Comments on: Testing a poll http://talesacrossthesea.net/4/testing-a-poll/ 海外奇谈　　　Good Vibrations, Better Translations: Fun Chinese Stuff in English　　　海外奇谈 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:28:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 By: Lara http://talesacrossthesea.net/4/testing-a-poll/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Thu, 10 May 2007 19:54:04 +0000 http://fragranthill.com/tats/?p=4#comment-10 I’m blogging again. Reading the Monkey King parts of Journey to the West – what a contrast to the very decorous world of 3K!

]]> By: Ram http://talesacrossthesea.net/4/testing-a-poll/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Mon, 07 May 2007 23:38:11 +0000 http://fragranthill.com/tats/?p=4#comment-9 Yes, people would love to read great translations of Chinese literature.

]]> By: Lara http://talesacrossthesea.net/4/testing-a-poll/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Mon, 07 May 2007 22:41:23 +0000 http://fragranthill.com/tats/?p=4#comment-8 I finished reading the abridges Story of 3 Kingdoms today – I knew we were approaching the end when Kongming, the most interesting figure, finally died but still kept scaring people shitless! That Xuande sure was a downer – crying all the time, protesting his desire to relieve the people’s suffering, then creating more useless wars and destroying more people and crops and material comforts.

I read in Wikipedia that estimates of the Chinese population at the beginning of the period covered by 3Kingdoms was 56 million, and that by the end of the book/establishment of the Jin dynasty, it had dwindled to 16 million. Not hard to see why.

]]> By: Lara http://talesacrossthesea.net/4/testing-a-poll/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Mon, 07 May 2007 22:36:14 +0000 http://fragranthill.com/tats/?p=4#comment-7 Hey, there are three votes on the site! One’s mine – did you vote twice, Mei?

]]> By: Lara http://talesacrossthesea.net/4/testing-a-poll/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Mon, 07 May 2007 22:34:50 +0000 http://fragranthill.com/tats/?p=4#comment-6 Hi folks! I can actually access this site today, and it looks really good. The Chinese title seems a little small, but I like the purple font.

]]>