WCC Podcast

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Hello this is Cherrie and Natalie. We have a podcast where we talk about chinese/asian american stuff and sometimes make jokes.

Here is our website.
https://www.withchinesecharacteristics.com/

朋友们好!WCC这周发布的最新一集来啦:Yellow River Part 1, How it got yellow

2023年我们准备做一些“水系列”内容。第一集的主题是黄河的历史,我们主要讨论了:
* 四千年前还不叫黄河的“大河”,是如何在黄土高原上民族变迁、牧地变农田的历史中变黄的
* 为什么治理了这么多个世纪,在现代科技的帮助之下,直到今日,中国的暴雨洪涝依然频繁发生(例如2021年的特大洪灾)
*【大禹治水】一类的中式传说和西方洪灾的传说有什么不同,为什么我们认为中式寓言的意义是人定胜天,而非敬畏自然,这和现实中的水利工程、大国基建特色、举国体制又有什么关联?

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Ep 55: Yellow River Part 1 - How it got yellow — With Chinese Characteristics

In this episode we discuss China's sorrow, the famous and infamous yellow river (黄河). Stretching through China's north eastern floodplain, it both birthed early chinese civilization, and put it through some of its most harrowing challenges. In part one we discuss the geography of the yellow river

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Worked on the new Water Margins (水浒传)book club episode today. This basically sums up the whole book