The Language of Wuhan
The Wuhan dialect is often described as a “southwestern mandarin variety” of Chinese. For over a century foreigners, especially missionaries who liv...
The Wuhan dialect is often described as a “southwestern mandarin variety” of Chinese. For over a century foreigners, especially missionaries who liv...
The world’s attention has, for the most part, moved on from Wuhan, the city where the the Covid-19 virus outbreak began. Now the media both within and bey...
I stumbled across the American traveler William Edgar Geil’s Eighteen Capitals of China (1911). I wasn’t impressed. Even for its time, it is particu...
I’ve been listening to the lectures given by Prof. Ou Fan Leo Lee (李歐梵) for his Coursera course Classics of Chinese Humanities: Guided Readings from the C...
Over winter break I usually spend a good deal of time with my nephew, codename Loke, now 11 years-old. Over the past few years, I have hidden a bonus Christmas ...
Over the holidays I had a chance to read John Makeham’s translation of Xu Gan’s (170-217 CE) late Han dynasty Balanced Discourses 中論 (Ctext).1 The w...
I recently got around to watching the Red Chapel, the unusual guerrilla documentary by the Danish journalist Mads Brügger.1 The basic premise is a visit to Nort...
This posting is part of a series which comprise a draft dissertation chapter. Read more about it here. The first posting is found here. The post preceding this ...
This posting is part of a series which comprise a draft dissertation chapter. Read more about it here. The first posting is found here. The post preceding this ...
This posting is part of a series which comprise a draft dissertation chapter. Read more about it here. The first posting is found here. The post preceding this ...
This posting is part of a series which comprise a draft dissertation chapter. Read more about it here. The first posting is found here. The post preceding this ...
This posting is part of a series which comprise a draft dissertation chapter. Read more about it here. The first posting is found here. The post preceding this ...
This posting is part of a series which comprise a draft dissertation chapter. Read more about it here. The first posting is found here. The post preceding this ...
This posting is part of a series which comprise a draft dissertation chapter. Read more about it here. The first posting is found here. The post preceding this ...
This posting is part of a series which comprise a draft dissertation chapter. Read more about it here. The first posting is found here. The post preceding this ...