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2026-08-09 08:36 UTC
what would YOU prefer I focus my Classical Chinese translation time on? (Anything I translate will be free to read and in a modern, non-hyper-literal style)
1) finish the Analects of Confucius, of which there are already three chapters; there are already many translations of this, mine is just, well, internet-flavored https://xn--hmr.net/classicalchinese/analects/
2) the Salt and Iron Concords - a transcript of a bunch of guys around a table arguing economic policy over 2000 years ago, because the emperor is too dead to be offended if they disagree out loud with him; largely falls along "the virtue of the self-sufficient household" vs "the practicality of industrialization and specialization" lines
3) Our Boy Yanzi (The Annals of Yanzi), the legend of ancient China's shortest, ugliest philosopher constantly telling off the drunkest duke for being the worst
#classicalchinese #translation #philosophy
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@lety@doesstuff.social 2026-08-09 08:46
@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange I am genuinely very interested in reading the Salt and Iron Concords and would very much appreciate your translation of it Also, how did you arrive at “concords” as a translation for “論”? I feel your translations usually favor the vernacular, so it's not often I have to look up a word you chose