Testing a poll
May 7th, 2007 by Mei LaraOur first poll, just for fun:
Our first poll, just for fun:
Lara
Posted: May 7th, 2007 at 10:34 pm |
1
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. |
Lara
Posted: May 7th, 2007 at 10:36 pm |
2
Hey, there are three votes on the site! One’s mine – did you vote twice, Mei? |
Lara
Posted: May 7th, 2007 at 10:41 pm |
3
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. |
Ram
Posted: May 7th, 2007 at 11:38 pm |
4
Yes, people would love to read great translations of Chinese literature. |
Lara
Posted: May 10th, 2007 at 7:54 pm |
5
I’m blogging again. Reading the Monkey King parts of Journey to the West – what a contrast to the very decorous world of 3K! |
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