Yu Dafu - Sinking
Yu Dafu is an early 20th Century writer known for one work: Sinking. This novella is highly autobiographical, and it discusses the trials and tribulations of a Chinese student living in Japan. His att...
11 Joulu 201917min
Ren the Filial Son
The Fourth in our series on Toxic Masculinity, this is the story of a man whose wife is sleeping around, a man who is not doing a good job of taking care of his father, a man who, at least in a pre-mo...
11 Marras 201919min
Jin Ping Mei - Plum in the Golden Vase
12 Syys 201922min
Water Margin - 水浒传 (Shui Hu Zhuan)
The Water Margin, or the 水浒传 (shui hu zhuan) is one of the novels from the Ming Dynasty that we can point to as the origin of much of the Kung Fu tradition. It is the story of 108 dudes (I'm being tec...
9 Elo 201922min
Ancient Chinese Porn Literature
Today Brandon joins Rob and Lee for one of the weirdest stories that they have ever done. The "Biography of Lord As-You-Like-It" is a work of Ming Dynasty porn that discusses the only Empress to ever ...
8 Heinä 201922min
The Tiananmen Square Massacre and Chinese Rock
We are posting this podcast on June 4th, 2019, the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. We have decided to focus on a song (which is just a poem, after all) that was performed for the pr...
3 Kesä 201923min
The May 4th Movement
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 tur...
3 Touko 201919min
Laozi
This work of Daoism is one of the most translated books in the world. But what is it really about? Rob and Lee explore the Laozi (he probably was not a real person, so we call him the Laozi or the Lao...
10 Huhti 201917min
