haben wir die Kulturmanagerin und Literaturvermittlerin Dr. Jing Bartz zu Gast. Wir sprechen über geplante – und ungeplante – Lebenswege, den Stillstand des kulturellen Austauschs mit China während der Corona-Pandemie, das Schreiben und Übersetzen und natürlich über Literatur.

Bücher, über die wir gesprochen haben:

Jing Bartz und SHI Zhanjun (Hg.): Stadtleben – 8 Frauen, 8 Geschichten, Esslingen: Drachenhaus Verlag, 2018.

Jing Bartz und SHI Zhanjun (Hg.): Quantenträume: Erzählungen aus China über künstliche Intelligenz, München: Heyne, 2020.

"Teehaus Lit" Podcast von Jing Bartz: https://open.spotify.com/show/1iWDkXBZJ1IZTBlJFdVG3Q

Im Oktober 2023 war der mehrfach ausgezeichnete Autor Chen Qiufan (geb. 1981) Writer in Residence des Konfuzius-Instituts in Heidelberg. In dieser Folge sprechen wir mit ihm über das Schreiben, über seine Selbstwahrnehmung als Storyteller, die Faszination des Genres Science Fiction und die Möglichkeiten, die imaginierte nahe Zukunftswelten bieten, denn „With every future we wish to create, we must first learn to imagine it” (Chen Qiufan).

Zur Webseite des Autors: http://chenqiufan.cn/

Bücher, über die wir gesprochen haben:

The Waste Tide, Roman von Chen Qiufan (aus dem Chinesischen von Ken Liu), Tor Books, 2019.

Deutscher Titel: Die Siliziuminsel, Roman von Chen Qiufan...