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Chinese Literature Podcast V
Sep. 1st, 2021 01:26 am
Goes through and offers some of that sweet, sweet exegesis we’ve been hungry for in our other approaches to poetry (I see you, shi jing). Well-regarded. Might be a good shout for our post short things.
https://be1lib.org/book/5933630/58e5a2
If you're hungry for the collected Du Fu, that’s here: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/26b715cf-49f7-479f-9fd5-eaa7fd07f197/9781501501890.pdf .
At 35 poems with exegesis, if we slowed down for that, it could be like five weeks? Douqi says: Looks like a good selection as well, a good mix of the longer poems and the eight-line ones (idk what the technical terms are in english). I guess Du Fu didn't do as many four-line ones. I recognise at least a third from the 300 poems collection.
It's interesting because to grasp the conversation he's opening, I want to read the poem translated, then look at the commentary, then maybe flip back to the poem. Putting the translation at the end/bottom feels cramped to me? A minor issue, though. Also, why does he hate the line breaks?
A cuckholding revenger’s tragedy.
One of the four great novels of the Ming: a picaresque about Bros Being Criminals. All very manly. The source text for Plum Blossom, and also the play Katy and Molly and I saw at the Fringe.
About Mencius’s Dialogues with rulers, and about the interesting abilities and slippages into philosophy we’d traditionally conceptualise, in a binary fashion, as Daoism they sometimes present us with.
When Death is an Improvement: Pu Songling’s “Judge Lu” (陆判)
A weird entry from Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio involving head-swapping, jobs in the underworld and taking unwise bets to defile temples (but actually, the god involved is fairly chill about his fuck up).
