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Daoism—lives—language—performance. And jokes
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My current earworm: the 2nd movement of Mahler 5
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October 9, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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As well as this sketch of Shan Fuyi, another main source for our material on the early and modern history of Gaoluo
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September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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A village elder, before and after Liberation
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Part of my series on the modern history of Gaoluo
September 23, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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In memory of the great ethnomusicologist David Hughes
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September 16, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Recopying the Li family Daoist ritual manuals
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September 14, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Li Qing’s Daoist uncle Li Peisen had already anticipated the ravages of Maoist campaigns by moving to the safety of his wife’s natal village, preserving the family ritual manuals—as explained in this post on Women of Yanggao
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September 14, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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*Don’t miss* the late lamented Nicolas Robertson's astounding series of anagram tales, based on composers’ names, Mozart operas, and so on!!! My index can only hint at the riches contained within them…
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August 19, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Iga’s first Wimbledon final makes a pretext to remind you of this post on wacky diacritics and nasal vowels: Polish ogonek and Portuguese til—with matching anagram and limerick!
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July 11, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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Changing times: Daoist and Buddhist groups at Daxing funerals 1995
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June 29, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Sooo happy for Coco!!!
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June 8, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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The artistry of the craftsman in Istanbul stephenjones.blog/2023/06/20/s...
June 5, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Do foreigners really choose images that expose the “ugliness” of China (and is that what my films do)?! Please feel free to circulate articles on the topic!
June 1, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Growing body of articles under the Gaoluo Menu of my site!
May 31, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Chinese-subtitled version now available both on my sites and in China!
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May 31, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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A stimulating Chinese review of my film
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May 29, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Survey of village ritual associations on the Hebei plain
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May 24, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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The route from the temple ritual of old Beijing (studied by Yang Yinliu in 1953) to village ritual associations on the plain just south, discovered since 1986: links to a series of posts
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May 17, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Dream a Little Dream of Me—the Mamas and the Papas, with an exhilarating modulation
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May 6, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Collected posts on the famine in China
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May 5, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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The ethereal theremin—with Clara Rockmore’s enchanting rendition of Vocalise
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May 4, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Ways of incorporating social history into the silent, static donors' lists of ritual associations in Hebei:
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April 30, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Reinterpreting Quanzhen and Zhengyi Daoist ritual through fieldwork—illustrating the inadequacy of reading ancient texts in libraries
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April 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Brahms’ German Requiem: Barenboim, Furtwängler, Klemperer, Celibidache, Tennstedt, Gardiner
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April 23, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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For Easter, links to many posts on Bach: cantatas (cycles and seasons), Bach and Daoist ritual, keyboard works, solo and orchestral suites, films…
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April 20, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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For Good Friday, links to a series of posts on the Bach Passions
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April 18, 2025 at 7:25 AM