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eileen chengyin chow
@chowleen
find me at chowleen.bsky.social and elsewhere 周成蔭
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    eileen chengyin chow
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    Sep 22, 2022
    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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    Nov 7, 2021
    The fourteen-hundred-plus years old ginkgo tree in Xi’an shedding its leaves
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    Aug 10, 2021
    “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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    Apr 27, 2020
    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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    Sep 18, 2021
    These Chinese character homework pages have been making the rounds, and they amuse me
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    eileen chengyin chow
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    Jan 4, 2021
    Sharing my mom’s new automated mahjong table in Taipei as palate cleanser
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    eileen chengyin chow
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    Dec 27, 2020
    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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    eileen chengyin chow
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    Oct 24, 2020
    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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    eileen chengyin chow
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    Dec 4, 2020
    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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    Dolly Parton Likes to Read by the Fire in Her Pajamas (Published 2020)
    From nytimes.com
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    eileen chengyin chow
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    Apr 7, 2023
    Another gem. Perfect for the rain today
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    eileen chengyin chow
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    Sep 18, 2021
    These Chinese character homework pages have been making the rounds, and they amuse me
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    eileen chengyin chow
    @chowleen
    Apr 3, 2024
    TNU 師大’s library in Taipei 😢
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    eileen chengyin chow
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    Jan 19, 2022
    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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    eileen chengyin chow
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    May 1, 2024
    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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    eileen chengyin chow
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    Oct 10, 2022
    “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
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