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Romantic Spirit and Moral Backbone: Ten Classics of the Three Kingdoms and Wei-Jin Era
Reading the Chinese Classics, Season 5
Completed · 136 episodes
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Audio in Chinese
Yang Zhao: Why Am I Spending Ten Years Discussing the Chinese Classics? Three Kingdoms and Wei-Jin: The Most Romantic Age in Chinese History 1.1 Is the Status of Records of the Three Kingdoms Overrated? 1.2 Why Did Cao Cao Never Become Emperor? 1.3 How Did Cao Cao Rise During the Late Han Chaos? 1.4 How Did the Nongenius Cao Cao Escape Danger Again and Again? 1.5 How Did Cao Cao Attract Talent and Understand His Rivals? 1.6 Guandu: The Battle That Secured Cao Cao's Northern Base 1.7 Guan Yu: From Fugitive to the Loyal “Beautiful-Bearded Lord” 1.8 Zhang Fei: Made by Courage, Undone by Harshness 1.9 Zhuge Liang: Gifted in Government but Limited in Strategy? 1.10 Zhou Yu: Bold, Brilliant, and Dead Too Young 2.1 Before Romance of the Three Kingdoms: The Rise of Storytelling Culture 2.2 Tracing the Four Great Novels: How Historical Ideas Shaped Traditional Fiction 2.3 Why Is Luo Guanzhong's Romance of the Three Kingdoms So Compelling? 2.4 How Does the Novel Make People and Events Both Clear and Moving? 2.5 Double Reversals and Character: Luo Guanzhong's Fiction Class 2.6 The Eloquent Zhuge Liang Runs the Gauntlet 2.7 The Longzhong Plan: Zhuge Liang Directs, Liu Bei Performs 2.8 Red Cliffs: A War of Talent That Divided the Realm 2.9 Cao Cao's Three Laughs and One Cry: A Brilliant Portrait 2.10 Was Zhuge Liang's Grief for Zhou Yu Insincere? 2.11 Pang Tong's Death: A True Strategist Is More Than Schemes 2.12 Three Rival Kingdoms: Conflict and Mutual Exploitation 2.13 A New Tale: What Happens When You Mock Cao Cao? 2.14 The Death of Yang Xiu: The Difficulty of Talent 2.15 An Unfinished Three Kingdoms: Luo Guanzhong's Heroes Depart 3.1 Character Studies: A Defense of Every Kind of Talent 3.2 Knowing People: A New-Era Manual for Using Talent 3.3 The Mystery of Temperament | Nine Signs 1 3.4 Observing Humanity: Perfect People Are Rare | Nine Signs 2 3.5 A Checklist of Imperfect Personalities | Nine Signs and Distinct Types 1 3.6 Twelve Personalities of Excess and Deficiency | Distinct Types 2 3.7 Judging People Through Virtue, Law, and Technique | Schools of Talent 3.8 How Can Character Accord with Reason? | Principles of Ability 1 3.9 Why Does Some Speech Sound Reasonable but Say Nothing? | Principles of Ability 2 3.10 How to Be a Good Debater | Principles of Ability 3 3.11 What Is the Highest Form of Reasoning? | Principles of Ability 4 3.12 Why Understanding Others Is So Difficult | Encounter and Recognition 3.13 A Hero Needs Both Strategy and Courage | Heroes 3.14 How Do Answers Reveal Character? | Eight Observations 1 3.15 Eight Ways to Observe a Person | Eight Observations 2 4.1 The Art of Appraisal: Ideal, Neutral, and Disordered People 4.2 Dawn in the East: The Liberation of Wei-Jin Language | Speech 1 4.3 Wit and Quickness: The Art of Speech | Speech 2 4.4 What Tastes Better Than Goat Cheese? | Speech 3 4.5 Two Styles: Careful Comparison and Casual Understatement | Speech 4 4.6 What Is It Like to Win People Over with Ease? | Speech 5 4.7 Appraising Others Also Appraises Yourself | Character Appraisal 1 4.8 Famous Men Compete: The Wei-Jin Craze for Appraisal | Character Appraisal 2 4.9 Openness and Tolerance: Extraordinary Composure | Magnanimity 1 4.10 Calm in Crisis: A Famous Man's Standard and Troubled Times' Wisdom | Magnanimity 2 4.11 Cao Cao Tests Yang Xiu: Quick Understanding as Talent | Quick Perception 4.12 How Clever Can a Precocious Child Be? | Early Wisdom 1 4.13 The Seven Sages Mock One Another | Teasing 1 4.14 Teasing, Retorts, and Advice: Wei-Jin Wit | Teasing 2 4.15 How to Plan a Successful Counter-Slander | Impetuosity and Slander 5.1 How Was Liezi Created? 5.2 How Did the Wei-Jin Era Renew Zhuangzi's Thought? 5.3 Where Does Life Come From? | Heaven's Gifts 1 5.4 Why Were One, Seven, and Nine “Lucky Numbers”? | Heaven's Gifts 2 5.5 Liezi's Evolution: Everything Moves in Cycles | Heaven's Gifts 3 5.6 Life's Essence Is to Enjoy Joy Naturally | Heaven's Gifts 4 5.7 Fame and Profit, Like Death, Are Not Life's True Purpose | Yang Zhu 1 5.8 A Life Hijacked by Anxiety Is Not Worth Living | Yang Zhu 2 5.9 Confucian Reciprocity in Daoist Language: Liezi's Synthesis | Explaining Signs 1 5.10 The Lost Sheep and Forking Roads: Nothing Is Always Instant | Explaining Signs 2 6.1 Life's Passing and Impermanence Are Subjects for Poetry 6.2 Is Seizing Pleasure a Form of Helplessness? | Driving Toward the Eastern Gate 6.3 We Have Only the Present Yet Cannot Stop Thinking of Eternity | “Life Under a Hundred Years” and Others 6.4 Silent Gazes: Parting Can Never Be Expressed | “Altair Far Away” and Others 6.5 May We Become Two Swans: Kindred Spirits in Chance and Imagination | “A Tall Tower in the Northwest” 6.6 If I Were So Frivolous, I Would Not Deserve Her | “High and Long the Eastern Wall” and Others 6.7 This Branch Reminds Me How Long We Have Been Apart | “Slowly Grows the Solitary Bamboo” and Others 6.8 How Much Feeling Can a Letter Carry Between Spouses? | “Picking Hibiscus Across the River” and Others 6.9 This Small Room Can No Longer Hold My Longing | “A Guest Came from Afar” and Others 6.10 I Wish You Were Missing Me Now | “Chill, the Year Draws to Its End” Why Do Writers More Easily Disparage One Another? | Discourse on Literature 1 The Seven Masters of Jian'an: Different Characters, Different Prose | Discourse on Literature 2 Why Does One Person's Writing Matter So Much? | Discourse on Literature 3; Letter to Yang Dezu 1 Proclaiming Great Principles to Posterity: Cao Zhi's Ambition | Letter to Yang Dezu 2 Drawn to the Luo River: Cao Zhi's Imagination and “Reality” | Rhapsody on the Luo Goddess 1 Divine and Human Paths Diverge: Once Apart, We Never Meet Again | Rhapsody on the Luo Goddess 2 7.1 Lu Ji's Rhapsody on Literature Exhausts the Principles of Writing 7.2 Lu Ji's Guide to Writing | Rhapsody on Literature 2 Bonus | New Year 2022: Leave Despair and Grasp the Flame of Ideals 7.3 Creating Something from Nothing: Creation's Greatest Joy | Rhapsody on Literature 3 7.4 Ten Thousand Forms: Choosing the Right Genre | Rhapsody on Literature 4 7.5 How Do You Write Well for a Purpose? | Rhapsody on Literature 5 7.6 Choosing and Discarding: Must Writers Be Ruthless with Themselves? | Rhapsody on Literature 6 7.7 Five Things Good Writing Requires | Rhapsody on Literature 7 7.8 Why Is a Fine Essay So Rare? | Rhapsody on Literature 8 7.9 Lu Ji's Poetry and Prose: Reflections from a Turbulent Age 7.10 After This Parting, Will We Never Meet Again? | Lu Ji's Farewell Poems 8.1 How Do We Live in a False and Chaotic Age? 8.2 Ruan Ji: Bold, Willful, and Invincibly Destructive 8.3 Two-Sided Ruan Ji: Transcendent Master and Lamenting Mortal 8.4 Why Does Five-Character Verse Sound Inherently Sorrowful? | Songs of My Heart 1 8.5 How Is the Fusion of Self and World Written? | Songs of My Heart 2 8.6 Why Is Autumn Most Frightening? | Songs of My Heart 3 8.7 Was Reckless Youth Entirely Wrong? | Songs of My Heart 4 8.8 Everyone Must Part from Beautiful Things | Songs of My Heart 5 8.9 How Can We Leave Sorrow Behind? | Songs of My Heart 6 8.10 Are Fame, Wealth, and Great Ambition Truly Good? | Songs of My Heart 7 9.1 Who Was Ji Kang, Famous for the Qin and Breaking Friendships? 9.2 Why Did Ji Kang Break with His Friend? | Letter Severing Relations with Shan Juyuan 1 9.3 “Without Freedom, I Can Barely Force Myself for Four or Five Days” | Letter 2 9.4 Could Official Service Shorten Your Life? | Letter 3 9.5 Refusing Office Like Refusing a Stinking Rat | Letter 4 9.6 Do Not Impose Others' Goals on Yourself | Letter 5; Sound Has Neither Sorrow nor Joy 1 9.7 Why Does Music Trigger Emotion? | Sound Has Neither Sorrow nor Joy 2 9.8 Does Music Itself Contain Emotion? | Sound Has Neither Sorrow nor Joy 3 9.9 Claiming Sound Has Emotion Leads to Contradiction | Sound Has Neither Sorrow nor Joy 4 9.10 If Tears and Sweat Taste the Same, Do Not Say Sound Contains Sorrow and Joy | Part 5 10.1 Why Is “Leaving” Central to Tao Yuanming? 10.2 How Did Tao Yuanming Transform Five-Character and Metaphysical Poetry? | Drinking Wine 1 10.3 Can Drinking Create a Different World? | Drinking Wine 2 10.4 If You Had Nothing, Would You Still Persist? | Drinking Wine 3 10.5 Rethinking “Calmly I See the Southern Mountain” | Drinking Wine 4 10.6 “I Could Learn, but I Will Not and Cannot” | Drinking Wine 5 10.7 Rain Falls, Yet I Still Feel the Wind's Gentleness | Reading the Classic of Mountains and Seas I 10.8 If Life Is Short, What Must You Do? | Drinking Wine 6 10.9 Tao Yuanming: Do Not Think Wine Can Buy Me | Drinking Wine 7; Homeward Bound 1 10.10 Does “Homeward Bound” Express Confusion and Hesitation? | Part 2 10.11 Homeward Bound: Returning to Nature's Home and the Mind's Home | Part 3 10.12 How Does a Noble Person Face Poverty? | Songs of Poor Scholars 1 10.13 Poor Scholar and Righteous Person | Songs of Poor Scholars 2 10.14 A Brief Meeting of Two Worlds | Peach Blossom Spring 1 10.15 If a Fresh Breeze Comes, I Can Feel Lucid Joy | Peach Blossom Spring 2 | Finale Bonus | “Sea of Stars,” the San-San Literary Society, and Character Studies Bonus | Records and Romance of the Three Kingdoms: Do Not Write If You Offer Only Shallow Views Bonus | Liezi and Borges: First-Rate Fiction Contains Fiction Within Fiction Bonus | Rhapsody on Literature: Yang Mu and Zhang Renqing Teach Me Parallel Prose Bonus | Nineteen Old Poems: Learning a Different Chinese Poetry with Stephen Owen in America Bonus | The Seven Sages Were Not Sages: Rethinking Textbook Knowledge Bonus | From Li Jianfu to Tao Yuanming: Years of Authenticity in Homeward Bound