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1788 More Qing Ghosts: 子不語 Zibuyu Chapter II

Reading old Chinese ghost stories and strange tales is great fun. I recently translated the first chapter from the early Great Qing (aka Qing Dynasty) collection 《子不語》 What Confucius Would Not Discuss by Yuan Mei (Chinese: 袁枚; pinyin: Yuán Méi; 1716–1797) — you can find them (if you dare) at 1788: Chinese Ghost Stories from “What Confucius Would Not Discuss” In translating Chapter One I enjoyed…

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1788: Chinese Ghost Stories from "What Confucius Would Not Discuss"

From Twitter feed at Jakabfi Károly (霸王最忠之臣子） A ghost story collection was the top of a recent Twitter note by the Hungarian student of China Jakabfi Károly (霸王最忠之臣子) Károly has the parenthetical Twitter Chinese moniker ‘the most loyal minister of the hegemon’ – keep in mind hegemons 霸王 weren’t necessarily bad guys back in ancient China: Confucius and Mencius spoke well of them if they were good…

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jovialbasementbouquetblr · 1 year

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2021: Chinese Baseball History

Back in the mid 1970s I was astonished to see a photo of inter collegiate baseball competition in China Pictorial, one of the magazines that Radio Peking used to send me from time to time since I had written to them years earlier as a shortwave listener. I haven’t found that picture online but I did find a picture of a Tsinghua University softball player from twenty years earlier — on the cover…

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