Han Zigao

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4.8 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Today, we're discussing 6th century Chinese general Han Zigao! Join us as we talk about his life, and various fictionalised adaptations of it. Learn a little about media censorship in modern day China, gender in Ming Dynasty theatre, and whether or not you can be too beautiful to be an enemy spy. Check out our website, where you can find out everything there is to know about Queer as Fact. If you enjoy our content, consider supporting us on Patreon, checking out our merch, and following us on Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook. (Image: the promotion poster for the 2016 movie Han Zigao. It depicts two men in period costume in a tent, underneath the text 韩子高 in gold lettering.)

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Queer as Fact, a podcast bringing you queer history from around the world and
0:04.1	throughout time. I'm Irene. I'm Jason. I'm Alice. And today we're going to be talking about
0:09.3	6th century Chinese general Hansa Gau. I'd like to acknowledge the Wurundri Weiwurong people of the Kulin Nation as the traditional
0:24.6	owners of the land on which we record this podcast and pay respects to their elders, past and present.
0:30.7	We recognise them as the custodians of an oral tradition far older than this podcast.
0:35.3	I have a few content warnings for this episode. It contains
0:38.9	discussion of a relationship with a large age gap that begins when the younger participant is a
0:43.9	teenager. It contains a coerced death by suicide and some discussion of homophobia and transphobia
0:51.3	in the present day. I'd just like to go quickly through the structure
0:54.6	of this episode because it wound up being an episode about like three different things. First off,
0:59.5	we're going to be discussing the actual historical figure, Hansa-Gal. I think we should just flag
1:03.7	now. There's a steam train driving past our house repeatedly and you're probably going to hear
1:07.7	it during this episode. Yeah, that's true.
1:11.2	Yeah, there's not a lot we can do about that, but we apologize.
1:14.3	Maybe we can post a picture of the Steam Train on our social media.
1:17.2	Following this, we're going to take a look at a play written during the 16th century
1:20.7	about a fictional character, Chen Zegal, who is clearly inspired by the real Hunzegal.
1:25.9	I mean, they basically have the same name.
1:27.7	They do have the same name.
1:28.9	A star.
1:30.8	The dots, I'm connecting them.
1:33.5	And then we'll finish off by talking about the movie that I made you both watched.
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