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Chinese Literature Podcast

135 episodes

Dr. Lee Moore talks Chinese literature and Chinese culture more broadly.

Yu Yonghe - Small Sea Travel Diary

Published: June 22, 2024, 7:37 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 43 seconds

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Ge Fei - The Invisibility Cloak

Published: June 8, 2024, 7:05 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 21 seconds

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Nicky Harman Interview - Jia Pingwa's Sojourn Teashop

Published: May 24, 2024, 11:21 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 58 seconds

Today, the podcast interviews one of contemporary Chinese literature\'s extraordinary translators. Nicky Harman translated, along with her partner in crime, Liu Jun, Jia Pingwa\'s recent novel The Sojourn Teashop. Nicky is well known in Chinese literature circles as a translator and promoter of Chinese literature to the broader public.

The novel, Sojourn Teashop, is available here, published by an excellent UK-publisher focused on Chinese literature, Sinoist, which is at the forefront of translating and publishing the best of contemporary Chinese fiction.

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Ian Johnson Interview

Published: May 11, 2024, 7:30 a.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 44 seconds

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Jin Yong - Sword of the Yue Maiden

Published: April 27, 2024, 4:48 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 8 seconds

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Jin Yong - Part 1

Published: April 13, 2024, 6:47 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 9 seconds

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Sima Qian - Letter to Ren An

Published: March 30, 2024, 7:01 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 57 seconds

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Sima Qian - Biography of the Capitalists

Published: March 16, 2024, 7:40 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 49 seconds

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Sima Qian - Southern Yue People

Published: March 2, 2024, 8:24 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes

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Sima Qian - Series Introduction

Published: Feb. 17, 2024, 10:36 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 58 seconds

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Children's Book Peek in the Farm

Published: Feb. 3, 2024, 8:12 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 1 second

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Huang Zunxian in Hong Kong

Published: Jan. 20, 2024, 8:01 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 39 seconds

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New Year

Published: Jan. 6, 2024, 8:42 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 49 seconds

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Su Dongpo Goes to Trial for Poetry

Published: Dec. 23, 2023, 8:33 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 5 seconds

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Qiu Fengjia - Taiwanese or Chinese Nationalist?

Published: Dec. 9, 2023, 8:35 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 6 seconds

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Qiang Flute - Interview with Zhang Yanshuo

Published: Nov. 25, 2023, 8:25 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 53 seconds

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Wang Anyi - I Love Bill - Interveiw with Todd Foley, the Translator

Published: Nov. 12, 2023, 8:07 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 24 seconds

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Book of Poetry - Spanking the Pan

Published: Oct. 28, 2023, 7:37 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 47 seconds

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She Bore the Folk

Published: Oct. 14, 2023, 11:03 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 7 seconds

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Cao Xue's The Hut on the Mountain - Nobel Rerun?

Published: Oct. 5, 2023, 1:37 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 52 seconds

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The Book of Poems - Those Tender Peaches

Published: Sept. 30, 2023, 4:06 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 20 seconds

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Book of Poetry - The Big Rat

Published: Sept. 16, 2023, 4:49 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 38 seconds

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A Weibo Joke - What What What

Published: Sept. 2, 2023, 4:42 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 4 seconds

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Zhuangzi's Useless Tree

Published: Aug. 19, 2023, 4:36 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 15 seconds

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Phags-Pa

Published: Aug. 5, 2023, 5:29 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 50 seconds

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Rise of the Mongols - Interview with Professor Christopher Atwood

Published: July 22, 2023, 4:09 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 53 seconds

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Kong Yi Ji Rap

Published: July 8, 2023, 4:47 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 24 seconds

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Li Hiraku - A Strange Marriage

Published: June 24, 2023, 4:02 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 25 seconds

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Xu Lizhi - A Screw Falls to the Ground

Published: June 10, 2023, 4:42 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 26 seconds

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Lei Feng's Screw

Published: May 27, 2023, 4:37 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 53 seconds

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Hu Shi - Mr. Close Enough

Published: May 13, 2023, 4:16 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 3 seconds

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Xu Xu - Bird Talk - Interview with Frederik Green

Published: April 29, 2023, 4:57 a.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 19 seconds

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Liu Xijun - Song of Sadness

Published: April 17, 2023, 7:17 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 7 seconds

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Li Bai - Going Down Zhongnan Mountain with Mountain Man Husi Staying at His Place and Hitting the Bottle

Published: April 1, 2023, 5:59 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 40 seconds

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Poetry from Sex Workers in Dalian

Published: March 16, 2023, 5:02 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 59 seconds

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Kang Youwei in Canada

Published: March 4, 2023, 5:39 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 58 seconds

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Interview with Kyle Anderson - Author of MountainSea Scroll Series

Published: Feb. 18, 2023, 5:23 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 17 seconds

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Mo Yan

Published: Feb. 4, 2023, 5:29 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 54 seconds

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Oracle Bones

Published: Jan. 21, 2023, 5:06 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 32 seconds

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Gu Cheng - A Generation

Published: Dec. 24, 2022, 5:19 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 21 seconds

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Su Dongpo Gets Drunk in Exile

Published: Dec. 10, 2022, 4:30 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 56 seconds

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Ouyang Xiu - Reflections on Mei Yaochen Poem/Bag

Published: Nov. 26, 2022, 4:16 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 16 seconds

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Bei Dao - The Answer

Published: Nov. 12, 2022, 4:23 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 56 seconds

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Mao Zedong - Shooing Away the God of Epidemics

Published: Oct. 29, 2022, 4:33 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 43 seconds

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Anonymous - We Don't Want Nucleic Acid Tests

Published: Oct. 15, 2022, 4:14 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 19 seconds

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Wang Anshi - 1052 Tomb Sweeping Season Poem

Published: Oct. 1, 2022, 4:09 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 24 seconds

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Zhuangzi - Autumn Floods

Published: Sept. 17, 2022, 4:02 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 59 seconds

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Zhuangzi - Butcher Ting

Published: Sept. 3, 2022, 4:02 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 58 seconds

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Zhuangzi and the Definition of Dao

Published: Aug. 20, 2022, 4:24 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 30 seconds

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Zhuangzi's Dead Wife

Published: Aug. 13, 2022, 4:28 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 8 seconds

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Mr. Uighur

Published: Aug. 6, 2022, 4:30 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 20 seconds

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Xi Xi - Floating City

Published: July 30, 2022, 4:30 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 29 seconds

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Mencius

Published: July 23, 2022, 4:30 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 51 seconds

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Shi Zhi - The Wave and the Ocean

Published: July 16, 2022, 4:57 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 35 seconds

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Li Bai - Let's Party

Published: July 9, 2022, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 54 seconds

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Chen Qiufan - Waste Tide - Part II

Published: July 2, 2022, 4:12 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 38 seconds

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Chen Qiufan - Waste Tide - Part 1

Published: June 25, 2022, 4:02 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 48 seconds

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Mei Yaochen - Sacrificing for My Cat

Published: June 18, 2022, 4:53 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 46 seconds

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Pu Liye - Chairman Xi's Backside is Where My Gaze Lies

Published: June 11, 2022, 4:30 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 36 seconds

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Li Peng Step Down!

Published: June 4, 2022, 4:30 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 48 seconds

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San Francisco Poets - Show Me the Money

Published: May 28, 2022, 4:18 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 32 seconds

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The Unhappy American

Published: May 21, 2022, 4:30 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 6 seconds

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Bonnie Prince Tuan

Published: May 14, 2022, 5:29 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 15 seconds

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Su Dongpo - Water Dragon Chant

Published: May 7, 2022, 4:30 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 45 seconds

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Zhang Jie - Water Dragon Chant

Published: April 30, 2022, 4:31 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 59 seconds

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Xia Jia - Hundred Ghosts Parade

Published: April 23, 2022, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 14 seconds

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Subplot - Interview with Megan Walsh

Published: April 16, 2022, 4:19 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 25 seconds

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Mao Reinterprets Lu Xun - Last Lu Xun Podcast

Published: April 9, 2022, 4:38 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 28 seconds

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Lu Xun - Wild Grass - Interview with Professor Roy Chan

Published: April 2, 2022, 5:15 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 57 seconds

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Lu Xun's Zawen

Published: March 26, 2022, 4:30 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 12 seconds

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Lu Xun - A Minor Incident

Published: March 19, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 58 seconds

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Lu Xun - New Year's Sacrifice

Published: March 12, 2022, 5:30 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 56 seconds

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Lu Xun - Medicine - Interview with Dean James Carter

Published: March 5, 2022, 6:40 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 35 seconds

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Nixon in China - The Opera

Published: Feb. 26, 2022, 5:53 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 17 seconds

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Lu Xun - Soap

Published: Feb. 19, 2022, 5:30 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 47 seconds

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Lu Xun - True Story of Ah Q - Lu Xun Series #6

Published: Feb. 12, 2022, 5:38 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 10 seconds

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Kong Yiji - Lu Xun Series #5

Published: Feb. 5, 2022, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 17 seconds

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Lu Xun - Diary of a Madman - Lu Xun Series #4

Published: Jan. 29, 2022, 5:07 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 24 seconds

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War Cry Preface - Interview with Roy Chan

Published: Jan. 22, 2022, 5:38 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 27 seconds

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Lu Xun - Towards the Refutation of Malevolent Voices - Interview with Professor Huters

Published: Jan. 15, 2022, 5:30 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 2 seconds

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Lu Xun Introduction

Published: Jan. 8, 2022, 5:30 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 12 seconds

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End of the Year Podcast

Published: Jan. 1, 2022, 5:30 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 2 seconds

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Xiao Hong

Published: Dec. 25, 2021, 5:30 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 45 seconds

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Shen Congwen

Published: Dec. 18, 2021, 5:30 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 4 seconds

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Chen Qiufan

Published: Dec. 11, 2021, 5:30 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 41 seconds

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Bai Juyi

Published: Nov. 27, 2021, 5:30 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes

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Zhu Ziqing

Published: Nov. 20, 2021, 5:30 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 24 seconds

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Ouyang Xiu - Spring at Jade Tower

Published: Nov. 13, 2021, 5:30 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 19 seconds

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Elon Musk's Chinese Poem

Published: Nov. 6, 2021, 4:30 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 49 seconds

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Lu Xun's "White Light"

Published: Oct. 30, 2021, 4:30 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 26 seconds

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The Magic Sword and the Magic Bag

Published: Oct. 23, 2021, 4:30 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 21 seconds

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Shi Zhecun

Published: Oct. 16, 2021, 4:30 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 8 seconds

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China's First Poem

Published: Oct. 9, 2021, 4:30 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 12 seconds

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Does Chinese Culture Dampen its Nobel Prospects?

Published: Oct. 2, 2021, 8 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 1 second

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End of the Journey

Published: Sept. 25, 2021, 4:30 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes

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Princess Iron Fan

Published: Sept. 18, 2021, 4:30 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 22 seconds

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The Maram Epstein Methodology

Published: Sept. 11, 2021, 4:30 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 50 seconds

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Journey To the West Characters

Published: Sept. 4, 2021, 4:30 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 37 seconds

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Enter the Monkey King

Published: Aug. 28, 2021, 3:59 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 13 seconds

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Journey to the West Series - Episode 1

Published: Aug. 21, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 9 seconds

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Ouyang Xiu

Published: Aug. 14, 2021, 5:55 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 10 seconds

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Li Qingzhao

Published: Aug. 7, 2021, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 51 seconds

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Male Mencius' Mother

Published: July 31, 2021, 4:14 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 43 seconds

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Su Dongpo - Part 2

Published: July 24, 2021, 4:42 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 11 seconds

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Wang Anshi - Part 2

Published: July 24, 2021, 3 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 36 seconds

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Su Dongpo - Part 1

Published: July 10, 2021, 2 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 18 seconds

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Chinese Literature Podcast

Published: July 3, 2021, 6:28 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 55 seconds

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Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora

Published: July 3, 2021, 6:28 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 55 seconds

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Wang Anshi

Published: June 26, 2021, midnight
Duration: 19 minutes 27 seconds

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Qianlong's Poem to Macartney

Published: June 18, 2021, 8:50 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 23 seconds

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Rana Mitter - China's Good War

Published: June 11, 2021, 9:29 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 37 seconds

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Yang Huang Interview - My Good Son

Published: June 4, 2021, 8:37 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 57 seconds

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Nie Zheng, Assassin

Published: May 28, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 50 seconds

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Chinese Literature Podcast - 100 Years of Chinese Literature - 1990s

Published: May 22, 2021, 4:57 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 15 seconds

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The $26 Billion Poem

Published: May 17, 2021, 10:40 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 50 seconds

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Chloe Zhao and the Three-Character Classic

Published: May 13, 2021, 5:41 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 17 seconds

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100 Years of Chinese Literature: 1980-1989

Published: May 8, 2021, 3:59 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 32 seconds

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Is Taiwan Chinese?

Published: May 1, 2021, 5:14 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 56 seconds

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100 Years of Chinese Literature - 1970's

Published: April 24, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 45 seconds

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The Edge of Knowing: by Roy Bing Chan

Published: April 17, 2021, 3 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 17 seconds

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100 Years of Chinese Literature: 1960-1969

Published: April 10, 2021, 1 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 56 seconds

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Chinese Literature Podcast - Supplement - Haggadah of Kaifeng Jews

Published: April 2, 2021, 10:32 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 59 seconds

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100 Years of Chinese Literature: 1950-1959

Published: March 26, 2021, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 38 seconds

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Supplement #4: 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei by Eliot Weinberger and Octavio Paz

Published: March 19, 2021, 11 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 1 second

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100 Years of Chinese Literature: 1940-1949

Published: March 12, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes

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Supplement #3: A Little Primer of Tu-Fu, by David Hawkes

Published: March 5, 2021, 3 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 47 seconds

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100 Years of Chinese Literature - 1930-1939 - Shi Zhecun vs Lao She

Published: Feb. 27, 2021, 2:58 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 26 seconds

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Supplement #2: Jonathan Spence's The Search for Modern China

Published: Feb. 19, 2021, 1 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 10 seconds

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100 Years of Chinese Literature: 1920-1929

Published: Feb. 10, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 22 seconds

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100 Years of Chinese Literature: 1910-1919

Published: Jan. 28, 2021, noon
Duration: 28 minutes 16 seconds

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Chinese Literature Podcast Supplement #1: Lin Shu, Inc. by Michael Gibbs-Hill

Published: Jan. 22, 2021, 6 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 41 seconds

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100 Years of Chinese Literature: 1900-1909

Published: Jan. 15, 2021, 6 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 30 seconds

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A Little End-of-the-Year Wrap-Up

Published: Dec. 25, 2020, 5:21 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 21 seconds

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Du Mu Poem

Published: Dec. 21, 2020, 9:56 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 56 seconds

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RSS Feed Announcement

Published: Dec. 21, 2020, 9:42 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 37 seconds

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Interview with Mason

Published: Dec. 17, 2020, 10:30 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 35 seconds

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Allah's Will

Published: Nov. 27, 2020, 9:49 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 52 seconds

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San Mao

Published: Nov. 16, 2020, 11:59 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 32 seconds

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Made in China, Part 4: A Bonkers Election

Published: Oct. 15, 2020, 8:50 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 59 seconds

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Not Made in China, Part 3: From Angel Island with Love

Published: Oct. 15, 2020, 8:31 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 36 seconds

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Voltaire and the Qianlong Emperor

Published: Sept. 15, 2020, 8:56 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 24 seconds

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The Poetry of Hu Chunxiang

Published: Sept. 15, 2020, 8:24 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 11 seconds

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Painted Skin

Published: Aug. 15, 2020, 11:12 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 46 seconds

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The Painted Wall

Published: July 30, 2020, 3:49 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 17 seconds

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Interview with Antonio Leggieri

Published: June 27, 2020, 1:10 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 56 seconds

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Lian Xiang

Published: May 26, 2020, 11:58 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 59 seconds

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San Zi Jing

Published: April 18, 2020, 6:19 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 22 seconds

The \\u4e09\\u5b57\\u7d93, usually translated as the Three Character Classic, is a fascinating text because it functions like a "my first Confucian text." Children were given this text when they were quite young and asked to memorize the book, teaching them moral lessons that would prepare them to master the real Confucian classics later in life. In this episode, Rob and Lee debate the first few lines of the poem.

Just a note: we recorded this in 2018, and then we added a prologue to the front end of the podcast.

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COVID19 San Zi Jing

Published: April 17, 2020, 4:53 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 3 seconds

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Professor Van Norden's Classical Chinese for Everyone

Published: Jan. 5, 2020, 9:58 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 54 seconds

Today, Rob is off doing research in China, so Lee interviews Professor Van Norden. Professor Van Norden is a philosophy professor at Vassar, and he works on early Chinese philosophical texts.

He recently published a textbook for learning Classical Chinese (\\u6587\\u8a00\\u6587). The book is the outgrowth of Professor Van Norden's teaching, and he seeks to make Classical Chinese more approachable than do other textbooks on the language. Professor Van Norden and Lee discuss his book and wider issues related to early Chinese texts.

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Yu Dafu - Sinking

Published: Dec. 11, 2019, 6:25 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 19 seconds

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Ren the Filial Son

Published: Nov. 11, 2019, 4:30 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 59 seconds

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Jin Ping Mei - Plum in the Golden Vase

Published: Sept. 12, 2019, 12:04 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 4 seconds

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Water Margin - (Shui Hu Zhuan)

Published: Aug. 9, 2019, 2:11 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 40 seconds

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Ancient Chinese Porn Literature

Published: July 8, 2019, 10:49 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 49 seconds

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The Tiananmen Square Massacre and Chinese Rock

Published: June 3, 2019, 6:16 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 29 seconds

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The May 4th Movement

Published: May 3, 2019, 4 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 41 seconds

Modern Chinese Literature begins with the May 4th Movement. Well, that's according to the orthodox understanding of Chinese literature promoted by the CCP in China. Either way, May 4th, 1919 was a turning point both in Chinese society and in Chinese literature.

It was during and after this date that Lu Xun wrote some of his most important pieces of fiction. Those works came together in a book Warcry (\\u5450\\u558a) which is one of the monumental works in Chinese literature. The preface to that book, our subject today, is the most talked about part of that work. Today, on the 100th anniversary of the May 4th movement, we think about Lu Xun, his preface to Outcry and how we still hear echos of the work today.

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Laozi

Published: April 10, 2019, 4 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 19 seconds

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Huainanzi

Published: March 14, 2019, 4 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 47 seconds

This podcast we take a look at a story from a strange Daoist classic, the Huainanzi \\u6dee\\u5357\\u5b50. The tale is called Old Man on the Border Loses his Horse \\u585e\\u7fc1\\u5931\\u99ac. The story title is, itself a chengyu, that means something like you never know if something that seems unfortunate is actually fortunate.

Here is the original Chinese from the Huainanzi:

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Lee\'s Translation:

Oh, the vicissitudes of fortune and misfortune, the two are born together, and it is hard to distinguish between the two. There was a man who was a good fortune teller who lived near the border. His horse ran into the barbarian\'s territory. Everybody said that this was unfortunate, but the man said, "Not so fast. Maybe this is fortunate." They waited several months and the horse returned, bringing with them a barbarian horse. Everybody said, this was fortunate. The man said, "Not so fast. Maybe this is misfortune." Their family was rich, they had good horses, their son rode well, but then he fell off the horse and broke his thigh. Everybody said that this was unfortunate, but the man said, "Not so fast. Mabye this is fortunate." After a year, a great barbarian army crossed the border, and all able-bodied men were given arms and sent to war. Those in the border region, nine out of ten died, it was only because of the son\'s broken leg that the family was spared this fate.

Thus, fortune becomes misfortune, misfortune becomes fortune. Change continues without end, these depths cannot be measured...

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Dumptruck Poetry - Lei Feng

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Today, we look at one of the most popular writers during socialist China (1949-1976). His name is Lei Feng. He wrote poetry about dump trucks, but he was killed when a dump truck backed up into a telephone pole which came crashing down on him. As they were cleaning up the deceased earthly possessions, they found a diary that showed such dedication to the party and to Chairman Mao that they decided to use Lei Feng as a model for the ideal party member.

Some say it is all made up, that the communists invented Lei Feng out of thin air as a work of propaganda (but only capitalists and their running dogs believe that). Whatever you believe, take a journey with us as we read Lei Feng's Ode\\xa0to\\xa0a\\xa0Dumptruck.

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