Why Star Wars:TFA Failed in China
There has been some discussion about why Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the movie that rocked the box office in North America and Europe, comparatively tanked in China....
DNA PODCAST 008 – ARE SUPERHERO MOVIES BAD FOR US?
Welcome Operatives to the Department of Nerdly Affairs. In this episode, Rob and Don are joined by indomitable Jack Ward, host of the Sonic Society Podcast, to...
January 29, 2016
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms Podcast
Romance of the Three Kingdoms has captivated me ever since I tore through my copies of the Moss Roberts translation (so long, they split it into two...
January 27, 2016
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Xianxia- The Fantasy Genre that’s Dominating Chinese Web Fiction
A little over a year ago, I noticed a Chinese name, Douluo Daolu, on the “top 20 manga” of the site Mangafox.com, which I thought was unusual...
How Koreans get their Web Novels
Yesterday I had a long and fascinating chat with a recently arrived Korean international student about Korean webnovels. Webnovels (books written specifically for the web) are extremely...
January 22, 2016
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DNA Podcast Episode 007 – Welcome to Cyberpunk
In this episode Rob and Don discuss the ways in which the reality has come to mirror Cyberpunk fiction. It’s 2016, and in the 1980’s Cyberpunk promised...
2015’s Top Chinese Web Novel Authors
It’s very easy to forget that about a third of the planet reads only in Chinese, and that doesn’t mean they’re reading translated works from English sources....
DNA PODCAST 006 – A NEW YEARS LOOK AT 2015 AND 2016
Rob and Don are joined by their friend Chad to discuss the nerdly films of 2015. What was awesome? What barely made the grade? And what didn’t...