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More Swindles from the Late Ming - Sex, Scams and Sorcery - Interview with Bruce Rusk and Christopher Rea 45:12

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Lock up your daughters and watch your wallet. In this episode, we are going to take a look at stories from the late Ming's most famous grift manual, a book by Zhang Yingyu. For this episode, the translators, Bruce Rusk and Christopher Rea have kindly agreed to come on talk about this text without stealing anything. I highly recommend this book to a…

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Joel Bigman - A Very Jewish Journey to the West 35:45

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Today, we have an interview Joel Bigman, the author of The Second Journey. The Second Journey is a continuation novel of Journey to the West (西遊記). In this journey to the West, Tang monk travels ever farther to the west, all the way to modern day Israel. Bigman has written his novel with some of the same characters that you know and love, Tang Monk…

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2024 End of the Year Podcast 27:28

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It is that time of year again, the time when the Chinese Literature Podcast takes stock of the year and what has happened. In this podcast, Lee talks about his book and also about teaching Chinese Literature at the University of Oregon.Kirjoittanut Chinese Literature Podcast

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Huang Chunming - Sayonara, Zaijian 20:18

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Today, we have an exciting and disturbing episode about Taiwan and prostitution. This is Number 6 in my series on Taiwanese literature, and the second episode on Huang Chunming, Taiwan's most famous nativist author. Last episode, the podcast looked at the story, "Drowning of an Old Cat." This week we look at a story from that same English translati…

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Huang Chunming - The Drowning of an Old Cat 21:04

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Today, we take a look at Huang Chunming, one of the most important writers in Taiwan's nativist movement. He is an author who developed this sense of a Taiwanese identity in his work. Also, don't worry, no cats die in this story.Kirjoittanut Chinese Literature Podcast

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Interview with Daniel Bell 37:50

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Today, Lee is talking with Professor Daniel Bell, most recently the author of Dean of Shandong, but also the author of the famous China Model. Professor Bell and Lee chat about his book and about his wider experience of Chinese culture and philosophy while serving as the first foreign dean of a university in the PRC.…

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Edward Yang - Yi Yi or A One and a Two 22:00

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Today, the podcast does something different. In this episode, we are looking at a film. And not just any film. It is perhaps the greatest film ever made. Yi Yi or A One and a Two is the magmum opus of Edward Yang, the Taiwanese filmmaker. We are going to explore the symbolism of balloons, sticks and condems in this amazing film.…

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Bai Xianyong - Winter Nights 24:27

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The greatest of Taiwan's modernists, Bai Xianyong's short story, "Winter Nights," is a tale about history and how little we are able to change things. These revolutionaries of Beijing's hot summer of 1919 reconvene in Taipei in the 1960's having lost their cause and their country. Lee taught this story about protestors during the height of the pro-…

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Taiwanese Comfort Women 30:13

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This episode is different. I am first explaining the issue of Taiwanese comfort women, and then letting yall hear a speech that I gave to a group in Vienna on the only comfort women museum in Taiwan. Stick around for some interesting history and a discussion of museums.Kirjoittanut Chinese Literature Podcast

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Yu Yonghe - Small Sea Travel Diary 24:43

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This week's podcast is on one of the earliest documents we have in Taiwanese history, a 1697 journey by Yu Yonghe into the wilds of Taiwan's north, where he mined sulfur amongst the barbarians. Yu gets off on traveling, and this journey is deep into the heart of Taiwan. In this podcast, I discuss the history of Taiwan along with questions of race a…

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Ge Fei - The Invisibility Cloak 17:21

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Love and amplifers is the topic of Ge Fei's novella "The Invisibility Cloak." Ge Fei uses a discussion of stereo systems to try to articulate changes in value system in China in the late 20th century. Turn up the volume for this exploration of one of contemporary China's most acclaimed novelists.

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Nicky Harman Interview - Jia Pingwa's Sojourn Teashop 37:58

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Today, the podcast interviews one of contemporary Chinese literature's extraordinary translators. Nicky Harman translated, along with her partner in crime, Liu Jun, Jia Pingwa's recent novel The Sojourn Teashop. Nicky is well known in Chinese literature circles as a translator and promoter of Chinese literature to the broader public. The novel, Soj…

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Ian Johnson Interview 38:44

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In today's episode, the podcast is honored to have Ian Johnson, Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, author and commentator who has spent decades living in and writing about China. His most recent book is called Sparks. In it, he follows a handful of China's underground historians who resist the increasingly heavy-handed state by writing and research…

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Jin Yong - Sword of the Yue Maiden 17:08

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Last episode, we discussed Jin Yong and his contributions to Kung Fu literature. This episode we take a look at his final work, the "Sword of the Yue Maiden." We encounter some ancient Chinese punks with swords and how their killing of a little girl's goat ends up percipitating their demise.Kirjoittanut Chinese Literature Podcast

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Jin Yong - Part 1 18:09

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This podcast, we take a look at the life and times of Jin Yong, along with the genre he came to define, modern kung fu literature. We explore Jin Yong's path to becoming China's best selling writer, putting out more books than JK Rowling. We also look at the January 17th, 1954 kung fu match that inspired him and others to turn kung fu into a phenom…

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Sima Qian - Letter to Ren An 18:57

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This week is the last in our Sima Qian series, but it is also definitely the best. We look at how Sima Qian lost his testicles while sticking to his principles. We consider the conflict between him and Emperor Wu that percipitated his castration. I also make a big announcement. Here is the Transcript: My name is Lee Moore, and this is the Chinese …

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Sima Qian - Biography of the Capitalists 14:49

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Today, we take a look at Sima Qian's Biography of the Capitalists, chapter 129 in the Records of the Historian. This chapter is Sima Qian's two-millennia old defense of free market capitalism. The chapter is one of the most interesting his oeuvre because Sima Qian was condemned for it by later historians.…

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Sima Qian - Southern Yue People 18:00

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Today, in the second podcast in the Sima Qian series, we take a look at some of the first literary evidence we have for the Nan Yue, the People of the Southern Yue, the ancestors to modern-day the provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi in China and the people of Vietnam. Sima Qian describes the Han Dynasty's colonial conquest of the Yue in vivid detail…

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Sima Qian - Series Introduction 19:58

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Sima Qian is not only the first historian in Chinese history, he is also one of the greatest writers that China has ever produced. Today, writers of Kung Fu novels point to Sima Qian's stories on fighters and assassins as the origins of the Kung Fu genre. Chinese business people point to his "Biography of the Capitalists" as the reason why Chinese …

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Children's Book Peek in the Farm 11:01

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Today, we do something different. We take a look at a children's book that was originally written in English, and then translated into Chinese. Strangely, the translation into Chinese was done in a way that took the English and translated it into classical poetic forms that hark back to the Tang Dynasty. Journey with me to find out how deeply Chine…

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Huang Zunxian in Hong Kong 20:39

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New Year 16:49

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Su Dongpo Goes to Trial for Poetry 20:05

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Today, in our last episode of the year, we look at 1079 when Su Dongpo was tried for a poem. Bitter partisan fighting, liberals versus conservatives...except for the great poetry, this Song Dynasty fight might remind you of something closer to home.Kirjoittanut Chinese Literature Podcast

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Qiu Fengjia - Taiwanese or Chinese Nationalist? 18:06

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Today, we look at Qiu Fengjia, a Taiwanese-born Mandarin, who, in 1895, upon hearing that Taiwan had been given to Japan as a part of the Treaty of Shiminoseki, wrote a poem expressing his sadness and confusion. We discuss that poem and Qiu's larger legacy.Kirjoittanut Chinese Literature Podcast

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Qiang Flute - Interview with Zhang Yanshuo 33:53

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Today, we have an interview with Professor Zhang Yanshuo, a scholar at Pomona College who studies a group of people that have existed on the peripheries of Chinese soceity for several millennia. The Qiang are a group of people who exist in China today, but also who have records discussing them as early as the Oracle Bones of the Shang Dynasty 3,000…

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Chris Nowinski - Protecting Athletes from Head Injuries & Preventing CTE 27:28

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More Swindles from the Late Ming - Sex, Scams and Sorcery - Interview with Bruce Rusk and Christopher Rea 45:12

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Joel Bigman - A Very Jewish Journey to the West 35:45

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2024 End of the Year Podcast 27:28

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Huang Chunming - Sayonara, Zaijian 20:18

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Huang Chunming - The Drowning of an Old Cat 21:04

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Interview with Daniel Bell 37:50

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Edward Yang - Yi Yi or A One and a Two 22:00

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Bai Xianyong - Winter Nights 24:27

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Taiwanese Comfort Women 30:13

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Yu Yonghe - Small Sea Travel Diary 24:43

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Ge Fei - The Invisibility Cloak 17:21

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Nicky Harman Interview - Jia Pingwa's Sojourn Teashop 37:58

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Ian Johnson Interview 38:44

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Jin Yong - Sword of the Yue Maiden 17:08

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Jin Yong - Part 1 18:09

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Sima Qian - Letter to Ren An 18:57

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Sima Qian - Biography of the Capitalists 14:49

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Sima Qian - Southern Yue People 18:00

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Sima Qian - Series Introduction 19:58

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Children's Book Peek in the Farm 11:01

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Huang Zunxian in Hong Kong 20:39

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New Year 16:49

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Su Dongpo Goes to Trial for Poetry 20:05

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Qiu Fengjia - Taiwanese or Chinese Nationalist? 18:06

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Qiang Flute - Interview with Zhang Yanshuo 33:53

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