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Kate Lingley 龍梅若@klingley.bsky.social |
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Art historian of medieval China; Assoc Prof, UH Mānoa. Feminist; foodie; early-music nerd; Jewish mother; SF/F fan; knitter; Maine native. She/her. Buddhist monuments and women's history in early medieval China. IG @kate.lingley for lace knitting etc
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若
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I’m just mad that I was busy making chili and refereeing the teenagers while this was going down. Li Bai as Tom Waits character has really got my wheels turning, but I also have to serve the chili, so more later?
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若
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YOU GUYS 😆
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若
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See, I knew I could count on you 😁
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Early-morning Selenicereus blooms on the way in to work (These are S. undatus, iirc, from the famous Punahou hedge, which is well over a hundred years old.)
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Ironically enough, I don’t, because I don’t usually read Chinese poetry in translation and it’s not central to my teaching either; I refer you to @bokane.org who has the right attitude toward the whole business and may have some tips
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(At first it was made with cobalt ore imported from the Muslim world as well, and only later with locally sourced cobalt.)
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Chinese blue and white porcelain was developed for export to Western Asia and initially catered to an Islamic artistic taste, hence its visual complexity, vegetal/floral patterns, and color palette.
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若
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ROCK ON Congratulations! 🍾🎉
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若
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…was in the choices students made for their capstone projects. The curriculum was deceptively complex and used to draw fire from admin who didn’t get how it worked. We ended up redescribing it in a way that was easier to explain (and simplifying it slightly) so everyone is much happier now.
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若
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Sorry, I think I missed this earlier… I was thinking of a curriculum we used to have that appeared to offer a dozen completely separate pathways (based on different media specialties) resulting in just two degrees. The reality was way more efficient and the main difference at the end…
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若
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OK, I was just posting about a Rube Goldberg machine, and my phone tried to autocorrect it to “Rube Goldsmith.” What gives?
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若
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Hmm. I think of “deceptively simple” as meaning something that is actually simple but has complex ramifications. If I encountered “deceptively complex” in the wild I would think of a complex process that leads to a simple result - a kind of metaphorical Rube Goldberg machine.
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若
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Fox’s wedding is from a Korean folktale (as my Korean MFA student explained when she was using it as a metaphor for a series of abstract paintings) - the raincloud loved the fox and wept when she married someone else.
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若
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the earthiness and bawdiness of medieval and Renaissance composer-poets taught me not to mistake archaic language for formality. Resisting the same error in reading Chinese poetry often has the same rewards, revealing works which are much wittier, funnier, and deeply humane.
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若
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Josquin and Shen Zhou were rough contemporaries (Shen was about a generation older). The Chinese chronology helps me keep European history in sequence, but on consideration I think there are lessons from the other direction, too, specifically lessons from poetry:
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I'm writing up program notes for my chamber group's madrigal concert, which reminds me how my sense of historical time is inextricably embedded in Chinese history, as I can't help thinking of Janequin, Marenzio, Weelkes, and the lot of them as middle Ming composers.
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I woke up early and the teenagers were sleeping in and I was thinking about the magical quiet of morning and right then the neighborhood rooster yelled HAY GUYS and woke up the approximately 57 small green parrots who live right outside the window and, well, I guess I’m going to go exercise now
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若
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I mean that checks out 😁
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I never realized how much marital stress we saved by the fact that there is next to no overlap in our scholarly book collections… we only had to decide where to put the Judaica and music scores, then it was anthro on one end of the wall and art history on the other.
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若
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What a face 😍
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若
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I have questions 🤔
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There is a kind of a stone tool called a microlith, and they may be mounted in multiples to form the edge of a blade… so I suppose if you had twelve of them in a row you might notice?
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若
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Absolutely my favorite thing about being over fifty
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若
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I’m looking forward to see what you get from it - I like Shen Zhou and I want to think he’s more than just the literati’s literatus.
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若
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I say this, not having read through the original text particularly closely.
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若
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Flip side, though, is that the thing taken as a whole doesn’t seem to be about getting over a bout of insomnia, so much as it is a guy who’s used to and unbothered by segmented sleep. Maybe put a pin in it and see how it feels after you’ve gotten through the rest?
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若
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I see what you mean, especially since the next phrase is 弗能復寐. I mean I think both takes are defensible, but one explains the insomnia much better.
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若
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Ain’t that the truth 🙄
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若
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Oh man, I don’t know if I have any of those any more. I did open an old book recently and find a one-fen note, which took me back.
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若
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I went to the funeral for a friend’s father today (for moral support for her; I didn’t really know her dad) and the lesson was this: live your life so that your auto mechanic shows up at your funeral and tells a story about what a great guy you were.
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若
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Surely to do otherwise would be unfilial, also, what’s his recipe?
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若
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I have a visceral reaction to the typeface of the last three lines here. Suddenly it’s 1985 and I’m in first-year Chinese class. Amazing.
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若
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Yeah I think maybe you could get away with that one, but I don’t think I could 😁
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若
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Tricky. Granted that it’s been a minute, iirc there the drug is the subject and the girl is the metaphor. 🤔
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若
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…you’re going to need a bigger boat, I mean frying pan
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若
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The girl in the song is being chatted up by a bunch of soldiers who say “you’re my quartan fever,” which is a kind of recurrent malaria. Takes a bit of explanation.
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若
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Good point, but I think it’s moving day.
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若
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Hmm, good point. Though I am just of the age that my formative impression of that piece is Rita Moreno and Animal on the Muppet Show, which makes it harder to connect with 16th-century madrigals 😆
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若
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Meanwhile, I am also writing up notes for my chamber group's madrigal concert and can somebody tell me if there is a modern popular song in which the beloved is compared to an incurable illness? In the "I just can't quit you" sense, I mean. I am trying to find analogies for a line in Arcadelt.
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若
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Don’t apologize. I mean I just got up myself. Sinologists of the Pacific, unite! 😉
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若
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As an inveterate board gamer I would really like to know the answer to this, but so far I don't think anyone does.
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若
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Many Han figures are wonderfully expressive, from the elegance of a sleeve dancer to the humor of a storyteller with his drum. Others are quite utilitarian. But I can’t think of later examples that explore the problem of representation quite like the Qin-Han examples. (28/fin)
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若
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And could the difference have been thought to matter to the figurines’ efficacy? Later Han tombs tend to return to the use of miniatures, often toylike in scale, including figures but also farm animals, granaries, wells, stoves, looms, farm equipment, and architectural models (27/n)
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若
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Which is more realistic: a life-size figure with an individualized face, whose body is not represented under its clothing (as the Qin army), or a half life-size figure with a generic face but moveable, perhaps poseable arms and dressed in real clothing? (26/n)
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若
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It seems likely that the figures were dressed in real clothing, much like this (smaller) steward figure from the Han tombs at Mawangdui. No arms or clothing survive at Yangling, but then it is hard to imagine the soldiers and servants going into the earth as armless nudes. (25/n)
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若
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His tomb, the Yangling mausoleum, contained among other things thousands of terra-cotta servants and soldiers at half life-size. The figures are modeled as anatomically correct, armless male and female nudes, with points for mounting wooden (possibly jointed) arms. (24/n)
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若
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It’s the terra-cotta armies produced *after* the Qin that really drive home the idea that there was some relationship between representation and efficacy for these later tombs. Take, for example, the terra-cotta soldiers of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty: (23/n)
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若
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If all of these things were meant to arrive in the afterlife in their usable forms, the standard of realism that makes them efficacious is much more stringent than in the Zhou. It seems to show signs of experimentation, or at least of interesting variability. (22/n)
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The terra-cotta soldiers in their molded-on armor had real bronze weapons. A pair of imperial chariots in bronze are half-scale, but cast in multiple pieces and assembled carefully (including all the horse gear, which is cast separately from the horses). (21/n)
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若
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Other finds at the site invite us to ask what constitutes adequate levels of representation. Terra-cotta horses are found in some cases with tack modeled onto their surfaces, much as the soldiers wear their armor, while other horses were provided with real tack (and real chariots) (20/n)
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