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Episode 35 Rereading Hong lou meng 紅樓夢, Chapter 18 part 1/4
Rereading the Stone
English - April 06, 2021 08:00 - 44 minutes - 30.5 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
Previous Episode: Episode 35 Rereading Hong lou meng 紅樓夢, Chapter 17 part 4/4
Imperial Concubine Yuanchun returns home to visit family, to see the garden constructed in her honor, to review and edit the names and couplets assigned to all of the most famous spots, and to hear the celebratory, yet serious, poems everyone has written for the occasion. We begin by discussing temporal discrepancies in this chapter, exploring the relationship between logical contradiction and the oblique logic of dreaming. What does it mean to live in a gilded cage, a shimmering space of ritual and power? And why isn’t musk popular anymore?