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Eight Minutes with a Book
Enter the world of a book in eight minutes
Completed · 85 episodes
Audio in Chinese
01. How to Read | Read a Book a Day and Your Ignorance May Multiply — When the Books Are Finished 02. How to Read | Do You Really Know How to Read? — How to Read a Book 1 03. How to Read | Different Books Require Different Methods — How to Read a Book 2 04. How to Read | Does Reading Make You Happy? — How Should I Read? 05. How to Read | Leung Man-tao on Choosing Books 06. Death and Life | Life Is Not Short; We Waste Too Much of It — The Book of Dead Philosophers 1 07. Death and Life | The Brilliant and Absurd Deaths of Philosophers — The Book of Dead Philosophers 2 08. Death and Life | The Most Important Part of Me Is Joined to Those Who Died — The Book of Dead Philosophers 3 09. Death and Life | What Do You Really Lose When the Person You Love Most Dies? — Precarious Life 10. Death and Life | What Stages Does a Person Pass through in Dying? — Dignity in Death and Life 11. Death and Life | How Can We Prepare for Death? — A Good Departure 1 12. Death and Life | How Does the Mind Change as Death Approaches? — A Good Departure 2 13. Eating Here and There | A Man of Letters Who Wanted to Cook Teaches You How to Score a Meal — Culinary Fantasies 14. Eating Here and There | The Thoughtfulness Hidden in Kung Pao Chicken — Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper 1 15. Eating Here and There | Please Don't Eat Chicken Feet in Front of Foreigners — Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper 2 16. Eating Here and There | How to Find a Delicious, Affordable Restaurant — What Shall We Have for Lunch? 1 17. Eating Here and There | How Economists Address Hunger — What Shall We Have for Lunch? 2 18. The Sound of the Gavel | “An Eye for an Eye” Was an Early Legal Principle — Justice in the Mirror of History 19. The Sound of the Gavel | Killing Is Illegal, but Is Assassinating “Hitler” Right or Wrong? — Seventeen Strikes of the Gavel 20. The Sound of the Gavel | Defending Justice—but Whose Justice? — The Tightrope-Walking Lawyer 21. The Sound of the Gavel | Fourteen Judgments in the Case of the Speluncean Explorers — The Case of the Speluncean Explorers 1 22. The Sound of the Gavel | Should Law Reflect the Feelings and Consensus of the Majority? — The Case of the Speluncean Explorers 2 23. Alternative Travel | She Lived as Both Sexes and Understood Venice More Deeply — Orlando in Venice 24. Alternative Travel | How Does Travel Enrich the Soul? — The Snow Leopard 1 25. Alternative Travel | Expect Nothing on a Journey — The Snow Leopard 2 26. Alternative Travel | A Sharp-Tongued Writer Invents a New Way to Travel — Pillars of Hercules 1 27. Alternative Travel | Travel Can Cure What Ails You — Pillars of Hercules 2 28. Touching May Fourth | The Movement Began in Late-Night Dormitory Conversations — The May Fourth Movement 1 29. Touching May Fourth | Biting Fingers, Tearing Clothes, and Holding Out in Prison until Death — The May Fourth Movement 2 30. Touching May Fourth | What Actually Happened on May Fourth? — Touching History and Entering May Fourth 31. Touching May Fourth | Why Did Obedient Students Suddenly Take to the Streets? — Culture and Politics in an Age of Upheaval 32. Touching May Fourth | Justice Cannot Excuse Harm to Others — Returning to the Scene of May Fourth 33. Mindful Living | How to Free Yourself from Heartbreak — Keeping an Appointment with Life 34. Mindful Living | Breathing Is Also a Practice — Thich Nhat Hanh Explains the Buddha 35. Mindful Living | The Practice of Happiness: Caring for the Anger within You — Anger 36. Mindful Living | If You're Human, Don't Fear Criticism — A Life without Anger 37. Mindful Living | Loving Your Enemy Is the True Lesson of Love — Lessons in True Love 38. Because of Love | Reading: Their Sacred Ritual of Love — The Reader 39. Because of Love | A Beautiful Spy's Transgressive Love and Desire — Lust, Caution 40. Because of Love | When Love Meets a Midlife Crisis — Love in the Time of Early Summer Lotus 1 41. Because of Love | Only by Seeing Love's Cruelty Can We Learn to Stay Together — Love in the Time of Early Summer Lotus 2 42. Because of Love | A Love unto Death That Philosophy Cannot Explain — Letter to D: A Love Story 43. The Codes of Memory | Why Does a Word Vanish on the Tip of Your Tongue? — Who Stole My Memory? 1 44. The Codes of Memory | Do Men and Women Remember Differently? — Who Stole My Memory? 2 45. The Codes of Memory | How Ritual Shapes Collective Memory — How Societies Remember 46. The Codes of Memory | Why Is Forgetting So Important? — Amnesia 47. The Codes of Memory | Can Humans Truly Never Forget? — In Search of Memory 48. We Are All Particles | Using Physics to Predict Social Phenomena — Critical Mass 1 49. We Are All Particles | The Science behind Traffic Jams — Critical Mass 2 50. We Are All Particles | Only Six People Separate You from Anyone — Linked 1 51. We Are All Particles | Use “Weak Ties” to Find Work — Linked 2 52. We Are All Particles | In the Network Age, Everyone Is Connected — Six Degrees 53. What Is a University? | Buildings or Great Teachers: The Measure of a Good University — The Grace of an Era 1 54. What Is a University? | How Tsinghua's “President for Life” Built a World-Class Institution — The Grace of an Era 2 55. What Is a University? | The Archives of Yenching University That Even Peking University Alumni Don't Know — Vanished Yenching 1 56. What Is a University? | Why Did This First-Rate Institution Last Only Thirty-Three Years? — Vanished Yenching 2 57. What Is a University? | China's Most Beautiful University and Its Little-Known President — University President Lim Boon Keng 1 58. What Is a University? | Why Did Lu Xun Resign from Xiamen University? — University President Lim Boon Keng 2 59. What Is a University? | Tsinghua + Peking + Nankai = ? — National Southwest Associated University in War and Revolution 1 60. What Is a University? | China's Legendary University and Its Filthiest Kitchen — National Southwest Associated University in War and Revolution 2 61. A Father's Love | The Cartoon Master's Final Work Will Move You to Tears — Xiao Ai, Daddy Misses You So Very Much! 1 62. A Father's Love | A Daughter Is a Tear on Her Father's Smiling Face — Xiao Ai, Daddy Misses You So Very Much! 2 63. A Father's Love | A Book Written “on One's Knees” That Moved Millions — My Father and His Generation 1 64. A Father's Love | Yan Lianke: A Father's Beating Could Be Comfort and Happiness — My Father and His Generation 2 65. Reading Football | Why Is the Number 10 Shirt a Mark of Nobility? — Great Number 10 Footballers 66. Reading Football | When Football Superstars Take Off Their Public Personas — Football Men 67. Reading Football | An Intellectual Fan's Diary: Barcelona Is the Midnight Sun — Born at Midnight 1 68. Reading Football | Those Who Love the Game Know How to Embrace Defeat — Born at Midnight 2 69. Reading Football | How to Explain Basic Football Knowledge to Your Girlfriend — Learn General Knowledge through Football 1 70. Reading Football | Football and Politics: The Truth behind Club Rivalries — Learn General Knowledge through Football 2 71. Economic Life | Rational Consumption or Animal Instinct? — Animal Spirits 72. Economic Life | Why Does “Free” Make Us Spend More? — Predictably Irrational 1 73. Economic Life | Stop Paying for the Placebo Effect — Predictably Irrational 2 74. Economic Life | Should Economics Consider Ethics? — Economics for Humans 1 75. Economic Life | Is Your Understanding of the Market Economy Outdated? — Economics for Humans 2 76. A City of Books | In the E-Book Age, Too Many Treat Bookstores as Showrooms — The Bookshop Book 77. A City of Books | The World's Most Unusual Bookstores — Bookstore Days 1 78. A City of Books | Where Are the World's Most Beautiful Bookstores? — Bookstore Days 2 79. A City of Books | Libraries, Where Stories and Lives Gather — The Library Book 80. A City of Books | Books May Not Have Much Time Left — The Future of Reading 81. The Way of Tea | Listen to the Sound of Tea “Crying” — The Way of Tea 82. The Way of Tea | The Japanese Tea Ceremony and the “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere” — The Book of Tea 83. The Way of Tea | Is Form More Important Than Content? — The Beginning of the Tea Ceremony 84. The Way of Tea | Why Do the British Love Tea More Than Other Europeans? — Thirst 85. The Way of Tea | When Tea Was Both a Luxury and a Weapon — Green Gold