#ReadingTheStone
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Stories for Kate Episode 3: Not quite Persuasion, but the best company
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We didn't quite manage to chat at length about Persuasion as we had planned, but we definitely shared a few stories for Kate! Original grapes Eil...
#ReadingTheStone Season 3 - Stories For Kate Episode 2: Valley Girl, like totally
09 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The grapes return for another episode of 'Stories for Kate.' This time we do a deep dive into Martha Coolidge's 1983 indie classic Vall...
#ReadingTheStone Season 3: Stories for Kate! Ep 1 Preamble: Foundational Romances
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
#ReadingTheStone Season 3: We have ventured a bit far afield from Story of the Stone and 18th century Chinese mansions for now, as Season 3 will be st...
#ReadingTheStone S2 Episode 10 Fellowship of The Stone: our post-120 wrap-up chat
26 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
[Originally recorded on March 25, 2023]"The Fellowship of the Stone" (thank you to one of the episode guests for our new sobriquet!) reconve...
#ReadingTheStone S2 Episode 9 On Baoyu's Farewell, and Ours - Reaching Chapter 120
12 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
[Originally recorded on 3-11-2023] We recorded our first #ReadingTheStone Saturday chat on April 2, 2022, and now nearly 12 months later, we say fare...
#ReadingTheStone S2 Episode 8: On Haunted Near Endings - the Penultimate Episode of the Jias
12 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
[Originally recorded on 3-4-23]“Before one disaster is over, here’s another!” Pretty much sums up all the chapters lately. - DaniOur heroic trio...
#ReadingTheStone S2 Episode 7 On Justice and Retribution, and Sea Otter Pelts
11 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
[Originally recorded on 2-25-2023]Waiyee and Eileen had other commitments this week, but Ann led the #ReadingTheStone group in a rich discussion of Ch...
#ReadingTheStone S2 Episode 6: On the Postlapsarian, and also surprisingly, Jia Zheng
27 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
[Originally recorded on 2-18-23]As #ReadingTheStone enters its final dozen chapters, we find ourselves ruminating over the postlapsarian state of thin...
#ReadingTheStone S2 Episode 5: On Love and Death in the House of Jia
11 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
[Originally recorded on 2-11-2023]The theme of this morning's #ReadingTheStone live chat began earlier, with Kate's Twitter poll on where re...
#ReadingTheStone S1 Episode 11: On Goethe v. Proust, Private v. Public Reading, and Hexes
10 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
[Originally recorded on July 2, 2022]After a lovely first #ReadingTheStone (virtual) face-to-face meetup as part of the Duke APSI Book Club in late Ju...
#ReadingTheStone S2 Episode 4: On Daiyu's Near Demise and Recovery, and Zen Koans
07 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
[Originally recorded on 2-4-23]#ReadingTheStone discussion centered around Chapters 91-95, though we began the conversation where we left off the prev...
#ReadingTheStone S1 Episode 10: On Poetry in the Garden, Gaokao exam questions, and is Baoyu a F-boy?
07 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
[Originally recorded on 6-11-2022]Episode 10 saw us ranging widely, though we nominally discussed Chapters 17 to 21. First, we chatted about all the b...
#ReadingTheStone S1 Episode 9 On Embedded Refrains and Incipient Desire in Hongloumeng
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
[Conversation originally recorded on 6/4/22]Our 9th week of #ReadingTheStone was lively and wide-ranging both on Twitter and during our Saturday live ...
#ReadingTheStone S1 Episode 8 On Grand Prospect Garden, and The Functions of Naming
28 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
[Conversation originally recorded on 5/28/22]Our eighth #ReadingTheStone conversation took us into the construction and naming of every nook and crann...
#ReadingTheStone S2 Episode 3: On Tragedy, Failure, and Creativity - and Daiyu, of course
28 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In last week's episode we agreed that the last 40 "Story of the Stone" chapters were giving final season wrap-up-all-the-loose-threads ...
#ReadingTheStone S2 Episode 2: On Daiyu's Anguished Dream, and Final Season Vibes
23 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The #ReadingTheStone community forged ahead into Chapters 81-85 today, and we encountered so many callbacks to earlier moments to the point that some ...
#ReadingTheStone Returns! S2 Episode 1 Our First Eighty Chapters of Reading Together
14 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
#ReadingTheStone had our first Saturday chat of the new year, on January 14, 2023. Last we left off, we had read up to Chapter 80 - and in this first ...
#ReadingTheStone S1 Episode 7: On Baoyu - no, Xifeng's - Education
26 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
#ReadingTheStone Episode 7 was supposed to be a continuation of our discussion of the education of Baoyu, the young scion of the Jia family - but Waiy...
#ReadingTheStone S1 Episode 6: On Mirrors and Misguided Readers
15 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
#ReadingTheStone Saturday live chats are back after a week's hiatus, and in this episode Waiyee and Eileen discuss the history of interlinear &am...
#ReadingTheStone S1 Episode 5: On Entering New Narrative Spaces
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our fifth Saturday chat continues the past week's conversation on Baoyu's sexual initiation - both in dreamland at the end of Chapter 5, and...
#ReadingTheStone S1 Episode 4: On Dreams and Illusion - and Chapter 5
23 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Eileen, Waiyee, and Ann dive into Chapter 5 of Hongloumeng - and respond to #ReadingTheStone questions about the role of dreams in Chinese literature,...
#ReadingTheStone S1 Episode 2: On Beginnings
20 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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#ReadingTheStone Begins. S1 Episode 1: Preamble
20 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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#ReadingTheStone S1 Episode 3: On Character - Daiyu, Baoyu, Baochai
16 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this third round of Saturday chats on #ReadingTheStone, Eileen and Waiyee and special guest Ann Waltner talk about the introduction of key characte...