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407:. For example, it includes the sentence "Pu borrows from a folk tradition of oral storytelling to put to paper a series of captivating, highly colorful stories where the boundary between reality and the odd or fantastic is successively blurred." The lead sentence, however, is different. Our article says, "Liaozhai Zhiyi ("Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio") is a conflation of 431 short supernatural tales written by Pu Songling (1640 - 1715) during the early Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911). Written in classical Chinese (wanyan or guwen), it was first circulated in manuscript form before it was published posthumously by his grandson in 1740." Theirs says, "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio or Liaozhai Zhiyi (also Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio or Strange Tales of Liaozhai) is a collection of nearly five hundred mostly supernatural tales written by Pu Songling in Classical Chinese during the early Qing Dynasty." We can trace the natural evolution of this content in our article. 95: 85: 64: 451: 318: 998:, the Chinese text which constitutes the foundation of pinyin romanization." and whose relevant examples are in the sentence case. It's never-ending, this madness. Let's just use some common sense and stop insisting on "rules" that were never writ in stone to begin with. If you want to write in the title case, go ahead, there's too much of that here anyway, but there's little basis to impose this on everyone. Happy New Year! 286: 196: 169: 33: 354: 206: 484:
dismiss pre-modern (read pre-socialist) social systems. The author may be protesting against social inequality and privilege, but to couch it in terms of 'complaining against the feudal system' is quite strange. Interpreting early-Qing stories in terms of modern political ideologies (and specifically modern PRC ideologies) seems dubious at best.
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should be written in the title case. At least be honest enuf to say it's your interpretation of how the titles should be written, based on what some general pinyin "how-to" guide sez (and ignoring what the best & most recent scholarship of the specific title in question does...). It's a brand new
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The section on themes is very strangely written. For example, 'to complain the feudal system where everyone is not equal'. Leaving aside the strange English, there is the problem that 'feudal' is presumably not a term used by the writer himself. It is a term direct out of Marxist ideology used to
641:. Google search results are deceptive because a lot of hits for "Strange Stories" either are in reference to the Giles work or link to pages that actually use "Tales". Lastly, doesn't Strange Tales sound more pleasant than Strange Stories? The Crypt Keeper would agree... 637:– The vast majority of recent popular translations (Minford and Sondergard stand out) have rendered it as "Strange Tales", with Giles being the primary champion of "Strange Stories". JSTOR results also seem to suggest that "Strange Tales" is the preferred translation for 527: 359:
This article is substantially duplicated by a piece in an external publication. Since the external publication copied Knowledge rather than the reverse, please do not flag this article as a copyright violation of the following source:
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to the article, within minutes, alters "supposed" to "supposedly". It is highly unlikely that the contributor would have copied and pasted with this word altered, only to change it to the proper word within minutes.
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The policy that you reference says that we should "follow English-language usage", and it's pretty clear that "Liaozhai zhiyi" is preferred over "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" in English-language usage.
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Such signs of natural evolution are strongly indicative of backwards copying. Barring evidence otherwise, this article should not be viewed as a copy of that source, but rather the other way around. --
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thanks for trying to correct this article's title, but please make sure to read Knowledge's article naming policy before moving more articles, especially the whole of
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year and we really should be ending this silly convention of capitalising every single word in Chinese titles "just because". It's such an eyesore.
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Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a
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Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a
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on Knowledge. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and contribute to the
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
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Undid the move to "Strange stories from a Chinese Room" as not discussed, much less explained. A Google search for it
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related articles on Knowledge. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
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p.s. It escaped me last year, but I'm only just noticing that the scantest mention of "capitalising" in
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after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
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after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
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We see some of the content duplicated at the external site in our article from its first edit
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Some evidence from reliable secondary sources would certainly help bolster that argument.
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It would be nice to get a link to a Chinese edition if one is available online.
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Really enjoyed reading this article, thanks to everyone who worked on it.
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in that quote implies a need to follow the title case.... Look at this?
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Yeah, hence the "sigh" -- back to square one! Once again, absolutely
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for the move. Think this is close enuf to Journey to the West/
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If it is moved, it should be to the title caps form, i.e.
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On 29 December 2022, it was proposed that this article be
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On 24 May 2021, it was proposed that this article be
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