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Once Upon a Jianghu: Rereading Jin Yong
A World of Martial Arts Where Politics, Literature, and Ideals Meet
Completed · 69 episodes
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Yang Zhao: Rereading Jin Yong Against the Grain 1. Jin Yong within the Genealogy of Chinese Wuxia 2. The Close Connection between Jin Yong's Wuxia and His Newspaper Career 3. Which of His Characters Most Resembles Jin Yong Himself? 4. Huang Rong: A Connoisseur of Food, Poetry, and Saving Lives 5. Who Is the “Legendary Condor Hero”? 6. The Ambiguous Ground between Good and Evil 7. Hong Kong's New Wuxia: Cinematic, Yet Theatrical 8. The “Ending” Historical Wuxia Fiction Cannot Escape 9. How Do You Become a Great Serial Novelist? 10. Even the Greatest Martial Arts Cannot Defeat… 11. What Is the Hardest Trial at Shaolin Temple? 12. How Should “Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms” Be Translated into English? 13. The Xia Western Readers Find Difficult to Understand 14. Yang Guo: A Knight-Errant Who Walked Out of The True Story of Ah Q 15. The Ultimate Martial Arts and the Deepest Love 16. Building a Wall When the Tsunami Strikes 17. A Trial of Love: With Only One Antidote, Whom Do You Save? 18. Forget the Peak beneath Your Feet and Climb Another 19. Every Clue Leads to “The Six Great Sects Besiege Bright Summit” 20. To Harbor Both Good and Evil Is Zhang Wuji's Fate 21. A Missing Character Must Return with a Story 22. Is Obsession the Normal State of Life? 23. Jin Yong's Art of Holding His Breath 24. Zhang Wuji: The Hero Jin Yong Did Not Like 25. Do the Enemies of the Righteous Deserve to Die? 26. It Isn't That I Can't Write—I'm Just Racing an All-Nighter Deadline Bonus | Yang Zhao's New Year Greeting to Listeners 27. Hu Fei: Whether He Strikes Was Written into His Life Long Ago 28. Cheng Lingsu: What Cures an Incurable Poison Is Unwavering Love 29. The Incantation-Like Phrase “As the Martial World Has It” 30. Why Is the Protagonist of White Horse Neighs in the Western Wind a Woman? 31. The Protagonist of A Deadly Secret Is Not a Person, but… 32. The Wronged Di Yun—and the Wronged Count of Monte Cristo 33. Creating Character: Absurdity Plus Absurdity Equals Plausibility 34. Shi Potian: More Foolish than Guo Jing, and Even More Fortunate 35. A Human Comedy of Mistaken Identity: When Shi Potian Becomes Shi Zhongyu 36. “Life's Troubles Begin with Learning to Read” 37. How Bad Must My Child Become before I Can Bear to Let Him Die? 38. Reading Wuxia Fiction through the Lens of Science 39. Qiao Feng: Is Good or Evil Determined by Ethnicity? 40. Why Did Jin Yong, Fond of Aristocrats, Begin Writing Commoner Heroes? 41. Had Jin Yong Run Out of Ideas and Failed to Write Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils Well? 42. Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils: A Human Allegory Hidden in the Title 43. The Zhenlong Chess Puzzle: How People Play Reveals How They Fail 44. Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils: Jin Yong's Least Adaptable Work for Film and Television 45. Did Jin Yong Scramble the Family Tree as a Joke—or for Another Reason? Bonus | In Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, Who Are the Devas and Who Are the Dragons? 46. Linghu Chong: How Does a “Sick Swordsman” without Martial Arts Survive? 47. “Better an Honorable Death than a Wretched Life” 48. Is Linghu Chong an “Upgraded” Duan Yu and Xiao Feng? 49. The Smiling, Proud Wanderer: No Martial-Arts Masters, Only Political Actors 50. The Rule-Abiding Wanderer vs. the Hypocritical Gentleman Bonus | Yang Zhao: Ten Books That Accompanied Me, Now Passed on to You 51. Dongfang Bubai: What Is “Depersonalized” Personality Worship? 52. Is There an Antidote to the Poison of Power? 53. A Wuxia Novel, a Moral Pilgrimage 54. The Deer and the Cauldron: An Antihero Novel 55. What Exactly Amuses Us When We Read The Deer and the Cauldron? 56. Does The Deer and the Cauldron Rewrite The Book and the Sword? 57. How Does Historical Fiction “Subvert” History? 58. Why Did Wuxia Fiction Decline So Quickly? 59. Was There Really No Wei Xiaobao in History? 60. How The Deer and the Cauldron Is Written: Fast and Slow, Loose and Taut 61. With The Deer and the Cauldron, the Tradition of Chinese Wuxia Came to an End Bonus | Jin Yong's View of History: How Did the Manchus Earn Their Place? Bonus | Are the Ming Cult, Sun Moon Holy Cult, and Mystic Dragon Cult Essentially the Same? Bonus | The Hidden Sword and The Gangs of the City-State: Another Twilight of Wuxia Bonus | Wish-Fulfillment Wuxia? Love-Brained Heroes? You Still Haven't Understood Jin Yong (Vistopia Studio Ep. 9, Audio)