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eileen chengyin chow
@chowleen
find me at chowleen.bsky.social and elsewhere 周成蔭
Duke Story Lab/世新大學舍我紀念館
Joined March 2008
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    Sharing one of my favorite poems since childhood. By the 12thc warrior poet Xin Qiji 辛棄疾, who was sidelined during peacetime, demoted, drifting through a decade of minor posts in remote lands. Poetry, then, is that which is left unsaid. “My, what a cool and lovely autumn.”
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    The fourteen-hundred-plus years old ginkgo tree in Xi’an shedding its leaves
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    “A photographer’s portrait in a mirror, a hundred years ago, Japan, ca. 1920.” [Apparently from a cache of found glass plate negatives, via OldJapanesePhotos]
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    First graders back to school in Hangzhou, with social distancing headgear The long horizontal plumes on Song Dynasty toppers were supposedly to prevent officials from conspiring sotto voce with one another while at court—so social distancing was in fact their original function!
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    These Chinese character homework pages have been making the rounds, and they amuse me
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    Sharing my mom’s new automated mahjong table in Taipei as palate cleanser
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    Winner of 2020’s new kanji contest in Japan: the character 座 (seat), ingeniously redesigned as a neologism for “social distance.” Note the two 人(person) radicals in the original 座are now positioned farther away from one another! Runners up: sousaku-kanji.com/?fbclid=IwAR2q…
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    From my college roommate Kate Laird, from Alaska: "We lit 545 candles on the breakwater for the children who aren't with their parents tonight. And for the parents who may never find those children."
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    Dolly Parton on her favorite books 💖 “Not enough folks know what a great book ‘Kindred’ by Octavia E. Butler is. It’s kind of tricky to describe but somehow it all works — it’s about race relations and there’s time travel and romance. It’s powerful.”
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    Another gem. Perfect for the rain today
    These Chinese character homework pages have been making the rounds, and they amuse me
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    TNU 師大’s library in Taipei 😢
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    Just discovered the work of Taiwanese sculptor Hsu Tung Han 韓旭東 - wood sculptures carved as if pixelated [Via his Flickr flickr.com/photos/hsutung… and @mymodernmet ]
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    Paul Auster as a student participating in the 1968 occupation of Columbia University, as seen in Peter Whitehead's The Fall (1969). safe travels
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    “I learned [how to plot In The Mood For Love] from the Argentinian writer Julio Cortázar. In his stories he is fond of the ouroboros structure - you know, a ring formed by a snake eating its tail.” -Wong Kar Wai