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

July 21, 2025 • 25 mins

The pilgrims encounter a foe with a predilection for skinning himself.

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Everybody is delighted at San Zang gaining a new traveling companion, especially his host.

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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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June 23, 2025 • 26 mins

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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May 6, 2025 • 20 mins

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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April 29, 2025 • 23 mins

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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