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Chinese Lore Podcast Chinese Lore Podcasts
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4.9 • 59 Ratings
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Classic Chinese novels and stories, retold in English and in a way that makes them more accessible for non-Chinese audiences.
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Gods 062: Beam Me Up
The Zhou army gets a timely visit from a helpful but uppity Buddhist friend in their fight against Kong Xuan.
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Gods Supplemental 001: Boyi and Shuqi
Some quick background on two minor characters whose pacifist message fell on deaf ears.
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Gods 061: Killer Bees
The Zhou army meets its first real resistance on its march East.
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Announcement: 10 Years of Podcasting
Marking a decade since I first started doing this.
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Gods 060: Justifications, I Has Them
Ji Fa decides that while he couldn't live with attacking his tyrannical king, he CAN live with paying said king a visit with a large army in tow, just to, you know, talk.
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Gods 059: Plowed Under
Jiang Ziya is finally ready to head East to dethrone the Shang, but then his king goes, "Wait, can't we all just get along?"
Customer Reviews
Lively, intelligent, and humorous retellings
I have been meaning to read Investiture of the Gods for years but have never gotten around to it. John Zhou’s narration is engaging and full of wry modern commentary to lighten things up and keep them entertaining. I’m hoping my kids will also take to following his show.
A podcast of epic proportions!
OMG! John Zhou is a treasure. Spit takes and coffee spills aside, I love his work. Love his puckish sense of humor. Love the stories!!! Got hooked on his amazing Romance of the Three Kingdoms pod/performance, and have begun Water Margin. I cannot say enough here. Simply extraordinary fun (and RotTK is hundreds of years old, from a culture not familiar to us in America). His retelling is well-paced, thoroughly researched to maximize our understanding of all the allusions and morés and I believe he captures the excitement of the story as intended. Love, love, love this podcaster.
Dream of the Red Chamber maybe?????
Storytelling Master
Who would imagine a four-hundred-year-old novel could be so engrossing?! This is told by a storyteller who makes it as vivid as contemporary anime.