John Zhu retells the Three Kingdoms story

Sinica Podcast

Kaiser Kuo

Culture, China News, Hangzhou, Chinese, International Relations, Chongqing, Beijing, Sichuan, Currentaffairs, China, Politics, Chengdu, Shanghai, Guangzhou, China Economy, News, China Politics, Business, Film, Shenzhen

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In the last three years, John Zhu has embarked on a mission to build a bridge between Chinese and Western cultures by retelling one of China’s great classics in accessible audio episodes. He has released over 100 chapters of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms Podcast. Three Kingdoms, as it is sometimes called, is one of China’s four great novels, along with Water Margin, Journey to the West, and Dream of the Red Chamber. Together, they have exerted an influence in China similar to the extraordinary impact on language and culture of the King James Bible and Shakespeare in the Anglophone world. Three Kingdoms is reminiscent of a fantastical epic like Lord of the Rings, with its tales massive medieval military forces competing for dominance, and introduces hundreds of iconic characters representing the gamut of the human experience. Listen to Jeremy and Kaiser’s interview with John Zhu to get a taste of Three Kingdoms and how John’s global listeners are responding to a Chinese classic. To learn more about China’s four great novels, see this piece by the editors of SupChina. Recommendations: Jeremy: “Trump on China,” ChinaFile’s tracker of every Trump administration statement relating to China, plus quotes from Trump going back five years. John: For readers of Chinese, lianhuanhua.mom001.com (连环画 liánhuánhuà), a website where you can find scanned and catalogued pictures from hundreds of classic Chinese graphic novels and children’s books. For non-readers of Chinese, the Chinese Sayings podcast, new from Laszlo Montgomery (noted for his long-running China History Podcast). A few of the Chinese Sayings episodes have already sought to explain phrases originating from Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Kaiser: Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI, a turn-based strategy video game where you can role-play, control cities, develop land, run economies, build and train armies, and strategize wars, all in the historical setting of Romance of the Three Kingdoms. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:21.5	Hey, Synecans. Happy Chinese New Year to you, and a quick reminder that Jeremy and I will be back in Beijing this month, that's February, and we'll have a couple of live events that some of our Beijing-based listeners or anyone who happens to be in town are welcome to come join us for. First, we will be at the Bookworm for a show with Jane Perliz, the Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent for the New York Times, and we'll be talking about China's foreign policy challenges in the year of the cock. That's going to be Saturday,
0:27.4	February 11th at 730, and tickets will be 100 RMB. They should be available at the Bookworm or on its website,
0:35.5	Beijing Bookworm.com.
0:40.5	We are also going to be doing a live podcast taping with one of our very favorite China reporters, Chris Buckley.
0:44.0	He joined the New York Times just a couple of years ago
0:46.3	after a very long and storied career with Reuters
0:48.6	where he broke some really seriously big news.
0:51.1	He's going to be chatting with us about Xi Jinping
0:53.4	and about the Chinese leadership, and that's going to be chatting with us about Xi Jinping and about the Chinese leadership,
0:55.3	and that's going to be at the Yale Center on Tuesday evening, February 14th. The event will be free,
1:01.2	but seating is limited, so please register with us. Just send us an email at Cinnica at
1:06.7	subchina.com with the subject heading Yale Center event, and we'll make sure to send you back a ticket and save you a seat.
1:13.7	We very much look forward to catching up with some of our old friends and making some new ones.
1:18.4	So hopefully we'll see you in February and enjoy the show. Welcome to the Cynical Podcast.
1:32.9	A week of the discussion of current affairs in China produced in partnership with SubChina.
1:37.1	SubChina offers the best way to stay on top of the most important news from China in just a few minutes a day through a free email newsletter, a smartphone app, and at
1:45.1	the website to subchina.com. SubChina offers a feast of business, political, and cultural news
1:50.6	about a nation that is reshaping the world. I'm Kaiser Guo, and I'm coming to you today from
1:55.5	the Seneca South Studio in downtown Durham, North Carolina, joining me from a mountaintop of Tennessee. Greenest state
2:02.5	in the land of the free. 20 years in China from the age of 23. No one do with friends by the
2:08.1	name of Jimmy. Jeremy Goldcord, greet the people. Hello people. Yeah, howdy from Nashville.
2:20.1	Are you familiar with the Ballad of Davy Crockett in South Africa?
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