Chinese Literature Podcast
Su Dongpo Gets Drunk in Exile
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- Duración: 0:14:56
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Sinopsis
In this week's episode, we look at a series of three poems by Su Dongpo, the Song poet who was sent into exile multiple times. This series of poems is about his time in the crummiest of exiles, on Hainan Island. Drunkeness here is a metaphor for giving up on life in officialdom (though it was also non-metaphorical as well...).