Thread by @sqiouyilu

I really thought that with all the positive attention and accolades for #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce, that an essay written by a chinese-american on some very chinese parts of the movie might get some award recognition, but I guess it’s just not going to happen

awards are ultimately out of my control and it’s already an honor that my essay was a fund drive feature for STRANGE HORIZONS, and I appreciate that many people have told me it deepened their experience of the movie

I just wish it didn’t feel like another iteration of consuming the cultural output but not bothering to understand the people

the worst part is there is no way to know why, out of many, many factors, something may not have shown up on a list

it just… would have been really nice in a climate of escalating anti-chinese & christofascist sentiment to like… feel like people care about taoism

oh well

for more on taoism, ken liu has a new translation of the 《道德經》 DAO DE JING narrated by BD Wong: audible.com/pd/B0BZJNP239

the usual convo I have about the 《道德經》 in genre spaces is ppl mentioning ursula k. le guin’s rendition, so it’s nice to have a translation by a chinese-american genre author with lived context

here’s ken liu’s newsletter abt the translation process: kenliu.substack.com/p/a-new-book-l…