Rereading the Stone
Kevin Wilson, William Jones
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S1E97 Ep. 97: Rereading Hong lou meng 紅樓夢 Chapter 45 part 2
It’s a poetry-pilled installment of Rereading the Stone! We compare Zhang Ruoxu’s 張若虛 (660 – ca. 720) “Spring River in the Flower Moon Night《春江花月夜》,” featuring a new draft translation, with Lin…
S1E96 Ep. 96: Rereading Hong lou meng 紅樓夢 Chapter 45 part 1
Xifeng (and her purse) is invited into the Crabflower Club. Meanwhile we review the family relations of lesser characters like Lai Da’s wife and discuss her “don’t spare the rod” 不打不成才…
S1E95 Ep. 95: Rereading Hong lou meng 紅樓夢 Chapter 44 part 2
Xifeng is shaking with anger. Is there meaning in the madness? What are the real and imagined consequences of Jia Lian’s transgressions? We try to conceive a contemporary framework for interpreting a…
S1E94 Ep. 94: Rereading Hong lou meng 紅樓夢 Chapter 44 part 1
It’s Xifeng birthday, so everyone is having a good time, even if labor relations in the Jia household leave room for improvement.Support the show
S1E93 Ep. 93: Rereading Hong lou meng 紅樓夢 Chapter 43 part 2
It’s time for part 2 (earth 土) of Chapter 43 of Dream of the Red Chamber (Story of the Stone, Hongloumeng 紅樓夢), where Baoyu performs a non-performative ritual observance of the death of Golden. We…
S1E92 Ep. 92: Rereading Hong lou meng 紅樓夢 Chapter 43 part 1
This chapter (of Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢) admits of dualities? So here in part 1 we cover the first half (gold 金), which involves some extensive bickering over money (including an…
S1E91 Ep. 91: Rereading Hong lou meng 紅樓夢 Chapter 42 part 2
Daiyu and Baochai exchange literary intimacies, and meta-literary musings! Is reading bad, actually? Or, is it Baochai who is kind of a fascist? Would Baochai reframe from reading her own book? Or is…
S1E90 Ep. 90: Rereading Hong lou meng 紅樓夢 Chapter 42 part 1
Suppose your child were born on the seventh day of the seventh month, what would you do? If you saw an immortal soul falling into the well of mortal existence, would you intervene and save them?…
S1E89 Ep. 89: Rereading Hong lou meng 紅樓夢 Chapter 41 part 2
One of our favorite sections of the text — Grannie Liu takes Baoyu’s bed for a spin, dreaming her own dream of red chambers! A full sensory experience, we compare it to Bayou’s dream from Qin…
S1E88 Ep. 88: Rereading Hong lou meng 紅樓夢 Chapter 41 part 1
Granny Liu’s choice of cups (wood is good!) figures prominently in this installment. A wide-ranging discussion of social class and constructed value, as the real and unreal reveal themselves to be…
S1E87 Ep. 87: Rereading Hong lou meng 紅樓夢 Chapter 40 part 3
This part of chapter 40 of Dream of the Red Chamber (Story of the Stone, Hongloumeng) is a lot of poetic fun, but is it purely fun and games? What kind of symbolism and foreshadowing lie within, and…
S1E86 Ep. 86: Rereading Hong lou meng 紅樓夢 Chapter 40 part 2
More excellent Granny Liu content, as we travel deeper into the garden, soon by means of pleasure craft, with Xifeng at the helm. When withered lotus petals are observed on the surface of the water,…
S1E85 Ep. 85: Rereading Hong lou meng 紅樓夢 Chapter 40 part 1
It's Chapter 40 of Dream of the Red Chamber (Story of the Stone, Hongloumeng), and we're accompanying Grannie Liu on her tour of Prospect Garden. In what ways is the garden reflective of, and in…
S1E84 Ep. 84: Rereading Hong lou meng 紅樓夢 Chapter 39 part 2
In this episode, we puzzle over Grannie Liu’s arithmetic while questioning how age and social class more broadly inform her interactions with Grandmother Jia. A continuation of our discussion of…
S1E83 Ep. 83: Rereading Hong lou meng 紅樓夢 chapter 39 part 1/2
We treat the first part of Chapter 39 of Dream of the Red Chamber (Story of the Stone, Hongloumeng), as Li Wan and friends wax philosophical on the importance of having good servants to dissipate…
S1E82 Ep. 82: Rereading Hong lou meng 紅樓夢 Chapter 38 part 4
The end (or is it beginning?) of our Chapter 38 review! (This was originally intended to be the first episode we’d release, but it was the last to be recorded, and we forgot to rearrange them.) The…
Episode 81: Rereading Hong lou meng 紅樓夢 Chapter 38 part 3
The Chapter 38 poetry review continues! No poetic stone left unturned!Support the show
S1E80 Ep. 80: Rereading Hong lou meng 紅樓夢 Chapter 38 part 2
The Chapter 38 poetry review of Hong lou meng (Dream of the Red Chamber, Story of the Stone) continues!Note: as indicated in the episode, some “creative” post-production editing was performed in…
S1E79 Episode 79: Rereading Hong lou meng Chapter 紅樓夢 Chapter 38 part 1
After a brief but productive hiatus, in which considerable Hong lou meng’ing was happening “behind the scenes,” Rereading returns, with a poetry-pilled perusal of Chapter 38! This is the first part…
S1E78 Ep 78: Rereading Hong lou meng 紅樓夢 chapter 37 part 2/2
New poetry club “The Crab-flower Club” 海棠社 just dropped, and Daiyu is sweeping up sunsets. Meanwhile Baoyu can’t seem to keep on-prompt…Support the show
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