Chinese Lore Podcast

Chinese Lore Podcast

Classic Chinese novels and stories, retold in English and in a way that makes them more accessible to non-Chinese audiences. chineselore.com

Episodes

June 30, 2025 26 mins

The pilgrims spend the night with a family experiencing major buyer's remorse about their son-in-law.

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The Black Bear Demon finds out that it doesn't feel so good to have a monkey swimming in your stomach.

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June 16, 2025 25 mins

The wicked schemes of the monks at the Guanyin Monastery backfire calamitously.

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June 2, 2025 26 mins

The scripture pilgrims seek lodging at a monastery whose residents might need a refresher on the tenets preached by their patron deity.

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May 26, 2025 26 mins

Sun Wukong returns to his master and finds a nasty little surprise waiting for him.

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May 19, 2025 25 mins

Sun Wukong and his new master have a difference of opinion on when it's ok for a Buddhist monk to spill someone's brains and loot their clothes.

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All's well that ends well, except for the princess whose soul gets dragged out of her mortal coil and hustled off to hell.

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Everybody kept telling me how dangerous the journey to the West was, but seriously how bad can it possibly ... oh my god what are those things and what are they doing to my men?!!!

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Somehow a trip to the underworld adds decades to the Tang emperor's life.

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April 28, 2025 28 mins

Guanyin crashes the emperor's Buddhist party and tells all the monks of the East what she really thinks of their scriptures.

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April 22, 2025 22 mins

We embark on a three-episode mini-arc to find out why the Tang emperor was convening a big gathering of monks.

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April 21, 2025 26 mins

The blind regains sight, and the dead rises. Is it a miracle ... or a zombie apocalypse?

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April 7, 2025 28 mins

The Buddha shows how far he would go (or make someone else go) to avoid paying to ship some scriptures to the East.

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March 31, 2025 27 mins

Sun Wukong makes a high-stakes wager with heaven's latest mediator.

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March 24, 2025 25 mins

Sun Wukong proves to be such a handful that heaven has to go get a hero from another novel to take him on.

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March 10, 2025 25 mins

The Jade Emperor decides to take a different approach to try to keep Sun Wukong under control.

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March 3, 2025 27 mins

A trip to Hell nets Sun Wukong a visit to Heaven.

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February 24, 2025 25 mins

Sun Wukong goes looking for a weapon befitting his newfound powers.

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February 10, 2025 28 mins

The Monkey King gets a name and some special treatment from his teacher.

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February 3, 2025 27 mins

An immaculate conception shakes heaven and earth, and an anarcho-syndicalist commune gives itself over to a king.

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