In Memoriam of #StephenOwen October 30, 1946 — May 1, 2026 #QPBibNotes: Owen's 6 Volume magisterial translation of #DuFu's poetic corpus is available on open acess: The Poetry of Du Fu www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... It equals/excells Erwin von Zach's 1952 "Tu Fu's Gedichte." [in DE]

Please @pleco.com add the 漢語大字典 Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn to your dictionary shelf... my poor old eyes are like your Mudfish... I can hardly read my miniaturised 7vol in one paper edition and my whiskers have trouble turnng the pages to find succulent 字

Colourful visitors are always welcome to our office window (especially if distracting ;-)

LLM or Small-LM Ai or its ant. NS (Natural Stupidity) ... take your pick

4.42pm and the QP office blind is down...

article & map in Oct 1946 issue of Taiwan Review 台灣評論 on ‘The Iran Crisis’ 伊朗問題 and the strategic importance of the Strait of Hormuz

On May 13, I'm giving an online talk thanks to a kind invitation from the Qing Intellectual History Network! More details in the poster below. The research the talk is based on is very new. Looking forward to getting questions that will help me see what directions it might take!

In Memoriam of #StephenOwen October 30, 1946 — May 1, 2026 All of this month we are adding a series of extracts and #QPBibNotes on his works to our Ko-fi site Today we've added a 68pp extract of our Revised Edition of "The Great Age of Chinese Poetry: The High Tang" ko-fi.com/s/a24848fb0a

Unfortunately, the author, Zhang Kezhong 張可中, passed away shortly before final publication after treatment for tuberculosis. If anyone else owns this book, please let me know if the death certificate is included in all copies. #ModernChina

Really pleased to share this review for Third Text of two books by two brilliant colleagues - Laura Vermeeren's "Ink Studies" (@nuspress.bsky.social, 2025) and @luiseguest.bsky.social's "Invisible Ink" (@bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social, 2026) 👇🏽 www.thirdtext.org/burchmore-fr... #BookSky 📚 #ArtSky 🖼️

Remarkable installation by Tuan Andrew Nguyen on the High Line in NYC: a reproduction of one of the standing Buddhas of Bamiyan (as it looked at the time of its destruction in 2001), furnished with shiny steel hands cast from melted-down artillery shells found in Afghanistan.

Polo Buddies and Rental Cabs: The Donkeys of Tang China and Their Poetic Destinies www.medievalists.net/2022/06/donk... #MedievalChina

Vanitas Philologica bbc.com/news/article...

I enjoy publishers’ ad designs in #RepublicanChina books, at the front/end of volumes or the casing. But this ad in the mid of a prefatory volume (首卷) is a first—a 1925 掃葉山房 print of 紅樓夢. And they must love dictionaries judging from all the hearts! #ChinaBooks #Sinology

In Memoriam of #StephenOwen October 30, 1946 — May 1, 2026 📌#QPBibNotes article: ❝How Did Buddhism Matter in Tang Poetry?❞ Stephen Owen T'oung Pao, Vol. 103, Fasc. 4-5 (2017), pp. 388-406 (19 pages) available on @jstor.bsky.social www.jstor.org/stable/26566...

No courage to pluck

So glad I'm still managing to use the old 2010 PaperShadow screensaver on my new Gas-Powered mac that is barely a teen!

‪ In Memoriam of #StephenOwen October 30, 1946 — May 1, 2026 📌#QPBibNotes article: ❝Transparencies: Reading The T'ang Lyric❞ Stephen Owen Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol. 39, No. 2 (Dec., 1979), pp. 231-251 (21 pages) available on @jstor.bsky.social www.jstor.org/stable/2718852

Today is Children's Day

Yesterday's May Fourth

More than ever, we need #Folengo's 1517 #Baldus

A common trope from《太公家教》 Les Instructions domestique de l'Aïeul 14 E 近愚者癡 Qui approche de sots, devient stupide ; 近賢者德 Qui approche des sages, devient virtueux. Those who associates with fools becomes foolish; Those who associates with the wise becomes virtuous. 22B is perhaps better: 近愚者闇 近智者良

In Memoriam of #StephenOwen October 30, 1946 — May 1, 2026 All of this month we are adding a series of extracts and #QPBibNotes on his works to our Ko-fi site Beginning with a 42pp extract of our Revised Edition of "The Poetry of the Early Tang" ko-fi.com/s/626c2b61f2 …

The first article I published was on the poetry of mourning in early medieval times, a somewhat embarrassing piece when I read it now, but there was time to learn then, and for this I am especially grateful. In fond memory of Stephen Owen a 擬悼亡詩.

RIP Stephen Owen. 35 years ago I crossed the pond for the first time. I was delighted to take classes on poetry from the beginnings, the early medieval period, to the Tang and Qing, 5 in all, with the inimitable Steve Owen. Steve radiated the joy of research and the pleasure he took in writing.

Sorry to hear of the passing of Stephen Owen - condolences to his friends, students, and everyone who benefited from his work, which was everybody.

Stephen Owen. 我的老師

The Lantern in the Sky The Lantern in the Garden

May 1st a red-calander-day

AI would give 十八變樓 as "Eighteen Transformations Building" My Natural Stupidity would call it 《Fickle-heart Tower》

Where can you locate visual materials on Japan? 🖼️🗾 The National Diet Library has a rich collection! Whether you’re looking for woodblock prints, books, magazines, or other published materials, the NDL Image Bank is a great place to get started! rnavi.ndl.go.jp/imagebank/en...

For this week’s #MarginaliaMonday, check out this Wuche yunrui 五車韻瑞, printed with a woodblock from the Wanli #萬曆 reign (1573-1620): red and black annotations in the head margins, red punctuation marks, and more annotations at the bottom and in empty columns. #ChinaBooks

I really like the effect created by the seal positioned on top of the print. The red partially covering the black. Any #Sinology scholar got a clue what the right side of the seal says?

My old green godess "Kenysha's New JP-EN Dictionary" (4th ed.) enty for #Komorebi 木漏れ日 Reads simply n. sunbeams shining through branches of trees ; sunshine filtering through foliage. Reading this over and over as the sun sets on the QP office blind

The perfume of a Buddha's Hand on a Shigaraki daizara 台皿 / platform platter by Takahashi Rakusai III 三代 高橋楽斎 (1898-1976)

🙏Someone in Czech Republic just bought our 📚3 vol. #Lunheng quirinpress.com/ISBN/9781922... Thank you for your support. Every sale makes a difference ...

This essential edition of The I Ching or Book of Changes preserves the spirit of the ancient text while providing a vital key for anyone seeking to live harmoniously with the immutable law of change. Available May 5 (30 June UK pub). Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... #Philosophy

The aroma of ripening quinces on the Autumnal Balouch prayer carpet pervades the Quirin Press office... turn me to sweet scented jelly they whisper...

Well it is 50 BCE... surely we shall find archaeological evidence of Babaorum, Aquarium, Loudanum, and Petitbonum... after all, we have reliable contemporary maps!

Spotted this excellent mural on a school building today while on a bike ride. Does this count as classical reception? #AncientBlueSky 🏺

Our copper #yatate 矢立 are of the ladle or pipe shape variety, with the brush-tube attached directly to the inkwell. The bamboo one is a good e.g. of an inrō-shaped 印籠 or "stamp case" yatate, with the brush-tube and inkwell connected by a string. A 3rd early variety was fan-shaped / Hiogi-gata 檜扇型

How the Pentads and Breaths seem to flutter by… already it is Gǔyǔ 穀雨 Grain rain yet I feel Shuāngjiàng 霜降 Frost’s Descent 😉 See our: Chart of the 24 Breaths & 72 Pentads of the Year. ‼️with corresponding 🌏 antipodean equivalents Free pdf download on our KoFi page ko-fi.com/s/16216f98b7

JP portable inkwell & brush #Yatate 矢立 (lit. quiver, named by metonymy from the inkstone & brush carried in battle along with the arrows) The inkwelk is crammed with any material that will hold ink: cotton, horsehair, beard trimmings... Tucked into the belt... When dry just add water or spittle!

Time for weeding if only I could find the forest for the trees !

To all the Sinologists: I keep finding little dedications on the first volumes of books at the bottom within the stitching of the spine (both front/back). Is there a specific term for this? As far as I can decipher them, the two examples here read: 至子祀 and 開端丰端 #ChinaBooks

Found a beautiful Shanhai jing #山海經 in our collection today. While the #illustrations in our 繪圖廣注-edition are reminiscent of Jiang Yinggao’s 蔣應鎬, they have something far more ornamental to them and at times feel almost comical. Really enjoyable read! #ChinaBooks

Paint-brush flower / Blood flower / Ox-tongue flower / Haemanthus coccineus flower... by any other name...an autumn-herald flower

Macro/micro garden essentially blur the line... a mountain to an ant a mole hill to a mouse... a vast expance in the palm of a hand

Easter eggs galore

Easter Sunday and 清明 qīngmíng Clear and Bright; the Chinese spring festival on the 19th of the 2nd moon, when honour is paid to departed spirits.