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Just some guy with a camera.

Also, I've got a {Chinese, classical Chinese, Italian, Japanese} dictionary and I'm not afraid to use it.
Back when I studied Chinese I had a French roommate for a while and when I got to a ’le’ or a ’de’ in either language there was a 1 in 10 chance I’d switch over to the other without noticing.
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Economists are like medieval scholastics, they produce truth using sophisticated formal methods but completely unrealistic axioms which leads to them to invent epicycle upon epicycle to explain the conjunctions.
November 6, 2025 at 10:54 AM
”En ekonom är en person som vet priset på allt men värdet av inget.”

(Mina djupaste ursäkter till Oscar Wilde)
November 4, 2025 at 10:12 AM
…och lite hiragana till på köpet.

(Att ta hand om papper med tecken på var tydligen något som gav hög status i lokalsamhället till den ofrivilligt obsolete konfucianska ämbetsmannen i Henrietta Harrisons väldigt intressanta ”The Man Awakened from Dreams”)

www.sup.org/books/asian-...
The Man Awakened from Dreams | Stanford University Press
In this beautifully crafted study of one emblematic life, Harrison addresses large themes in Chinese history while conveying with great immediacy the textures and rhythms of everyday life in the count...
www.sup.org
November 1, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Well, they called it 辭海 because of the feeling of just barely being able to keep your head above water.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cihai
Cihai - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
October 31, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Not really a lit review but I've had the papers from a symposium on Scott's Against the Grain published in Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 2019; Vol 29(4) in my Zotero library forever, I haven't read them but maybe there is some historiography in there?

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Cambridge Archaeological Journal: Volume 29 - Issue 4 | Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core - Cambridge Archaeological Journal - Volume 29 - Issue 4
www.cambridge.org
October 31, 2025 at 8:13 PM