396 episodes
Chinese Lore Podcast Chinese Lore Podcasts
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4.9 • 63 Ratings
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Classic Chinese novels and stories, retold in English and in a way that makes them more accessible for non-Chinese audiences.
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Gods 071: Fan Service
Jiang Ziya gets help from a guy with eye-popping powers.
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Gods 070: Brother's Betrayal
Politics turn blood relations into blood enemies.
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Gods 069: Kill the Messenger
King Zhou gets literal and puts a figure of speech into practice, with predictably disastrous results.
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Gods 068: Slap in the Face
The Chan and Jie Sects stop pretending they're frenemies and start acting like straight-up enemies.
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Gods 067: Child's Play
A Shang commander learns the pros and cons of letting your kids talk to random beggar monks.
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Customer Reviews
Lively, intelligent, and humorous retellings
I have been meaning to read Investiture of the Gods for years but have never gotten around to it. John Zhou’s narration is engaging and full of wry modern commentary to lighten things up and keep them entertaining. I’m hoping my kids will also take to following his show.
A podcast of epic proportions!
OMG! John Zhou is a treasure. Spit takes and coffee spills aside, I love his work. Love his puckish sense of humor. Love the stories!!! Got hooked on his amazing Romance of the Three Kingdoms pod/performance, and have begun Water Margin. I cannot say enough here. Simply extraordinary fun (and RotTK is hundreds of years old, from a culture not familiar to us in America). His retelling is well-paced, thoroughly researched to maximize our understanding of all the allusions and morés and I believe he captures the excitement of the story as intended. Love, love, love this podcaster.
Dream of the Red Chamber maybe?????
Storytelling Master
Who would imagine a four-hundred-year-old novel could be so engrossing?! This is told by a storyteller who makes it as vivid as contemporary anime.