Ep 27: Rereading Hong lou meng 紅樓夢, Chapter 14 part 2/2
Rereading the Stone
English - February 01, 2021 11:00 - 42 minutes - 29.3 MBFiction Society & Culture Philosophy chinese literature chinese philosophy 紅樓夢 historical fiction fiction philosophy psychology psychoanalysis history poetry Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Xifeng lets power get to her in Ch. 14 of Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢, while shedding real tears for the dearly departed Keqing, and the young Prince of Bei-jing meets our legendary jade-in-mouth protagonist. We discuss historical matters of yinyang philosophy and supposedly “geomantic” belief systems, as well as the quasi-monetary system of tokens and scripts internal to the expansive Jia household.