GETTING CURIOUS | Who Was Doing The Most In Early China? with Professor Jue Guo

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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🗓️ 16 June 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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This week, Professor Jue Guo returns to Getting Curious, which means we are returning to Early China! She and Jonathan discuss what a week in the life might look like for a royal hairdresser, a performance artist, a regional king, and other figures from this period and place. This episode can be enjoyed on its own, but if you can’t get enough of Early China, make sure to check out Professor Guo’s first appearance on the show, where we ask: Can You Set The Scene For Early China? Jue Guo is an Assistant Professor of 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. 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 gorgeous 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 Professor Gue Guo, where I ask her, what was everyday life like in early China?
0:20.0	Welcome to Getting Curious. I'm so excited. We have a return guest today who is so fascinating.
0:25.3	Welcome back, Professor Jueguo, who is a social and cultural historian of Early China and a professor at Barnard College of Columbia University.
0:34.0	Welcome back Professor Guo, how are you?
0:36.0	I'm good, Jonathan.
0:38.0	Thank you for having me back.
0:39.0	Your area of expertise is so fascinating to me.
0:41.0	Just to give everybody a recap.
0:43.0	We had Dr. Globe on a few months ago
0:45.0	and it was really about learning about early China.
0:48.0	And my goal, and that was to figure out
0:51.0	what was like a day in the life of someone who lived in early China.
0:56.0	But then I realized that I knew so little about the specifics of really the area and the time in which I was talking about,
1:03.3	we almost kind of didn't get there.
1:05.5	And so I do want to just give people a quick little recap,
1:08.9	though.
1:09.8	If maybe they didn't hear that episode. So Professor Gwell, can you just tell us what time, briefly, what time period we're talking about
1:17.0	and what geographic location we're talking about?
1:20.0	Absolutely.
1:21.0	So last time I think we went actually a little beyond what we are going to focus on today and so so last time we kind of gave
1:31.4	chronological introduction particularly to the before time,
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