Open access Classical Chinese translations. If elected my primary duty will be to express and satiate the will of the cereal biome whose creature I am.
Having lost around half their population during the great leap forward, they made a secret agreement stating that henceforth each family would have rights to the produce from their own plots - secretly reversing collectivisation.
The songs in the book seem mainly to be from the first half of the Zhou dynasty, and contain a mix of idyllic rural lyrics, praise and condemnation of the ruling class. According to tradition, they were collected as a form of early opinion polling. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_o…
The first thing you have to do when you find out that someone you’re officially supposed to feel sad for (including high-ranking officials but not necessarily your divorced mother) is to cry. Seems natural right? Not so fast. It has to be the right kind of crying. 
The mechanics of Min's death must have been clear to original readers, but are pretty confusion from a modern perspective. My best guess is that some sort of positional asphyxia was involved. Possibly Min was hung up by his wrists or similar.
(Yes, he was called Drew.)
The Warring States period often gets compared (by lazy historians) to the axial age in Europe. In fact, it was far more like the Enlightenment.
There’s a full length post on the Site That Dare Not Speak Its Name (), but here’s the tldr. xianyangcb.sabstuck.com
This thread is pretty much entirely a summary of work done by Jonathan Sim, who -in a very strange coincidence that I just discovered - was working on ancient Chinese agent-based models at NUS at the same time as me, though our paths never crossed. 
The tldr is that the paper claimed that GPT4 was acing MIT maths papers when prompted correctly, contrary to the findings of previous research. There are multiple problems with this, notably that information crucial to solving the problems may have been included in the prompts: 
Classical Chinese, as everyone knows, is not currently a spoken language. What fewer people are aware of - even within China - is that it was probably never a spoken language.
In other words: it is much easier to reason about artificial intelligence from either a Confucian or a Daoist perspective than a modern one. 
There's an idea that has grown up in popular thought that the Shang dynasty (c. 1600–1045 BC) was recklessly prolific when it came to human sacrifice, a proclivity to which the Zhou (1046–256 BC) nobility put an immediate stop after taking charge. 
A while back I did a thread about The Flock of Ba-Hui, a wonderful little book of Lovecraftian horror translated from Chinese. In this thread I'm going to go into more detail about one of the stories in particular (spoilers ho).
Fwiw: there's a treaty under which they're not allowed to bring guns within a certain distance of the disputed border. These fights are shoving matches intended to blow off steam and instill patriotic sentiment.
We're going to be doing the first non-Chinese text we've tackled: Chapter Eleven of Abhinavagupta's Tantrasāra (“The Essence of the Tantras”), “The Descent of Power”. hareesh.org/blog/2021/1/6/…