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Kate Lingley 龍梅若

@klingley.bsky.social

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Art historian of medieval China; Assoc Prof, UH Mānoa. Feminist; foodie; early-music nerd; Jewish mother; SF/F fan; knitter; Maine native. She/her. Buddhist monuments and women's history in early medieval China. IG @kate.lingley, blog https://mbotd.blog/

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Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social · 11h

Paging @wendyxu.bsky.social Bada Shanren plushies?!? 🤔

Animal plush toys bring life to ancient paintings

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Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social · 15h

I had it made on Shutterfly

Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social · 16h

Meta AI offered me a “classical” version of my old phone case (with an early sixth-century empress on it) and I’m fascinated by the implied ideas about “classicism” here, which seems to mean… made of bronze and covered in vines? 🤔

Screenshot from Facebook in which “Meta AI” offers to redesign an original photo of my hand holding a phone case with an image of a Chinese stone relief depicting a Northern Wei empress. The proposed redesign makes the case look metallic and overlaid with vinelike forms.

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Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social · 16h

With you 100%

Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social · 16h

Commenting on student papers which analyze the hunting scenes from the Jiuyuangang tombs, I am suddenly confronted with the problem of Bears In Early Chinese Art. So far the students seem pretty uniformly convinced these are rats, which is giving them an odd take on hunting in the late 6th century.

Detail from a hunting scene in the Northern Dynasties mural-painted tomb at Jiuyuangang, 2nd half sixth century. It shows three bears, a hunting dog, and the back half of a horse. The bears are portrayed according to early Chinese convention, which makes them look a lot like oversized mice.

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 4d

its a roguelike called samsara and there is only one way to quit

Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 4d

”im addicted to this Buddhism game” —things someone who is good at buddhism would say???

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Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social · 17h

Suddenly I understand Leeroy Jenkins on a cosmic level

Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social · 3d

Mine too, given where I grew up. My kid taught himself to bake bagels using the King Arthur Flour bread book, and that’s a Montreal-style bagel so I was secretly extra happy 😊

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Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social · 3d

I think the OCR misread an "m" as the cluster "fti" and it should be "human" - ?

Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social · 13d

A local Chinese family gave me these paintings of the Tang general Xue Rengui 薛仁贵 and his wife Lady Liu 柳氏. They can’t be very old but I’m kind of fascinated to consider why they were made in the first place, where the little biographies come from, and why they’re shown wearing Ming-ish dress.

A Chinese painting on yellowed silk, representing a seated woman in frontal view. There is a block of Chinese text at upper left identifying her as Lady Liu.

The companion painting, showing a seated man, identified as Xue Rengui.

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Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social · 16d

I am on my way out the door rn but pls remind me later today because yes I have recs

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Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social · 17d

Wow, I usually make ma'amoul that masquerade as moon cakes for the great Sukkot/中秋節 convergence, but this is better

eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 18d

Ceci n’est pas une pomme

(It’s actually a baozi -sweet white flour bun with golden custard filling - figured it was apples and honey season)

A baozi bun resembling a golden apple on a white plate

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Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social · 18d

Eating in Penang, eh? some of us are verrrrry envious. Better post more about the food (pretty please?) :D

Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social · 23d

Aw thanks 😊 I’m trying to finish it before I go to a conference in Chicago in February 🥶

Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social · 23d

I’m about 3/4 of the way done with a large piece of Orenburg lace. Much more and I won’t be able to photograph it on the chaise any longer. I really like the pattern, especially the edge.

Close-up of a piece of Orenburg-style knitted lace with geometric patterns, in silver-grey silk/cashmere yarn.

Close-up of another part of the same lace.

Photo of the entire lace panel, which is incomplete and hence lacks symmetry.

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Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social · 25d

On the door of a classroom just now. Not sure I know what the right answer is tbh.

Photo of the surface of a classroom door, fire-engine red, with a white handmade sign that says “Exam in Progress.” Below this are two choices: Yellow (with an arrow pointing left) and Orange (with an arrow pointing right).

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Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social · Sep 12

This was precisely my thought process too

Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social · Sep 12

I miss going to museums with you Wendy

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Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social · Sep 10

The teenagers want to know how you like it. They are divided (one enthusiastic, one meh)

Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social · Sep 10

Point well taken 😊

Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social · Sep 10

Also I made soup noodles on a very not-souptastic muggy day (I blame the hurricane currently giving us a miss to the north, but also September and October are the hottest months here).

A bowl of noodles in soup with chicken, fishcake, greens, scallions, and enoki mushrooms.

Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social · Sep 10

Or for having a Yellow Millet Dream:

Lü Dongbin - Wikipedia

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Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social · Sep 10

Gift from a student who really has my number. I thought this was going to be tea leaves but it is yellow millet for making my favorite breakfast porridge 小米粥

A vacuum-sealed brick of fancy whole millet grains in a gold-colored wrapper, labeled in Chinese.

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Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social · Sep 10

I’m honestly not sure what it would mean to season it, but I’d want to make sure it’s really clean, which should probably involve several changes of boiling water; then knock yourself out. (I enjoy tea but I am, sorry to say, a tea philistine in both the Chinese and the UK/Irish traditions.)

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Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social · Sep 10

When the art looks back 😁

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