Chinese Literature Podcast
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Sinopsis
A Podcast on Chinese Literature
Episodios
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Looking Towards the Sea
17/12/2016 Duración: 29minIn today's episode, we look at a specific poem by Haizi, his most famous.
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The Big Bang of Modern Chinese Literature?: Discussing the May 4th Movement
28/06/2016 Duración: 30min -
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Emperor Shen's New Groove: Song Dynasty Exam Reform and Modern Chinese Exam Culture
19/05/2016 Duración: 27min -
How to be A/Political: The Seven Books of the Sun
09/05/2016 Duración: 24minThe great romantic martyr of contemporary Chinese poetry, who killed himself at the age of 25 in 1989, Hai Zi is one of the most studied, recited, and well-known poets of the 20th century in China. Positioned alternately as the bard of the countryside or a "pure" poet, he is a figure believed to have been outside the hurly-burly of Chinese political life. Yet his unfinished epic work, The Seven Books of the Sun, which has little to no scholarship, problematizes that idea.
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Narration and Revolution: The True Story of Ah Q
04/05/2016 Duración: 29minHow does a low-life moron become one of the great tragic figures in modern Chinese culture? Lu Xun's 1921 novella The True Story of Ah Q, a masterpiece of the May 4th Movement, presents just such a situation. We discuss the story's unique narrative choices, and Lu Xun's varying reception in Taiwan and mainland China.
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Censure and Celebration: Jiang Xingge Re-Encounters His Pearl Shirt
09/04/2016 Duración: 28minOne of the most acclaimed 话本 (hua ben - vernacular short stories) in Feng Menglong's 1620 collection Stories Old and New (tr. Yang Shuhui and Yang Yunqin). We discuss the question of irony in a story about both marital and extramarital bliss, and explore the reasons behind the story's famously racy details.
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Tower for the Summer Heat
06/04/2016 Duración: 29minHere we talk about telescopes, gods, and the peculiar anxiety that results when a foreign civilization circumvents established domestic social rules.