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Zong-qi Cai, Lingnan University
How to Read Chinese Poetry Podcast
This podcast presents cutting-edge scholarship on Chinese poetry to a broad general audience. In its 52 episodes, leading experts guide listeners through a pleasurable journey of Chinese poetry, poem by poem, genre by genre, and dynasty by dynasty. They demonstrate how the selected poems work in Chinese to create a fascinating, untranslatable poetic beauty while illuminating their broader cultural significance. Poems are read aloud in English and Chinese to the background of the Chinese qin music. English translations, romanizations, and brief notes are provided at howtoreadchinesepoetry.com.
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5.0 stars from 9 ratings
Loving this!
Enlightening and fascinating podcast series, definitely going to also purchase the new book of the same title.
4mins33seconds via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 06/10/22
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This episode you are listening to is the soundtrack of the Grand Finale of How to Read Chinese Poetry Podcast. Click the link to watch the video and subscribe to our channel: https://youtu.be/y-ng5CkofkM. The grand finale of The How to Read Chinese Poetry Podcast Program was successfully...
Published 03/28/23
In this final episode, we will first listen to the “Song of Suffering Calamity” by the woman poet and scholar Wang Duanshu (1621-ca. 1680), narrating her flight from the invading Qing army during the Ming-Qing transition. We will conclude with two examples by women among the many poems in the...
Published 02/27/23
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