This week looks a poem by Mao Zedong celebrating the communist defeat of a tiny parasite. “Shooing Away the God of Epidemics” was written in 1956 upon Mao hearing that a county in Jiangxi had eliminated all their blood flukes. #1 China’s green waters and the blue mountains are so numerous but even the great […]
This week, we are looking at a poem in the news. We are airing on Saturday, October 15th, 2022. On Thursday October 13th, 2022, just three days before Chairman Xi Jinping is supposed to be anointed for his third term, someone mounted the Sitong Bridge in Beijing and unfurled two banners. One had a poem […]
Today’s podcast is Rob-less, and it looks at the 1052 poem by Wang Anshi, China’s controversial economic thinker. This poem (probably) has little to do with Wang’s economic policies, but is rather all about his love for his father and elder brothers and his meditation on his own mortality. My translation: The traveler’s thoughts are […]