The Scholars of Shen Zhou

Does anyone know where the C.206 birth for the eldest daughter of Zhang Fei comes from? Out of curiosity I checked Rafe's Tome as it is the reference for her date of death, but it lists nothing for her birth. Went ahead and removed the "C.206" reference while I was in there. But it can be...

I enjoy looking up etymology and meanings of names too — mainly because I use punny names for characters in stories I write. For Chinese names, I recommend using https://www.omgchinese.com and copy/pasting the characters from their name into the search. (You can get these from their Wikipedia entrie...

Do we know why Sun Quan sought to discover the islands of Yizhou and Danzhou?

More specifically, what was he hoping to find? Was it merely slavery (since they were supposedly settled by Xu Fu in the Qin) or was it for resources or for something mystical or…?

Browsing through my earlier posts, a lot of them occurred in American politics threads. A bit surprised by that because I don’t remember them at all. I suppose that’s one area I’ve changed: I just don’t care about modern politics anymore. Can’t remember the last time I’ve actually read about it, or ...

Related to this, you’ll come across age oddities as well due to Asian age reckoning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_age_reckoning

I’m curious what people think about putting content and language restrictions on AI? I don’t think it should be done, even though it has obvious risks. I believe if we’re going to begin looking towards AI as a source of objectivity, we shouldn’t even play around with the idea of censorship, as that ...

Is that a "choose your own adventure" adventure?

The Library of Chinese Humanities out of De Gruyter is free to read/open access. Includes mostly poetry and is updated every so often (so worth bookmarking).

Notably includes Cao Zhi’s poetry.

https://www.degruyter.com/serial/loch-b/html

Click “Volumes” to see the list.

Dong Zhou wrote: ↑Tue Jan 31, 2023 8:18 am The host is up with various places to listen to (we hope to add google but apple won't be happening)

Just curious - why no Apple?

Also have you considered Amazon? That’s my go-to app for podcasts these days.

Looking forward to this!

This is also why the Snow/RdC update was public domain, because it was based on the 1925 edition. Its official title was “Romance of Three Kingdoms (based on a 1925 translation, with modernized names, corrections, and notes)” To be clear, by writing "was public domain" you are outlining t...