#ReadingTheStone Returns! S2 Episode 1 Our First Eighty Chapters of Reading Together
#ReadingTheStone had our first Saturday chat of the new year, on January 14, 2023. Last we left off, we had read up to Chapter 80 - and in this first session of the new year, we discussed the textual...
14 Jan 202356min
#ReadingTheStone S1 Episode 7: On Baoyu - no, Xifeng's - Education
#ReadingTheStone Episode 7 was supposed to be a continuation of our discussion of the education of Baoyu, the young scion of the Jia family - but Waiyee, Ann, and Eileen were diverted by questions ab...
26 Maj 202250min
#ReadingTheStone S1 Episode 6: On Mirrors and Misguided Readers
#ReadingTheStone Saturday live chats are back after a week's hiatus, and in this episode Waiyee and Eileen discuss the history of interlinear & eyebrow commentary in Chinese fiction and possible reson...
15 Maj 202247min
#ReadingTheStone S1 Episode 5: On Entering New Narrative Spaces
Our fifth Saturday chat continues the past week's conversation on Baoyu's sexual initiation - both in dreamland at the end of Chapter 5, and in the 'real world' at the beginning of the following chapt...
11 Maj 202251min
#ReadingTheStone S1 Episode 4: On Dreams and Illusion - and Chapter 5
Eileen, Waiyee, and Ann dive into Chapter 5 of Hongloumeng - and respond to #ReadingTheStone questions about the role of dreams in Chinese literature, translating xian as immortal or fairy, the autho...
23 Apr 202249min
#ReadingTheStone Begins. S1 Episode 1: Preamble
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20 Apr 202254min
#ReadingTheStone S1 Episode 2: On Beginnings
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20 Apr 202253min
#ReadingTheStone S1 Episode 3: On Character - Daiyu, Baoyu, Baochai
In this third round of Saturday chats on #ReadingTheStone, Eileen and Waiyee and special guest Ann Waltner talk about the introduction of key characters in the open four chapters of the Story Of The S...
16 Apr 202239min
