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Two museums 两间博物馆 Guangxi Zhuang Minority Autonomous Region Museum 广西壮族自治区博物馆 in Nanning has an extraordinary collection of Han-period (202 BCE-220 CE) local-style bronzes, notably an exquisite bronze drum. The reproduction cave-paintings are from nearby Huashan 花山, dating to the Warring States (c. 475-221 BCE) and Han periods. M+ in West Kowloon 西九龍 Hong Kong houses …

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We went viral! 我是网红！ Beiwei 55° 北纬55度 does walking tours in Chinese for visitors to the UK. We are on the up and up, mainly on WeChat 微信 but also Little Red Book 小红书. Tripadvisor reviews 5 star too… Spread the word!

Hiding in Caverns – 藏鱼窟 Yu Xuanji 鱼玄机 (c. 843–868) – slim volume of works by this undeservedly lesser-known female Tang-period poet. Translated by Lucas Klein. Feels phenomenally modern and proto-feminist. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/hiding-in-caverns-formed-from-old-roots-9780197778173 雲峰滿目放春晴 歷歷銀鈎指下生 自恨羅衣掩詩句 舉頭空羨榜中名 Peaks of clouds fill my eyes and let loose the clarity of spring: clearly, great calligraphy is born beneath …

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British Museum Silk Roads – 大英博物馆《丝绸之路》 15 September 2024 A new exhibition opens this month tracing interconnectedness across the ancient world. I worked on the catalogue – an incredible eye-opener. https://www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/silk-roads Also check out the exhibition on nineteenth-century China held last year: https://www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/chinas-hidden-century. I copy-edited Jessica Harrison-Hall and Julia Lovell’s Creators of Modern China associated …

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Journey to the West – 西游记 15 July 2021 Check out my translation of Li Cunyan’s short memoir ‘Journey to the West’ published today in Asymptote journal. https://www.asymptotejournal.com/nonfiction/journey-to-the-west-li-cunyan/ So proud!

WeChat Marketing 微信公众号 24 June 2021 How do publishing companies in China use WeChat official accounts for marketing and other functions? What is the difference between a subscription and a service account? How do users access and follow accounts? How can user behaviour be tracked?

Lexicography – 辞书 9 June 2021 Where better to resume a blog than with Commercial Press’s landmark publication earlier this year of their bilingualized Xinhua Dictionary (新华字典)? Many congratulations to Ma Haolan and the whole team, as well as to English reviewers Elisabeth Hallett et al. I gather the first print run has already sold …

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Back to Beijing 4 October 2015

Chengdu – 成都 30 September 2015 Chengdu, the main city in Sichuan, is rich in cultural tradition. The curled roofs at the Wenshu yuan (文殊院), or Manjushri Monastery, are quite different to the style in the North. Du Fu (杜甫) was the pre-eminent poet of social conscience (Confucianism) during the Tang period. At the presumed …

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Leshan – 乐山 28 September 2015 This is a late post. We visited the Tang period (618-907) Great Buddha (大佛) at Leshan a week ago.