#wu yan

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RATING: mature

PAIRING: Wu Yan/ Fang Duobing, Fang Duobing/Di Feisheng

SUMMARY:

Di Feisheng asks Wu Yan to entertain Fang Duobing while he's busy. Things devolve from there.

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I can't see any leaves floating into the room. There aren't any previously possessed people around to make the spirit transfer by touch either. And there's not quite enough time for the "freeze" when she's off-screen, that thing we saw in his other possession victims in ep 3, the wait until he gains full controls. So I really think it must be Li Lun in Zhi Mei's body since before the scene begins. He's fun like that

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無言 | SPEECHLESS (2012) dir. Simon Chung A Frenchman named Luke is found naked by the banks of a river in Wuhan. When he can't, or refuses to, speak, he's sent to a local hospital for diagnosis. Unable to determine the cause of Luke's condition, the hospital decides that he must be sent to a psychiatric hospitals, but Luke's nurse, Xiao Jiang, discovers his superiors' plan and decides to rescue the mysterious man and smuggle him out to his uncle's village, where they will have to evade capture from the local police. As Xiao Jiang slowly uncovers Luke's past, the reason for his speechlessness becomes clear. (link in title)

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Mysterious Lotus Casebook 蓮花樓

And a wild WúYán 無顏 appears!!

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wu yan photographed by almond chu

[the-archlich]

Hi, do you have any information on the Wu officer Wu Yan? Not the one who got executed by Du Yu, the other one who was having decent success defending.

I know of a few references to him.

He was the Administrator of Jianping*. In 272, he became aware that Wang Jun was building a fleet, and he sent a report to Sun Hao requesting that his garrison be increased. Sun Hao ignored him. Wu Yan built a series of iron chains across the river to block passage, though this ultimately proved to be no significant barrier to Wang Jun’s advance. Later that year, he played a notable role in the campaign against Bu Chan and Yang Hu.

*In 260, Sun Xiu divided Yidu commandery in half to establish Jianping commandery, headquartered at Zigui. It controlled passage between Shu and Wu. Thus Wu Yan’s knowledge of and concern for Wang Jun’s actions.

When the attack did come, Wu Yan was one of the only commanders who didn’t surrender. He held Zigui against Jin and refused to submit until he heard that Sun Hao surrendered. Sima Yan was impressed by Wu Yan’s wisdom and loyalty. He was made a commandery administrator

That’s all I know of him. He seems to have been a man of noteable skill, but I don’t have any further information.

((And since I’m sure someone’s going to ask: yes, he would be a decent late Wu add. He proved himself intelligent, brave, and competent.))

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Review: Nebula (Short story collection)

Authors: Xia Jia, Liu Cixin, Chen Qiufan, Wu Yan

Genre: sci-fi

Year: 2017

Notes: this is a collection of short stories recently published by Future Fiction. It’s quite a special project since it’s a bilingual (chinese / italian) anthology. Read this review in Italian here.

The collection contains four stories, and I already wrote in the past about two of them. I told you about Chen Qiufan’s The Coming of Light here, a story that I translated from Ken Liu’s english translation into italian: what happens if a marketing expert is asked to work on a strategy to sell a new app, and he contributes to the creation of Buddhagram, which has some unexpected side effects? I reviewed a collection of Xia Jia’s stories here, and the one who was chosen for the Nebula collection is Tongtong’s Summer, the story of a young girl, her grandpa and the android that has to take care of him.

Another story you can read here is Yuanyuan’s Bubbles by Liu Cixin (yes, the author of The Three-Body Problem), the story of Yuanyuan, who grows up in a small town in a constant drought and loves blowing bubbles. When she first saw bubbles, as a little kid, she fell in love with it and she kept blowing bubbles all her life, from her school years through her years as a grown up woman who has founded a successful company, which will help her find a practical use for her little obsession.

Then there’s Wu Yan’s To Print a New World, the story of an university that risks getting closed so everyone working there decides to work hard to make it absolutely necessary and irreplaceable. It works, but with some surprising side effects.

What do all these stories have in common? Many things, of course, but what struck me most was how modern they all felt. Sure, Chen Qiufan is nicknamed the William Gibson of China, but he doesn’t stop at old timey cyberpunk, no, he focuses on smartphones and apps (at least in this story), because that’s what the readers experience right now. Xia Jia writes about old people and the need to care for them, an issue that is strictly a contemporary one, since the number of elderly grows and the number of children is getting lower. Liu Cixin’s story deals with droughts and, indirectly, with climate change. Wu Yan’s tale focuses on modern universities and the problem of pollution.

From an Italian point of view, it’s great to have such a collection since we do not get much in terms of new sci-fi (besides maybe The Expanse series), let alone sci-fi that doesn’t come from english-speaking countries, and the vast majority of the readers have to rely on translated material since they can’t read english. Collections like this one are a great way to start exploring new realities in terms of sci-fi, and the book as an object is not only well made, but it contains a foreword by Wu Yan and an afterword by Takihara Tōya, a japanese university professor that explains an interesting concept about the two kinds of science-related fiction styles in China.

All these stories are a good way to demonstrate that, no, science fiction doesn’t have to stop at rockets or glittering cyberspace cities, it can actually go further and be inspired by the issues of our time. After all science fiction never was about the future, it has always been about the fears and hopes of the time in which the stories were written.