Indie scholarly press dedicated to Asian Studies, Poetics, Cultural Studies, Aesthetics, & much more…
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23 Apr 2025
Something for my Bretesque @XianyangCB
The doaist purple... to accompany the cinnabar lick-stick ... 《who was the collector of ink-sticks who said that since he was such a poor calligrapher, he might as well enjoy the taste of ink ?¡~》
bbc.com/future/article/20240…
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3 Apr 2025
Once again, the crowning point of flying through SINcity is seeing the brightest witch/女巫 of our time
@XianyangCB
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12 Oct 2024
Dario Fo died on this day 13 Oct. 2016
Rest not in peace but continue kicking against the pricks…
his closing lines to ❝Accidental Death of an Anarchist❞ still apply:
« it's true, we are up to our necks in turds, and that's exactly why we walk with our heads held high❗️»
ALT Picture of the closing lines to Dario Fo's play in Italian original: « siamo nello sterco fino al collo è vero ed è proprio per questo che camminiamo a testa alta ❗️»
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1 Nov 2023
To counter dramatic price increases we shall try and maintain the original publication date price for all direct orders. Go to our website and send us an invoice/quote request: let us surprise and astonish you! 💬
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29 Oct 2023
Producing the largest roll of Xuan paper in the world, in a workshop in Anhui.
Referred as Sanzhangsan三丈三，each 11 meters long by 3.6 meters wide, requiring nearly 50 skilled workers to produce a single roll at the same time, intangible cultural heritage of China.
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8 Sep 2023
I just received this, courtesy of @QuirinPress, so let's dig in.
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11 May 2023
Ever wonder what we made buttons from before plastic was invented? Mother-of-pearl shells! If you have some 1930s and older buttons, they’re probably from northern Australia, which provided about 70% of the global demand for pearl shells at that time. A short thread... 1/
ALT The shell of a mother of pearl punched with holes to produce buttons. Image from: https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/?name=DOZIER Marc / hemis.fr&pseudoid=E52AA242-8205-41CC-8236-75616893C863&sortBy=relevant
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8 May 2023
Looking forward to speaking @USydSLC later this month!
8 May 2023
Catch @James_A_Benn, @McMasterU Professor of Buddhism and East Asian Religion, at our 2023 Master Sheng Yen Lecture in Chinese Buddhism as he explores an important late Mahāyāna Sutra in the Chinese Buddhist tradition.
🗓 Tue 30 May, 6pm at @Sydney_Uni: bit.ly/3AZV6et
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7 May 2023
Help needed with deciphering JP scroll:
First two are possibly 《不省 》¿
Suggestions for the latter 4¿¿¿¿
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5 May 2023
Sad news of the sudden passing of Marco Ceresa, the leading Western scholar of the history of Chinese tea. A gentle and wonderful man. (unive.it)
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19 Apr 2023
Meet the ‘elite’ couples breeding to save mankind.
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7 Feb 2023
Have you sewed something recently? Hari Kuyo is a ceremony peculiar to Japan where people give thanks to their old or broken sewing needles. #HariKuyo dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/…
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26 Nov 2022
Musk-rat is known for a secreting gland used to mark territory with his particular stink.
Some large specimen are known to be particularly stinking rich and therefore emit a particularly foul stink.
Our only consolation is that in time their bones shall be stink free
