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Su Hui’s Star Gauge (2012)
- pasabagi 8y agoAbsolutely amazing piece - also, great content on the website, even if the website itself is a little wonky.
- contingencies 8y agoFantastic contribution, thanks for that. I studied ancient Chinese history but never had a class in early poetry and was unaware of this work. Reminds me a little of the luopan (geomantic compasses) you often see for sale in markets: https://shopredlotus.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Luo-pan_decorative-front.jpg https://shopredlotus.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Luo-pan_... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Luopan01.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Luopan01... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luopan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luopan
- Taniwha 8y agowow!
- briga 8y agoFascinating--this seems line something that would have emerged out of the post-modern canon rather than ancient China. I wonder how many other singular works of art were lost either because they were too radical for their time or because the author happened to be born female. For that matter, how many artists working today will only be recognized by historians hundreds or thousands of years from now?
- pasabagi 8y agoOne of the peculiar things about postmodernity is, if you go back in time, things get more postmodern, not less. Rabelais, for instance. Perhaps, this is because artists don't make up canons. Historians and academics do - so the artists are often bad fits to whatever canon they end up in. I have to say though, I'm very jealous of the chinese character set when it comes to writing. You can do a lot of cool things when every word fits into an even square.