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When a Hundred Schools Contended: Eight Classics of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods
Reading Chinese Classics, Season 2—from the Songs of Chu to the Annals of Lü Buwei
Completed · 135 episodes
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Audio in Chinese
Yang Zhao: Why Spend Ten Years Discussing the Chinese Classics? Xu Zidong: Chinese Classics of World-Historical Importance Tang Nuo: We All Try to Explain Difficult Things in Easier Language Liang Wendao: There Are Many Ways to “Be Chinese” Yang Zhao: Did the Hundred Schools of Thought Fall from the Sky? 1.1 A Millennium of Misunderstanding About the “Southern Barbarians” 1.2 Why Does the Songs of Chu Use “Xi” So Often? 1.3 What Is It Like to Be Stood Up by a God? | The Great Unity, Lord of the Eastern Sovereign and Lord in the Clouds 1.4 A Dialogue Between Shaman and Deity | Lord of the Xiang 1.5 A Song of Chu Mistaken for a Love Poem | Lady of the Xiang 1.6 Life and Death, Lamented for Millennia | Greater Master of Fate 1.7 Because You Looked at Me Once in the Crowd | Lesser Master of Fate 1.8 China’s Sun God | Lord of the East 1.9 North and South on “Wandering Afar” | Lord of the River 1.10 A Failed Pact Between Human and Ghost | Mountain Spirit 1.11 When Death Lived Close at Hand | Lament for the Fallen and Honoring the Spirits 1.12 Summoning the Soul, Step One: Terror | Part I 1.13 Summoning the Soul, Step Two: Temptation | Part II 1.14 Chu Attitudes Toward Death | Summoning the Soul, Part III 1.15 A List of the Hardest Questions | Heavenly Questions, Part I 1.16 Another Version of Xia Culture | Heavenly Questions, Part II 1.17 What We Can Know About Qu Yuan 1.18 Qu Yuan’s Self-Understanding | Encountering Sorrow, Part I 1.19 A Solitary Warrior Against the World | Encountering Sorrow, Part II 1.20 If the World Rejects You, Go Far Away | Encountering Sorrow, Part III 2.1 Why Was Zhuangzi So “Open-Minded”? 2.2 Genuine and False Equanimity 2.3 Was Zhuangzi Even “Older” Than Laozi? 2.4 How to Prepare Yourself Before Reading Zhuangzi 2.5 “Relativity” in a Fantastic Imagination | Free and Easy Wandering, Part 1 2.6 What Do Those at a Higher Realm Think About? | Free and Easy Wandering, Part 2 2.7 Standards for Judging Levels and Value | Free and Easy Wandering, Part 3 2.8 True Freedom Is the Freedom Suited to You | Free and Easy Wandering, Part 4 2.9 The Much-Misused “Piping of Heaven” | Equalizing Things, Part 1 2.10 What Does It Mean to Be Truly Alive? | Equalizing Things, Part 2 2.11 The Absolute Origin of the Way | Equalizing Things, Part 3 2.12 Language Makes Us Divide the Ten Thousand Things | Equalizing Things, Part 4 2.13 How to Gain Genuine Great Wisdom | Equalizing Things, Part 5 2.14 Equalizing Things Was Difficult Even for Zhuangzi | Part 6 2.15 Is Attachment to Reality Meaningless? | Equalizing Things, Part 7 2.16 Zhuangzi’s Lesson for Us | Autumn Floods, Part 1 2.17 Only by Recognizing Difference Can We Understand the World | Autumn Floods, Part 2 2.18 How Can We Develop an Instinct for Avoiding Harm? | Autumn Floods, Part 3 2.19 The Advantage of Knowing Heaven’s Mechanism | Autumn Floods, Part 4 2.20 The Swordsmanship of “One Man Every Ten Paces” | On Swords 3.1 Similarities and Differences Between Zhuangzi and Laozi 3.2 The Mysterious Laozi 3.3 Is Laozi Concise—or Truly Simple? 3.4 What Is “Nonbeing”? 3.5 The Way: Selfless Yet Not Benevolent 3.6 The Ultimate Principle for Living with Others 3.7 Laozi’s Six Basic Principles 3.8 The Key to “Governing Through Nonaction” 3.9 Rules for Those Who Hold Power 3.10 Is Laozi Anti-Intellectual? 3.11 How the Way Truly Works: Creating Without Dominating 3.12 The Wise Never Care About Appearances 3.13 The Ruler’s Wisdom Revealed by “One” 3.14 The Softness of the Way Overcomes Everything 3.15 A Guide to Government for a Particular Age 4.1 Legalism: The School That Ruled China for Two Thousand Years? 4.2 Seven Dangers in Speaking to Power | The Difficulties of Persuasion, Part 1 4.3 The Skill and Difficulty of Persuasion | Part 2 4.4 A Ruler’s Favor and the Dragon’s Reverse Scale | Part 3 4.5 The Warning That Awakened the First Emperor | Solitary Indignation, Part 1 4.6 Han Feizi’s Harsh Warning to Rulers | Solitary Indignation, Part 2 4.7 Han Feizi Redefines the Ruler-Minister Relationship | Solitary Indignation, Part 3 4.8 What Is a “Contemporary” View of History? | Five Vermin, Part 1 4.9 “Model the Later Kings”: Governing Rational Economic People | Five Vermin, Part 2 4.10 Benevolence Cannot Govern a State: From Feudal Order to Empire | Five Vermin, Part 3 4.11 Even If You Love the People Like Children, Will They Obey? | Five Vermin, Part 4 4.12 Are Public and Private Interests Always Opposed? | Five Vermin, Part 5 4.13 Why Does a Ruler Need Neither the Wise nor the Worthy? | Five Vermin, Part 6 4.14 If Theory Matters Too Much, Who Will Do the Real Work? | Five Vermin, Part 7 4.15 Giving the Ruler Another Historical Imagination | Five Vermin, Part 8 5.1 An Age of Decline, an Age of Opportunity 5.2 The Strategist’s Power: One Person Preserves the Nine Tripods 5.3 The Past and Present of the School of Diplomacy 5.4 Su Qin, the Man of Legend 5.5 Shame and Glory of the Warring States’ Foremost Diplomat 5.6 With Words Alone, He Achieved What War Could Not 5.7 Zhang Yi Demonstrates the Traveling Persuader’s Art of Speech 5.8 What Was the Key to Persuading the King of Qin? 5.9 Diplomats Who Gambled Their Lives 5.10 A Model of Persuasion Through Feeling and Reason 5.11 An Anxious Ruler and an Elite Strategist 5.12 Could a Strategist Decide a State’s Survival? 5.13 A New Model of Loyalty 5.14 Can Righteousness Be Bought? 5.15 How the Cunning Hare Acquired Three Burrows 6.1 Does Every “Name” Have a Corresponding “Reality”? 6.2 Do the School of Names’ Texts Read Like Gibberish? 6.3 Debate Seeking Verbal Defeat, Not Conviction 6.4 People of Chu Are Not People; a White Horse Is Not a Horse? | Traces, Part 1 6.5 The Logical Training Missing from Chinese Tradition | Traces, Part 2 Bonus | Yang Zhao’s New Year Wishes to Listeners 6.6 Defending the Counterintuitive “White Horse Is Not a Horse” 6.7 How Do We Know a White, Hard Stone? | On Hardness and Whiteness, Part 1 6.8 Examining How We Know the World | On Hardness and Whiteness, Part 2 6.9 The Key to Gongsun Longzi: “Two” | On Understanding Change, Part 1 6.10 Using Paradox Against an Age When Names No Longer Matched Reality | Part 2 7.1 The Historical Stories of Two “Masters Sun” 7.2 How Did Warfare Change from Spring and Autumn to Warring States? 7.3 Seven Keys to Victory Before War Begins | Laying Plans, Part 1 7.4 You Won the Battle—but Did the Accounts Balance? | Laying Plans and Waging War 7.5 What Defines a “Victorious” War? | Waging War and Attack by Stratagem 7.6 The True Meaning of “Know Yourself and Your Enemy” | Attack by Stratagem 7.7 Do Those Who Cannot Fight Gain Fame More Easily? | Tactical Dispositions 7.8 How Do You Create Advantage in War? | Energy 7.9 The Standard for “Divine Troops” | Weak Points and Strong 7.10 Why Are Spies Most Important in War? | The Use of Spies 8.1 A Remarkable Book Undermined by Its Title: Annals of Lü Buwei 8.2 Lü Buwei’s Ambition: Write the Book That Ends the Warring States 8.3 What Did the School of Yin-Yang Study? | Purpose of the Twelve Almanacs 8.4 Yin-Yang Philosophy at Its Root: Human Affairs Align with Nature 8.5 Five-Phase Culture Is Deeply Rooted in Our Lives | Almanac for the First Month of Spring 8.6 The Right Way to Begin Spring | The First Month of Spring 8.7 Make Laws for Posterity and Duties for the Son of Heaven | First Month of Spring and Valuing Life 8.8 Restraint Is the Son of Heaven’s Destiny | Valuing Life 8.9 The Reason Behind Cultivating Body and Character | Valuing the Self 8.10 The Internal Problem of the Annals of Lü Buwei 8.11 The Scholar Stands Far Apart from the Vulgar | Integrity of the Scholar and Standing Alone 8.12 What Matters More Than Death? | Standing Alone and Integrity 8.13 Uphold Justice and Accept No Humiliation | Nonencroachment 8.14 Different Standards and Powers of the Scholar | Departing from the Vulgar 8.15 Reward and Punishment Under Individual Moral Choice | Departing from the Vulgar and Lofty Righteousness Bonus | Why Does Yang Zhao Keep Misreading Characters? Bonus | Songs of Chu: A Free Kingdom “Unlike the Human World” Bonus | Zhuangzi and Laozi: My “Bias” and Preference Toward Daoism Bonus | Han Feizi: The Man Who Spoke Flat on the Ground Bonus | Strategies of the Warring States: A History Book Better Than Fiction Bonus | Gongsun Longzi: What It Reminds Us China Once Lost Bonus | The Art of War: Strategy Is One Thing, Execution Another Bonus | Annals of Lü Buwei: A Major Work Long Undervalued and Ignored Next Season | The Beginning of Empire: The Han Dynasty in Ten Classics