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A Record of Chinese Fantasy: Han and Wei-Jin Classics
Reading the Chinese Classics, Season 4
Completed · 130 episodes
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Yang Zhao: Why Spend Ten Years Teaching the Chinese Classics? From the Han to Wei-Jin: Heterodox Currents beyond Orthodoxy 1.1 The Last Glow of Huang-Lao Daoism—Huainanzi 1.2 A Daoist Guide to Life | Overview 1.3 The Arrogant First Half of Prince Li of Huainan's Life | Book of Han: Biographies of the Princes of Huainan, Hengshan, and Jibei 1 1.4 Even an Emperor Struggles with Family, State, and Realm | Book of Han: Biographies... 2 1.5 How Can Resonance with Nature and Heaven Be Used? | Surveying Obscurities 1 1.6 How Can We Grasp Invisible, Intangible Transformations? | Surveying Obscurities 2 1.7 Attaining the Way Requires No Force: Become a Mirror of All Things | Surveying Obscurities 3 1.8 How Does an Ideal World Operate? | Surveying Obscurities 4 1.9 A World Origin Where “Nature” and “Reality” Coexist | Surveying Obscurities 5 1.10 Deriving Principles of Rule from Nature's Way | Surveying Obscurities 6 1.11 Emperor Wu and Liu An: Kindred Spirits 1.12 A Kingdom's Ambition Constrained by Imperial Power 1.13 Leaving Family Ethics behind to Build an Imperial Power System 1.14 The Ruler's Secret Is Knowing How to Subtract | The Ruler's Techniques 1 1.15 A Wise Ruler Needs No Extraordinary Intelligence | The Ruler's Techniques 2 2.1 Advising the Ruler: The Art of Speaking as a Minister | Proper Remonstrance 1 2.2 How Far Would a Minister Risk Death to Remonstrate? | Proper Remonstrance 2 2.3 How Did Ancient Subjects Invent Ways to Advise Their Rulers? | Proper Remonstrance 3 2.4 The Art of Persuasion: Essential for Governing and Staying Alive | Skillful Persuasion 1 2.5 Analogy: An Efficient Way to Persuade | Skillful Persuasion 2 2.6 How Can People Convey Their Hearts through Language Alone? | Skillful Persuasion 3 2.7 How Did a Collection of Maxims from Two Millennia Ago Make Its Arguments? | Collection of Sayings 1 2.8 What Kind of Person Can Accomplish Something? | Collection of Sayings 2 2.9 Warring States Stories Revived Generations Later 2.10 What Do War and the Military Mean for a State? | On Military Affairs 3.1 A Suspicious Autobiography: Fact or Boasting? | Self-Account 3.2 Discourses Weighed in the Balance: China's Earliest Materialism? 3.3 Strange Flights of Fancy Sparked by Ancient Creation Myths | Marvels 1 3.4 How Did the Countryman Wang Chong Dismantle Myths of the Sages? | Marvels 2 3.5 Wang Chong: Double Standards and Constant Criticism of Confucius 3.6 How Did Absurd Views in Discourses Inspire Late-Han Classical Studies? 3.7 Wang Chong, Skeptic of His Age | Daoist Falsehoods 1 3.8 The “Truth” about Cultivating Immortality and Health | Daoist Falsehoods 2 3.9 Longevity and Immortality May Be Absurd Secrets | Daoist Falsehoods 3 3.10 Heaven, Not I, Commands My Fate: A Theory of Wealth and Poverty | Fate and Fortune 3.11 Can Fate Be Grasped or Not? | The Meaning of Fate 3.12 What Standard Defines Peace in the Present Age? | Praising the Han 3.13 How Did the Realist Wang Chong Read Exaggerated Legends? 3.14 How Can We Spot a Silver-Tongued Villain? | Reply to the Sycophant 3.15 Metaphysical Learning Began as a Critical Discipline 4.1 Entering the Chinese Mythic System through Classic of Mountains and Seas 4.2 Why Was the Divine World of Eastern Civilization Marginalized? 4.3 Classic of Mountains and Seas Is Not Actually a “Classic” 4.4 Every Divine Being Has a Singular Form | Classic of Regions beyond the Seas: South 4.5 Xuanyuan, Xingtian, and Mythic Beasts in Shang Culture | Regions beyond the Seas: West 4.6 Strange Peoples and Spirits in Ancient Imagination | Regions beyond the Seas: North 4.7 What Special Meaning Lies in the Classic's Apparent “Nonsense”? 4.8 Is Totemism the Source of the Classic's Heterogeneous Cultures? 4.9 The Classic's Fragmented Mythology Is Deliberate | Great Wilderness: West 4.10 Neglected Ancient Memories Endure as Myth | Great Wilderness: West 5.1 Why Are Visions of Immortality in Biographies of Immortals So Simple and Restrained? 5.2 What Is the Secret of an Immortal's Longevity? 5.3 What Encounters Await Immortals of Unknown Origin in the Human World? 5.4 What Is Special about Immortals Who Seem Ordinary? 5.5 Understanding Elusive Immortals through Secular Eyes 5.6 Must Life Be More Boring to Last Longer? 5.7 How Can Real Historical People Prove They Are Immortals? 5.8 What Powers Do Worshiped Immortals Possess? 5.9 The “Truth” about Legendary Techniques of Immortality 5.10 How Can Immortals Be Explained through Confucianism and Daoism? 6.1 Biographies of Exemplary Women: Recording Marginalized Women of Antiquity 6.2 Why Did a Male-Dominated Clan System Produce a Book Entirely about Women? 6.3 Must a Woman Be Wicked Enough to Enter History? | Wise and Benevolent Women: Mother of Duke Kang of Mi 6.4 How Were Ancient Women's Wisdom and Virtue Expressed? | Wise and Benevolent Women 6.5 How Could Women Seek Good Fortune and Avoid Disaster? | Wise and Benevolent Women 6.6 Was Foresight Essential for Wise and Benevolent Women? | Wise and Benevolent Women 6.7 At Critical Moments, an Eloquent Woman Could Save Lives | Accomplished Speakers 6.8 How Could a Common Woman Lecture a Ruler? 6.9 What Special Talents Did the “Ugly Women” Remembered by History Possess? 6.10 Women's Wisdom Shines through Eloquence | Accomplished Speakers 7.1 A Record of Ancient Marvels, Powers, Chaos, and Spirits | In Search of the Supernatural 7.2 How Do Differences in an Era's Values Appear in Its Books? | In Search of the Supernatural 7.3 What Was the Historical Significance of In Search of the Supernatural? 7.4 Tales of Gods and Ghosts That Gave Birth to Folklore Archetypes 7.5 Human Affection That Moves Heaven and Earth in Supernatural Tales 7.6 Seeking the Ultimate Principles of Change through Supernatural Phenomena 7.7 How Could Ordinary People Save, Help, Impersonate, or Deceive Ghosts? 7.8 Human–Ghost Romance: Can Love and Marriage Cross Life and Death? 7.9 Tales of Spirits in an Animistic World 7.10 What Omens Do the Book's Unnatural Phenomena Reveal? 8.1 How Can Debate Explore the Way to Immortality? | Baopuzi 8.2 The “Law” Contained in All Things Is That There Is No Law 8.3 How Can the Existence of Immortals Be Proven to the World? 8.4 Why Don't Ordinary People Believe Immortals Exist? 8.5 Why Did the First Qin Emperor and Emperor Wu of Han Fail to Find Immortality? 8.6 The Lure of Power Is a Formidable Enemy on the Path to Immortality 8.7 Never Generalize from One Case: How Did Ge Hong Argue That Mortals Can Become Immortal? 8.8 Are Ghosts and Gods More Credible than Immortals? 8.9 The Rare Seems Strange: Ge Hong Rebuts Common Prejudice and Doubt about the Way 8.10 How Did Ge Hong Lead Ordinary People to Believe in Immortals? 8.11 How Did Ge Hong Use Elaborate Allusions to “Argue for Immortality”? 8.12 How Do Daoist Religion and Daoist Philosophy Differ? 8.13 Why Can the Elixir and Golden Liquor Grant Eternal Life? 8.14 A Millennium-Old Guide to Alchemy and Attaining the Way 8.15 How Should We View the “Hard or Easy” Choice between Confucianism and Daoism? 9.1 Han Yuefu: Recording the People's Direct Emotions 9.2 How Did Literati Use Yuefu to Express Genuine Human Feeling? 9.3 What Exactly Does Cao Cao Celebrate in Short Song Style? 9.4 Cao Cao: Ambition, Melancholy, and Literary Talent 9.5 Homesickness: Time Passes, but There Is No Home to Return To 9.6 Brief Paper, Endless Feeling: How Did Cao Zhi Urge a Friend to Enter Public Service? 9.7 “Sorrow Shakes My Spirit”: Cao Zhi's Farewell Poem to His Brother 9.8 “Why Has Affection Grown Thin?” The Beginning of a Love Tragedy | The Peacock Flies Southeast 1 9.9 “Never Forget Me”: A Loving Promise amid Helplessness | The Peacock Flies Southeast 2 9.10 “Newly Married, Returned Home”: Lanzhi's Fate Turns after Her Dismissal | The Peacock Flies Southeast 3 9.11 “Do Not Break Today's Promise”: Foreshadowing an Irreversible Tragedy | The Peacock Flies Southeast 4 9.12 “Remember This Warning”: A Bitter End Together in the Yellow Springs | The Peacock Flies Southeast 5 10.1 What Happens When Southern-Dynasties People Write a History of the Later Han? 10.2 The “Personal Will” behind a Historical Record 10.3 Book of the Later Han and the Eastern Han's Unusual Political Order 10.4 Why Did an “Honest Man” Take Up Arms and Rebel? 10.5 The Battle of Kunyang: How Did Unequal Forces Prepare? 10.6 In the Decisive Battle, How Did Liu Xiu Win by Surprise? 10.7 The Wisdom of Turning Danger into Safety 10.8 How Did Liu Xiu Win People's Loyalty amid War? 10.9 Why Did Eastern Han Empresses Become Important Political Actors? 10.10 How Should We Read a Biographical History That Plays “Hide-and-Seek”? 10.11 Recreating the “Working Lives” of Women in the Ancient Chinese Court 10.12 Harem and Imperial In-Laws: The Vulnerability That Undermined Eastern Han Rule 10.13 Love and Resentment: How Emperor Guangwu Deposed One Empress and Installed Another 10.14 How Brutal Was Political Struggle in the Eastern Han Harem? 10.15 “Wise” and “Autocratic”: Empress Deng's Two Faces Bonus | Yuefu Poetry: Reading Poetry to Find Inner Resonance with Life Bonus | Huainanzi: Intellectual Divergence and Change as the Best Guide to the Book Bonus | Discourses Weighed in the Balance: A Winding Reading Journey with a French Friend Bonus | Baopuzi: A Fascinating Daoist Classic, in Memory of Scholar Lin Fu-shih Bonus | Biographies of Exemplary Women: Remembering an Unfinished Study Inspired by an Anthropological Idea Bonus | Liu Xiang the “Textual Editor”: A Strategist Who Composed China's Record of Wonders