Interview with Salih Hudayar - Foreign Minister of the East Turkestan Government-in-Exile
In today's episode, I got the chance to speak with Salih Hudayar, the Foreign Minister of the East Turkestan Government-in-Exile. We talked about Uyghur literature, Uyghur history and even American hi...
10 Juni 1h 4min
Taiwan Travelogue - Yang Shuangzi - Booker Award Winner!
In this podcast, we look at the novel that was, a little more than a week ago, awarded the International Booker Prize. Taiwan Travelogue is a novel that pretends to be a travelogue, where a Japanese w...
28 Maj 23min
Stephen Owen Obituary
I am sad to report that Stephen Owen, a professor at Harvard University who wrote about Chinese poetry, just passed away at the age of 79 in Massachusetts. This short podcast talks a bit about one of...
2 Maj 3min
Kublai Khan, Morris Rossabi and the 10th Anniversary of the Podcast
First off, I am dropping the podcast on the 10th Anniversary of our first episode. On April 9th, 2016, the Chinese Literature Podcast had its first episodes. The first episode of the podcast's next de...
9 Apr 55min
Du Fu - Spring Gazes - Tang Poetry Masters Series
Today, we finish up the 3 part series on Tang Poetry Masters with a look at Du Fu, China's poet historian. The An Lushan Rebellion tore the Tang Dynasty in half and is one of the defining events of Ch...
10 Mars 22min
Wang Wei and his Moment of Zen - Tang Poetry Masters Series
Today, the podcast gets to Wang Wei and a Buddhist poem he wrote with the eye of a painter. Wang Wei is the least popular of the three High Tang poets, at least, since the Song Dynasty, but, back in t...
7 Feb 14min
Li Bai and the Western Regions
Today is the beginning of a three part series I am going to do on the three big Tang poets, Li Bai, Wang Wei and Du Fu. In this episode, we take a look at Li Bai, often considered China's Greatest poe...
20 Jan 20min
