I hope you can find out more info one day

It only counts Li family descendants so if a daughter's child has a different last name then those are not listed 🥲 My frustration with the erasure of women in these documents is another story

i haven't counted but it's over 40 pages

that's so important - i'm curious to hear what you learn at the workshop if you're able to share later

because of the importance of ancestor worship in chinese culture, most families keep meticulous records although a lot have been lost or destroyed in recent decades

it's mostly passed down within the family rather than public registers

It varies a lot -- some nobility if you trace it back to the beginning (but it's hard to say how reliable it is, as a lot of families like to claim this). in recent centuries it's mostly working and middle class. a long tradition of farming while also studying and teaching

Yes I've known of its existence for a while but it's cool to finally see it with my own eyes

Not as far as I know, but there's a long 耕读传家 tradition. My grandpa's grandpa was a 私塾老师 and the oldest ancestor listed was supposed to have held office.

My understanding of Chinese history is not strong enough to parse what he was doing

So I'm thinking I may be able to find more local records or literature and folktale

Yes, that's the info I found when I first delve into this a while back. It's nice though to have the actual genealogy book itself! I'm hoping to visit the town this time while I'm here.

Also, even though 牛口坝 is a very small and not well-known area now, it once featured in poems by poets such as 苏轼

thanks Joyce :)

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it's where I am from so I get it but it's interesting to see how normalized it is to deal with heat here, and vice versa it's like 15 here and people are wearing winter coats and every aunty and uncle on the street is trying to get me to dress warmer

people here react this way because it's often still 30+ c even in october and in the summer it gets up to 40-45

the slump is racism

i'd say the experience is wildly different for translators of color vs white translators

do you work for 7 seas? they treated me really terribly

it'd be nice to have a solution other than literally leaving the country/continent

the fact i basically had to leave canada and come to asia, and once i did, i was able to translate again after a year of depression and translator's block, says so much