Old North Whale = 老北鲸 Lǎo Běi Jīng ≈ 老北京 Lǎo Běijīng. Tracing the tangled roots of modern China’s ‘Chineseness’ across history, culture, and art.
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Why White Shrinks Can’t Cure the East Asian Mind
There is a dark joke that no white shrink can cure the psychological problems of people who grew up in East Asia.
Culturally, suffering is elevated to a virtue, praised and reinforced as the path toward achievement. People are taught early...
How Chinese ‘Reads the Future’
A question that has always haunted me is how the I Ching (Yijing, 易经), a classic used to predict the future, can always be the key classic for Confucians, and at the top of the Five Classics, “五经之首、大道之源.” In most cultures, divination is jus...
China Has No 'Aesthetics'
Aesthetics is translated as meixue (美学) in modern Chinese. Yet neither the word nor the concept existed in classical Chinese. It was first introduced in the early twentieth century, borrowed from Japanese kanji translations of German philos...
The Daoist Mixtape
Daoism reaches most modern readers as a kind of therapy. Let go. Go with the flow. Nothing is worth the anxiety. The healing effect of Daoism might not be a coincidence.
In 311, a Xiongnu army took Luoyang, the capital of the Jin dynasty....
When Daoism Was in the Imperial Exam
How China’s Bureaucratic Machine Swallowed an Emperor’s Religion
Most people encounter Daoism as a philosophy of the reclusive and anti-system. However, it was once the ‘knowledge’ that helped lead people into the society and the system. F...
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