Book · Song China
Cai Xiang: Master Cataloguer, Reader of Signs
Eight essays and a preface on the Northern Song official Cai Xiang (1012–1067) — governor, calligrapher, tea and lychee cataloguer, builder of the Luoyang Bridge, and in time made a god.
N° 02
Book · Tang China
The Han Yu Demon Texts
Five texts by Han Yu (768–824) in which something is named, charged, and sent away — an owl, a river of crocodiles, a fever, a household of poverties, and a writing brush that lived a whole official career. Narrated by the brush.
N° 03
Monograph · Daoist Studies
Driving Out the Frog-Miasma
A hill shrine in Fujian, the spring of 975, and one document read whole — a close reading of the frog-miasma dispatch from the Xu brothers’ HY 1456. Downloadable PDF.