GETTING CURIOUS | Can You Set The Scene For Early China? with Professor Jue Guo

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🗓️ 10 March 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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This week on Getting Curious, we’re traveling back to Early China with Professor Jue Guo. She and Jonathan discuss dynasties, empires, early instances of written language, and so much more. And because curiosity can’t always be contained to 40 minutes—okay, more like an hour and fifteen minutes—we’re planning a follow-up episode with Professor Guo. Make sure to jot down your questions about Early China as you listen, and keep an eye out on our social media accounts for a chance to have them featured in part two! Jue Guo is an Assistant Professor at Barnard College in New York City. She is a social and cultural historian of Early China (terminus ante quem ca. 3rd century CE), with a geographical focus on southern China. For more information on her work, check out www.barnard.academia.edu/JueGuo. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Van Ness, and every week I sit down for a 40 minute conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:10.0	On today's episode, I'm joined by Barnard College Professor
0:13.6	Gueu, where I ask her, can you set the scene for early China?
0:21.0	Welcome to Getting Curious, this is Jonathan Vanes.
0:24.0	I'm going to get right into our introduction.
0:26.2	Welcome, Professor Zue Guo,
0:28.8	you are a professor of social and cultural history of early China.
0:34.0	That's correct.
0:35.0	You are also an assistant professor of pre-modern Chinese civilization and humanities
0:39.8	at Barnard College and co-chair of Columbia University's early China seminar, your resume is amazing.
0:50.3	Thank you, thank you. Yeah, you're doing so good on like the studies. I'm definitely loving what I do. That's that I'm I'm I'm I'm I do not know what people outside my little circle thinks about what I do, but that's why I also I'm so I'm also very excited and quite frankly very flattered to be invited to on this show because you know I study such a kind of obscure subject and quite distant past so I don't always get to talk to people outside my academic circle or outside my academic life.
1:36.0	But thank you for your interests and thank you for being curious about early China.
1:42.0	Oh my gosh, it's my pleasure.
1:44.0	And thanks so much for taking your time to talk to me.
1:46.0	And just a little teeny tiny bit about me just so you know how it happened.
1:51.0	I, you know, it only occurred to me in my kind of like 20s that I didn't know enough
1:58.9	an accurate description of American history and you know I was you know to elementary school and then I went to high school and then I went to just a little bit of college and then I went to hair school and I just you know which I love but I just like I didn't learn that much about
2:16.9	China or like any part of Asia really you know outside of like, geography maybe.
2:23.6	And I just, then I was like, Chinese history
2:27.0	has probably been around way longer than American history.
2:31.2	That is how true. So tell me about how much older is China than America?
2:40.9	That's a very good question. I think we really have to define both China and America, right?
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