Reading Between the Lines: A Discussion with Professor Stephen Durrant

Well, this is it: our Aerosmith-on-Wayne’s-World podcast, the one where someone way out of our league is gracious enough to pay us a visit. We recently had the distinct privilege of sitting down with one of the U.S. academy’s most respected scholars on ancient Chinese texts: Professor Emeritus Stephen Durrant. Prof. Durrant is the author of numerous books, one of which, The Cloudy Mirror, is still the gold standard in commentaries on The Records of the Grand Historian. Lee and I talk with Prof. Durrant about his most recent achievement: the first-ever full English translation of the Zuo Tradition (Zuo Zhuan), the earliest narrative history in China, a project he pursued with David Schaberg and Wai-Yee Li. Join us as we learn from one of the true deans of the field!

For anyone interested in purchasing information on the translation, go to the following Amazon link:

https://www.amazon.com/Zuo-Tradition-Zuozhuan-Commentary-Classics/dp/0295999152/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492643484&sr=8-1&keywords=Stephen+Durrant