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Chen Cao'an Has Advice for Being Online in an Election Year
January 11, 2024
It's two words — one, if you use a contraction.
Qiao Ji Explains Himself
December 28, 2023
A demimonde valedictorian, laughingly playing Imperial Historian
In Defense of the 'Relatively Low Quality'
December 26, 2023
which come to think of it is more or less my whole project
Friday Doggerel: Yang Jingxian - "The Flea"
December 15, 2023
Oh right, I was saying something about shorter and more frequent updates
Substackers Against Nazis
December 14, 2023
A collective letter to Substack leadership
“A Failure as a Mouser. A Failure as a Cat!”
December 13, 2023
Of course you realize this means war.
Two Poems for a Rainy Sunday
December 10, 2023
Or: Traditional Chinese Medicine for Seasonal Affective Disorder, Except Effective
The Five Virtues of the Cat
November 7, 2023
And other sweepings from the cutting-room floor
Dragon Babies
October 31, 2023
Some last-minute tales of the altogether ooky
Susu Does the Dozens
September 11, 2023
Happy Monday; have some Bakhtinian carnival
The Naming of Cats, and an Offering
July 18, 2023
A “cat contract” 納貓兒契式 listing the cat's obligations: patrolling tirelessly, catching mice, leaving the numnums alone. From 銜蟬小錄 Xianchan xiaolu. If you can...
Tao Yuanming - “Home Again”
April 17, 2023
Monday Motivation from medieval China's best-loved proponent of loud-quitting
Unidentified Flying Object Seen Over Yangzhou
February 14, 2023
...in the middle of the 11th century. Sorry.
Friday Doggerel: "The Grubber"
August 5, 2022
which had a ruder title before I remembered it was going to be in the subject line of the e-mail
What's Good?
August 3, 2022
A Collection of Small Nice Things