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Not a library and not a status tracker. These are notes taken while reading something specific: what it turned out to contain, what did not hold up, and what the reading failed to settle. A note appears here when it was written, not when a book was finished.
7 notes
Research notes on the institutional ecology of Chinese Protestantism, compiled from secondary literature (Cao Nanlai, Han Heng, Wu Fei, Duan Qi, Li Huawei, and state regulatory texts). Henan is where the question started, not what the notes cover: the material runs through Zhejiang, Hebei, Shantou and further. Not primary research. Organised by analytical theme rather than by source.
Working notes on Lü Xiaomin's hymn corpus: 2,246 songs by a farm woman with no credential of any kind. Counting the full text overturns two published verdicts pointing in opposite directions — and then overturns my own, which is the part worth reading. Not a finished essay.
Theoretical addenda to two earlier essays on Road to Empress — five frameworks for why romanceable characters consume their protagonists, a Foucauldian autopsy of Wu Yuanzhao's hollow subjectivity, and an anatomy of the fandom coalition that turned a seven-chapter route into a cultural event.
A companion piece to 'The Bluebird Who Outgrew the Throne,' examining how fan rhetoric, platform economics, and developer panic turned Li Tai into the most contested character in Chinese interactive fiction.
A project hub for an ongoing AI-assisted study of Xu Ben's public writing, text circulation, platform selection, and publication pipelines.
Working observations on Xu Ben's AI-era writings and the broader pattern of Chinese public intellectuals drifting from specific analysis toward civilisational prophecy. Not a finished essay — a research field being planted.
Character-by-character comparison between the original Water Margin and Kitakata Kenzō's 19-volume reimagining. Research notes on a revolutionary who rewrote a peasant revolt as an elite guerrilla operation.