Pop Quiz: Related Person
I was recently searching on Baidupedia and found this list in the top-right hand corner of my page. They are the “related people” to the one whose page I was on. […]
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Guangzhou: City of Five Rams
The Big Apple, the Big Easy, Motor City, Sin City, Forest City. Nicknames like these are crystallizations of stories about a city. Sometimes, they’re the story a city tells itself; […]
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Today, as I read through the biography of the third-century official Yáng Xiù 羊琇, I came across the following remarkable passage: He was prone to profligacy and wasteful without limit. He […]
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In the past few months, I have been translating a large number of poems from the Late Táng dynasty for my doctoral dissertation on poet-monks of ninth- and tenth-century China. Not […]