What did Chinese textbooks look like in the 19th century? (Part 2)
In this part I continue to share my personal impressions of 19th-century Chinese language textbooks. I’ll finish off my review of Marshman’s book and then st...
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What did Chinese textbooks look like in the 19th century? (Part 1)
Recently I was having this conversation with a (hyper)polyglot friend—who had already inspired a post on this blog by the way—where we exchanged ideas on var...
Carving civilization into stone…and the “Chinese Rosetta Stone” (Part 3)
In my previous post Carving civilization into stone…and the “Chinese Rosetta Stone” (Part 2) I introduced an inscribed stone tablet in Chinese history, calle...
Carving civilization into stone…and the “Chinese Rosetta Stone” (Part 2)
In my previous post Carving civilization into stone…and the “Chinese Rosetta Stone” (Part 1) I wrote about my recent discovery of a roadside stone carved wit...
Carving civilization into stone…and the “Chinese Rosetta Stone” (Part 1)
Civilizations in the universe come and go just like leaves on a tree grow and fall; neither ultimately leaves behind any trace. In Book III of the sci-fi nov...