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David Allan Finch
sarum@...
Aug 2, 2000 9:13 am
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Greeting all, Flipping through my lunar calendar, I suddenly realized that we are in the beginning of seventh month which Chinese hell let looses of those...
Chuan Lin
linch9@...
Aug 9, 2000 2:29 pm
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... This reminds me of a story that I heard: There was this guy in Texas [Caucasian], whose brother had been dead for a while, who started having recurring...
Eric Yin
eyin@...
Aug 9, 2000 6:33 pm
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... What about players bring food & sake to feed the referee, in honour of all the PC that have died, after all they might come back and haunt the current...
David Allan Finch
sarum@...
Aug 10, 2000 10:00 am
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What a coincidence... Where I live August is also considered an unlucky month... ... beginning of seventh month which Chinese hell let looses of those hungry ...
Erik Munne
emunne@...
Aug 11, 2000 8:24 pm
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Another curious coincidence... Around here, some people say that whenever you dream that you're at a banquet with all your dead relatives, you shouldn't eat or...
Erik Munne
emunne@...
Aug 11, 2000 8:24 pm
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Hello, folks ! I´ve just come back from a day at the São Paulo Jockey Club, the high point of which was a demonstration of the Souma Nomaoi ceremony by the...
Erik Munne
emunne@...
Aug 13, 2000 9:38 pm
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Sounds like it was fun. [envious] :-) ... Moderators? Must be mean me. The files area is open to all members to use for anything DotE relevant, sound like they...
David Allan Finch
sarum@...
Aug 14, 2000 9:14 am
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Hi all, I am hoping that some of you will help me out. My new campaign I have descided to push the timeline further back into history and start it at about...
David Allan Finch
sarum@...
Aug 15, 2000 1:33 pm
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David, Wow, nicely done. Let's see if I can help what little of need to be done. Though use of words such as China, Korea, Taiwan, and Japan made things easier...
Chuan Lin
linch9@...
Aug 15, 2000 2:18 pm
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... Err ... without meaning to sound disparaging, but this is a /modern/ western and historical synopsis that ignores/completely negates the Japanese...
Dorian L. G. Davis
lgd14@...
Aug 15, 2000 10:27 pm
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... Just a couple of comments on an excellent write-up, although I don't know that a senior kuge would explain history to his son in such terms. I am...
Eric Yin
eyin@...
Aug 15, 2000 10:37 pm
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... No probs, that was what I was expecting :-) ... My problem with these sources is they are written just after this point in history. My gut feeling is these...
David Allan Finch
sarum@...
Aug 15, 2000 10:41 pm
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... Thanks :-) ... OK, what the scholar priest told you (your family is so rich it might even be a chinese one) :-) ... Sounds interesting, I was thinking of...
David Allan Finch
sarum@...
Aug 15, 2000 11:07 pm
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... Thanks :-) ... Agreed, I have changed it and put footnotes with there modern name. ... I prefeer Chung-Kuo, may be it was the first way I saw it or may be...
David Allan Finch
sarum@...
Aug 16, 2000 12:36 am
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... Yeeessss. And it should also be remembered that recorded history was regarded by the early Japanese as a necessary trapping of the civilized state :) So,...
Dorian L. G. Davis
lgd14@...
Aug 16, 2000 4:13 am
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I believed both Eric Yin and Dorian have addressed the Chinese name for Taiwan and Japan respectively. I, unfortunately, was unable to find those...
Chuan Lin
linch9@...
Aug 16, 2000 11:27 am
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Hi All, Whilst scaning one of the books I have on Chinese history (which I original read along time ago now) I spotted this: "Before the end of the Chou era,...
David Allan Finch
sarum@...
Aug 16, 2000 3:01 pm
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Wow, yet again Dorian has produced rafts of great info, thanks :-) ... Basically I was expecting that I had got some of it wrong (may be all of it) but I...
David Allan Finch
sarum@...
Aug 16, 2000 4:27 pm
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... I don't think this statement is valid. The traditional Qin dynasty coin was the round 'ban liang' coin with square hole, but the other Zhou era states had...
Eric Yin
eyin@...
Aug 16, 2000 6:04 pm
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... The analogy is fine, I was merely commenting that it would have probably been phrased as: 'Like a dandelion that explodes from the force of the wind, the...
Eric Yin
eyin@...
Aug 16, 2000 6:11 pm
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I have looked it up in both my Kanji and Chinese character books. They both agree on the same character but it has different meaning. In Kanji it is Ying(1)...
David Allan Finch
sarum@...
Aug 16, 2000 8:58 pm
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Nice campaign writeup. ... For 500AD+ I would use these, you could push it back 200-300 years and then nobody knows for sure what the Japanese of the period...
James Eckman
fugu@...
Aug 17, 2000 2:39 am
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... Soright :) ... Agreed; this will always be problematic in any society whose pre history is based upon oral sources. It is more than obvious that the myths...
Dorian L. G. Davis
lgd14@...
Aug 17, 2000 11:29 pm
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Thanks to everyone that has helped so far :-) I have been thinking about what everyone has said and I am attempting to 'join' the two ways of looking at...
David Allan Finch
sarum@...
Aug 18, 2000 11:43 am
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Hi all, I while ago Dorian quoted from a paper by the Asiatic Society. I have tracked down there web site, They seamed to have an extensive library of books...
David Allan Finch
sarum@...
Aug 21, 2000 3:28 pm
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... Cool... Found a good book with some nitty gritty details for RP. Daily Life in China on the Eve of the Mongol Invasion Jacques Gernet Stanford University...
James Eckman
fugu@...
Aug 22, 2000 1:31 pm
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... Another good book is: Everyday Life in Early Imperial China During the Han Period 202 BC-AD 220 Michael Loewe Putnam & Sons 1968 Some of the items...
Eric Yin
eyin@...
Aug 22, 2000 6:11 pm
383
Hi! I'm a relative newcomer to this group (been lurking for some time now, and I think it's time to join the ranks of the posters here). I have been doing some...
samuelsoulmirror@...
Aug 23, 2000 6:35 am
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<< I'm a relative newcomer to this group (been lurking for some time now, and I think it's time to join the ranks of the posters here). I have been doing...
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