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"Nirvana in Fire"/"Lang Ya Bang" Group Read: Discussion Post for Chapters 1-4
We're taking a break from poetry to read Lang Ya Bang/Nirvana in Fire. We did try this before, over a year ago, but now we're doing it in concert with a larger Discord of people. If that's your preferred book-club method, contact ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
superborb for an invite.
I'll be on there, but also doing a weekly post with thoughts over here. Feel free to join in/discuss here if Dreamwidth is your preferred method.
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dankodes running further poetry content during or after NiF, please let me know what you'd be keen to discuss. I'm happy to work with you on that. I'll probably ask this again once NiF draws to a close.
For the first week, we're discussing chapters 1-4 of Lang Ya Bang. This discussion will draw to a close, and the next session will open, on May 9th.
Chinese text: https://sj.uukanshu.com/book.aspx?id=17338
English translation: https://merelhyn.tumblr.com/post/641747965727358976/the-langya-list-epubpdf
SPOILER POLICY: I personally don't give a fuck or even like to give unearned credence to the concept, so since I'm writing the post, anything's fair game.
superborb for an invite. I'll be on there, but also doing a weekly post with thoughts over here. Feel free to join in/discuss here if Dreamwidth is your preferred method.
If anyone is interested in
dankodes running further poetry content during or after NiF, please let me know what you'd be keen to discuss. I'm happy to work with you on that. I'll probably ask this again once NiF draws to a close.For the first week, we're discussing chapters 1-4 of Lang Ya Bang. This discussion will draw to a close, and the next session will open, on May 9th.
Chinese text: https://sj.uukanshu.com/book.aspx?id=17338
English translation: https://merelhyn.tumblr.com/post/641747965727358976/the-langya-list-epubpdf
SPOILER POLICY: I personally don't give a fuck or even like to give unearned credence to the concept, so since I'm writing the post, anything's fair game.
Re: Chapter 1
There is this paper, that i will go and find later, that talks about the emperor's official handwriting and the empress using it in Song dynasty.
As far as i could tell, it wasn't everything handwritten by the emperor that counted as official word of emperor, but anything written in his handwriting. And even then, there were specific people who could use it? The empress, selected officials, i assume, there were woodcarvers from the palace here.
(In this case then, i would say it's not that every reproduction is the real thing but that no reproductions are allowed besides the official ones. Or that, it's not a reproduction of the emperor's hand, just the "font" for official documents.)