Today, we interview Professor Roy Chan. Professor Chan is not only one of the most interesting thinkers trying to tackle Lu Xun in the American academia, but he is also the mentor of both Lee and Rob. Professor Chan is the author of The Edge of Knowing, an exploration dreams in the work of Lu […]
On Today’s podcast, we have one of the best writers on contemporary Chinese youth, Alec Ash. Alec wrote an excellent book on Chinese young adults called Wish Lanterns. It was renamed China’s New Youth for the American book market. Alec joins us today on the podcast to talk about one of Lu Xun’s shortest stories. We debate how close […]
One of Lu Xun’s most trenchant stories, in this episode, part of our series on Lu Xun, we tackle a story about gender, rape and class. The story is brutal, one of Lu Xun’s masterpieces.
Blood and Bread. A national reckoning between two mourning mothers. Today, Rob and Lee interview Professor James Carter, Dean of the History Department at Saint Joseph’s University. The story that the three discuss is Lu Xun’s story “Medicine.” Professor Carter’s most recent book is Champions Day, a book about the last gasp of old Shanghai.
Today’s podcast is an interview with Professor Carolyn Brown, author of Reading Lu Xun through Carl Jung. We had a great conversation with her about Lu Xun’s story “Soap.” This story, in Lu Xun’s collection titled 彷徨 (not the more well-known collection 吶喊), is too often ignored. Professor Brown shows that this story touches on issues […]
This week’s podcast is on one of the most important stories in modern Chinese literature, Lu Xun’s True Story of Ah Q (鲁迅 – 阿Q正传). Rob and Lee attempt to tackle the story that changed China and still echos down to the present.
Today, we have author, translator and teacher, Professor Bryan Van Norden, on the podcast to discuss Lu Xun’s short but fascinating story of Kong Yiji (鲁迅 – 孔乙己), the book-stealing scholar who Lu Xun imagined to be the symbol of the true state of China’s elite culture. Professor Van Norden, Rob and Lee walk through […]
Here we are at what is arguably Lu Xun’s most important text. Rob and Lee discuss this text in terms of content, language and modernity.
Today, we have our second installment in the Lu Xun series. This week we are joined by Professor Theodore Huters, Professor Emeriti in UCLA’s Asian Languages and Cultures Department and Chief Editor, Renditions, Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of several excellent books, including Bringing the World Home: Appropriating the West in Late Qing […]
This is the first episode in our series on Lu Xun, and, for this episode, we are going to look at some of the earliest aspects of Lu Xun’s career, both his time growing up in Shaoxing, his time in Japan and his attempts to become a translator.