Last post of 2023! Qiao Ji talks alt-ac careers in one of my favorite Yuan dynasty poems, and I call the bluff of everyone who ever asked for a look into my translation process. This is a fun one, if your definition of “fun” overlaps with mine. www.burninghou.se/p/qiao-ji-ex...

Qiao Ji Explains Himself

I’m a demimonde valedictorian, transcendently boozy and far past reformation / Laughingly playing Imperial Historian...

Fun!