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The Most Beautiful Musical Literature: Reading Classic Song Lyrics
Reading Chinese Classics, Season 10
Completed · 122 episodes
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Yang Zhao: Why Am I Spending Ten Years Teaching the Chinese Classics? How Did a Voice of the Weak Become a Summit of Chinese Literature? 1.1 To Understand the Art of Ci, Begin with a Music Lesson 1.2 A Doomed Ruler and Peerless Talent: How Dramatic Was Li Yu's Life? 1.3 How Does the Freedom Sought by Ci Differ from Poetry? 1.4 How Did the Trauma of a Lost Kingdom Transform Memory's Images? 1.5 Spring and Autumn, People and Events, All Seem Like a Distant Dream 1.6 Why Did a Spring Beautiful to Others Cause Li Yu Such Pain? 1.7 Self-Inflicted Helplessness and Life's Unspeakable Loneliness 1.8 How Did Li Yu Broaden Ci's Vision and Expressive Possibilities? 1.9 How Did Li Yu Use Imagination to Reach beyond Experience? 1.10 How Did Li Yu Imagine Women's Hopes and Disappointments in Love? 2.1 The Northern Song's Most Popular Lyricist Has No Official Biography? 2.2 Liu Yong and Su Shi: Two Extremes of Northern Song Ci 2.3 How Can You Tell Whether a Work Is Shi Poetry or Ci Lyrics? 2.4 What Does It Feel Like to Want to Forget but Be Unable To? 2.5 The Longing of Long-Form Ci Unfolds with Its Structure 2.6 How Did Liu Yong Make Colloquial Words Refined in Writing Emotion? 2.7 How Did Liu Yong Use Women's Feelings to Express Men's Emotions? 2.8 How Did Liu Yong's Ci Break the “Taboo” on Male Emotion? 2.9 Forget Fame and Fortune, Wander amid the Capital's Wine and Flowers 2.10 A Tune Written for Just One Ci Poem 2.11 Why Can We Who Long for Freedom Never Escape Desire? 2.12 How Can Ci Preserve the Grace of Women's Song and Dance? 2.13 Waking from a Dream of Reunion: Facing Solitude after Separation 2.14 How Did Wang Guowei Turn Liu Yong's Love Lyrics into Stages of Life? 2.15 Why Do Departed People and Events Return on Sleepless Nights? 3.1 What Did Su Shi, Who Looked Down on Liu Yong, Value Most in Ci? 3.2 Was Writing Poetry Dangerous? Factional Strife and the Shift from Shi to Ci 3.3 “The Moon Is Full but We Are Apart”: Was Separation a Literati Fate? 3.4 Will Time Swallow Everything, Sparing No One? 3.5 How Did Su Shi Create Novelty from Traditional Form and Emotion? 3.6 Must Long Ci Be Tender? Su Shi's Anti-Long-Ci Aesthetic and Meta-Experiment 3.7 Could Urban Entertainment Songs Also Sing of Rural Pleasures? 3.8 Knocking for Tea and Collapsing Drunk: How Ci Revealed Su Shi's True Nature 3.9 Su Shi's Gift: How Can Finite Ci Contain Infinite Meaning? 3.10 Only by Keeping Distance from Vulgarity Can We Appreciate Plum Blossoms 3.11 How Would Free-Spirited Su Shi Describe Delicate Love? 3.12 What Did a Chance Meeting Destined for Separation Bring Su Shi? 3.13 How Did Tao Yuanming Comfort Su Shi across Time? 3.14 How Did Su Shi Make One Tune Pattern Express Two Entirely Different Realms? 3.15 How Did Su Shi Continue Ouyang Xiu's Spirit Half a Century Later? 4.1 Qin Guan: The Bob Dylan of Song Ci? 4.2 How Did the Precarious Fate of Song Literati Shape Qin Guan's Work? 4.3 Why Did “Mountains Smudge Faint Clouds” Become a Hit? 4.4 How Did Qin Guan Rewrite the Cowherd and Weaver Girl? 4.5 What Longing Cannot Be Exhausted in Ten Thousand Letters? 4.6 At What Step Did My Life Take the Wrong Road? 4.7 I Would Rather Suffer Alone Than Let You Be Heartbroken 4.8 Lingering Separation in Nine-Character Lines 4.9 Brief Form, Winding Expression: How Did Qin Guan Do It? 4.10 Where Will a Fate I Cannot Choose Take Me? 5.1 In an Age When Artists Were Emperors, Did Ci Hide Doors beyond Reality? 5.2 Can Indirect Language Convey Deeper Feeling? 5.3 How Can an Exquisite Metaphor Express Tortuous Longing? 5.4 How Does Dialogue between Feeling and Scenery Convey a Complex Mind? 5.5 Why Can What Ought to Be Joyful Feel Deeply Sad? 5.6 Can Longing Take a Thousand Forms? How Did Zhou Bangyan Do It? 5.7 Does Everything Beautiful Fade before Merciless Time? 5.8 How Did Zhou Bangyan Expand Two Liu Yuxi Masterpieces through Subtle Turns? 5.9 How Did Zhou Bangyan Turn Song Lyrics into Literature for Close Reading? 5.10 An Elegy for Roses in an Unusual Tune 6.1 How Did Li Qingzhao Reclaim Women's Right and Power to Write Ci? 6.2 In Li Qingzhao's Eyes, What Made Ci Orthodox or Improper? 6.3 How Does a Girl's Sensibility Written by a Woman Differ from Men's Writing? 6.4 Unfolding the Deepest Loneliness in the Most Subtle Way 6.5 How Does a Stunning Second Stanza Rescue a Vulgar First? 6.6 How Painful Is Love Targeted, Rejected, and Overturned by Fate? 6.7 How Can Flowers among Flowers Create Subtle Drama? 6.8 How Did Li Qingzhao Write Turns of Feeling Male Lyricists Could Not Grasp? 6.9 I Miss Not the Chang'an of Those Years, but Who I Was Then 6.10 I Finally Refuse to Waste Spring, Only to Find I Can No Longer Enjoy It 6.11 Sorrow Repeated Twice Makes Beautiful Scenery Sad 6.12 Can We Escape Our Own Emotions? 6.13 What Did Li Qingzhao Search for Everywhere but Never Find? 6.14 Why Must We Know the Afterword to Records on Metal and Stone to Read Li Qingzhao? 6.15 How Did Her Most Treasured Collection Gradually Become a Burden? 6.16 A Lifetime's Collection Buried with an Age of Chaos 7.1 Xin Qiji: A Rebel Even More Unconventional Than Su Dongpo? 7.2 Why Was Xin Qiji's Rebellion More Thorough Than Su Dongpo's? 7.3 What Ambivalence Did Xin Qiji Feel toward Achievement and Fame? 7.4 Why Did Xin Qiji Praise Retirement but Refuse to Retire? 7.5 Busy Yet Achieving Nothing—What Am I Doing? 7.6 Why Is Spring Heartless and Idle Sorrow the Most Bitter? 7.7 Before the Rise and Fall of Ages, We Possess Only an Instant 7.8 How Much Literati Helplessness Hides behind Jokes about Surnames? 7.9 How Does Scenery Differ through Physical and Spiritual Eyes? 7.10 Why Long for Spring to Come Yet Fear It Will Come Too Quickly? 7.11 What Spiritual Realm Comes from Befriending Nature Heart to Heart? 7.12 Facing Fate's Turns, Should We Question Ourselves as Well as Heaven? 7.13 Why Were Literati and Palace Women Alike before a Ruler? 7.14 How Does a Chance Reunion Answer Questions about Life's Essence? 7.15 Years Change the Face but Not the Original Heart 8.1 How Did Lu You Challenge the Jiangxi School's Style? 8.2 I Know I Should Not Think of You, but I Cannot Stop 8.3 Chengdu I Cannot Return To, News That Never Comes: Trapped in That Night 8.4 Now I Can Only Be a Poet—What a Sorrowful Thing 8.5 Is a Dream Fulfilled Cause for Joy, or Greater Sadness? 8.6 In a Chaotic Age, Is It My Fault That I Achieve Nothing? 8.7 What Did Lu You Find More Painful Than Death? 8.8 Southern Song Frustration Hidden in the Ease of Rural Reclusion 8.9 Far from the World, Nature Gives Me New Insight 8.10 Is Autumn Only Sorrow? How Did Lu You Vindicate It? 8.11 Why Did Lu You Say His Deepest Anxiety Had No Solution? 8.12 Despite a Difficult World, Fleeting Joy Still Moves the Heart 8.13 How Did People in the Past Read Poetry? Hear Lu You's Answer 8.14 How Did Lu You Reflect on Song Politics under Factional Strife? 9.1 How Did Song Poetry's Final Master Carry a Century of Literary Contest? 9.2 Technical Perfection and Expressive Difficulty: Why Was Jiang Kui the Song's Final Master? 9.3 How Did Jiang Kui Render the Sorrow of a Fallen Capital in Fine Detail? 9.4 Revisiting Old Places Contains Half a Lifetime of Separation 9.5 How Did Jiang Kui Rewrite Emotional Conventions with a Delicate Brush? 9.6 I Was Not Alone in Feeling the Same Moon across a Thousand Miles 9.7 How Did Jiang Kui Write Separation and Longing across Overlapping Times? 9.8 How Did Jiang Kui Give the Same New Year's Day Different Feelings? 9.9 How Did Jiang Kui Use Ci Techniques to Write Poetry? 9.10 If a Traveler on New Year's Eve 9.11 Is Sailing on New Year's Eve My Restless Fate? 9.12 How Many Flavors of Snow Could Winter-Loving Jiang Kui Write? 9.13 Northern Exotic Legends by a Southern Talent 9.14 Terror on Dongting Lake in Old Memories 9.15 Variations on Mount Lu in Old Memories