How to Read Chinese Poetry Podcast
By Zong-qi Cai, Lingnan University
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Episodes: 58
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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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The Grand Finale of How to Read Chinese Poetry Podcast
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Poetry: Poetry of the Ming and Qing Dynasties: The Pain of Loss and the Pleasures of Everyday Life
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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Poetry of the Ming and Qing Dynasties: Poetry as Autobiography
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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Poetry of the Ming and Qing Dynasties: Poetic Theory and Practice in the Ming and Qing
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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Song Poems (Sanqu) of the Yuan Dynasty: Poetry of Rambunctious Wit and Impudent Humor
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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Song Poems (Sanqu) of the Yuan Dynasty: The Art of Tongue-in-Cheek - Two Love Songs by Two Great Dramatists
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Song Poems (Sanqu) of the Yuan Dynasty: The Power of Poetic Imagery
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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Long Song Lyrics (Manci) of the Song Dynasty: Li Qingzhao - Singing Her Autumn Sorrow
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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Long Song Lyrics (Manci) of the Song Dynasty: Su Shi - Meditation on the Past
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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Long Song Lyrics (Manci) of the Song Dynasty: Liu Yong’s Use of Leading Words (lingzi)
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Jan 02, 2023 |
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Short Songs in the Song Dynasty: “I ask you, how much sorrow can there be?” - Later Literati Song Lyrics
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Dec 26, 2022 |
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Short Songs in the Song Dynasty: Feeling and Scene - Early Literati Song Lyrics
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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Short Songs in the Song Dynasty: “I’ve no heart to love another” - A Pair of Anonymous Poems in Dialog
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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The Sounds of the Tang Poetry: Transcultural Performance - American Guqin Artist at Lingnan: Tang Poetry and Guqin Music
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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The Sounds of the Tang Poetry: Transcultural Performance - Li Bai in Nashville: An American Singing Tang Poems
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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The Sounds of the Tang Poetry: Transcultural Performance - From Kuyin to Yinsong: Constructing and Reciting Regulated Verse
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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The Sounds of the Tang Poetry: Transcultural Performance - From Zhiyin to Yunxue: The Rise of Chinese Rhyme Studies
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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The Sounds of the Tang Poetry: Mastering Tonal Patterns of Recent-Style Poetry - Regulated Poetic Forms & Modes of Thinking: Sonnet and Lüshi
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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The Sounds of the Tang Poetry: Mastering Tonal Patterns of Recent-Style Poetry - Constructing Heptasyllabic Regulated Verse
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Oct 30, 2022 |
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The Sounds of the Tang Poetry: Mastering Tonal Patterns of Recent-Style Poetry - Constructing Pentasyllabic Regulated Verse
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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The Sounds of the Tang Poetry: Mastering Tonal Patterns of Recent-Style Poetry - Constructing Regulated Quatrains
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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The Sounds of the Tang Poetry: Mastering Tonal Patterns of Recent-Style Poetry - Mastering Tones in Modern and Middle Chinese
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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Women and Poetry in the Tang Dynasty -A Traitor and a Murderess: the Poetic Nuns Li Ye and Yu Xuanji
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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Women and Poetry in the Tang Dynasty -Courtesans, Poets, and the Courtesan-Poet Xue Tao
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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Women and Poetry in the Tang Dynasty - Writing women from the inner quarters to the halls of power: Shangguan Wan’er
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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The Tang Dynasty: Quatrains - Waking from a Yangzhou Dream: Middle and Late Tang
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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The Tang Dynasty: Quatrains - The Boudoir and the Frontier: High Tang
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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The Tang Dynasty: Quatrains - Empty Mountains and Mirror Ponds: High Tang
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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The Tang Dynasty: Quatrains - Songs of the Heart, Verses of Nature: Pre-Tang Quatrains
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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Recent-Style Poetry: Pentasyllabic Regulated Verse - Wang Wei the Poet-Immortal
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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Recent-Style Poetry: Pentasyllabic Regulated Verse - Li Bai the Poet-Immortal
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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Recent-Style Poetry: Pentasyllabic Regulated Verse - Du Fu the Poet-Sage
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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Recent-Style Poetry: Pentasyllabic Regulated Verse - Dancing with Shackled Feet: Art of Recent-Style Poetry
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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Pentasyllabic Shi Poetry: Landscape Poetry - Xie Tiao: The Integration of Landscape
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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Pentasyllabic Shi Poetry: Landscape Poetry - Xie Lingyun's "Mountains and Waters"
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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Pentasyllabic Shi Poetry: Landscape Poetry - Tao Qian's "Fields and Gardens"
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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Pentasyllabic Shi Poetry: Landscape Poetry - Landscapes of the Mind
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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Han Ancient-style Poetry: The “Nineteen Old Poems” - Reflection through a Female Persona: a Mosaic of Emotions
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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Han Ancient-style Poetry: The “Nineteen Old Poems” - Interplay of Images and Emotions: Binary Structure and Multilateral Texture
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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Han Ancient-style Poetry: The “Nineteen Old Poems” - The Magic of One Additional Character and the Rise of Reflective Poetry
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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Yuefu Poetry - Political Satire or Coquetry? An Ambiguous Song
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May 30, 2022 |
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Yuefu Poetry - A Bad Breakup in the Han Yuefu
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May 23, 2022 |
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Yuefu Poetry - War as a Theme in Early Popular Chinese Poetry
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May 16, 2022 |
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Lisao: The Poem and Its Author As a Composite Text - The Lisao as a Composite Intertext
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May 09, 2022 |
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Lisao: The Poem and Its Author As a Composite Text - The Fusion of Poetry and Biography
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May 02, 2022 |
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Lisao: The Poem and Its Author As a Composite Text - The Meaning of Qu Yuan in the Western Han
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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The Lyrics of Chu: Qu Yuan and His Poetic Allegories - Spiritual and Imaginary Journeys in Lisao or “On Encountering Trouble”
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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The Lyrics of Chu: Qu Yuan and His Poetic Allegories - The Poetic Persona in Lisao or “On Encountering Trouble”
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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The Lyrics of Chu: Qu Yuan and His Poetic Allegories - A General Introduction to Chuci
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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The Book of Poetry: The Han Canonization - Dead Deer Meat as a Gift
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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The Book of Poetry: The Han Canonization - Romeo and Juliet-like Rendezvous
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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The Book of Poetry: The Han Canonization - A Love Song and A Moral Exemplum
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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The Book of Poetry and Diplomacy - What Does it Mean to Say, "I love you"?
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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The Book of Poetry and Diplomacy - Who is the Boss?
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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The Book of Poetry and Diplomacy - Who is the Barbarian?
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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The Book of Poetry - Zhou Dynastic Building
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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The Book of Poetry - Courtship Poems
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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The Book of Poetry - Marriage Poems
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Jan 25, 2022 |