And full agenda here: www.eventsforce.net/standrews/23...

And not say us as literary scholars! We don’t even have a proper term (in one word only, like ‘philologists’) to call ourselves!

As international students we are not trusted by the Chinese government, and many see us indifferently as foreign spies, and thus we are excluded from many opportunities at home. While in the States they now see us as protégés of the CPC, which we are obviously not.

This is wild...especially it is written by a Japanesse author! (as I guess from the name?)

And please let me know if there is anything else that I can be possibly helpful! Very happy to help. But such a shame I am not on Discord at all…

Hello!!! That is really interesting but i am afraid (in my very personal opinion) the names don’t bear with themselves any significant meanings in Taoist mythology. So as you can see they are either quite general (just like what you have noted on the eng names) or quite westernised.

No worries at all!! I am very glad to be helpful!

And Kate do you have more context for the last one? I don’t think 矿羊 is a Chinese phrase as t all…but here 矿=mine, and 羊=goat or sheep

More than happy to!
So the first one 批叶巨狼 means literally ’leaf-shrouded giant wolf’; the second one 小泡泡蛙 means ‘little bubbly frog’; the third means ‘Eadred of the burning wings’ (so here it is quite epithetic; but 埃德雷德 is the chn transliteration for Eadred); the last one mine goats?

一个出于我悲催童年的回答：哪怕有些家长可能知道会这能隐约意识到自己就是很多问题的根源，他们也是能掩饰就掩饰，找到机会指责子女就指责子女，但唯独不会承认可能不少问题就是从他们自己这里来的

完全不冒犯！！！我的point也在这里，知道又能怎样呢

我生物学意义上的爹可怕这个了！以前还在国内的时候，饭桌上喝着酒就跟我非常激动地讲，“你别以后一个人死国外了我们都不知道”！

Once again, I totally understand that in China classics as a discipline it needs money and attention from the government to survive. Cultural interchange and learning from their international peers are both important for Chinese classicists of course, but can they only be realised in such a way?

So what really annoys me is their sought for political recognition (both as a discipline and for its apparent Straussian approach to classics on the Chinese end, and the extended practical/propagandistic usefulness) and how they abuse the platform for promoting the Chinese ‘cultural leadership’.

Not suggesting that we don’t deserve a place in classics as Chinese but I don’t think Chinese scholars (esp those at home) are ready and prepared to undertake the international leadership as they perceive it. In some a way the conference sounds very chauvinistic, especially some of its agenda.