Jakabfy Károly (康明智)
@jakabfik.bsky.social
Sinology MA student. Interested in the Far East, ancient cultures, literature. (Hobby-)translator. Languages: 🇭🇺🇬🇧🇩🇪一点🇨🇳和文言 、彬彬君子，霸王最忠之臣子
近平十三年，昭和百年
My website: https://juewangshidai.neocities.org/
近平十三年，昭和百年
My website: https://juewangshidai.neocities.org/
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Juewang Shidai - The Hopeless Age
A Website about Asian Studies in a Hopeless Age
juewangshidai.neocities.org
You can find my website here:
juewangshidai.neocities.org
It contains my articles and translations, usually on topics related to Asian culture.
juewangshidai.neocities.org
It contains my articles and translations, usually on topics related to Asian culture.
Finally I have my very own copy of Wittfogel's "Society and Economy of China".
It's not the hardcover edition from 1931 but even having it in paperback feels amazing.
If they make me a president I want to be sworn in placing my hands on this shit.
It's not the hardcover edition from 1931 but even having it in paperback feels amazing.
If they make me a president I want to be sworn in placing my hands on this shit.
November 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Finally I have my very own copy of Wittfogel's "Society and Economy of China".
It's not the hardcover edition from 1931 but even having it in paperback feels amazing.
If they make me a president I want to be sworn in placing my hands on this shit.
It's not the hardcover edition from 1931 but even having it in paperback feels amazing.
If they make me a president I want to be sworn in placing my hands on this shit.
Don’t exactly know what‘s going on here but someone left a single volume of an encyclopedia out on the street.
November 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Don’t exactly know what‘s going on here but someone left a single volume of an encyclopedia out on the street.
Sucks that Gates of Hell is not from 2025 so I can't nominate it on Steam for the "Best Game You Suck At" category.
November 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Sucks that Gates of Hell is not from 2025 so I can't nominate it on Steam for the "Best Game You Suck At" category.
Genuinely wasn't expecting the Persona 5 artbook to show up months after I ordered it.
It's actually kind of cool to read the comments attached to the pieces.
It's actually kind of cool to read the comments attached to the pieces.
November 21, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Genuinely wasn't expecting the Persona 5 artbook to show up months after I ordered it.
It's actually kind of cool to read the comments attached to the pieces.
It's actually kind of cool to read the comments attached to the pieces.
This thing has been tempting me for WEEKS in the window of the bookstore and I finally succumbed and got it.
It's the size and weight of multiple bricks and sometimes 90% of the page is just increasingly autistic commentary on the life and times of Holmes.
It's the size and weight of multiple bricks and sometimes 90% of the page is just increasingly autistic commentary on the life and times of Holmes.
November 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This thing has been tempting me for WEEKS in the window of the bookstore and I finally succumbed and got it.
It's the size and weight of multiple bricks and sometimes 90% of the page is just increasingly autistic commentary on the life and times of Holmes.
It's the size and weight of multiple bricks and sometimes 90% of the page is just increasingly autistic commentary on the life and times of Holmes.
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NEW BOOK> Traditional Chinese Children’s Primers: A Sourcebook, by Katherine Ngo and Kelly Ngo. Online and Open Access! www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
Traditional Chinese Children’s Primers: A Sourcebook
Part of the <a href="https://www.leverpress.org/reeditions/">Re-Editions: Literary and Cultural Texts Recovered for the Classroom</a> series. First anthology of traditional Chinese children’s primers ...
www.fulcrum.org
November 19, 2025 at 10:44 AM
NEW BOOK> Traditional Chinese Children’s Primers: A Sourcebook, by Katherine Ngo and Kelly Ngo. Online and Open Access! www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
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Meet one of the oldest early printed books in our collections - a Japanese-Spanish dictionary compiled by Catholic missionaries and published in 1630 in Manila 📖
November 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Meet one of the oldest early printed books in our collections - a Japanese-Spanish dictionary compiled by Catholic missionaries and published in 1630 in Manila 📖
Got a cheapo set of Glenn Miller CDs and honestly it’s the exact kind of disgusting background I was looking for.
It almost makes me angry how tasteless it all is.
It almost makes me angry how tasteless it all is.
November 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Got a cheapo set of Glenn Miller CDs and honestly it’s the exact kind of disgusting background I was looking for.
It almost makes me angry how tasteless it all is.
It almost makes me angry how tasteless it all is.
Got the second volume of the Lupin III Anthology in German and also this busted copy of Gaboriau’s “Case file no. 113”
November 15, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Got the second volume of the Lupin III Anthology in German and also this busted copy of Gaboriau’s “Case file no. 113”
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#BOTD in #ChineseHistory: Sun Wen #孫文 (1866–1925), courtesy name 字 Yixian #逸仙 (Yat-sen in #Cantonese), better known in the #Sinophone World as Zhongshan #中山, a name he adopted in exile in Japan. 1st (provisional) president of the Republic of China #中華民國 & Father of the Nation #國父.
November 12, 2025 at 4:15 AM
#BOTD in #ChineseHistory: Sun Wen #孫文 (1866–1925), courtesy name 字 Yixian #逸仙 (Yat-sen in #Cantonese), better known in the #Sinophone World as Zhongshan #中山, a name he adopted in exile in Japan. 1st (provisional) president of the Republic of China #中華民國 & Father of the Nation #國父.
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#histbookchat Part 1 of Sino-Japanese War by John Dong out now from Helion - Part 2 due Spring 2026
www.helion.co.uk/military-his...
www.helion.co.uk/military-his...
November 12, 2025 at 10:08 AM
#histbookchat Part 1 of Sino-Japanese War by John Dong out now from Helion - Part 2 due Spring 2026
www.helion.co.uk/military-his...
www.helion.co.uk/military-his...
I‘m impressed how the Ninth Gate, while not really Tarot-centric, used the symbols of the deck well enough that I kinda clocked in where this shit was sorta heading like 30 minutes in.
November 11, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I‘m impressed how the Ninth Gate, while not really Tarot-centric, used the symbols of the deck well enough that I kinda clocked in where this shit was sorta heading like 30 minutes in.
Tonal whiplash movienight
November 9, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Tonal whiplash movienight
813 is such an interesting novel because you'd think someone like Lupin is above nationality in a sense, but in the latter half of the novel Leblanc seems to get the plot sort of bogged down in some strange nationalist fantasy entailing Luping trying to get back Alsace-Lorainne.
November 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM
813 is such an interesting novel because you'd think someone like Lupin is above nationality in a sense, but in the latter half of the novel Leblanc seems to get the plot sort of bogged down in some strange nationalist fantasy entailing Luping trying to get back Alsace-Lorainne.
Finishing the last volume I kinda don't know how to feel about this. It's an insanely pretty manga.
The plot is kind of inconsequential, not that it's a problem, really. Kinda feels like something you could turn into a small OVA.
The plot is kind of inconsequential, not that it's a problem, really. Kinda feels like something you could turn into a small OVA.
I'm going to try to properly articulate this but reading this manga just feels wrong, mostly because of the art. The art is pretty. It's basically the artist taking the original designs of an idealized JRPG and then turning the dial up to 11.
November 8, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Finishing the last volume I kinda don't know how to feel about this. It's an insanely pretty manga.
The plot is kind of inconsequential, not that it's a problem, really. Kinda feels like something you could turn into a small OVA.
The plot is kind of inconsequential, not that it's a problem, really. Kinda feels like something you could turn into a small OVA.
Probably should've timed it better for it to be something high and mighty instead of pulp fiction essentially, but this is apparently volume 1300 in my library: Maurice Leblanc's "The Crystal Stopper".
November 8, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Probably should've timed it better for it to be something high and mighty instead of pulp fiction essentially, but this is apparently volume 1300 in my library: Maurice Leblanc's "The Crystal Stopper".
You know what?
I wouldn't actually want the author of a book titled "A History of Japanese detective fiction" to look any different.
I'm happy knowing that he probably enjoyed every minute of working on this.
I wouldn't actually want the author of a book titled "A History of Japanese detective fiction" to look any different.
I'm happy knowing that he probably enjoyed every minute of working on this.
November 4, 2025 at 11:48 AM
You know what?
I wouldn't actually want the author of a book titled "A History of Japanese detective fiction" to look any different.
I'm happy knowing that he probably enjoyed every minute of working on this.
I wouldn't actually want the author of a book titled "A History of Japanese detective fiction" to look any different.
I'm happy knowing that he probably enjoyed every minute of working on this.
Visited some friends in Vienna.
Got drunk. Checked out the local anime con.
Time well spent methinks.
Got drunk. Checked out the local anime con.
Time well spent methinks.
November 2, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Visited some friends in Vienna.
Got drunk. Checked out the local anime con.
Time well spent methinks.
Got drunk. Checked out the local anime con.
Time well spent methinks.
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Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
November 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
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Be resolute, fear no sacrifice and surmount every difficulty to win victory.
October 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Be resolute, fear no sacrifice and surmount every difficulty to win victory.
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this isn't one of your big city "funny" satires
CW: only tears, no smiles
CW: only tears, no smiles
October 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM
this isn't one of your big city "funny" satires
CW: only tears, no smiles
CW: only tears, no smiles
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This site has no juice until you get 19 year olds you who post shit like “artistic mediums ranked: TV>Film>VNs>Video Games>paintings>music>”
October 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
This site has no juice until you get 19 year olds you who post shit like “artistic mediums ranked: TV>Film>VNs>Video Games>paintings>music>”
I accidentally left the CPC flag in the background during the job interview
October 29, 2025 at 11:18 AM
I accidentally left the CPC flag in the background during the job interview
The US delegation when they enter the room and it's Li Chenggang
October 27, 2025 at 11:35 AM
The US delegation when they enter the room and it's Li Chenggang
Translating the case of Judge Bao and the the ox tongue from the Tangyin Bishi and it's pretty great how it makes little sense to us because you wouldn't think that in ancient China you would need a government permit to slaughter an ox.
October 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Translating the case of Judge Bao and the the ox tongue from the Tangyin Bishi and it's pretty great how it makes little sense to us because you wouldn't think that in ancient China you would need a government permit to slaughter an ox.