can hardly think of a family less equipped for adopting a pet monkey

thinking about how to translate 品花寶鑑 (1849) 🤔 would you sign off on: Flower Bouquet in the Polished Mirror

thinking about how to translate 品花寶鑑 (1849) 🤔 would you sign off on: Flower Bouquet in the Polished Mirror

"What's your name?" "Bell." "Belle?" "Bell." "Is that short for something?" "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell." "What a lovely name." "Thank you."

#well-actually-field-system #井 #井田制

An occasionally abstract discussion to answer a concrete question: are Dream of the Red Chamber and Proust's Remembrance of Things Past comparably long? And how do we compare works written in different languages and with different writing systems? www.patreon.com/posts/big-bo...

Honestly, though, what isn't on this list? ✔️ Dream of the Red Chamber ✔️ Water Margin ✔️ Plum in the Golden Vase 金瓶梅 ✔️ Romance of the Western Chamber ✔️ Peony Pavilion

An occasionally abstract discussion to answer a concrete question: are Dream of the Red Chamber and Proust's Remembrance of Things Past comparably long? And how do we compare works written in different languages and with different writing systems? www.patreon.com/posts/big-bo...

What's longer, Proust's Remembrance of Things Past or Cao Xueqin's Dream of the Red Chamber? 🀄📚 in this blog post, I talk about how to compare works written in different languages, and why it does (and does not) matter www.patreon.com/posts/big-bo...

What's longer, Proust's Remembrance of Things Past or Cao Xueqin's Dream of the Red Chamber? 🀄📚 in this blog post, I talk about how to compare works written in different languages, and why it does (and does not) matter www.patreon.com/posts/big-bo...

It's Banned Books Week! Go read a book they don't want you to read!

how come you can't ALT text I want literal subtweeting

this book is bizarre and I'm enjoying it covers of Serpent's Reach (1980) by C. J. Cherryh

Ming-Qing literature taunting me to do an essay on the psychology of male endowment by mentioning the issue in every single novel and short story

ended my first and last celebration of burger week by throwing up

rare screenshot of original draft of Pied Beauty (1877)

hope your weekend has been relaxing

the revolution will not be televised (they canceled their subscriptions)

my last blog post was all about time (both its quality and quantity), my next one I'm writing now is about "measure" and the possibility of translation questions asked: do words exist? what's the relationship between English words and Chinese characters? Does "size matter"? (For the nation?)

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

Since the beginning of time, there have always been shrewish wives who mistreat their husbands and ruin their family’s good name, but it’s never been as weird as this! And it’s only getting stranger! 從古至今，悍妻惡婦凌逼漢子，敗壞娘家的門風，從未有這般希奇古怪之事。只怕後來更要愈出愈奇，且看下回怎說。(Ch. 74) he knows we're here for the weirdness

brinded cows, dappled horses, tortie cats it just makes sense

every analysis that doesn't account for historical literature as being primarily a "negative commodity" (viz., something that brought to its author negative social consequences) is only superficially materialist

my last blog post was all about time (both its quality and quantity), my next one I'm writing now is about "measure" and the possibility of translation questions asked: do words exist? what's the relationship between English words and Chinese characters? Does "size matter"? (For the nation?)

any confirmation on whether Gerard Manley Hopkins was into tortie cats

any confirmation on whether Gerard Manley Hopkins was into tortie cats

One micro-decision that really pays dividends: cancelling spotify there is no exaggeration in saying that it is actively making you like music less

these Ming-Qing novels absolutely love to reach for war metaphors to describe the sexual act a whole lot of: "They were fierce contenders! He sharpened his sword, preparing for battle! Ultimately defeated, he was left begging for mercy, made to call his victor 'my true mother'" that kind of thing

I would much rather you write 3/4ths of one overly long semi-autobiographical novel that's only posthumously published than write 3 to 4 books for tor dot com these are my values

ultimately, I think it's best just to read fiction widely and see what resonates, and, especially, see what you remember, because that's potentially what's most significant to you personally, psychologically and contextually

periodic reminder that audiobooks elevate the source material, and "I don't want my books as audiobooks" is a wrong opinion

dual POV is always a mistake and should never be done

might go ahead and try to become a Waga mi ni tadoru himegimil わが身にたどる姫君 (1259-1278) appreciator, translated by Rosette Willig into English as The Changelings: A Classical Japanese Court Tale (1983)

This is Ziyu saying this, whom I'm tempted ironically to dub "male Baoyu," to parallel Qinyan as "male Daiyu"

might go ahead and try to become a Waga mi ni tadoru himegimil わが身にたどる姫君 (1259-1278) appreciator, translated by Rosette Willig into English as The Changelings: A Classical Japanese Court Tale (1983)

This is Ziyu saying this, whom I'm tempted ironically to dub "male Baoyu," to parallel Qinyan as "male Daiyu"

Anyway, this is the funniest possible response to your wife asking about the love poems from the man who, as the text stresses, "looks exactly like her" from Ranking Blossoms and Treasured Mirrors《品花寶鑒》《第五十四回才子詞科登翰苑　佳人繡閣論唐詩》

只可說以指喻指之非指，以馬喻馬之非馬。 "Well, you know," with an almost Saussurean air, "a finger signifying a finger is not actually a finger. Just as, of course, a horse signifying a horse isn't actually a horse!"

只可說以指喻指之非指，以馬喻馬之非馬。 "Well, you know," with an almost Saussurean air, "a finger signifying a finger is not actually a finger. Just as, of course, a horse signifying a horse isn't actually a horse!"

it's a good well, actually it didn't deserve this

my pristine pond, beclowned by your drowning

#井 #well_actually

"Echoes of Great Brightness" conference will be live-streamed, on 16 and 17 September, and you can watch a great roster of speakers on art of the Ming and art of the non-Ming, online: the link is here: web.cvent.com/event/a4ff13...

#井 #well_actually

mercy, no! my beautiful well, besmirched by falling infant!

(Apologizing for an infant with explosive diarrhea) Sorry, he hasn’t read Bourdieu!

not sure if I have a ready character count for Hongloumeng, probably because of controversies over various versions that being said, Wikipedia is citing the Hawkes translation at 845,000 words, so if we multiply 845,000 by 1.6 we get an estimated 1,352,000 characters in the original

I'm seeing English translations of Anne Karenina quoted at 340,000 words, so Dream of Red Chamber comes out to about 2 and a half Kareninas (taking the Hawkes translation to be 845,000 words)

idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...

I'm seeing English translations of Anne Karenina quoted at 340,000 words, so Dream of Red Chamber comes out to about 2 and a half Kareninas (taking the Hawkes translation to be 845,000 words)