2009 SILF Podcast: Larissa Lai on Mythic Returns and Asian Futures

Larissa Lai takes ancient myths from the motherland, then bridges the span of centuries and continents to show their resonant power today. She discusses this in the context of her two novels, When Fox is a Thousand and Salt Fish Girl, and how she imagines the shifts in global flows of bodies, finance, biotechnology and digital technology in ways that produce new possibilities -- and new restrictions -- in the idea of the “Asian”.



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Posted Mar 30th 2009 12:21p.m. by Lee Mack
filed under Shanghai International Literary Fest (SILF)

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