Cracked Spines

Barbarian Beds: The Origin of the Chair in China by C.P. Fitzgerald (and other books on Chinese history)

Cyrus Amelia Fisher and Sarah Palmer Season 4 Episode 19

This week on Cracked Spines, Cyrus and Sarah dive into Sarah's latest obsession with Chinese history, cracking open several books by...mostly white authors in the 60's-80's. Okay, so it may not be an scholastically accurate or ethical deep dive, but it is fascinating. Listen as Sarah infodumps on Cyrus about the perils of learning the Chinese language, poetry translation, and gendered nouns. 


Content warning: humorous mentions of suicide and absolute butchering of French, Spanish, and Chinese languages. 

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