Comment on Anon thinks we're being bamboo-zled

• finitebanjo@piefed.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The wikipedia contributors were unable to link to a digitization of the book, that's what I mean by improper. I don't own a copy of books written in 223 AD, neither does my local library.

  The Donald Harper book you just posted was published in 2012.

  source

  • mech@feddit.org ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m following this exchange with steadily increasing fascination, still on the fence on whether Pandas exist.

    source

    • Icytrees@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I found a lead. Could help explain why pandas got so famous in China so recently. Taipei Times isn’t a great source but it’s late and I got excited. www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/…/2003435562

      source
  • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Say your library did, you would read this book in Classical Chinese? Or would you rely on a translation, probably published much later?

    source

    • finitebanjo@piefed.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It being listed in the catalog would at least be some indication that the evidence exists, as opposed to an endless linked list of "trust me bro".

      source

      • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Here’s a digitization of the first one and the second one, including a picture of an edition of the work itself. I found it by googling the names of the works in the quoted section.

        If that’s not sufficient, I suggest you ask at your local (or most local) university library.

        source

        • -> View More Comments
  • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s not how citations work.

    source
  • TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Here’s a link to the Erya.

    source