S9E10 | Finished behind the last place guy

S9E10 | Finished behind the last place guy

Firstly, hats off to Emma and her 团队 at the CYZ for all their hard work, all season-long. We close out the season 9 with an amusing story from a source, as yet never featured on this long-running educational program, called the Guòtínglù 过庭录. The author was Song literary figure Fàn Gōngchēng 范公偁 who had the misfortune to be born during the exact time when the Northern Song ended and the Southern Song began. In this tale, our young hero Sūn Shān 孙山 heads off to the capital to take the imperial exam. Another villager tagged along who also registered to take the test. One passed the test and the other was Míng Luò Sūn Shān 名落孙山. It's a nice little story infused with some of the best of Chinese culture and a dollop of human decency. That's it for Season 9. I may post a few director's cuts of previous CSP episodes during the off-season. All these CSP episodes will soon be published in the Summer catalog of Earnshaw Books. There will be vocabulary lists, tone marks, and characters. Just sayin. Thanks, everyone and drink plenty of water this summer. Keep yourself hydrated!

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Ep. 285 | The L.A. Chinatown Massacre

Ep. 285 | The L.A. Chinatown Massacre

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Ep. 284 | The Taiping Rebellion (Part 5)

Ep. 284 | The Taiping Rebellion (Part 5)

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Ep. 283 | The Taiping Rebellion (Part 4)

Ep. 283 | The Taiping Rebellion (Part 4)

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Ep. 282 | The Taiping Rebellion (Part 3)

Ep. 282 | The Taiping Rebellion (Part 3)

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Ep. 281 | The Taiping Rebellion (Part 2)

Ep. 281 | The Taiping Rebellion (Part 2)

We're back with more of the Taiping Rebellion. In this episode, we trace the Taiping Rebels as they make their way from Yong'an in Guangxi all the way to the southern capital of Nanjing. As they make ...

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Ep. 280 | The Taiping Rebellion (Part 1)

Ep. 280 | The Taiping Rebellion (Part 1)

Now's as good a time as any to finally feature this well-known, regularly requested topic from Qing history. This is arguably the pivotal event that got the dominos falling that led to the Warlord Era...

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Ep. 279 | The Hakka Kongsis of Borneo (Part 2)

Ep. 279 | The Hakka Kongsis of Borneo (Part 2)

Laszlo picks up in 1818 with the Napoleonic Wars finished and the Dutch returning to their colonies to put everything back the way it was when they left. The struggle between the Dutch and the Chinese...

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Ep. 278 | The Hakka Kongsis of Borneo (Part 1)

Ep. 278 | The Hakka Kongsis of Borneo (Part 1)

The history of the Overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia is rich with all kinds of lesser-known or forgotten tales, like this one. A kongsi 公司 today means a company. But when Chinese immigrants from East...

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