Our ‘traditional’ new year/end of the year podcast where we update listeners on what is happening with our lives and the podcast. This year, we sadly have to announce that Rob is no longer going to be a regular contributer to the podcast. Lee will be taking both reins, though Rob will come back on […]
We said we’d post something on the 24th, and here it is! It’s been quite a year, and breaking it all down is nearly impossible, so we’ve limited ourselves to what we know best: us. Join us for a quick tour of the changes in the podcast this year, as well as in us as […]
We’re switching around something in our podcast feed, which will give you access to all of our back catalogue, right from the comfort of your own app! But…there might be some disruption. If you don’t get a new podcast from us by Dec. 24, look for us again on your favorite podcasting app!
Mason is a fellow University of Oregon Duck, a fellow sinologist, and a fellow podcaster on Chinese literature. That’s a lot of fellows! Join us as we chat with him about everything from imperial Chinese route books to why he’s the American Pu Songling. We encourage you to check out Mason’s awesome podcast here.
We go back to Zhang Ailing, the author Lee claims to be the best Chinese writer of the 20th Century. Rob and Lee discuss her most anthologized work in English, Sealed Off. It is a psychological story occurring inside the heads of a handful of people stuck on a tram in Shanghai under the control of the […]
50th Podcast Anniversary We Made it to 50! No one expected it, least of all us, but this is our 50th episode with the podcast. Today, Rob and Lee are going to celebrate just like the ancients used to….with a Top 5 Countdown! The pair will share what the top five works of Chinese literature […]
We here introduce one of the great duos in Chinese literary history: Zhuang Zi and his less-than-intelligent foil, Huizi. In this classic passage, the pair discuss whether it is possible to know how others feel, and on what basis one can make those kinds of assumptions. As is usual with Zhuangzi, nothing is fixed, so […]
Tao Yuanming’s Peach Blossom Spring is one of the most famous in all of Chinese literature. A fisherman wanders into a cave and stumbles upon a utopia, but leaves it all because he wants to tell others. Join us as we dive into the cave with Tao Yuanming. http://traffic.libsyn.com/chineseliteraturepodcast/Peach_Blossom_-_finished.mp3
Recorded just after Halloween, this podcasts feels a little like a ghost of podcasts past for two reasons. We have recorded an episode on this story, Lu Xun’s Diary of a Madman, three times. Unfortunately, we lost the first two attempts, so we resurrected this podcast from the grave on All Soul’s Day. The second ghostly […]
We had the honor recently of talking with Nick Stember, a longtime translator of Chinese fiction and comics, and the official English-language translator of the renowned writer Jia Pingwa. On this podcast, we talk with Nick about his work, and about the intriguing Jia Pingwa short story “The Ugly Stone.” http://traffic.libsyn.com/chineseliteraturepodcast/The_Ugly_Stone_-_second_try.mp3 If you are interested […]