Chinese Literature Podcast

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Chinese Literature Podcast

Dr. Lee Moore talks Chinese literature and Chinese culture more broadly.

  1. JAN 25

    Joel Bigman - A Very Jewish Journey to the West

    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, Monkey and Pigsy, but he also has some new characters like Bear (the Second Samson). This new team travels through the Holy Lands, encountering Jewish monsters and some other characters.  If you are interested in buying his great novel, check out these book sellers:  https://www.amazon.com/Second-Journey-Joel-Bigman/dp/9888843702    The Second Journey eBook by Joel Bigman - EPUB | Rakuten Kobo United States   The Second Journey by Joel Bigman, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®

    36 min

  2. 12/28/2024

    2024 End of the Year Podcast

    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.

    27 min

  3. 11/24/2024

    Huang Chunming - Sayonara, Zaijian

    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 translation. "Sayonara, Zaijian" is a story about a Taiwanese man forced to pimp out his own countrywomen to the Japanese. It is fun, it is disturbing, it is triggering. In other words, it is a great work of literature.

    20 min

  4. 11/02/2024

    Huang Chunming - The Drowning of an Old Cat

    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.

    21 min

  5. 09/28/2024

    Interview with Daniel Bell

    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.

    38 min

  6. 08/31/2024

    Edward Yang - Yi Yi or A One and a Two

    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.

    22 min

  7. 07/27/2024

    Bai Xianyong - Winter Nights

    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-Palestinian protests in 2024, and he describes how his students reacted to the story.

    24 min

  8. 07/06/2024

    Taiwanese Comfort Women

    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.

    30 min
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