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Just some guy with a camera.
Also, I've got a {Chinese, classical Chinese, Italian, Japanese} dictionary and I'm not afraid to use it.
Also, I've got a {Chinese, classical Chinese, Italian, Japanese} dictionary and I'm not afraid to use it.
Back when I studied Chinese I had a French roommate for a while and when I got to a ’le’ or a ’de’ in either language there was a 1 in 10 chance I’d switch over to the other without noticing.
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Back when I studied Chinese I had a French roommate for a while and when I got to a ’le’ or a ’de’ in either language there was a 1 in 10 chance I’d switch over to the other without noticing.
Economists are like medieval scholastics, they produce truth using sophisticated formal methods but completely unrealistic axioms which leads to them to invent epicycle upon epicycle to explain the conjunctions.
November 6, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Economists are like medieval scholastics, they produce truth using sophisticated formal methods but completely unrealistic axioms which leads to them to invent epicycle upon epicycle to explain the conjunctions.
…och lite hiragana till på köpet.
(Att ta hand om papper med tecken på var tydligen något som gav hög status i lokalsamhället till den ofrivilligt obsolete konfucianska ämbetsmannen i Henrietta Harrisons väldigt intressanta ”The Man Awakened from Dreams”)
www.sup.org/books/asian-...
(Att ta hand om papper med tecken på var tydligen något som gav hög status i lokalsamhället till den ofrivilligt obsolete konfucianska ämbetsmannen i Henrietta Harrisons väldigt intressanta ”The Man Awakened from Dreams”)
www.sup.org/books/asian-...
The Man Awakened from Dreams | Stanford University Press
In this beautifully crafted study of one emblematic life, Harrison addresses large themes in Chinese history while conveying with great immediacy the textures and rhythms of everyday life in the count...
www.sup.org
November 1, 2025 at 2:48 PM
…och lite hiragana till på köpet.
(Att ta hand om papper med tecken på var tydligen något som gav hög status i lokalsamhället till den ofrivilligt obsolete konfucianska ämbetsmannen i Henrietta Harrisons väldigt intressanta ”The Man Awakened from Dreams”)
www.sup.org/books/asian-...
(Att ta hand om papper med tecken på var tydligen något som gav hög status i lokalsamhället till den ofrivilligt obsolete konfucianska ämbetsmannen i Henrietta Harrisons väldigt intressanta ”The Man Awakened from Dreams”)
www.sup.org/books/asian-...
Well, they called it 辭海 because of the feeling of just barely being able to keep your head above water.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cihai
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cihai
Cihai - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
October 31, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Well, they called it 辭海 because of the feeling of just barely being able to keep your head above water.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cihai
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cihai
Not really a lit review but I've had the papers from a symposium on Scott's Against the Grain published in Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 2019; Vol 29(4) in my Zotero library forever, I haven't read them but maybe there is some historiography in there?
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Cambridge Archaeological Journal: Volume 29 - Issue 4 | Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core - Cambridge Archaeological Journal - Volume 29 - Issue 4
www.cambridge.org
October 31, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Not really a lit review but I've had the papers from a symposium on Scott's Against the Grain published in Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 2019; Vol 29(4) in my Zotero library forever, I haven't read them but maybe there is some historiography in there?
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
But there might an interesting essay in there somewhere on how the authors of articles like that are just rhapsodising set phrases until they hit their word limit instead of doing any real analysis.
October 31, 2025 at 6:46 PM
But there might an interesting essay in there somewhere on how the authors of articles like that are just rhapsodising set phrases until they hit their word limit instead of doing any real analysis.
Oh, come now, he is also 'lion-hearted', 'god-like' and 'the pelead'.
(The actual subject of the thread (CLB, CDM) makes me so depressed I just had to go along with the tangent...)
(The actual subject of the thread (CLB, CDM) makes me so depressed I just had to go along with the tangent...)
October 31, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Oh, come now, he is also 'lion-hearted', 'god-like' and 'the pelead'.
(The actual subject of the thread (CLB, CDM) makes me so depressed I just had to go along with the tangent...)
(The actual subject of the thread (CLB, CDM) makes me so depressed I just had to go along with the tangent...)
Thanks for posting this.
I'm revealing my ignorance here but I'd been vaguely aware about Jin and Liu and some of their works but not really connected the dots until I read the short bio at the top of the linked article.
I'm revealing my ignorance here but I'd been vaguely aware about Jin and Liu and some of their works but not really connected the dots until I read the short bio at the top of the linked article.
October 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Thanks for posting this.
I'm revealing my ignorance here but I'd been vaguely aware about Jin and Liu and some of their works but not really connected the dots until I read the short bio at the top of the linked article.
I'm revealing my ignorance here but I'd been vaguely aware about Jin and Liu and some of their works but not really connected the dots until I read the short bio at the top of the linked article.
Since you asked I will (against better judgement) provide feedback here on social media:
* democracy and human rights are more than tedious details
* ”the West” does not equal the US
* ”intellectual flexibility” cannot simply mean replacing US exceptionalism with Chinese exceptionalism
* democracy and human rights are more than tedious details
* ”the West” does not equal the US
* ”intellectual flexibility” cannot simply mean replacing US exceptionalism with Chinese exceptionalism
October 17, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Since you asked I will (against better judgement) provide feedback here on social media:
* democracy and human rights are more than tedious details
* ”the West” does not equal the US
* ”intellectual flexibility” cannot simply mean replacing US exceptionalism with Chinese exceptionalism
* democracy and human rights are more than tedious details
* ”the West” does not equal the US
* ”intellectual flexibility” cannot simply mean replacing US exceptionalism with Chinese exceptionalism