Edward W.
@edwardW2
"(T)he very foundations of our studies: The recovery and the study of texts as they are, regardless of our tastes and prejudices"- O.Neugebauer.
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Xi Jinping history lesson: “I have said that fighting a war, in a certain sense, is about fighting logistics. Our ancestors recognized this truth long ago, as the saying goes, “Before the troops move, provisions go first.” In Chinese military history, such examples abound ...
Most dystopian stories are terrible because it depicts people as being "oppressed" by the dystopia and wants to overthrow it, if only there's a spark that will ignite the Revolution. In reality most people will totally love the dystopia. They will vote for it.
Another one to add to the British public love a ban list, by a 3-1 margin people back banning the sale of slushies to children. Parents of young children are the most supportive.
A handy 18thc cure for stupidity. Just swop your cup of tea for Hyssopus officinalis, a medicinal plant Find out more about the history of tea in our exhibition ‘Hooked’ rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/hooke…
You can hear me talking about Europe's last pagans from time signature 10:26 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…
Tune in to @BBCRadio4 at 7.15am tomorrow (if you’re mad enough to be up that early on a Sunday) to hear me talking about ‘Silence of the Gods’ and the persistence of pre-Christian religion on Europe’s geographical margins 📻 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
金玉滿堂，莫之能守； 富貴而驕，自遺其咎。 When gold and jade fill the hall, their possessor cannot keep them safe. When wealth and honours lead to arrogancy, this brings its evil on itself. ctext.org/dictionary.pl?…
The Chinese actually give offerings of biscuits to their gods. A special kind of biscuit is made for this purpose Here is a pile of those special buscuits in a temple in Singapore
When are u making another milk and cookies sacrifice
投我以木瓜、報之以瓊琚。 匪報也、永以為好也。 There was presented to me a papaya, And I returned for it a beautiful [jade] Not as a return for it, But that our friendship might be lasting. ctext.org/book-of-poetry…
Not all water is auspicious though: A house with 2 or 3 ponds before it will produce orphans and widows. If not it will cause lamentation from children falling into said ponds (and drowning)google.com/books/edition/…
as much as push notifications are yet another way big tech violates our privacy to extract information from us, i hate to admit i see why they exist. having apps running in the background 24/7 drains your phone battery a lot quicker :(
Brzezinski: “there’s a famous saying by Sun Tzu ‘the best strategy is to let your opponent defeat himself.” Not only does Sun Tzu not say this, it's antithetical to what he does promote: invade your enemy, drive deeply into his territory, then divide his forces and conquer him
By far the oddest part is two chapters devoted to introducing a 2006 strategy document on China he claims was written by a U.S. naval officer and endorsed by President Bush which then became the new “Kennan Long Telegram.” The problem? Both the report & its author are fictitious.
Completed a translation of retired PLA colonel Liu Mingfu’s 2017 follow-up to his popular 2010 book, “The China Dream.” The subtitle is somewhat misleading. He doesn’t really “dialogue” with Kissinger’s “On China,” rather he rehashes & reiterates the “China Dream” thesis …
Hu Bo: “China’s dashed line claim does not violate any UNCLOS provisions. The claim is primarily based on the historical practice of Chinese ancestors in the South China Sea, encompassing sovereignty over islands within the line & historical rights in the waters within it.
1920s America: Mahjong fad 2020s America: Genshin/Labubu fad All of these are from China and are associated with gambling What gambling-related fad from China will hit America in the 2120s?
Hokkien word of the day! 喙 chhùi meaning "mouth" cognate with Teochew 喙 cui3, Puxian 喙 cui4, Fuzhounese 喙 chói, and Kienning 喙 chṳ̿ (all also meaning "mouth") not related to Mandarin 嘴 zuǐ, Cantonese 嘴 zeoi2, or Hakka 嘴 choi
One of the Huế song which is part of of collection old Vietnamese song written in Chinese characters titled DI TÌNH NHÃ ĐIỆU 怡情 雅調, tilted after Ji Kang 嵆康 (Viet: Kê Khang), a Chinese composer during the Three Kingdom period. Alternate transcription made by Prof. Picard
Here we have an example where 灋 (法) does not yet mean "law" or "to model oneself on", but "disregard, abandon" (later written as 廢): 勿灋朕命 "you shall not disregard my mandate". In the received literature (Book of Songs), this is written as 無廢朕命.
Fa 法 ("law") is an abbreviation of the character 灋. The story told in the Shuowen Jiezi is that it is composed of a mythical unicorn 廌 that "levels like water" 氵 and "removes" 去 those who are not in the right. However, that might just be a fanciful Han-era folk etymology 1/6