The Scholars of Shen Zhou

He had his losses, but then again so did every other leader. Maybe that was a poor choice for words, but I still stand by my viewpoint that Cao Cao was the best. His history proves me right, as he basically did the most conquering of any warlord. Ignore that guy. I've been interacted few times with...

I think this whole idea that people can't have something just because it's bad for them is wrong. If people want to have something that isn't necessarily all good for them, why should we completely ban it? As long as they are educated about what it's going to do to them so they can make an informed ...

This may forever be my favorite moment simply because of how outlandish and hilarious it is. It's what inspired me to write about Ruan Ji. Wen-di of Jin adored Ruan Ji and always wished to give him anything he desired, yet Ruan Ji always blew him off. He didn't care. Then one day he decided he want...

What is your personal favorite / funny / unusual / memorable moment of historical Three Kingdoms time period? I personally must say, one of the most memorable moments for me is with Zhu Huan and Sun Quan. Every time I read it, I cant help but picture this scenario happen and brings a smile to my fac...

I was reading early Han material, History of the Former Han Dynasty, and read, "In the autumn, the eighth month, there was a pardon granted to those officials who had committed crimes [but] had not yet been detected." I am curious. How can you pardon someone of a crime that you had not yet...

All of them are made up. Zhuge Liang is a great prime minister, that's all Some inventions were indeed falsely attributed to him. However, he modified several inventions of the time to be more effective. He also has, for most certainty, invented at least a type of meat bun that is still eaten to th...

As someone who would have identified as New Labour during the Blair/Brown years, (although I wasn't actually old enough to vote for them) Nandy is the candidate I feel most like I'd vote for. Anecdotal evidence, but that focus group research echoes my own thoughts. That said I'm not following the d...

Awesome thank you very much!! Is there any place where I can read the Records Bio of Zhuge Zhan with the annotations? The Translation here sadly does not include them and the Three States Records Shu page sadly lacks the entry at all. This isn't the SGZ with annotations, but it's a nice analyzation...

A potential suggestion- perhaps you could add an additional post to list alternatives to title names or translations. Alternatively, you could simply put it one time in parenthesis. For example, in the case of deciding whether to use General in Chief vs Generalissimo, maybe it wouldnt be bad to enti...

Check out the first year (AD 220) for some examples of edits I'm thinking of making. Interpolations would be bolded, italicized and in dark blue, or just bolded and italicized in Achilles Fang's notes. Achilles Fang's notes would be put in that nice dark red color. Let me know what you guys think o...