Today, we dig back into a podcast recorded several years before but never before aired. The topic is Nie Zheng (聂政), a story in the biography of the assassins, in Sima Qian’s Shiji. The story may be one of the early predecessors to Kung Fu film and literature.
This is it, this is the end of our decade-by-decade exploration of Chinese Literature in the 20th Century. Lee explores Mo Yan, while Rob chooses Xi Chuan. Join them for the final episode in this series.
This week’s episode looks at a Tang Dynasty Poem that cost Meituan Dianping, one of China’s unicorn internet companies, 26 Billion dollars off its market capitalization. In this episode, we take a look at the Zhang Jie’s “Book Burning Pit” and explore the full story behind the poem that the media is not explaining. Here […]
Today, we are rebroadcasting an episode that we did on the Three-Character Classic in honor of Chloe Zhao’s quoting of the text during the Oscars. The audio quality is a little…well, you’ll hear. We apologize. Just think, it has only been a year since we recorded this and already we are this much better.
At last! Out of the Maoist wilderness and into what may be the single most riveting decade for literature and the arts of the entire 20th century in China.