Host Spun Counterguy wrote a book called The Ten Tracks Mixtape Tasks and filmmaker Todd Zeller talks to him about it, including questions from readers....
Fan Wu is the Chinese-American author of February Flowers and Beautiful As Yesterday. She comes Back By the Woodpile to talk about how different audiences...
Musician and poet Steve Scott comes Back By The Woodpile to talk about not only the messages and history of the Gospel of John but...
German businessman Heinrich Schliemann was so obsessed by the epics of Homer that he read 100 hexagrams of the Iliad at his second wedding (not...
Lin Zhao was an enthusiastic member of the Chinese Communist Party but in time her comrades would sentence her to death. Professor Xi Lian comes...
Author Lisa See comes Back By the Woodpile to give us a history lesson on the Korean Jeju Island, the Haenyeo women divers and how...
Jim R. McClanahan of Journey To the West Research returns to the Woodpile to talk all about Sun Wukong! Including his many accessories, weapons, names, link...
Laszlo Montgomery of the China History Podcast comes Back By the Woodpile to talk the music scene of 1930’s and 40’s Shanghai. Li Jinhui, The...
Journey to the West is an epic piece of Chinese literature of which researcher Jim McClanahan comes Back By The Woodpile to give us a...
Welcome to Brick Bulb Town where you’ll meet folks like Swuandy Howtoefah, Farnky Smearcake, Clunk Shoetoucher the Jerk Kicker General, Ting Tap the tinker twister and...
A story of one woman’s journey from Mao’s Revolutionary China to rural Kentucky. To hear on Stitcher, click here! To hear on iTunes, click here!
Taoist Scholar Livia Kohn returns Back by the Woodpile to talk about her new book Taoist China, which is a look at the current state of the practice...
How to dismatle a country, how to co-opt a religion and how to rewrite history. It’s all here as Joshua Philipp of the Epoch Times talks a...
The Chinese Communist Party without a doubt affects our daily lives without us knowing it. Epoch Times’ Joshua Philipp comes Back By the Woodpile to explain this...
More tales of an American in the Taoist wonderland of China! This time around, encounters with corrupt Buddhists, faux Catholics, underground Christians, a Jewish well,...
More adventures of an American in China trying to find the meaning of the Tao! This time around, Zhuangzi’s butterflies and romance on the Meng...
Loneliness, taking the temperature of the room, crying fish in the heart of water, greed, the opportunism of compassion and so much more are discussed...
Taoist adventures in China! The is the second part of an American’s quest in the Middle Kingdom to learn more about the Tao Te Ching,...
Adventures in China all in pursuit of the Tao! Spun Counterguy tells stories and proverbs both ancient and modern all in his quest to know...
Peter Horse is back ready to talk about all kinds of things that could get us carted off to prison, including Liu Xiaobo, Taylor Swift...
Snapshots into the lives of ordinary Chinese folk, ranging from doctors to students to the spiritually minded.
A whole village under the thumb of one snake, avenging a father one never knew, the safety in being useless, piting lions against each other,...
We’re back over in China’s interior for another lesson in the ways of the Taoism. This time around we’re talking with a “Mr. Wu” who...
Half of this episode will be in the ocean depths and the other half will be over in China; and a guy we’ll call ShuǐXià LaoWai will...
To some Falun Gong is just way to exercise or meditate, to others it’s brought them great inner peace and then to others it somehow...
Master Hu is Taoist scholar who discusses with us the relationship between the philosophical and religious spectrum of Taoism, the attempt to incorporate Confucianism, making...
Another philosophical discussion, this time around on such light subjects as martyrdom, socialism, forgiveness, failure and spilling huckleberries. Click here to find on iTunes! Click...
More thinking and discussing while pulling from wit and wisdom from Poland, China, Ireland, Briton and the American South.
What do transporting international criminals, the beaches in Thailand, Chinese classrooms and the bombing of Beirut have in common? A UK bloke by the...
(Taoism’s attributed founder, LaoZi) If you do a search of the word ‘Tao‘, a ton of books and philosophies will pop up claiming to know...