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.
Today, the Chinese Literature Podcast asks the ultimate geopolitical question: Is Taiwan Chinese? Actually, we are looking at a book titled Is Taiwan Chinese, an anthropological study by Melissa Brown that examines how identity, Chineseness and ethnicity are constituted on both sides of the Taiwan Straits…that is just a fancy way of saying that identity is […]
The dark night lifts at last! 1976 marks the end of both the Cultural Revolution and the Maoist era. It also marks the beginning of one of the most remarkable periods of literature of Taiwan. Today we look at an underground poet in China and a Taiwanese short story writer. Join us to find out […]
Today, we take a look at one of the more interesting works of literary analysis to come out on left-leaning literature in 20th Century China. Roy Bing Chan has done close readings of dreams in the works of Lu Xun, Mao Dun, and writers from the PRC.
You want a hard period for a good literary discussion? Then this is your port of call. The 1960’s wasn’t just a bleak literary landscape in China; it was practically nonexistent. We got around the problem by going across the Straits or underground. Join us to find out more!
Shalom and welcome to the Chinese Literature Podcast. Today, we have a very special Chinese Literature Podcast in celebration of Passover. We will be looking at the book The Haggadah of the Kaifeng Jews of China by Fook-Kong Wong and Dalia Yasharpour.