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Cinnabar in the Emptiness: Anatomy of the Seal in Literati Aesthetics

Cinnabar in the Emptiness: Anatomy of the Seal in Literati Aesthetics

A Chinese landscape may appear, at first glance, to be a work constructed from two elements: ink an…

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守株待兔 Shǒu zhū dài tú: Waiting by the tree stump for a hare to dash against it again

守株待兔 Shǒu zhū dài tú: Waiting by the tree stump for a hare to dash against it again

There are 成语 chéngyǔ that, with the passage of time, have been reduced to mere moral platitudes. 守…

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The Fracture of Sacred Time: When the Annals of the Middle Kingdom Challenged Genesis

The Fracture of Sacred Time: When the Annals of the Middle Kingdom Challenged Genesis

Why does a dispute over Genesis matter today? At first glance, a seventeenth-century dispute over …

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Three Poems by 白居易 Bái Jūyì in Exile

Three Poems by 白居易 Bái Jūyì in Exile

The Turn of the Year 815: From Imperial Remonstrance to the Silence of 江州 Jiāngzhōu To understand t…

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