About this episode

John and Ben discuss Xiaolu Guo's 'A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers', exploring themes of film references and modern Chinese history.

This week, John and Ben discuss Xiaolu Guo's "A Concise-Chinese Dictionary for Lovers". Topics of conversation include the Guo's use of film references, use of non-standard English in fiction, and the arc of modern Chinese history as observed in the show. As always, we hope you enjoy our conversation!

People in this episode

Host: John Hagele

Guest: Ben

Topics covered

• film references
• non-standard English
• modern Chinese history
• fiction
• literature discussion

Keywords

• Xiaolu Guo
• Chinese literature
• English language
• film references
• fiction
• modern history

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Books & works: A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

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