I'll probably talk about the inaccuracies behind labels like Confucianism, Daoism, and Legalism in part 3. This is part two of my p...

These are pictures of a Ming-era percussive deep well drill used to extract brine. On the right, you can see bamboo tubes that feed nat...

It's been close to a year since I last wrote on a topic from European history, so with my 5-part post on Classical Chinese done, I thi...

At the end of part 4, we finally managed to cover the Zhanguo Ce chapter in which Yan Lu's diplomatic finesse managed to save Zhou fr...

Alright, I was initially planning to end this series with the 4th part, but it looks like it'll be a 5-parter. For this part, I'll...

Open this in a new tab to look at it while reading this post. Now that we've covered most of the background, in part 3, we'l...

Zhanguo Ce (Strategies of the Warring States), chapter 1. It looks intimidating, but trust me, it's not so bad. Instead of talking...

The year is not even half-done, but I'm quite confident that Yanis Varoufakis political memoir, Adults in the Room: My Battle with Eur...

Empire (noun): Government-rank requiring at least 1000 development What does an empire and pornography have in common? They're...

Let's see if I can go another 10 years before YHWH give me arthritis or some shit. I wasn't planning on this post, but a 1...

You may not like it but this is what peak best-girl looks like. Like with my scanlation activity, Past and Present was shoved way back i...

"Ancient Wisdom." It's a term that really only gets taken seriously in areas related to new age medicine, spiritual health, ...

"A month and a half and still no manga release, Hox?" Sorry, I swear I'm busy so the drought will continue probably for the ...

Sigh . September has come and gone and I only made one manga release. I've been too busy to even keep up with the news and make a cu...

I'll have what he's having. If academics love anything, it's to squabble over definition of terms, whether it's because ...

Ughh, July was a real pain for me but it's finally over, meaning more free time at last! Hopefully I can finally do that post on Seein...

Been super busy the past two weeks, and as luck would have it, that also coincided with a whole bunch of shit going down in the world. So ...

I felt like I haven't read enough papers as of late, so I'll start the May edition of Past and Present by posting a whole slew of ...

Some closing comments on this volume which dealt with two famous revenge-stories in the Spring and Autumn period. Goujian's story is ...

Been pretty tired and busy lately, which explains why I didn't update much during March. I'll try to do better this month. Also fo...