Qianlong's Poem to Macartney
Today's podcast is an interesting poem that functions less as a beautiful poem but more a historical artifact. In 1793, the English Ambassador met with the Chinese Emperor. After their meeting, the em...
18 Kesä 202122min
Rana Mitter - China's Good War
This week's episode is a Supplement, where we will talk about China's Good War, Rana Mitter's latest book. Mitter is a historian, but a lot of the content he analyzes is literary or filmic. Mitter's a...
11 Kesä 202110min
Yang Huang Interview - My Good Son
In today's podcast, we interview author Yang Huang about her new book looking at the intersection of China, the US, and the politics of family and gender. The book is titled My Good Son, and it is her...
4 Kesä 202118min
Nie Zheng, Assassin
Today, we dig back into a podcast recorded several years before but never before aired. The topic is Nie Zheng (聂政), a story in the biography of the assassins, in Sima Qian's Shiji. The story may be o...
28 Touko 202112min
Chinese Literature Podcast - 100 Years of Chinese Literature - 1990s
This is it, this is the end of our decade-by-decade exploration of Chinese Literature in the 20th Century. Lee explores Mo Yan, while Rob chooses Xi Chuan. Join them for the final episode in this seri...
22 Touko 202119min
The $26 Billion Poem
This week's episode looks at a Tang Dynasty Poem that cost Meituan Dianping, one of China's unicorn internet companies, 26 Billion dollars off its market capitalization. In this episode, we take a loo...
17 Touko 202119min
Chloe Zhao and the Three-Character Classic
Today, we are rebroadcasting an episode that we did on the Three-Character Classic in honor of Chloe Zhao's quoting of the text during the Oscars. The audio quality is a little...well, you'll hear. We...
13 Touko 202119min
100 Years of Chinese Literature: 1980-1989
At last! Out of the Maoist wilderness and into what may be the most riveting period for literature and the arts in the entire 20th century in China.
8 Touko 202127min
