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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!)
Nov 7
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October 2023
Dragon Babies
Some last-minute tales of the altogether ooky
Oct 31
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September 2023
Susu Does the Dozens
What’s poetry good for? Have you ever owned someone so hard you changed the language?
Sep 11
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July 2023
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…
Jul 18
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April 2023
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?
Apr 17
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February 2023
Unidentified Flying Object Seen Over Yangzhou
My eleventh-century glowing orb is a million times cooler than your stupid balloons or whatever.
Feb 14
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August 2022
Friday Doggerel: "The Grubber"
Sometimes you see something so perfect in its irredeemability that you just have to commemorate it somehow.
Aug 5, 2022
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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…
Aug 3, 2022
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