Ken Liu - Award winning Science fiction author and translator Ken Liu sat down with East Asia Program's Nick Admussen to discuss the state of translation and science fiction originating from China. His talk titled, "Betrayal With Integrity: Conformance and Estrangement in Translating Chinse Science Fiction" is a one-hour lecture that discusses the origin of Chinese science fiction through translation of Western works. It proceeds to explore his own translation of the Hugo-winning novel, The Three-Body Problem trilogy, by Liu Cixin and its reception by readers in the West. Ken prepares the audience with some background on translation theory and the modern conception of translation as a performance in cultural negotiation and applies these academic concepts to genre literature in particular. He concludes the talk by extending the theoretical framework of "translation" to his debut novel, "The Grace of Kings", which melds Western and Chinse epic traditions by transposing a foundational narrative from one culture into another.