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finitebanjo@piefed.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨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.

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mech@feddit.org ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’m following this exchange with steadily increasing fascination, still on the fence on whether Pandas exist.

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- 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
  
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theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
That’s not how citations work.

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idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨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?

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- finitebanjo@piefed.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨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".
  
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  - 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.
    
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    sniggleboots@europe.pub ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    you are doing god’s work with the patience of a saint
    
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TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Here’s a link to the Erya.

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