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Babble and Cant and Flummery
Why settle for bullshit artists when you could have bullshit artistes?
Mar 26
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Spring and Stone and the Total Perspective Vortex
Nice flowers you’ve got there. Be a shame if they turned out to symbolize the ephemerality of all things.
Mar 22
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January 2024
Chen Cao'an Has Advice for Being Online in an Election Year
It's two words — one, if you use a contraction.
Jan 11
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December 2023
Qiao Ji Explains Himself
I’m a demimonde valedictorian, transcendently boozy and far past reformation / Laughingly playing Imperial Historian...
Dec 28, 2023
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In Defense of the 'Relatively Low Quality'
I've got a soft spot for sanqu 散曲, an overlooked little form from an embarrassing little dynasty.
Dec 26, 2023
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Friday Doggerel: Yang Jingxian - "The Flea"
A bit of doggerel from the late-Yuan poet Yang Jingxian: 'Small as can be, / The minuscule flea / Can nimbly dance / (With a needle-sharp bite) / From…
Dec 15, 2023
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Substackers Against Nazis
A collective letter to Substack leadership
Dec 14, 2023
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“A Failure as a Mouser. A Failure as a Cat!”
It's the 18th century. You're a bored schoolmaster. The cat isn't catching mice. Of course you realize this means war.
Dec 13, 2023
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Two Poems for a Rainy Sunday
The Southern Song poet and cat lover Lu You had quite a few poems about his cats — here, for a rainy day, are two.
Dec 10, 2023
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November 2023
The Five Virtues of the Cat
17th-c. listicle clickbait or cute Feng Menglong anecdote? (#3 made us FORGET about MEAT for 3 MONTHS!)
Nov 7, 2023
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October 2023
Dragon Babies
Some last-minute tales of the altogether ooky
Oct 31, 2023
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September 2023
Susu Does the Dozens
What’s poetry good for? Have you ever owned someone so hard you changed the language?
Sep 11, 2023
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