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And right after my Madeleine Thien fiasco, I come across Ken Liu's "The Literomancer," which is kind of a moving, light-of-touch masterclass on how to do that illuminating modern Chinese (and Taiwanese, and American-colonial) history through the etymological-philosophical unspooling thang. Step one: be literate in Chinese. Booker panelists fearing genre fiction cooties are missing out...