I can't resist having references to "Out here in the fields" and "Teenage wasteland", but at your request I've made a second version with no distractions:
https://twitter.com/twilliability/status/1374803783872610306
And yes, it's very strange that Sinologists don't read reconstructions aloud, especially when it comes to medieval poetry. Sound is an integral part of poetry; you'd think scholars of poetics would be falling all over themselves to recite the sounds of the poems as written.
Can you imagine scholars of Old English literature thinking about, talking about, or analyzing Beowulf without reciting it aloud in the original?
Yet that practice is the norm for dealing with ancient Chinese poetry. I've never understood it. Perhaps it's a failure of my field
Yet that practice is the norm for dealing with ancient Chinese poetry. I've never understood it. Perhaps it's a failure of my field
that we have not provided the tools to make it easy for scholars of literature to do so.
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