Xu Xu - Bird Talk - Interview with Frederik Green
Xu Xu is a writer who was very famous in the 1930's and 1940's. He lived in China until 1949, he was one of the country's most important writers during this period. Then, after the victory of the CCP,...
29 Apr 202359min
Liu Xijun - Song of Sadness
Liu Xijun was a princess. Her father and mother were executed when they rebelled against the emperor, her great uncle. Liu was sent to marry a king of the distant Wusun, a group of Central Asian herde...
17 Apr 202318min
Li Bai - Going Down Zhongnan Mountain with Mountain Man Husi Staying at His Place and Hitting the Bottle
1 Apr 202316min
Poetry from Sex Workers in Dalian
This week, the Chinese Literature Podcast goes where few literary scholars have gone before. We take a look at some poetry by sex workers in the city of Dalian. In the podcast, I use the poem to tackl...
16 Mar 202313min
Kang Youwei in Canada
4 Mar 202315min
Interview with Kyle Anderson - Author of MountainSea Scroll Series
This week, Lee interviews Kyle Anderson, who has just published the first volume in a young adult series titled MountainSea Scrolls. This first volume is called The 9 Tailed Fox. Dr. Anderson describe...
18 Feb 202341min
Mo Yan
On the previous episode, I went all the way to the beginning of Chinese literature. This episode, I explore a contemporary novel, Mo Yan's Red Sorghum. It won Mo Yan the Nobel Prize, it has been made ...
4 Feb 202316min
Oracle Bones
Oracle Bones (甲骨文) are the oldest written Chinese texts that have ever been discovered. Today, Lee looks at what Oracle Bones are, how they were discovered in the 1890's and reads out the translation ...
21 Jan 202317min
