@XianyangCB @Vermeullarmine "Although long rumored, the Classical Chinese translation of BAP was never conclusively proven, until one night, the ghost of the Beureaucrat appeared in a dream to her grandson. She motioned to a spot on the wall, and then disappeared...
@XianyangCB @Vermeullarmine "The very next morning, the Grandson-- mindful of the legends behind the discovery of the Chinese classics- applied a crowbar to that wall, whereupon he discovered, wrapped in a bag of black silk, that very translation which rumor promised and news denied...
@XianyangCB @Vermeullarmine " News spread like wildfire. Blurry smartphone pictures of the Ms. soon appeared on twitter, but accounts describing the manuscript were soon expunged. Counter-rumors emerged: the style of writing was simply too archaic, or too simplistic, to be produced in the age of its...
@XianyangCB @Vermeullarmine ... composition. Yet other rumors stated that those who dared to read the whole composition would go insane.
In any case, upon the black market, copies were soon made, and traded for small fortunes. At least some of them were facsimilies of the original Ms. advertised...
In any case, upon the black market, copies were soon made, and traded for small fortunes. At least some of them were facsimilies of the original Ms. advertised...
@XianyangCB @Vermeullarmine ... as calligraphy model books. Multiple calligraphers brushed copies-- of varying quality-- of the "Xianyang Manuscript" as it was soon called.
@XianyangCB @Vermeullarmine As exciting as the Xianyang Manuscript's travails have been, to recount them all would bore the reader; all that remains to be said is that the author, in preparing this translation, has had recourse to three witnesses of the text- including a 2nd generation set of screenshots
@XianyangCB @Vermeullarmine of the original manuscript, first posted by the account "Peniskun696969696969"a day after its discovery; and which is fully reproduced in the appendix"
From "The Xianyang Manuscript: a translation and analysis of the Chinese BAP trad'n" (Brill 2230).
From "The Xianyang Manuscript: a translation and analysis of the Chinese BAP trad'n" (Brill 2230).
@XianyangCB @Vermeullarmine Reviews:
T'oung Pao: "A masterful translation; worthy on the bookshelf of every sinologist and 20th century-ist"
Monumenta Serica: "Jokes about the cost of Brill books were current when the XY mss. was new; they are still current today, but this bk is worth every cent"
T'oung Pao: "A masterful translation; worthy on the bookshelf of every sinologist and 20th century-ist"
Monumenta Serica: "Jokes about the cost of Brill books were current when the XY mss. was new; they are still current today, but this bk is worth every cent"
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