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What Is Literati Culture? A Guide to Song Poetry and Prose
Reading the Chinese Classics, Season 9
Completed · 122 episodes
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Yang Zhao: Why Am I Spending Ten Years Discussing the Chinese Classics? How Did Song Literati Take on the Task of “Remaking Civilization”? 1.1 How Was a Less Masculine Literati Age Born? 1.2 Rediscovering Chinese Women in the World of Huajian Lyrics 1.3 After All the Sails Have Passed, I Await Someone Who Will Never Come | “Dreaming of Jiangnan II” and Others 1.4 Does Parting Always Happen in the Loveliest Season? | “Water Clock: Spring Night Ends” and Others 1.5 How Were Women Rediscovered and Remade in Ci Poetry? | “Bodhisattva Barbarian” and Others 1.6 Why Did the Subtle Huajian Style Emerge from Sichuan? 1.7 Why Is Beauty in Memory Always Accompanied by Heartbreak? | “Bodhisattva Barbarian” and Others 1.8 To Whom Can Unfulfilled Desire Speak Its Melancholy? | “Silk-Washing Stream” and Others 1.9 How Does the Language of Longing Change with Gender? | “Taoist Priestess” and Others 1.10 Why Can We Never See Enough of Spring? | “Southern Village” and Others 2.1 What Are Writing and the Literatus? Begin with Fan Zhongyan 2.2 How Did Fan Zhongyan Revive the Empty Fu Form? | Rhapsody on the Autumn Fragrance Pavilion 1 2.3 How Did Fan Zhongyan Settle His Heart at Life's Lowest Point? | Rhapsody on the Autumn Fragrance Pavilion 2 2.4 If Truth Brings Trouble, Why Speak It? | Preface to Yin Shilu's Henan Collection 1 2.5 At Life's End, What Most Concerned a Song Literatus? | Preface to Yin Shilu's Henan Collection 2 2.6 How Did Literati Secure the Frontier in a Civilian Age? | Epitaph for Commander Zhong 1 2.7 How Do You Write a Grand Life Before It Returns to Dust? | Epitaph for Commander Zhong 2 2.8 What Made an Official a Truly Toiling Minister? | Epitaph for Commander Zhong 3 2.9 What Did Fan Zhongyan See in an Abandoned Well? | Record of the Hall of Purity 2.10 From Yueyang Tower to All Under Heaven: The Spirit of the Chinese Literatus | Record of Yueyang Tower 3.1 Ouyang Xiu: A Literary Pioneer Trapped in Bureaucracy 3.2 Why Did Ouyang Xiu Reject the Claim That Factionalism Destroys States? | On Factions 1 3.3 If Factions Ruin a State, Is the Emperor the Real Problem? | On Factions 2 3.4 Was Emperor Taizong's Famous Clemency Merely Political Theater? | On Releasing Prisoners 3.5 How Did the Classical Prose Movement Replace Old Rules with a New Order? | Old Drunkard's Pavilion 1 3.6 Landscapes, Birds, Visitors, and the Old Drunkard: What Delights Them? | Old Drunkard's Pavilion 2 3.7 Why Can We Hear Autumn's Sorrow Only at a Certain Age? | Rhapsody on the Sounds of Autumn 3.8 How Can Conventional Prose Convey the Truest Feeling? | Epitaph at Longgang 3.9 “Foolish” True Feeling: I Cannot Stand Before Your Grave Again | Sacrifice for Shi Manqing 3.10 Did the Old Drunkard Become the Six-Ones Recluse to Restart His Life? | Biography 1 3.11 Is Leaving Office Gracefully Essential for Chinese Literati? | Biography of the Six-Ones Recluse 2 3.12 From Li Bai and Han Yu to Ouyang Xiu: How Song Poetry Rebelled Against Tang | “Leaving Chuzhou” and Others 3.13 How Did Birdsong Comfort Ouyang Xiu After Political Disappointment? | “Singing Birds” and Others 3.14 Not My Loneliness Alone, but an Age's Loneliness | Night Journey Through the Water Valley 3.15 How Did Poetry Gain the Power to Argue and Reverse Verdicts? | In Response to Wang Anshi's “Lady Ming” and Others 4.1 The Literary World's “Good Father” and Heir to Warring States Strategists 4.2 What New Meaning Did Su Xun Find in the Fall of the Six States? | The Six States 4.3 Is Warfare Really a Psychological Technique? | The Art of the Mind 1 4.4 How Do We Face Unknown Challenges with Limited Means? | The Art of the Mind 2 4.5 What Was the Court's Great Failure in Employing Talent? | Broadening the Scholar Class 1 4.6 Did Su Xun's Call to Employ Clerks Hide a Personal Regret? | Broadening the Scholar Class 2 4.7 Do We Live in a World Deceived by Sages? | On the Six Classics: The Changes 4.8 Is It Difficult to Live with Dignity in One's Time? | Record of the Wooden Rockery 4.9 Why Did Su Xun Name His Sons Shi and Zhe? | Explaining My Sons' Names 4.10 Did Su Xun Foresee the “Terrifying” Wang Anshi? | On Identifying a Treacherous Man 5.1 The Wealthy Duke of Zhou or Poor Confucius: Whom Did Su Shi Envy? | Letter to Mei Yaochen 1 5.2 What Realm Is Su Shi's “Delighting in One's Own Delight”? | Letter to Mei Yaochen 2 5.3 Is True Courage the Ability to Endure? | On the Marquis of Liu 5.4 Why Did Su Shi Think Chao Cuo Responsible for His Own Disaster? | On Chao Cuo 5.5 Before Exile to Huangzhou, What Did Su Shi Think Could Make a Name Endure? | Record of Lingxu Terrace 5.6 Why Does Pursuing Happiness Often Bring More Trouble? | Record of Transcendent Terrace 5.7 Sailing at Red Cliff, I Saw Neither Cao Cao nor Zhou Yu—Only the Moon | First Red Cliff Rhapsody 1 5.8 Water and Moon, Change and Constancy: How Did Su Shi Resolve His Conflict? | First Red Cliff Rhapsody 2 5.9 What Playful Trick Did Su Shi Perform in Works on the Same Theme? | Second Red Cliff Rhapsody 1 5.10 Let Go of the Unnecessary Desire to Conquer | Second Red Cliff Rhapsody 2 5.11 Why Did Su Shi's Memorial to Li Bai Begin with the Poet's Blemish? | Inscription Behind Li Bai's Stele 5.12 The Paradox of the Way: The More We Seek, the Less We Gain? | The Parable of the Sun 5.13 How Did Su Shi's Character Shape His Politics and Literature? 5.14 Why Did Su Shi at Fifty-Six Want to Abandon His Ambition to Serve the State? | Poem Remembering the Past 5.15 How Did Su Shi Converse Across Time with Tao Yuanming? | Following Tao's “Imitating the Ancients” and Others 5.16 Should We Be Grateful When Others Slander Us? | Following Tao's Miscellaneous Poems and Others 5.17 Su Shi's Humor: Praising Another and Himself in One Poem | After Viewing Wu Daozi's Painting 5.18 Why Did Su Shi Consider Wang Wei's Painting Superior to Wu Daozi's? | Paintings by Wang Wei and Wu Daozi 5.19 Why Did Su Shi Praise Meng Jiao Only After Harsh Criticism? | Two Poems on Reading Meng Jiao 5.20 From Fear to Openness: How Did Su Shi Console Himself Through Repeated Exile? | Entering Gan and Crossing Fear Shoals 6.1 Su Zhe: Who Was “Little Su” in the Shadow of Father and Brother? 6.2 How Did the Su Family's Reading Tradition Shape Su Zhe? | Record of the Library 1 6.3 Is Reading for Advantage Like Pulling Up Seedlings to Make Them Grow? | Record of the Library 2 6.4 How Can the Lost Self Be Recovered on Transcendent Terrace? | Rhapsody on Transcendent Terrace 1 6.5 How Did Su Zhe “Play Dumb” in an Intricate Verbal Game? | Rhapsody on Transcendent Terrace 2 6.6 A Transcendent Life Does Not Require a “Transcendent Terrace” | Rhapsody 3 6.7 Where Can Life's Deepest Joy Be Found? | Record of the Pavilion of Delight 6.8 How Did Su Zhe Plead for His Brother in a Dark Age? | Memorial for His Imprisoned Brother 6.9 Did His Brother Alter Su Zhe's Preface? | Preface to Zizhan's Poems Following Tao Yuanming 6.10 Can Silent, Enduring Sichuanese Release Greater Energy? | On Shu 7.1 How Does “Changing Bones and Transfusing the Embryo” Renew Ancient Lines? | Reply to Huang Tingjian and Others 7.2 Must We Stop Trying to Write a Good Poem in Order to Write One? | On Poetry 7.3 Is Learning Poetry Like Chan Practice, Centered on the “True Dharma Eye”? | Four Poems for Gao Zimian 7.4 After the Glory of the Exams Comes the Pain of Bowing | Lodging at Xinzai in Snow 7.5 How Did the “Rough and Straight” Huang Tingjian Praise Himself in Poetry? | Playful Inscription and Self-Portraits 7.6 Among the Multitude, Why Am I Different? Huang Tingjian's Answer | Self-Portrait II 7.7 Why Did Huang Tingjian Delight in Being Called “Mad, Foolish, and Clumsy”? | The Unrestrained Commandant 1 7.8 Better to Live Freely Than Overcautiously | The Unrestrained Commandant 2 7.9 What Did Huang Tingjian Mean by “Not Vulgar”? | Writing Ji Kang's Poem for a Nephew 7.10 What Does True Independence Look Like? | Letter to Wang Zihou 7.11 Why Did Qian Zhongshu Dislike Huang Tingjian? | Selected and Annotated Song Poetry 7.12 When the Ailing Huang Tingjian Remembered Two Old Friends | Written at Jingjiang Pavilion After Illness 7.13 How Do We Remember the Joy When a Bad Life Begins to Brighten? | Climbing Yueyang Tower in Rain 7.14 The Road Is Dangerous and Fate Uncertain, but You Are Beside Me | Two Bamboo Branch Songs 7.15 How Did Huang Tingjian and Li Bai Resonate in a Dream? | Dreaming Li Bai Reciting Bamboo Branch Songs 8.1 Zeng Gong: The Most Easily Forgotten of the Eight Masters? 8.2 In Recounting a Life, Should We Speak Truth or Praise? | Letter to Ouyang Xiu 1 8.3 How Is an Epitaph Both Emotional and Rational Written? | Letter to Ouyang Xiu 2 8.4 How Can Our Numb Selves Wake Up? | Record of the Awakening Heart Pavilion 1 8.5 Can a Person's Greatness Be Understood Only by Posterity? | Record of the Awakening Heart Pavilion 2 8.6 Wang Anshi, I Know You Are Anxious—but Please Slow Down | Second Letter to Wang Anshi 1 8.7 What Happens When We Destroy Without Building? | Second Letter to Wang Anshi 2 8.8 Can We Preserve Our Commitments in Troubled Times? | Preface to the Strategies of the Warring States 1 8.9 Why Did Zeng Gong Think “Crooked Theories” Should Be Published? | Preface to the Strategies of the Warring States 2 8.10 What Did Zeng Gong See at Wang Xizhi's Ink-Washing Pond? | Record of the Ink Pond 8.11 How Does a Corrupt Social Climate Erode Everyday Life? | Record of Yunfeng Temple 1 8.12 Can Individual Action Transform Society? | Record of Yunfeng Temple 2 8.13 What Prosperous Refuge Hid Deep in Fujian's Perilous Mountains? | Record of Daoshan Pavilion 8.14 What Is the Secret to Responding to Natural Disaster? | Zhao of Yuezhou's Disaster Relief 8.15 Why Did Zeng Gong Say We Need Not Grieve Too Deeply for Su Xun? | Elegy for Su Mingyun 9.1 Why Did the Offending Wang Anshi Remain So Long at the Center of Power? 9.2 Why Did Liang Qichao Compare Wang Anshi's Style to Mozi? | The Literature of Lord Jing 9.3 Please Praise Us! How Did This Dynasty Survive a Century in Peace? | Memorial on a Hundred Peaceful Years 1 9.4 Wang Anshi's Rhetoric: How Do You Praise Openly and Mock Secretly? | Memorial 2 9.5 How Did “Tolerance” Become the Court's Greatest Defect? | Memorial 3 9.6 A Century Without Trouble? It Was Merely Luck! | Memorial 4 9.7 How Could the Fierce Wang Anshi Enrage with a Few Words? | Reply to Sima Guang 9.8 Why Does Disappointment Reveal Our True Face? | Reading Liu Zongyuan's Biography 9.9 What Can a Disappointing Journey Teach Us? | Record of a Visit to Mount Baochan 9.10 Must Values and Ideals Rise and Fall with Their Age? | Record of Zhi Pavilion 9.11 How Did Wang Anshi's Faith in the Rites of Zhou Reveal Why Reform Failed? | Preface to the Meaning of the Rites of Zhou 9.12 Is Winning at the Starting Line Always Good? | Lament for Zhong Yong 9.13 Why Was Wang Anshi's Poetry Awkward in the Song? 9.14 Every Line in These Ordinary Object Poems Strains to Speak | Hot Spring and Song River 9.15 Finale: Searching for Spring in Years Gone By | Early Late Spring in the Imperial Garden