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The Five Virtues of the Cat
17th-c. listicle clickbait or cute Feng Menglong anecdote? (#3 made us FORGET about MEAT for 3 MONTHS!)
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Dragon Babies
Some last-minute tales of the altogether ooky
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Susu Does the Dozens
What’s poetry good for? Have you ever owned someone so hard you changed the language?
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The Naming of Cats, and an Offering
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Unidentified Flying Object Seen Over Yangzhou
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Susu Does the Dozens
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Tao Yuanming - “Home Again”
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The Naming of Cats, and an Offering
"Ferocious beasts." "Creatures of the baleful category." "Cicada-nommers." If you can read Classical Chinese, you can have a moderately good time…
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Tao Yuanming - “Home Again”
Monday Motivation from medieval China's best-loved proponent of loud-quitting. How do we know what we know? And: Did history dudes hate Mondays?
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Unidentified Flying Object Seen Over Yangzhou
My eleventh-century glowing orb is a million times cooler than your stupid balloons or whatever.
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Friday Doggerel: "The Grubber"
Sometimes you see something so perfect in its irredeemability that you just have to commemorate it somehow.
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What's Good?
Everything is awful, the dynasty is collapsing, and the vibes are fucked. Other people have been here before. Here's a few of Jin Shengtan's favorite…
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