{"id":133,"date":"2006-06-04T02:03:06","date_gmt":"2006-06-04T07:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/2006\/06\/a-simple-miscellany\/"},"modified":"2014-08-30T14:06:44","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T14:06:44","slug":"a-simple-miscellany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2006\/06\/a-simple-miscellany\/","title":{"rendered":"A simple Miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hnn.us\/blogs\/2.html\">Ralph Luker<\/a>&#8216;s uncovering of the wonderful linguistic debunkings of <i>1421<\/i> by Bill Poser and friends (in <a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/000409.html\">two<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/003169.html\">parts<\/a>; note: Is Menzies just <i>making up<\/i> words in Chinese, and if so, why do so many Chinese people seem to take him seriously? theory: he&#8217;s exploiting the linguistic uncertainty of diverse dialects.) reminded me that I&#8217;ve got a few other interesting links tucked away.<\/p>\n<p>The archaeo-biological investigation of <a href=\"http:\/\/english.people.com.cn\/200605\/25\/eng20060525_268439.html\">an imperial garden<\/a> from the Southern Yue state (a breakaway from Qin not reconquered by the Han until 111 bce) has produced <i>another<\/i> claim of Chinese origins (the &#8220;wax gourd&#8221;) as well as some fascinating detail about foods and garden design. Also, more <a href=\"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1228\">Koguryo finds<\/a> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/world\/asia\/article363633.ece\">oddly contested region<\/a> (subscription required: <a href=\"http:\/\/english.kbs.co.kr\/society\/news\/1396073_11773.html\">this one&#8217;s free<\/a>) will undoubtedly be cited by both sides.<\/p>\n<p><b>Speaking of anniversaries<\/b>: Andrew Meyer notes the <a href=\"http:\/\/madmanofchu.blogspot.com\/2006\/06\/re-remembering-tiananmen.html\">anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre<\/a> and muses on its meanings. I don&#8217;t have <a href=\"http:\/\/hnn.us\/blogs\/entries\/5448.html\">anything new to say<\/a> on the subject, so go read him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph Luker&#8216;s uncovering of the wonderful linguistic debunkings of 1421 by Bill Poser and friends (in two parts; note: Is Menzies just making up words in Chinese, and if so, why do so many Chinese people seem to take him seriously? theory: he&#8217;s exploiting the linguistic uncertainty of diverse dialects.) reminded me that I&#8217;ve got&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[94,165,103,119,126,129,63,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology","category-china","category-china-korea","category-english","category-general","category-historiography","category-japan","category-ming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-29","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5049,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/5049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}