A podcast about English translations of Chinese literature, hosted by Angus Stewart. All eras, all genres, all ideologies. Shanghai villas, Beijing alleys. Frozen Manchuria, Sichuan furnaces. Sanmao's Sahara, Liu Cixin's apocalypse. That's where this podcast lives!
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Future shock included some very original and sometimes disturbing contemporary Chinese Science Fiction from the award-winning author Chen Qiufan and translated by Ken Liu, the translator of The Three Body Problem (Hugo Award winner). You can see how Chinese younger generation imagine about the future, the technology and how they change the people physically and spiritually. To be continued...
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Nippon Broadcasting System announcer Hisanori Yoshida shares Japanese anime information gathered in KADOKAWA's anime magazine “Newtype” for the world! The Japanese and Chinese versions are also available, translated using the multilingual voice translation tool “Lingueene!", being developed by Nippon Broadcasting System. Japanese version → https://podcast.1242.com/janime/ English version → https://podcast.1242.com/janime-en/ What is “Lingueene!" → https://www.1242.com/project/lingueene/ This ...
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Tune in every other week for inspiring, joyful, and informative conversations on transforming ourselves, our communities, and the world, in the spirit of ancient Chinese medicine, spirituality, and philosophy. Separating fact from fiction, we aim to bring you medicine from China's distant past, translated here to meet YOUR needs today, in clinic and beyond. I am your host, Dr. Sabine Wilms, medical historian, recovering university professor, and author and translator of more than a dozen boo ...
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A treasure trove of wise and pithy sayings, reflections on education, family values, the ideal human being, life and living, politics, art, culture and timeless wisdom, The Sayings of Confucius is indeed an invaluable addition to your bookshelf. Ever since Chinese literary works first began to be translated into European languages, the works of the legendary Chinese philosopher and teacher Confucius, who lived in present day Qufu in the Shandong province of China, more than two thousand year ...
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#5 - Janime News on Friday, November 1, 2024
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Nippon Broadcasting System announcer Hisanori Yoshida shares Japanese anime information gathered in KADOKAWA's anime magazine “Newtype” for the world! 【This week's topics】 ・Overseas Mail ・Abu Dhabi ・STEINS;GATE ・VTuber group “Buisupop! ・Uzumaki The Japanese and Chinese versions are also available, translated using the multilingual voice translation…
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At the end of the day, what does it mean to “nurture our true, innate, genuine, heavenly nature” and how is that related to healing and personal growth? When is the last time you have consciously savored each breath as an opportunity for transformation and restoration? How does fear hold us back from health and joy by literally tying up our preciou…
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#4 - Janime News on Friday, October 25, 2024
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Nippon Broadcasting System announcer Hisanori Yoshida shares Japanese anime information gathered in KADOKAWA's anime magazine “Newtype” for the world! 【This week's topics】 ・Crunchyroll ・Lazarus” directed by Shinichiro Watanabe ・Maboroshi ・Rilakkuma ・Oishimbo ・Animax Music ・ANIMENIA ABU DHABI 2024 The Japanese and Chinese versions are also available…
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#3 - Janime News on Friday, October 18, 2024
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Nippon Broadcasting System announcer Hisanori Yoshida shares Japanese anime information gathered in KADOKAWA's anime magazine “Newtype” for the world! 【This week's topics】 ・Shiyui ・Nobuyo Oyama ・Look Back ・Mr. Pompo the Movie Lover ・Versailles Rose ・Kowloon Generic Romance The Japanese and Chinese versions are also available, translated using the m…
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#2 - Janime News on Friday, October 11, 2024
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Nippon Broadcasting System announcer Hisanori Yoshida shares Japanese anime information gathered in KADOKAWA's anime magazine “Newtype” for the world! 【This week's topics】 ・The Color of You ・Dandadan ・Gundam Reconguista in G ・Fate/Zero ・Space Battleship Yamato ・Tokushima Machi★Asobi The Japanese and Chinese versions are also available, translated u…
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#1 - Janime News on Friday, October 4, 2024
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Nippon Broadcasting System announcer Hisanori Yoshida shares Japanese anime information gathered in KADOKAWA's anime magazine “Newtype” for the world! 【This week's topics】 ・Jujutsu Kaisen ・That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime ・My Hero Academia ・The Lord of the Rings ・Murai no Koi ・Chi ・Dandadan The Japanese and Chinese versions are also availabl…
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How do we decide in each moment on the best path towards píng 平 (“equilibrium” or “balance”) in the spirit of Chinese medicine? How do we calibrate our responses to external factors and decide between action and non-action? What do we use (and teach) as criteria for this process of actively cultivating or passively nurturing our True Nature? How do…
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Finding Balance Between Stillness and Action
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How can we get better at listening to our body and aligning with the Dao? How can we compost harmful emotional energy into life-giving Qi in service of physical, emotional, and spiritual transformation? How can we use the tool of curiosity as an antidote to judgment and thereby change the flavor of our inquiries? How can we complete our nature thro…
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Are you curious about the theme music for Season Three of our podcast and the sharp contrast to the obnoxiously gregarious Mexican accordeon music of the previous two seasons, which, I must admit, are a reflection of my own German heritage and decades spent in Hispanic culture? Do you recognize Leo’s beautifully serene voice and grasp the meaning o…
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Welcome to the first episode in Season Three of the Pebble in the Cosmic Pond podcast. For the next few months, we shall consider a variety of perspectives on “Nurturing Our Nature” 養性: Cultivating health and longevity from ancient China to today. This project is inspired by two things: First, Leo Lok's and my research in the volume on this topic i…
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What Do Love, Qigong, and Christ Consciousness Have to Do With Healing?
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This episode, titled "What Do Love, Qigong, and Christ Consciousness Have to Do with Healing," is the second half of our conversation with Cynthia Li, a biomedical doctor in the Bay area who specializes in functional and integrative medicine. She is also a practitioner of what she calls “qigong consciousness healing” or “collective field qigong” an…
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Looking for the Root, in Medicine, Qigong, and Religion
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Cynthia Li, our interview partner for this episode, is a biomedical doctor who I have been dreaming of asking questions for several years now, ever since our mutual friend Michael Lerner introduced me to her work. She is a biomedical doctor, specializing in functional and integrative medicine. She is also a qigong practitioner who studies and perfo…
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Today’s episode titled “Relax! You are Okay!” is the second part of Leo’s and my conversation with Cara Conroy-Lau, a Kiwi with a Chinese mom now practicing Chinese medicine and Buddhism in Canada. For this portion, we focus more specifically on the female perspective, both on the giving and on the receiving end of caring. I really appreciate Cara’…
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In today’s episode on “Olives and Porridge,” Leo Lok and I are talking to Cara Conroy-Lau. Cara is a beautiful global border-crossing practitioner of Chinese medicine and Buddhism who has ended up in Canada at the Clear Sky Meditation Centre in Cranbrook, after growing up in Singapore, New Zealand, and Japan. I loved our conversation for how it rev…
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For today’s episode on “Living and Teaching the Way of Yin,” Leo Lok and I are once again joined by Kris González, Chinese medicine practitioner and herbalist, whose personal experience of motherhood has been influenced by her Korean mother and her Mexican mother-in-law. In addition to her clinical practice, she is also an educator offering evocati…
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Welcome to Season Two of “The Pebble in the Cosmic Pond” where we focus on 2nd generation immigrant Asian voices by, for, and about women in that sweet spot in between traditional Asian wisdom and contemporary Western embodiment. Joining Leo and myself for our third episode on Season 2 is Kris González, Chinese medicine practitioner and herbalist, …
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In Season 2, titled “Over the Moon?”, we feature the voices of second-generation immigrant Asian women on female health. We explore the creative sweet spot in between the traditional Asian kitchen table wisdom that they have inherited from their mothers and aunties, and their personal and professional experience in contemporary North America. In th…
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Once again, Leo Lok and Sabine Wilms are here to bring you old and new stories about China's healing traditions and about Medicine in Heaven and on Earth... ...and in the sweet spot in between. In a special twist for Season 2, evocatively titled "Over the Moon?", they focus on second generation immigrant Asian voices by, for, and about women's heal…
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Introduction to Season Two on "Over the Moon?"
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In a special twist for Season 2, we feature second generation immigrant Asian women’s voices on female health. We explore the creative sweet spot in between the traditional Asian kitchen table wisdom on women’s health that they have inherited from their mothers and aunties, and their personal and professional experience in contemporary America. Bef…
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Occupational Hazards in Chinese Medicine
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What is the relationship between your personal practice of yangsheng and your clinical efficacy? Is it important, or even relevant, for a practitioner of Chinese medicine to embody the ideas of Yangsheng? In other words, can you be a good healer of others if you can’t take care of yourself? Are the short lifespans of many historical and contemporar…
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In the one hundredth episode of the Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast, we are throwing a goodbye party! Friends, listeners, and past guests joined me for a little reminiscing and musing. I drank precisely one beer. The show is going on hiatus, exactly as I’ve been warning you for the past ten episodes or so. The feed will stay up indefinitely, and…
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Eating for Old Age: The Lost Art of Chinese Food Therapy
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Today’s conversation is inspired by Leo Lok’s ideal of “Bodhisattva Math,” which is a great reminder for us to focus on topics in Chinese medicine that have the most impact on alleviating unnecessary suffering with the least amount of effort! In this context, Sun Simiao reminded us already in the seventh century that food is essential for human sur…
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Ep 99 - Mo Yan and The Republic of Wine with Dylan Levi King, Michelle Deeter, and Martin Winter
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‘I wrote the asinine words ‘liquor is literature’ and ‘people who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature’ when I was good and drunk, and you must not take them to heart.’ In the ninety ninth episode of the Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast we’re taking a lengthy holiday with Mo Yan in The Republic of Wine, so get your vi…
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Medicine, like any other skill or knowledge system, needs to be rooted in both subjectivity and objectivity. By valuing either one over the other, we deprive ourselves of an essential part thereof. Can traditional Chinese medicine and philosophy help us find a more balanced way of making sense of the world than the cold, rational, evidence-based ca…
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What makes somebody a master physician? What can we learn from historical texts about some limitations and possibilities, strengths and weakness of Chinese medicine that are no longer visible in the modern clinical context, especially as practiced in the West? How can we acquire and transmit skills to adapt Chinese medicine more flexibly, beyond th…
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Compassionate Practice, from Seattle To Taiwan to Nepal
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How does the training and practice of Chinese medicine change depending on one’s location? What is the difference in patient expectations, scopes of practice, and lineage versus institutional training and licensing? And what is really behind this supposed contrast between biomedicine, perceived as instantly effective and ideal for emergencies and s…
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Ep 98 - The Book of Beijing with Shi Yifeng and Carson Ramsdell
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I supposed every last one of this country’s 1.3 billion inhabitants all had their own obsessions with the giant germ cell. In the ninety eighth episode of the Translated Chinese fiction podcast I am joined by two fine fellows, Shi Yifeng and contributing translator Carson Ramsdell. All a-puff with imperial gusto, we leaf through The Book of Beijing…
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