Sima Qian - Letter to Ren An
This week is the last in our Sima Qian series, but it is also definitely the best. We look at how Sima Qian lost his testicles while sticking to his principles. We consider the conflict between him an...
30 Mar 202418min
Sima Qian - Biography of the Capitalists
Today, we take a look at Sima Qian's Biography of the Capitalists, chapter 129 in the Records of the Historian. This chapter is Sima Qian's two-millennia old defense of free market capitalism. The cha...
16 Mar 202414min
Sima Qian - Southern Yue People
Today, in the second podcast in the Sima Qian series, we take a look at some of the first literary evidence we have for the Nan Yue, the People of the Southern Yue, the ancestors to modern-day the pro...
2 Mar 202418min
Sima Qian - Series Introduction
Sima Qian is not only the first historian in Chinese history, he is also one of the greatest writers that China has ever produced. Today, writers of Kung Fu novels point to Sima Qian's stories on figh...
17 Feb 202419min
Children's Book Peek in the Farm
Today, we do something different. We take a look at a children's book that was originally written in English, and then translated into Chinese. Strangely, the translation into Chinese was done in a wa...
3 Feb 202411min
Huang Zunxian in Hong Kong
20 Jan 202420min
New Year
6 Jan 202416min
Su Dongpo Goes to Trial for Poetry
Today, in our last episode of the year, we look at 1079 when Su Dongpo was tried for a poem. Bitter partisan fighting, liberals versus conservatives...except for the great poetry, this Song Dynasty fi...
23 Des 202320min
