Ep 87 - Li Peifu and Graft with James Trapp

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‘This kind of “respect” can be a slow-acting poison. When a person gets used to being “respected”, that’s when she is in danger’

In the eighty seventh episode of the Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast we are undertaking hard Graft. Betraying little more than a glance askance, Li Peifu shows us how corporate, state, and personal interests fuse all too comfortably. Guanxi-grinding with me is humble translator and noted Sweeney-enjoyer, James Trapp.

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