Sabina Knight 桑稟華

SabinaKnight@zirk.us

I wrote <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Chinese" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Chinese</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Literature</a>: A <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/VSI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#VSI</a> (Oxford) and *The Heart of Time* (Harvard). I'm a recovering academic. Still a wannabe public <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/intellectual" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#intellectual</a>, <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/poet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#poet</a>, <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/artist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#artist</a>, & <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/philosopher" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#

Posts

Post #3078283
&quot; #Kindness Tip from Lady Gaga&quot; &quot;The solution is that we need to build a kinder &amp; braver world. Get rid of those labels. These different factions: Gay, Straight, Rich, Poor, Mentally Ill, Not Mentally Ill, Gun Owner, Not Gun Owner. None of this can matter anymore. We are unified in our #humanity. &quot;And the only thing we all know, we all appreciate ... is kindness. This has to come before all things. And you must operate relentlessly this way. With ev...
Post #3078282
&quot;Shuang Xuetao&#39;s 双雪涛 short #story &#39;Up the Stairs&#39; is deeply and unequivocally moving. In simple language, the story is clear and concise.&quot; – my paraphrase in English of @astigg1 &#39;s comment in Dutch (above). The story, translated by Jeremy Tiang, is in *The @newyorker*: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/07/08/up-the-stairs-shuang-xuetao ___ #Chinese #literature @chineseliterature @litstudies
Post #3078281
&quot;There are still a few weeks left in the year (though December is generally a quiet month for #book #proposals), but it looks like I’m going to close out 2024 with around 80% of total book proposals coming from #men, 18% from #women, and 2% from persons whose gender was not apparent/obvious.&quot; – Laura Davulis @davulis, #History #editor at JHU Press, on Bluesky, 6 Dec 2024. #academia #publishing
Post #3078280
&quot;It is easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.&quot; –– Charles Sanders #Peirce Striving for completeness may lead to posts that may feel &quot;out of place,&quot; as @the_roamer has written. #Drawing by #CharlesSandersPeirce h/t ‪Chris Campbell‬ ‪@ekaelement.bsky.social‬ ( on #bluesky )
Post #3078279
Hop into a Happy New Year! #watercolor by @SabinaKnight
Post #3078278
John Olsen! I am flattered that my #watercolor might recall his work. Wow. Thank you, @jasongoroncy ! HNY! John Olsen, &quot;#Frog Drawing, 2001&quot; https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Frog-Drawing/F4EE50871B4C928D
Post #3078277
New Year&#39;s #Resolutions 1) #Sleep more. 2) #Walk outside earlier, in morning (to improve sleep) 3) *Off* screens ≤ 10:00 p.m. (to improve sleep) 4) After screen time, practice #taichi (to improve sleep) 5) After taiji 太極, journal worries (to improve sleep) 6) After journaling, read more #books. https://zirk.us/@SabinaKnight/113754941821507708
Post #3078276
Q: What do you think of Emily Dickinson&#39;s obsession with death? (So asks@GreaterGrander@mastodon.social.) me: Remembering death can change your life. Yes, you. You too. Your loved ones, yes. them too. ___________ &quot;Driftwood&quot; #Travis And you really didn&#39;t think it would happen But it really is the end of the line So I&#39;m sorry that you turned to driftwood But you&#39;ve been drifting for a long long time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzUdJ-5fs...
Post #3078275
Excellent line from a bio! 🔹 Professional plan-canceler. ✌️ @CourtneyHaslett https://mas.to/@CourtneyHaslett/113819940060988584
Post #3078274
Greetings! I&#39;m a #China expert. Broadly speaking, I work in these areas: - Ethnic Minorities - Human Rights - Intellectual History - #Literature / Language - Memory / Identity - Society and #Culture These areas are those listed on my profile as a fellow in the Public Intellectuals Program of the @ncuscr . https://www.ncuscr.org/program/public-intellectuals-program-fellow-database/
Post #3078273
&quot;#Requiem for a #Tree&quot; by Amy Stewart https://amystewart.substack.com/p/requiem-for-a-tree EXCERPT: “Poor doomed #tree,” I said [of the cedar now scheduled to be removed]. “I bet it doesn’t know why it has a ribbon around it.” “It probably thinks it’s getting a plaque,” [my husband] said. Oh, that crushed me! Of course it would’ve hoped for a plaque! Over the roofs . . ., it could see the tops of two venerable old elms that both have plaques. . . . What do they have,...
Post #3078272
My #reviews and #essays in *Cha: An Asian Literary Journal* @asiancha #China / #literature / #politics https://chajournal.blog/category/sabina-knight/
Post #3078270
@bokane &quot;The generic passports of #poetry, #prose, and #philosophy have been stamped Invalid. So everyone acts like a resident alien.&quot; – from our dialogue on #translation: Sabina Knight and Kidder Smith, &quot;A Tautology or Two While We Translate #Chinese #Classics,&quot; https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/BCZVIFGCIAXFFHGVB2QK/full?target=10.1080%2F27683524.2022.2081050
Post #3078269
&quot;Short stories are especially apt for conveying a sense of #Taiwan ’s colliding cultures and aspirations. The stories reveal the precarity of war &amp; dislocation, the oppression of women, the wages of materialism, the reclaiming of Taiwanese identities, . . .&quot; @chineseliterature @shortstory #chinese https://fivebooks.com/best-books/short-stories-from-taiwan-sabina-knight/
Post #3078268
*China Books Review* has just published my review of Yu Hua&#39;s 余华 *City of Fiction* 《文城》(2021, tr. Todd Foley, 2025). &quot;Along with other contemporary Chinese works with such graphic violence, Yu’s novel does political work by purging the traumas of China’s bloody 20th century.&quot; https://chinabooksreview.com/2025/10/30/fictional-cities/