How to Read Chinese Poetry Podcast
Education Podcasts
This podcast presents cutting-edge scholarship on Chinese poetry to a broad general audience. In its 52 episodes, leading experts guide listeners through a pleasurable journey of Chinese poetry, poem by poem, genre by genre, and dynasty by dynasty. They demonstrate how the selected poems work in Chinese to create a fascinating, untranslatable poetic beauty while illuminating their broader cultural significance. Poems are read aloud in English and Chinese to the background of the Chinese qin music. English translations, romanizations, and brief notes are provided at howtoreadchinesepoetry.com.
Location:
United States
Genres:
Education Podcasts
Description:
This podcast presents cutting-edge scholarship on Chinese poetry to a broad general audience. In its 52 episodes, leading experts guide listeners through a pleasurable journey of Chinese poetry, poem by poem, genre by genre, and dynasty by dynasty. They demonstrate how the selected poems work in Chinese to create a fascinating, untranslatable poetic beauty while illuminating their broader cultural significance. Poems are read aloud in English and Chinese to the background of the Chinese qin music. English translations, romanizations, and brief notes are provided at howtoreadchinesepoetry.com.
Language:
English
The Grand Finale of How to Read Chinese Poetry Podcast
Duration:01:24:36
Poetry: Poetry of the Ming and Qing Dynasties: The Pain of Loss and the Pleasures of Everyday Life
Duration:00:22:28
Poetry of the Ming and Qing Dynasties: Poetry as Autobiography
Duration:00:28:00
Poetry of the Ming and Qing Dynasties: Poetic Theory and Practice in the Ming and Qing
Duration:00:17:46
Song Poems (Sanqu) of the Yuan Dynasty: Poetry of Rambunctious Wit and Impudent Humor
Duration:00:12:37
Song Poems (Sanqu) of the Yuan Dynasty: The Art of Tongue-in-Cheek - Two Love Songs by Two Great Dramatists
Duration:00:15:33
Song Poems (Sanqu) of the Yuan Dynasty: The Power of Poetic Imagery
Duration:00:10:03
Long Song Lyrics (Manci) of the Song Dynasty: Li Qingzhao - Singing Her Autumn Sorrow
Duration:00:11:13
Long Song Lyrics (Manci) of the Song Dynasty: Su Shi - Meditation on the Past
Duration:00:11:22
Long Song Lyrics (Manci) of the Song Dynasty: Liu Yong’s Use of Leading Words (lingzi)
Duration:00:16:23
Short Songs in the Song Dynasty: “I ask you, how much sorrow can there be?” - Later Literati Song Lyrics
Duration:00:22:31
Short Songs in the Song Dynasty: Feeling and Scene - Early Literati Song Lyrics
Duration:00:18:32
Short Songs in the Song Dynasty: “I’ve no heart to love another” - A Pair of Anonymous Poems in Dialog
Duration:00:19:03
The Sounds of the Tang Poetry: Transcultural Performance - American Guqin Artist at Lingnan: Tang Poetry and Guqin Music
Duration:00:11:46
The Sounds of the Tang Poetry: Transcultural Performance - Li Bai in Nashville: An American Singing Tang Poems
Duration:00:27:48
The Sounds of the Tang Poetry: Transcultural Performance - From Kuyin to Yinsong: Constructing and Reciting Regulated Verse
Duration:00:46:56
The Sounds of the Tang Poetry: Transcultural Performance - From Zhiyin to Yunxue: The Rise of Chinese Rhyme Studies
Duration:00:26:18
The Sounds of the Tang Poetry: Mastering Tonal Patterns of Recent-Style Poetry - Regulated Poetic Forms & Modes of Thinking: Sonnet and Lüshi
Duration:00:19:17
The Sounds of the Tang Poetry: Mastering Tonal Patterns of Recent-Style Poetry - Constructing Heptasyllabic Regulated Verse
Duration:00:12:04
The Sounds of the Tang Poetry: Mastering Tonal Patterns of Recent-Style Poetry - Constructing Pentasyllabic Regulated Verse
Duration:00:13:37