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If on a Winters Night a Traveler by Xia Jia (audio)

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Clarkesworld Magazine

Science Fiction, Fiction

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2015

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Our fifth podcast for November is “If on a Winters Night a Traveler” written by Xia Jia and read by Kate Baker. Originally published in Chinese in Guangming Daily, June 5, 2015 Version 14. Translated and published in partnership with Storycom.

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So please, visit the Clark's World Magazine.com, Support Us page, and that's Clark with an e and find out the many

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ways that you can continue to bring fiction to your ears your eyes and all the senses and let me continue to tell you a story.

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You are listening to a Clark's World Magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker.

0:40.9

Greetings Clark's World Citizens.

0:42.3

I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

0:47.2

Our next story for the month of November 2015 is titled If On a Winter's Night, A Traveller,

0:55.0

is by Shia Gia, as translated by Kenlue.

1:01.0

As an undergraduate, Shia Gia, majored in atmospheric sciences at Peking University.

1:08.0

She then entered the Film Studies program at the Communication University of China, where she completed her master's thesis, a study on female figures in science fiction films.

1:19.0

Recently she obtained a PhD in comparative literature and world literature at Peking University with Chinese

1:26.4

science fiction and its cultural politics since 1990 as the topic of her dissertation.

1:33.0

She now teaches at Chiang Tiang Tiang Tiang Tiang University.

1:38.0

She's been publishing fiction since college in a variety of venues including science fiction world and

1:44.8

Jiusu fantasy.

1:48.3

Several of her stories have won the Galaxy Award, China's most Prestigious Science Fiction Award.

1:53.0

In English translation, she has been published in Clark's World, Nature, and upgraded.

1:59.0

And if you like what you hear, you can go back to December 2014, where you'll find Tong Tong's summer.

2:07.2

September 2014 brought you Spring Festival, Happiness, love, sorrow, joy.

2:13.0

In February 2012 brought you

2:16.0

a hundred ghosts parade tonight.

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