Ep 78 - Gu Hongming and Bonnie Prince Tuan with Lee Moore
The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast
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The National Writers Museum in Edinburgh
We've mentioned Robert Burns a couple of times. Should we remind the listener who, you know, like that they have obviously heard a Robert Burns poem because everyone on the planet has heard one? So I can make this one a personal anecdote. When I lived in Edinburgh, I was somehow on relatively cheap rent in the centre of the city in a close, which is like a courtyard in a flat there. And our close was connected with the next one down. And in that next one down was the writers, it's just called the National Writers Museum or something. And it's devoted to three of them: Walter Scott, who wrote Bonnie Dundee that Bonnie Prince Juan is based on and
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