100 Years of Chinese Literature - 1970's
The dark night lifts at last! 1976 marks the end of both the Cultural Revolution and the Maoist era. It also marks the beginning of one of the most remarkable periods of literature in Chinese history....
24 Apr 202123min
The Edge of Knowing: by Roy Bing Chan
Okay, fine, so Prof. Chan is on our dissertation committees. But you know what? That lack of objectivity on our parts doesn't mean The Edge of Knowing isn't still a thoroughly remarkable book, because...
17 Apr 202115min
100 Years of Chinese Literature: 1960-1969
You want a hard period for a good literary discussion? Then this is your port of call. The 1960's wasn't just a bleak literary landscape in China; it was practically nonexistent. We got around the pro...
10 Apr 202122min
Chinese Literature Podcast - Supplement - Haggadah of Kaifeng Jews
Shalom and welcome to the Chinese Literature Podcast. Today, we have a very special Chinese Literature Podcast in celebration of Passover. We will be looking at the book The Haggadah of the Kaifeng Je...
2 Apr 202115min
100 Years of Chinese Literature: 1950-1959
...And then there were the Maoist years. Following the Chinese Communist Party's victory in 1949, literature was tightly controlled until 1976. That means, well, it's a pretty rough period to discuss....
26 Mar 202119min
Supplement #4: 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei by Eliot Weinberger and Octavio Paz
19 different translations of a single short Tang Dynasty poem add up to a fascinating guided tour of how rich and peculiar it is to encounter the Chinese poetic tradition. Join us to find out more!
19 Mar 202113min
100 Years of Chinese Literature: 1940-1949
There's only one decade whose representative writer we both agree on, and this is it. Debates are more fun, but really? It's hard to argue about Zhang Ailing.
12 Mar 202119min
Supplement #3: A Little Primer of Tu-Fu, by David Hawkes
This slim little volume has a whole lot packed into it. Not only does it give the reader a concise history of a crucial moment in Chinese history, but it also beautifully explains to a non-Chinese aud...
5 Mar 20219min
