Of Gods and Telescopes: Li Yu’s A Tower for the Summer Heat
Want a shortcut to immortality? Get a telescope! Or at least that’s the scenario posed by Li Yu’s classic 1657 story Tower for the Summer Heat《夏宜樓》. We’ll also take a closer look at the notions of cultural “inside” and “outside” spaces that inform Chinese social discourse to this day. http://traffic.libsyn.com/chineseliteraturepodcast/Tower_for_the_Summer_Heat.mp3