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Myths & Ideas · Traditional retelling

An uninvited banquet draws the Monkey King into a quarrel with Heaven.

4 min read · Audio available

Myths & Ideas · Traditional retelling

Stones, a mythic turtle and reed ash answer a world coming apart.

3 min read · Audio available

Myths & Ideas · Traditional retelling

Ten suns scorch the fields, and an archer faces the sky.

2 min read · Audio available

Classics & Literature · Traditional retelling

A butterfly, a dreamer, and a question about what it means to wake.

6 min read · Audio available

Classics & Literature · Traditional retelling

An old man lifts the first basket against two mountains.

4 min read · Audio available

Classics & Literature · Traditional retelling

One lost horse begins a chain no one can judge at first sight.

4 min read · Audio available

Classics & Literature · Historical account

Sun Bin sees the matchups that make one loss and two wins.

4 min read · Audio available

People · Historical account

An imperial envoy carried his staff through nineteen years of captivity and a changing diplomatic world.

6 min read · Audio available

People · Historical account

From a mounted attendant to Grand General, with the people and costs beyond his victories.

7 min read · Audio available

People · Historical account

The historian who set out to write 130 chapters and kept working through the Li Ling disaster.

7 min read · Audio available

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