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Jiang Fangzhou: One Inch
A new personal podcast by Jiang Fangzhou
Ongoing · Updated every Thursday
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Jiang Fangzhou: Knowing a Little More Brings a Little More Joy 1. Rereading One Hundred Years of Solitude to Slow the End of the World 2. Why Do Grown Men in Márquez's Novels Always Fall in Love with Young Girls? A Personal Reading Guide to Make One Hundred Years of Solitude Less Daunting The Old Live Forever as the Young Wither—What Kind of World Is This? | Reading The Emissary 3. Two Hours with Márquez and His Long, Brilliant Life How I Finally Cured My Ten-Year Struggle with Procrastination Vargas Llosa Has Died: The Flame of Literature Goes Out 04. We All Need an Obsession to Stay Alive | Reading The Unbearable Lightness of Being A Mother and Daughter Who Love Each Other Deeply Decide to Separate 05. Happiness Is an Afternoon When All Humanity Has Nothing to Do with Me | Reading Immortality 06. From Kundera to Kafka: How Do We Understand Fear of Intimacy? 07. In Conversation with Tang Nuo: Literature May Have No Future, but Individuals Always Have Hope In Matters of Love, We May Be a Hundred Times More Conservative Than Chinese People a Century Ago Coercive Control, Self-Deception, Infidelity… Eight Million Ways for a Crush to Die 08. The Death of Tolstoy: Looking at Death as Directly as the Sun 09. Every Happy Family Has Its Own Unhappiness | Reading Anna Karenina 10. In Conversation with Chen Danqing: After Nearly Sixty Years Reading Tolstoy, I Find Literature Still Cannot Change Human Nature How Did I Go from Extreme Introvert to Fearless Socializer? What Is a Daughter's Most Intimate Resentment toward Her Mother? | Eileen Chang in the Family Rediscovering Oscar Wilde: Truths about Beauty and the Soul beyond Fame Shells Do Not Have Eyes | Eileen Chang at War Love Is Precious, but Revenge Is Dearer | Eileen Chang in Love In Conversation with Xu Zidong: Eileen Chang, Who Wrote the Absurdity of Human Nature Writing Possession Was My Way of Rescuing Myself from a Life Lived Wrong Travel, Wandering, and Remaking the Self 11. The Most Important Mother and Daughter in Literary History 12. In Conversation with Bomi: Are Century-Old Franchises Recycled Because Cinema Is Rehashing the Past or Because Our Age Has No New Questions? 13. Wuthering Heights: The Moor Is a Stage—Enter If You Dare How Are Our Attention, Focus, Calm, and Happiness Being Stolen? 14. Jane Eyre: How Far Must a Woman Who Is Neither Beautiful, Rich, nor Lovable Travel to Be Seen? 15. Gone with the Wind: Lose Your Reputation and You Will Understand True Freedom 16. In Conversation with Zhai Zhiyong: The Civil War, Reconstruction, and American Division behind Gone with the Wind I Choose to Hope without Any Reason at All Beauvoir and Her Mother: Now I Will Become a Selfish Old Woman 17. Revolution, Exile, Imprisonment, and Love: A Century through Five Iranian Women Writers 18. When a Young Woman Loves an Older Man: Love Is the Most Intimate Politics 19. Xiao Hong, Part I: All I Know Are Lives at the Margins 20. Xiao Hong, Part II: I Spent My Golden Age in a Cage 21. In Conversation with Yan Lianke: The Seed of Fiction Begins with a Shock from Reality When the Economy Slows, Can We Still Believe Life Will “Gradually Get Better”?