215 – Chinese Ghosts

Download as MP3 (Right-click, Save As) We are joined by Ph.D. student Minwen Huang, who shares with us the history of the literary genre of Chinese Ghosts called Zhiguai, and how such beings (and literature) are viewed from ancient times to the present. A wiki page about the character for “ghost”: 鬼 Images of Women in Chinese Thought and Culture: Writings from the Pre-Qin […]