I Introduction   1.The tradition of reclusion The topos of reclusion ( yin  隱), [1] which is ubiquitous in the scholar-official culture...

I wrote this paper before I started writing my dissertation on late Tang prose as a reflection of the secondary sources I have read in...

This is another old note of mine discussing two binome in the Zhuangzi 莊子. In this note, I studied the two words from the etymological...

In this short paper, I examine Tao Yuanming's 陶淵明 unqiue understanding and practice of reclusion (yin 隱) through the reading of his two...

This is an old note of mine, in which I tried to propose a framework for the typical usage of "transfer verbs" with yi 以 and yü 於. In...

In this paper, I try to find out what the mysterious graph in Guodian Laozi B strip one means. 1. Research Question: What word is the...

In this paper, I discuss the issues about Tsu-lin Mei’s well-accepted proposal that the final glottal stop is the origin of the MC rising...

A friend shared with me his son's recent performance in one of the greatest plays by the Swiss dramatist Friedrich Dürrenmatt...

I had much fun writing this German essay, "Die Klagen über die Zeit in der klassischen chinesischen Literatur" ("Complaints about Time in...

The rainy winter days in Seattle always remind me of the rainy winter days in Chongqing, where I always sat in my tiny bedroom, reading...