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The Ancestral Temple in a Box by Chen Qiufan (audio)

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Clarkesworld Magazine

Fiction, Science Fiction

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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This episode features "The Ancestral Temple in a Box" written by Chen Qiufan. Published in the January 2020 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/chen_01_20 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/join/clarkesworld?

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0:00.0

You are listening to a Clarks World magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker.

0:06.0

Greetings Clarksville Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

0:10.0

This is our last story for the month of January 2020, issue 160.

0:16.0

Thank you for listening for this month and all those months prior.

0:21.6

And thank you again for your support.

0:26.0

Please go to Clark's World Citizens.com to see how you can be a part of this magazine each and every month.

0:31.2

Your support matters so greatly to us. The piece is titled

0:35.8

The Ancestral Temple in a Box. It is by Chen Koyfen, translated by Emily Jen. Chen Kui-Fen, translated by Emily Jen.

0:44.0

Chen Kui-Fen was born in 1981 in Shantou, China.

0:50.0

In accordance with Chinese custom, Mr. Chen's surname is written first.

0:55.1

He sometimes uses the English name Stanley Chan.

0:58.4

He is a graduate of Peking University and published his first story in 1997 in Science Fiction World, China's largest

1:05.7

Science Fiction magazine. Since 2004 he has published over 30 stories. His first novel, The Abyss of Vision, came out in 2006. He won Taiwan's Dragon Fantasy

1:18.7

Award in 2006 with a record of the Cave of Ning Mountain, a work written in classical Chinese.

1:26.0

In English, his short stories have been published in Clark's World, Light Speed,

1:30.6

MIT Technology Review, Slate,, Slate, and other venues.

1:36.0

His novel Waste Tide was published by Tour in 2019.

1:41.0

You can find more at Chen QU-I-F-A-N. And if you like what you hear, August 2019 brought you in this moment we are happy.

1:53.5

August 2017 brought you a man out of fashion.

1:57.9

April 2016 brought you, Balin.

2:01.6

March 2015 brought you, of the light and August 2011 brought you the fish of

2:08.9

Li Xang. So my dear listeners I hope you can sit back. Relax and let me tell you a story.

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