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. 247 | The History of Xinjiang (Part 4)

Ep. 247 | The History of Xinjiang (Part 4)

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Ep. 246 | The History of Xinjiang (Part 3)

Ep. 246 | The History of Xinjiang (Part 3)

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Ep. 245 | The History of Xinjiang (Part 2)

Ep. 245 | The History of Xinjiang (Part 2)

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Ep. 244 | The History of Xinjiang (Part 1)

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In this CHP episode, we start a new multi-part series that looks at the history of the land known today as Xinjiang. This series will cover about 4000 years of history starting in this episode with th...

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Ep. 243 | Kawashima Yoshiko (Part 3)

Ep. 243 | Kawashima Yoshiko (Part 3)

In this final installment introducing the life and death of Kawashima Yoshiko, we look at the last decade and a half of her strange and tragic life. In the last episode, her star was on the rise. But ...

8 Mar 202032min

Ep. 242 | Kawashima Yoshiko (Part 2)

Ep. 242 | Kawashima Yoshiko (Part 2)

We continue on with Part 2 of the strange life of the Manchu Princess, Kawashima Yoshiko. Now she's on her own, in China, without any "adult supervision" and in full sartorial splendor. The early year...

24 Feb 202029min

Ep. 241 | Kawashima Yoshiko (Part 1)

Ep. 241 | Kawashima Yoshiko (Part 1)

We leave the warlords behind but not the time period. This time, in this first of a three part series, we examine the strange and tragic life of Kawashima Yoshiko. Born a princess in the Manchu Qing r...

10 Feb 202028min

Ep. 240 | The Warlord Era (Part 10)

Ep. 240 | The Warlord Era (Part 10)

In this concluding episode, we close the book on this China Warlord Era overview that began in 1916 and lingered on and on until 1930. By the time it was over Japan was on the cusp of their invasion o...

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