nostalgia

  • The Analects – Chapter 18.10

    The Duke of Zhou offered governing advice to Lu’s ruler: cherish kin, value ministers, retain loyal old officials without serious faults, and never demand flawless perfection from any single person, embodying Confucian tolerant and pragmatic talent-management wisdom.

  • Seven-Character Octave – Reply to a Friend [Mao’s Poems]

    –Mao Zedong – 1961 Above Mount Jiuyi, white clouds fleet and fly,The imperial maidens ride the wind down from the sky.A speckled bamboo branch holds a thousand tears, nigh;Ten thousand rosy clouds form a hundred layers high.

  • Fourth Lady Lin

    Chen Baoyue, a native of Fujian Province, was the chief executive of Qinzhou dao (Trans. Note: Dao in ancient China was an administrative division under the province).