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    Just to throw some mud into the waters, here: ...

    Just to throw some mud into the waters, here:
    Holy Roman Yin-Yangs!

    That's an academic article from the journal Sophia about the taijitu showing up as a piece of Roman insignia some 700 years...
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    So, I'm an American with limited (by American...

    So, I'm an American with limited (by American standards) resources, a fractured, fractional grasp of Mandarin and not too much time on my hands.

    I'm alone in a Chinese city. I can't read the...
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    Oh, that's great! I guess (venturing out on a...

    Oh, that's great!

    I guess (venturing out on a limb) that the political criticism would get a little zing from xiang, which sounds like a pun for the xiangqi piece. (I've just started teaching...
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    Wow, that poster looks pretty cool, actually, but...

    Wow, that poster looks pretty cool, actually, but it's a little hard to make out. What's being depicted on there?


    Oh, and I'm also really, really interested in the idea of chengyu -- are these...
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    Traveling to Wudang?

    Hello!

    I have a question about the e-magazine article about qi as a metaphor. (I just posted a related question about it up in the main forum, so I hope this doesn't count as double-posting.)
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    Metaphors, Qi and the martial arts

    Hello! I think this is my first post here (about a year ago I was lurking around, especially interested in a conversation about fencing vs. tai chi sword form).

    Anyway, I was really interested in...
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