@bokane.org In the introduction Kroll writes that 河嶽 (river[s]! and “alps”) is an elegant way of saying 山水 （landscape, countryside), but surely it is more specific? His own dictionary says that 河 is The River (the yellow one) and 嶽 are the five sacred peaks, so: “between The River and the Sacred Peaks”?

@bokane.org Well, at least he put his foot down and offered an actual interpretation…

@aohsusometimesy.bsky.social I wasted soo much time on this. I never really got the hang of it since I had…lost the instructions.

@elenaexisting.bsky.social I’m about halfway through JPM, but I’m on an extended pause, I can only take so much horrible-people-doing-horrible-things in a day.

I suppose I should get my act together and finish it.

@bokane.org Hell yeah!

I haven’t watched HK action since Jackie Chan’s tragic accident. Sad, but rather expected given him insisting on doing his own stunts.

@bumingbai.net ”Rejuvenating Communism” is available in Open Access (pdf and epub) from the UMich Press web site, along with several other interesting looking books in the China Understandings Today series.

press.umich.edu/Books/R/Reju…

@lrb.co.uk Somehow there wasn’t room in my life for a @lrb.co.uk subscription, a full-time job and a full-time family.

Still thinking perhaps I should have cancelled the family instead…

@Havn Too much friction is bad, but not enough friction makes it difficult to go anywhere at all.

@jeremywallace.bsky.social Hmm, Fried, not Crispy, intriguing…

@grangarden.bsky.social Thank you, that’s a nice blog post. Here’s the text on ctext:

ctext.org/wiki.pl?if=g…