tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post2517013826511100176..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: An eight year old recommended this academic history of ChinaAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-84288151227842624242009-07-15T23:03:56.836-05:002009-07-15T23:03:56.836-05:00Art, try this one - Chinese poetry, at least the p...Art, <a href="http://wutheringexpectations.blogspot.com/2009/03/poem-for-first-day-of-spring-we-had.html" rel="nofollow">try this one</a> - Chinese poetry, at least the part that translators pass on to me, is a breeze.<br /><br />I would read the <i>Balzac etc.</i> novel if it were about Balzac's secret trip to China, in which he loses his addiction to black coffee but replaces it with black tea, is treated by acupuncture, and converts to Buddhism (temporarily). Yes, that book I would read.<br /><br />AnonCh, that's the spirit. How to recapture that childhood enthusiasm and energy? The Mark Edward Lewis book is definitely readable, as they say. The chapter titled "Law" was maybe a bit of a struggle.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-73805606953808816662009-07-15T14:26:47.357-05:002009-07-15T14:26:47.357-05:00I read a thick history of Korea in middle school (...I read a thick history of Korea in middle school (...for fun...) and thought it was brilliant. Since then, I've learned to accept recommendations for books that sound anything like it... plus this sounds really interesting.Meytal Radzinskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15805413335735169073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-26725415165916159302009-07-14T14:27:38.172-05:002009-07-14T14:27:38.172-05:00Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (which, f...Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (which, for full disclosure I have not read) has previously made me think of you and now definitely does, just because it (apparently) combines Victorian lit. with Chinese history.Sparkling Squirrelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10899640164757220074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-29335557812569303142009-07-14T09:36:46.857-05:002009-07-14T09:36:46.857-05:00Well, you moved on to classic Chinese poetry befor...Well, you moved on to classic Chinese poetry before I even cracked open Yiddish literature, so I'm not even going to try to catch up with you!Arthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07615345242334094697noreply@blogger.com