Today, we are interrupting our podcast series on Lu Xun to celebrate the anniversary of Nixon’s earth-shattering visit to Beijing 50 years ago this week. In this episode, we take a look at the John Adams Opera, Nixon in China, tackling how the opera incorportates elements of Chinese Cultural Revolution opera and how some of […]
Today’s podcast is an interview with Professor Carolyn Brown, author of Reading Lu Xun through Carl Jung. We had a great conversation with her about Lu Xun’s story “Soap.” This story, in Lu Xun’s collection titled 彷徨 (not the more well-known collection 吶喊), is too often ignored. Professor Brown shows that this story touches on issues […]
This week’s podcast is on one of the most important stories in modern Chinese literature, Lu Xun’s True Story of Ah Q (鲁迅 – 阿Q正传). Rob and Lee attempt to tackle the story that changed China and still echos down to the present.
Today, we have author, translator and teacher, Professor Bryan Van Norden, on the podcast to discuss Lu Xun’s short but fascinating story of Kong Yiji (鲁迅 – 孔乙己), the book-stealing scholar who Lu Xun imagined to be the symbol of the true state of China’s elite culture. Professor Van Norden, Rob and Lee walk through […]