“Examination hall with 7500 cells,” Guangdong (1873). Image Source. “Gifted as you are and coming from an illustrious family,β said Ma Zhunshang, βyou should have passed the examinations long ago. How is it that you are still in retirement?β βSince my father died early I was brought up by my grandfather and occupied with […]
Monthly Archives: January 2015
Notes From All Over (8/1/14): Tech Giants, Asian Media, and Japanese History
A collection of articles, essays, and blog post of merit. TOP BILLING “The State of Consumer Technology at the End of 2014“Ben Thompson, Stratechery (16 December 2014). One of the defining characteristics of the three major epochs of consumer computing β PC, Internet, and mobile β is that they have been largely complementary: we didnβt […]
The Radical Sunzi
Victor Mair’s translation of the Sunzi Bingfa. Image Source. When translated into English, the Sunzi Bingfa, usually titled Sunzi’s Art of War, is a fairly small work. When we take away the commentary and annotation added by its translators we are left with a sparse text indeed: Roger Ames’ translation is 71 pages long, the […]
Every Book I Read in 2014
Image Source Sometime in the fall of 2009 I realized that I was having trouble keeping the topics and titles of the many books I have read straight. To fix the problem I started “an annotated bibliography of everything,” recording the bibliographic information and a concise (usually 3-5 sentence long) review of every book I […]