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To the tune of "The Unbreakable Strings"
What use were all your kingly plans? How long endured the tyrant's scheme?
Nov 6
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October 2024
Song Dingbo Catches a Ghost
Quick thinking, sharp dealing, and the only thing ghosts are afraid of.
Oct 11
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July 2024
The Heat
Critical support for Comrade The Scoffing Scholar of Lanling
Jul 16
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May 2024
Tao Yuanming Reads on a Summer Evening
Rest and quiet contentment, with monsters.
May 17
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Tao Yuanming Reads on a Summer Evening
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Too Much Party
13th-century retirement parties, 9th-century ragers, and late 16th-century obscenities for early third-millennium eyes.
May 5
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April 2024
Su Shi Discovers the Secret Ingredient
It turns out to be "having nothing better to do."
Apr 19
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The Emperor's So-Called Cats and the Manjurist Bat-Signal
Spoiler: The Qianlong Emperor's cats are (probably) fakety fake-fake-fake.
Apr 7
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Yo Man, Mo Yan
When's the last time you wondered about Alice Munro's political stances?
Apr 4
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March 2024
Li Bai to Du Fu: Wish You Were Here
On the friendship between Li Bai and Du Fu, the two greatest Tang poets
Mar 29
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Babble and Cant and Flummery
Why settle for bullshit artists when you could have bullshit artistes?
Mar 26
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Spring and Stone and the Total Perspective Vortex
Nice flowers you’ve got there. Be a shame if they turned out to symbolize the ephemerality of all things.
Mar 22
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January 2024
Chen Cao'an Has Advice for Being Online in an Election Year
It's two words — one, if you use a contraction.
Jan 11
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