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Pop Quiz: Related Person

March 3, 2015March 4, 2015 tommazanec

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. […]

 China, Sidestreets  Baidu, Cheng Yi, Du Fu, Neo-Confucianism, Shun, Sinology, Wang Anshi, Wang Yangming, Xunzi, Yao, Yu Ying-shih  Leave a comment

Guangzhou: City of Five Rams

January 27, 2015March 3, 2015 tommazanec

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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Ash Animals

January 19, 2015March 4, 2015 tommazanec

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 […]

 China, Poetry, Sidestreets  6 Comments

Sidestreets

January 19, 2015March 4, 2015 tommazanec

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 […]

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