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The Splendor of Tang Poetry
Reading Chinese Classics, Season 8
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Yang Zhao: Why Am I Spending Ten Years Teaching the Chinese Classics? We Can All Find a Place in the World of Tang Poetry From “Is or Isn't” to “Right or Wrong”: How Poetic Parallelism Shapes Language A Super-Condensed Emotional Universe: How Is a Tang Poem Written? Anti-Narrative: The Secret That Kept Tang Poetry Popular for a Millennium How Was a Tang-Poetry Writing Community Forged? 1.1 A Rebel through Revival: Why Do Heaven and Earth's Infinity Move Us to Tears? | Chen Zi'ang 1.2 Reinventing Object Poetry: How Did Bamboo Become a Symbol of Integrity? 1.3 A Fantasy of Immortality—or a Job Application to the Emperor? 1.4 How Was a Talented Man's Political Ambition Worn Away? 1.5 Poems of Encounter: Common Suffering and Personal Anguish Intertwined 2.1 Watching Clouds Rise: How Do We Learn to Be Alone with Ourselves? | Wang Wei 2.2 Why Must High-Tang Poetry Begin with Wang Wei? 2.3 A Quiet Night and Empty Spring Mountain: How Will Shapes Nature 2.4 In Twenty Characters, How Do You Draw Sunset and Mourn Impermanence? 2.5 When the World Is Too Heavy, Enter the Mountains for Consolation 2.6 How Do We Find Openness in a Desolate Autumn? 2.7 From Loneliness to Stirring: How Do We Receive Nature's Gift? 2.8 Only by Releasing the Desire to Intervene Can We Appreciate Nature 2.9 Do Not Worry—If Spring Has Passed, Let It Pass 2.10 How Can a Poem without the Word “Longing” Express It in Every Line? 2.11 Wang Wei and Pei Di: The Emotional World of a Man Retired into Nature 2.12 Escaping Human-Centered Shackles to Rethink Time and Nature 2.13 Only Self-Consolation Lets Us Face a Changing World 2.14 Will Green Mountains and Water Miss Me after I Leave? 2.15 How Did Wang Wei's Turbulent Life Shape His Inner World? 3.1 Meng Haoran: Elder Brother of High-Tang Poets Yet “Short on Talent” to Su Shi? 3.2 Why Did Meng Haoran Inspire Li Bai and Du Fu? 3.3 How Did Meng Haoran Renew an Ordinary Exchange Poem? 3.4 How Can Restrained Language Carry Surging Emotion? 3.5 What Did Meng Haoran Think on Nights Moored Far from Home? 3.6 How Does Nature Surprise Us with Beauty while We Search? 3.7 Why Did the Poets' “Elder Brother” Never Find an Official Career? 3.8 What Does Reclusion Mean to a Poet? 4.1 Li Bai and Du Fu: A Match Made by Heaven 4.2 What Does “The Yellow River's Waters Come from Heaven” Mean? 4.3 Why Is Drinking So Important to Poets? 4.4 Among Flowers beneath the Moon: A Dialectic of Sober and Drunk 4.5 Why Does Li Bai's Ease Carry Sorrow? 4.6 How Can Longing Be Seen, Touched, and Heard? 4.7 Loving to Break Rules: Li Bai's Rebellion 4.8 Should Li Bai's Poem to Du Fu Be Read as a Love Poem? 4.9 A Fine Poem Full of “Useless Words” 4.10 What Did Li Bai Think amid Autumn's Severity? 4.11 Where Did Li Bai's Title “Banished Immortal” Come From? 4.12 Why Is the Road to Shu Harder Than Climbing to Heaven? 4.13 Life's Road Is Hard, but Keep Faith and Patience 4.14 There Is No Standard Answer to the Good Life 4.15 How Did Li Bai Give Flesh and Blood to a Simple Song? 5.1 In a Ruined Age, Powerlessness Hurts More Than Death | Du Fu 5.2 What Did Du Fu Think through That Rain-Soaked Night? 5.3 How Did Du Fu and Li Bai Differ in Writing Longing? 5.4 Why Did Du Fu Write This “Mistaken” and Chronologically Confused Poem? 5.5 After Dreaming of Li Bai Three Nights, How Did Du Fu Calm His Heart? 5.6 Cracks in the Golden Age: How Did a Poet Record Collapse? 5.7 How Did Du Fu Use Lyric Poetry to Record Painful History? 5.8 Inconsolable: What Can We Do in a Heartless Age? 5.9 Volunteering for the Front: Civic Duty or Desperation? 5.10 How Were Ordinary Lives Wasted beneath a Towering Fortress? 5.11 Every Coquettish Line Is a Tear from an Age of Turmoil 5.12 What Awaits the Old Man Unable to Escape Conscription? 5.13 Worse Than Dying Abroad: Returning to Find Home Gone 5.14 Flowers Shed Tears and Birds Startle: What an Unbearable Age 5.15 A Poet at the Summit and His Wandering, Impoverished Life | Climbing High 5.16 From Sunset to Moonrise: Du Fu's Hour of Sorrow 5.17 Would Unrecognized Du Fu Envy a Successful Old Friend? 5.18 Looking Back at Chang'an: Former Splendor and Present Ruin 5.19 We Cannot Return to the Golden Age of Reality or Imagination 5.20 How Did Two Wildly “Wrong” Lines Become Models of Innovation? 6.1 To Understand Bai Juyi, Begin with an Assassination 6.2 How Did Poetry's Golden Age Gradually Fall? 6.3 What Responsibility Does a Poet Bear in a “Sick” Society? 6.4 Why Did Writing Poetry Bring Bai Juyi Trouble? 6.5 Which Poems Did Bai Juyi Consider Important? 6.6 Countless People Love My Poems, but Only Yuan Zhen Understands Me 6.7 The Wonder of the Ordinary: Simple Words for a Complex Mind 6.8 What Kind of Poem Made Bai Juyi More Annoyed as He Wrote? 6.9 To Survive, He Chose to Break His Own Arm 6.10 Why Was an Infant's Mother Driven from Home? 6.11 Deafening Silence: How Do Visible Words Write Invisible Sound? | Pipa Song 1 6.12 Why Did the Master Player “Half Hide Her Face behind the Pipa”? | Part 2 6.13 Fellow Exiles at the World's End: A Nail Awakened by the Pipa | Part 3 6.14 Could Even Emperor and Consort Not Escape the Age's Fatal Blow? | Everlasting Regret 1 6.15 What Exactly Is Regretted in Song of Everlasting Regret? 7.1 How Did the End of High Tang Change Poetry's Fate? 7.2 Why Must Pear Blossoms Chasing Wind End in Silence? 7.3 Why Did Poetry Grow More Awkward after High Tang? 7.4 Can Form and True Feeling Coexist in One Poem? 7.5 Confession and Apology: Deep Feeling between Two Poets 7.6 White-Haired Palace Women Trapped in Time after the Golden Age 7.7 Merchants Rejoiced in Mid-Tang Chaos—but Who Suffered? 8.1 How Did a Precocious Poet Who Died Young Challenge a Rigid Poetry World? 8.2 Does Chivalric Spirit Survive in a Regressive, Desolate Age? 8.3 A Conventional Poem and Li He's Constrained Life 8.4 Leaping Magic: How Did Li He Write Everyday Objects in Extraordinary Ways? 8.5 An Eternal Mythic Feast beyond the Human World 8.6 Fireflies and Ghost Fire: Li He's Ghostly Autumn Landscape 8.7 Why Was “Ghost Talent” Li He Obsessed with Ghosts? 8.8 A Genius Wounds Himself: Why Is Genius a Sorrow? 8.9 Banquet of the Mountain Spirits: Imagining a Ghostly World 8.10 Was an Early Death a Release for Li He? 8.11 Hungry Ghosts on an Ancient Battlefield: Why Did an Arrowhead Make Li He Weep? 8.12 If Heaven Had Feeling It Too Would Grow Old: Why Did a Bronze Immortal Weep? 9.1 The Cost of Choosing the Wrong Side: What Made Li Shangyin Regret for Life? 9.2 What Did Li Shangyin See as Life's True Sorrow? 9.3 How Tormenting Can Longing Be? 9.4 Why Does a Brilliant Sunset Make Us Sad? 9.5 A Fine Poem in Li Shangyin's Style: Writing Unspeakable Experience 9.6 I Wasted All the Time We Could Have Used to Love 9.7 Can Youth Be Understood Only after It Ends? | The Zither 9.8 Why Can't Obsession Let Go, and Why Does Hope Become Torment? 9.9 Can Love Overcome Every Difficulty? 9.10 Perhaps the Wind Will Bring News of You 9.11 Knowing Longing Is Futile, Why Do We Still Fall into Its Trap? 10.1 How Was a Classic Anthology of Tang Poetry Born? 10.2 A Frontier Soldier's Lament beneath an “Imagined Community” 10.3 What Did They Think atop a Pagoda Overlooking Chang'an? 10.4 A Frontier Poem Reborn Only after Reaching Desperation 10.5 Beyond the Frontier, We Wait for a Spring That Never Comes 10.6 How Can Words Describe Music's Magic? 10.7 A Copying Error and a Sorrowful Poem 10.8 How Is the Hermit in the Mountains? 10.9 How Many Full Moons Must I Wait before You Truly Come? 10.10 In a Contentious World, I Only Want to Be a Free Bird Bonus | What Is a Poet's “Occupational Disease”? Bonus | How Does Poetry Defend Uniqueness and Freedom? Bonus | The First Step in Reading Tang Poetry Is Forgetting Tang Poetry (Finale)