Lu Xun's Zawen
What is a Zawen? It is complicated. In this episode, we try to tackle what zawen are and what they meant to Lu Xun's career. Guiding us on our journey is Professor Andrew Jones of UC Berkeley, one of ...
26 Mar 202241min
Lu Xun - A Minor Incident
On Today's podcast, we have one of the best writers on contemporary Chinese youth, Alec Ash. Alec wrote an excellent book on Chinese young adults called Wish Lanterns. It was renamed China's New Youth...
19 Mar 202226min
Lu Xun - New Year's Sacrifice
One of Lu Xun's most trenchant stories, in this episode, part of our series on Lu Xun, we tackle a story about gender, rape and class. The story is brutal, one of Lu Xun's masterpieces.
12 Mar 202227min
Lu Xun - Medicine - Interview with Dean James Carter
Blood and Bread. A national reckoning between two mourning mothers. Today, Rob and Lee interview Professor James Carter, Dean of the History Department at Saint Joseph's University. The story that th...
5 Mar 202228min
Nixon in China - The Opera
Today, we are interrupting our podcast series on Lu Xun to celebrate the anniversary of Nixon's earth-shattering visit to Beijing 50 years ago this week. In this episode, we take a look at the John A...
26 Feb 202223min
Lu Xun - Soap
Today's podcast is an interview with Professor Carolyn Brown, author of Reading Lu Xun through Carl Jung. We had a great conversation with her about Lu Xun's story "Soap." This story, in Lu Xun's coll...
19 Feb 202229min
Lu Xun - True Story of Ah Q - Lu Xun Series #6
This week's podcast is on one of the most important stories in modern Chinese literature, Lu Xun's True Story of Ah Q (鲁迅 - 阿Q正传). Rob and Lee attempt to tackle the story that changed China and still ...
12 Feb 202222min
Kong Yiji - Lu Xun Series #5
Today, we have author, translator and teacher, Professor Bryan Van Norden, on the podcast to discuss Lu Xun's short but fascinating story of Kong Yiji (鲁迅 - 孔乙己), the book-stealing scholar who Lu Xun ...
5 Feb 202235min
