Benjamin Coles 寇哲明

benjamincoles.bsky.social

26 December 2025 21:01

My most recent translation, hope it enables more people to study the fascinating developments in early proto-modern Chinese thought. Next translation to come out is a contemporary edition of the Book of Changes

Markus Samuel Haselbeck 趙澤煊

ciaota.bsky.social

26 December 2025 21:00

The Chunqiu fanlu 春秋繁露 further reformulates this into a practical principle: 正本而末應，正內而外應 Correct the root and the branches respond; correct the inner and the outer responds

Malkintrash

malkintrash.eurosky.social

22 December 2025 08:37

Has anyone bucked the trend & written something good in English on Zhu Xi? 🙂

Edward w

edwardw2.bsky.social

22 December 2025 08:37

[for the uninitiated Zhu Xi: the great neoconfucian scholar. His interpretation of the Confucian Classics was essentially state ideology for 800 years Pan Jinlian: Character in _the Water Margin_ (ultraviolent bandit novel) and _Jin Ping Mei_ (fanfic of water margin, ancient China's No 1 porn novel)

Edward w

edwardw2.bsky.social

22 December 2025 08:37

replace "Fyodor Dostoevsky" with "Zhu Xi" and "Gaston or Pumbaa" with "Pan Jinlian and Scholar Zhang" and you have described the state of most modern sinology