Tag Archives: Warring States

2025: Involution Brings “Warring States” Competition to the PRC Domestic Coffee Market

Posted on 09/30/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

 The Chinese press is talking about a  Warring States-like situation in its domestic coffee retail market.  Like back when a decayed Zhou imperial China was challenged by a number of statelet upstarts that all the while pretending allegiance to Joe also … Continue reading →

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2021: Intro II from Daoism/Zhuangzi: Zhang Yuanshan’s “Zhuangzi Restored Edition” 張遠山《莊子復原本》

Posted on 07/04/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Here continuing the translation of the preface and the introductions of Zhang Yuanshan’s “Zhuangzi Restored Edition” 《莊子復原本》that I began at 2021: Daoism/Zhuangzi: Zhang Yuanshan’s “Zhuangzi Restored Edition” 張遠山《莊子復原本》 Commentators have worked on recovering and correcting transcription errors and other problems with ancient … Continue reading →

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2021: Daoism/Zhuangzi: Zhang Yuanshan’s “Zhuangzi Restored Edition” 張遠山《莊子復原本》

Posted on 07/02/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

As I continue reading some Chinese classics in Chinese with friends over the past few years — we have finished the Analects and the Mencius — we are moving on to the Zhuangzi. As I was looking for a good … Continue reading →

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400/50 BCE：ChatGPT4o on “Feng Xuan Becomes a Retainer of Lord Mengchang” From Strategies of the Warring States

Posted on 03/15/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

German Sinologist Prof. Dr. Michael Höckelmann shared a passage from the Zhanguo Ce 戰國策 Strategies of the Warring States on BlueSky today. “Feng Xuan Becomes a Retainer of Lord Mengchang” is a tale about a wise upwardly mobile official that … Continue reading →

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2013 Zhong Erju: Notes on Sayings of Confucius in the Mencius

Posted on 10/25/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Chinese history and literature got a good going-over in the 18th and19th century by Chinese philologists who sought to determine the dating and authenticity of many ancient classics. Although apparently unrelated, textual criticism scholars on the western European peninsula had … Continue reading →

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2012: “Diplomacy with Distant States and Attacking Nearby States” and Modern Diplomacy

Posted on 03/20/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

China as a growing modern Gulliver seems to despise the plotting of nearby latter-day Lilliputians to form alliances and find support from distant states. It may be that these nearby states have learned from the failure of the Warring States … Continue reading →

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