This week, Rob and I are travelling, so we have decided to go back into the vault and dig up one of our first podcasts ever…the sound quality is bad, our explanations are even worse…but the story is great. A man falls in love with a very young boy and things take off from there. […]
On today’s podcast, Rob and Lee discuss a story that is relevant to today’s America as much as it is to China: Male Mencius’ Mother, a sort of medieval Chinese version My Two Dads. In the story of A Male Mencius’ Mother, we find ourselves in Fujian, on the edge of Chinese civilization, purportedly an […]
Want a shortcut to immortality? Get a telescope! Or at least that’s the scenario posed by Li Yu’s classic 1657 story Tower for the Summer Heat《夏宜樓》. We’ll also take a closer look at the notions of cultural “inside” and “outside” spaces that inform Chinese social discourse to this day. http://traffic.libsyn.com/chineseliteraturepodcast/Tower_for_the_Summer_Heat.mp3