... I figured out why Zhou Shen (especially current Zhou Shen) feels so familiar to me LMAOOOOO He looks and vibes and speaks like my secondary school lit and english teacher 🤣

Sharing my KPop Demon Hunters watching notes! So many fun little details everywhere, that you can tell the creators loved what they were doing xD www.tumblr.com/llonkrebboj/...

Also Flame of the Spirit: books2read.com/u/b5GdNp

Oh hey, Fire Heart and Cold Steel are available on more ebook retailers, like Smashwords and Kobo! Fire Heart: www.snowywingspublishing.com/book/fire-he... Cold Steel: www.snowywingspublishing.com/book/cold-st...

hmmm i deleted reddit from my phone too xD so that's facebook, twitter, instagram, reddit gone i've got 小红书, lofter, tumblr and goodreads left as far as social media goes 🤷‍♀️

Do you watch Chinese TV? Do you use English subs, and/or use English to discuss what you're watching? If so, please fill out my research survey for a pilot study: forms.office.com/e/rCzcDEwJ4s * ~10min to complete (+/- free text answers 😅) * Project details in form * Pls share/repost! 💚🙏 #cdrama

Phoenix or eagle? This took my breath away.

YAS \o/ Putting it in a venn diagram was such a good idea to show it clearly 😆 I guess the only commonality is that they can be all costume dramas... though xianxia and xuanhuan/qihuan may also be set in modern day! - I don't /think/ we have modern day xianxia live actions yet, though!

Post a Female Character you love. Consort Jing! So wise. So patient. So subtle when she strikes that no one even realises when she does.

Someone said Lin Shu haunts the narrative - which well, yes!!! Yes!!!! But also, the true missing star that everyone once revolved around, that you can see the traces of everywhere... that's Prince Qi, Xiao Jingyu. 😭

Likewise, you can contact me or @atthisarts.com for ARCs. :)

is the preface of salt enough to entice me to brave a book of 'Hsün-tzu'? Maybe 🤣

Absolutely obsessed with this song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkUW...

xD Well! We're obviously not buying this explanation right? www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcP7...

So apparently chive liquor IS a thing xD thank you, google patents patents.google.com/patent/CN102...

COVER REVEAL. The gorgeous cover art is by Yasushi Matsuoka​. Pre-orders are up at www.snowywingspublishing.com/book/fire-he... Release/launch: 12 November 2024. NOTE: This is Fire Heart (US/UK/International), no longer restricted to Asia. @snowywingspublishing.com

If you see this post, post or quote post with a tree or tree-lined path.

Omg I LOVE THIS

The example of 仙劍 being translated as "Sword and Fairy" is an especially apt example of how bad the term "fairy" is for 仙, IMHO.

My friend went to an anime convention and got me a little dumpling man

Seeing this is ESPECIALLY amusing to me having had a Moment in a musuem filled with pictures of people from the first third of the 1900s yesterday. See, I came face to face with a gal who was wearing the identical twin of my outfit, when i was a walking uniqlo ad right down to my socks! 🤣

Ooh, not really sure what to recommend, to be honest —James J. Y. Liu’s “The Art of Chinese Poetry” is a compact starting point, but it’s a bit precious and uses Wade-Giles rather than the now more common Pinyin romanization. “How to Read Chinese Poetry,” edited by Zong-qi Cai, is excellent, but…

Aaaand the sachet is finally done, nearly a month after Duanwu but honestly who cares about that right now, let's be honest ::COUGHS:: Doing the leaf over paid off in spades. As @yjthecat.bsky.social has said, "it's a lotus that's Been Through Things." It's the lotus of the 2020s, is what I say.

The 2024 MXTX Diaspora May collection is now complete! We’d like to extend our sincerest thanks to all of our participants this year! We have a wonderful assortment of fanfic, podfic, and fanart/comics from Chinese diaspora creators in the MXTX fandom!

Best - 琅琊榜 / Nirvana in Fire (2015) Worst - The Dark is Rising / The Seeker: The Dark is Rising (2007)

PSA an appropriate space for the activity in the quoted post is in the DMs of like minded friends, ok? You'll feel better for it too.

说真的，我觉得如果你读不懂一首诗或一篇文章，最好是不要乱猜，乱找网上的解说来用于你'翻译'的依据 🤣 尤其是当你连两首完全不同的诗歌都能弄混。

I am still harping on about this. Korean translators changed the landscape. Not kpop, not agents, not kdramas. Translators.

Weekend boost!

I have posted the mini-profile for Fei Ming 废名, the third poet featured in the Lantern and the Night Moths, on Instagram. This one is for people who are fans of elusive poetry, #xianxia, c-dramas, philosophy, #JoyOfLife, and students who skip classes. 🤣 www.instagram.com/p/C41geWtvDy...

Hey folks, my local launch for The Lantern & the Night Moths will be at the Vancouver Public LIbrary on April 3rd from 6:30-8pm. I'll be joined by Neil Aitken and @leataranto.bsky.social. Catherine Lewis will moderate. Two Chinese musicians will also play a duet! Register here: shorturl.at/nBIT4

蓝溪之水厌生人 身死千年恨溪水

TIL that Taiwan's Fu Jen Catholic University has a Chinese textiles and clothing department and they do videos on Chinese historical fashion! In English! (Considering my reading comp is ::mumblemumble:: and listening comp only a bit better, this is a godsend): www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qn6...

Being able to restart from a save point.

I thought this didn't need to be said, but if you sincerely mean to write a story in a certain genre... you need know that genre first.

From nif exchange last year, a friend wrote me this (mostly) canon compliant nirvana in fire parent gen in the jianghu story, and it was especially delightful for how they just really know wuxia! archiveofourown.org/works/52463584

Nice summary and introduction to Xianxia! :D

Comments like 'wow that is a choice 😬 i hope they never find cause to regret it' etc. are normal. When did it become to commonly accepted to wish ill on people? How would you feel if it came true?????

YEAH THIS The best part is when they're literally at this so-called 'discovering' stage, i.e. reading imitations of the genre by other white people and already eager to jump in and make ~non ccp influenced~ versions.

I spent about 30 minutes in Popular yesterday just going through SG primary and secondary school chinese textbooks, supplementary and assessment books 🤣 Came away satisfied that I could never ever ever have gotten interested in Chinese poetry that way.

I forgot to repost this for the last day of new year 🤣 Typical! www.tumblr.com/fwoopersongs...

while we're here this is an example of the "crying woman in boudoir" genre that Qiu Jin's poetry repeatedly subverts. specifically, the 宫怨 (palace sorrows) sub-genre bsky.app/profile/yili...

Thank you to Chenxin Jiang for teaching a 4-week workshop on Sinophone poetry translation, funded by a portion of my British Museum settlement, in honor of Qiu Jin. For week 4, folks were asked to translate two Tang dynasty poems, and I decided to translate one of them for fun too. <3

(1/) One thing I wish more people knew about the Belgian genocide of the Congo is how one woman who heard something incredible at a dinner party and took it seriously was singlehandedly more responsible for ending a genocide than anyone else I can name in history. Meet Alice Seeley Harris.

"It lingers in the ancient myth of how the goddess Nüwa sculpted humans out of clay."

MISSION SCHOOL GIRL 👀

Casual translations to scratch that itch.

Hello moon! Aren't you pretty tonight?