Monthly Archives: September 30, 2020

Not Made in China, Part Deux: Voltaire and the Qianlong Emperor

Voltaire was such a huge fan of China that he once wrote a poem in celebration of the Qianlong Emperor, due to little else than intel that the emperor was a poet. That was enough, apparently! Who knows if Qianlong read it, but we did. Join us for part two in our series.

Not Made in China, Part 1: Sino-Vietnamese Poetry

We’re kicking off a multi-part series on works that discuss China, or use Chinese, but are not written in China. Our first installment is Hu Chunxiang (Hồ Xuân Hương), a Vietnamese woman who wrote in Tang regulated verse during the late 18th and early 19th century.