Rereading the Stone (Podcast)
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& William Jones on Chinese literature, poetry, & philosophy, currently: Qing dynasty classic Dream of the Red Chamber #紅樓夢 #石頭記
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& William Jones on Chinese literature, poetry, & philosophy, currently: Qing dynasty classic Dream of the Red Chamber #紅樓夢 #石頭記
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1269965
🎙️episode drop🎙️ 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.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
🎙️episode drop🎙️ 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.
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🎙️ episode drop🎙️ Chapter 43 part 1
This chapter admits of dualities? So here in part 1 we cover the first half (gold 金), which involves some extensive bickering over money (including an eyebrow-raising subscription scheme to raise funds for Xifeng’s birthday…)
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This chapter admits of dualities? So here in part 1 we cover the first half (gold 金), which involves some extensive bickering over money (including an eyebrow-raising subscription scheme to raise funds for Xifeng’s birthday…)
www.buzzsprout.com/1269965/epis...
October 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
🎙️ episode drop🎙️ Chapter 43 part 1
This chapter admits of dualities? So here in part 1 we cover the first half (gold 金), which involves some extensive bickering over money (including an eyebrow-raising subscription scheme to raise funds for Xifeng’s birthday…)
www.buzzsprout.com/1269965/epis...
This chapter admits of dualities? So here in part 1 we cover the first half (gold 金), which involves some extensive bickering over money (including an eyebrow-raising subscription scheme to raise funds for Xifeng’s birthday…)
www.buzzsprout.com/1269965/epis...
🎙️ episode drop🎙️ Chapter 43 part 1
This chapter admits of dualities? So here in part 1 we cover the first half (gold 金), which involves some extensive bickering over money (including an eyebrow-raising subscription scheme to raise funds for Xifeng’s birthday…)
www.buzzsprout.com/1269965/epis...
This chapter admits of dualities? So here in part 1 we cover the first half (gold 金), which involves some extensive bickering over money (including an eyebrow-raising subscription scheme to raise funds for Xifeng’s birthday…)
www.buzzsprout.com/1269965/epis...
October 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
🎙️ episode drop🎙️ Chapter 43 part 1
This chapter admits of dualities? So here in part 1 we cover the first half (gold 金), which involves some extensive bickering over money (including an eyebrow-raising subscription scheme to raise funds for Xifeng’s birthday…)
www.buzzsprout.com/1269965/epis...
This chapter admits of dualities? So here in part 1 we cover the first half (gold 金), which involves some extensive bickering over money (including an eyebrow-raising subscription scheme to raise funds for Xifeng’s birthday…)
www.buzzsprout.com/1269965/epis...
September 21, 2025 at 2:11 AM
So, yeah, this is why "it's taking so long," in case you were wondering
we are working through 2 and a half Kareninas, except with poetry, indeed, a lot of poetry, most of which we try at least to touch upon
we are working through 2 and a half Kareninas, except with poetry, indeed, a lot of poetry, most of which we try at least to touch upon
I'm seeing English translations of Anne Karenina quoted at 340,000 words, so Dream of Red Chamber comes out to about 2 and a half Kareninas (taking the Hawkes translation to be 845,000 words)
September 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
So, yeah, this is why "it's taking so long," in case you were wondering
we are working through 2 and a half Kareninas, except with poetry, indeed, a lot of poetry, most of which we try at least to touch upon
we are working through 2 and a half Kareninas, except with poetry, indeed, a lot of poetry, most of which we try at least to touch upon
bit of a delay in editing, getting files in order, etc. etc.
it's worth it, though, thanks for your patience; time is a construct when you're red-chamber dreamin'
it's worth it, though, thanks for your patience; time is a construct when you're red-chamber dreamin'
September 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
bit of a delay in editing, getting files in order, etc. etc.
it's worth it, though, thanks for your patience; time is a construct when you're red-chamber dreamin'
it's worth it, though, thanks for your patience; time is a construct when you're red-chamber dreamin'
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🎙️episode drop🎙️🌺 continuing the discussion of Chapter 42
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?
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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?
www.buzzsprout.com/1269965/epis...
August 11, 2025 at 6:07 PM
🎙️episode drop🎙️🌺 continuing the discussion of Chapter 42
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?
www.buzzsprout.com/1269965/epis...
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?
www.buzzsprout.com/1269965/epis...
Will Daiyu be cancelled for her classist remarks in Chapter 42? Find out soon, in this upcoming episode currently being edited!
"Grannie Liu, more like Grannie Locust, amirite" -Daiyu
他是那一門子的姥姥？直叫他是個『母蝗蟲』就是了！
他是那一門子的姥姥？直叫他是個『母蝗蟲』就是了！
August 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Will Daiyu be cancelled for her classist remarks in Chapter 42? Find out soon, in this upcoming episode currently being edited!
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Suppose you were facing a lifetime of strangely illiquid “tear debt,” would you seek solace in historical novels and plays that serve no clear moral or dogmatic purpose?
July 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Suppose you were facing a lifetime of strangely illiquid “tear debt,” would you seek solace in historical novels and plays that serve no clear moral or dogmatic purpose?
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🎙️episode drop 🎙️ we're talking chapter 42 of Dream of the Red Chamber #紅樓夢
Suppose your child were born on the seventh day of the seventh month, what would you do?
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Suppose your child were born on the seventh day of the seventh month, what would you do?
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July 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
🎙️episode drop 🎙️ we're talking chapter 42 of Dream of the Red Chamber #紅樓夢
Suppose your child were born on the seventh day of the seventh month, what would you do?
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Suppose your child were born on the seventh day of the seventh month, what would you do?
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🎙️episode drop 🎙️ we're talking chapter 42 of Dream of the Red Chamber #紅樓夢
Suppose your child were born on the seventh day of the seventh month, what would you do?
www.buzzsprout.com/1269965/epis...
Suppose your child were born on the seventh day of the seventh month, what would you do?
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July 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
🎙️episode drop 🎙️ we're talking chapter 42 of Dream of the Red Chamber #紅樓夢
Suppose your child were born on the seventh day of the seventh month, what would you do?
www.buzzsprout.com/1269965/epis...
Suppose your child were born on the seventh day of the seventh month, what would you do?
www.buzzsprout.com/1269965/epis...
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if you start a podcast with someone you get to see and learn to recognize what their coughs look like as waveforms
July 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
if you start a podcast with someone you get to see and learn to recognize what their coughs look like as waveforms
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if you think about it, Frank Grimes is the Zhen Bao-yu 甄寶玉 of the Simpsons
June 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
if you think about it, Frank Grimes is the Zhen Bao-yu 甄寶玉 of the Simpsons
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Someone put a mirror out with the trash near Grange Park, and this one Canada goose is VERY MAD at this FUCKING GUY who will not STEP OFF
May 20, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Someone put a mirror out with the trash near Grange Park, and this one Canada goose is VERY MAD at this FUCKING GUY who will not STEP OFF
🚨episode drop🚨 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 Baoyu’s dream from Qin Keqing’s bed.
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May 21, 2025 at 5:21 PM
🚨episode drop🚨 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 Baoyu’s dream from Qin Keqing’s bed.
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🚨episode drop🚨 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 Keqing’s bed.
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May 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
🚨episode drop🚨 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 Keqing’s bed.
www.buzzsprout.com/admin/126996...
www.buzzsprout.com/admin/126996...
🚨episode drop🚨 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 Keqing’s bed.
www.buzzsprout.com/admin/126996...
www.buzzsprout.com/admin/126996...
May 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
🚨episode drop🚨 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 Keqing’s bed.
www.buzzsprout.com/admin/126996...
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this joke landed too well ("what about a slap?"), so I gotta turn the gain down for a moment in order to save your ears
#safetyfirst #hongloumeng
#safetyfirst #hongloumeng
May 19, 2025 at 11:36 PM
this joke landed too well ("what about a slap?"), so I gotta turn the gain down for a moment in order to save your ears
#safetyfirst #hongloumeng
#safetyfirst #hongloumeng
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Baoyu was right about gender
many are now seeing this
many are now seeing this
April 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Baoyu was right about gender
many are now seeing this
many are now seeing this
🌸 ICYMI 🪵
🚨episode drop🚨 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 deeply interwoven
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April 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM
🌸 ICYMI 🪵
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