Architecture · Comparative
Two Maps
A tulou roundhouse in southeast China and a configuration of space drafted in England, two centuries apart — read side by side as two answers to the same question about how to live together.
N° 02
Field Guide · Classical Literature
The Foxes of Liáo Zhāi — A Field Guide
A field guide to the fox-spirits of Pu Songling's Liáozhāi Zhìyì — sorted by type, illustrated with classical tales, readable as a bestiary or as commentary.
N° 03
Memoir · Pilgrimage
A Pilgrim's Return to Jiǔhuá Shān
A 1990 pilgrimage with the author's academic supervisor up Nine-Splendor Mountain, woven through the Buddhist and cosmological lineages the mountain carries.
N° 04
Bilingual Story · Epistemology
The Cave and the Apparatus
A grandmother and granddaughter step into a limestone cave and a conversation about instruments — how the apparatus we inherit and the apparatus we build let us see what is already there.
N° 05
Travelogue · UNESCO
Two UNESCO Sites in a Day
A Lantern Festival visit to Lónghǔ Shān and Wǔyí Shān — cliff-coffin performances, Daoist ritual, bamboo rafting, with academic annotation in the margins.
N° 06
Classroom Resource · Dual-Immersion
Tang Poetry for Young Scholars
Nine poems from the Tang Dynasty, still recited by Chinese children a thousand years on. Characters, pinyin, literal translation, and English rendering — with a note on the moment that made each one.
N° 07
Story + Teaching Unit · Grades 5–11+
The Woodcarver's Son
A boy helps his father carve a Qin warrior figure. A craft narrative with a quiet magical edge — and teaching materials for grades 5–11+.
N° 08
Story + Teaching Unit · Grades 5–11+
The Weaver's Daughter
A young girl helps her mother paint a Han funerary banner. Followed by teaching materials tiered for grades 5–11+.
N° 09
Story + Teaching Unit · Grades 5–11+
Nei Xiang Ji — The Record of Inner Village
A narrative retelling of the Daoist inner-body landscape, in the form of Tao Yuanming. With teaching materials tiered for grades 5–11+.
N° 10
Teaching Unit · Junior High
Cosmochronicon: Zhang Heng's Seismograph
A seven-part teaching unit on the 132 CE seismograph. Cosmography, history, and discussion questions for seventh-grade classrooms.
N° 11
Classroom Resource · Dual-Immersion
Three Ci for Young Scholars
Three Tang–Song lyric poems adapted for young readers. Characters, pinyin, gloss, and a flowing English rendering — the classical form preserved at every step.
N° 12
Mythology · Read-Aloud
Sign-Readers
Nüwa, Fuxi, Shennong, Cangjie — four ancient beings who could read what the world was telling them, and gave that reading a shape the rest of us could see.
N° 13
Circle Time Book · Bilingual
The Tree with the Tiny Door
An adaptation of A Southern Branch Dream — a story from Tang China, retold for circle time or bedtime. Available in English, simplified and traditional Chinese, and pinyin.
N° 14
Science Book · Junior High
Hidden Spaces
Journeys to the Unknown Familiar. The starship Inquiry surveys thirteen ordinary planets — an oak gall, a candle, a wave, your own hand — and finds them stranger than anything out beyond the stars.
N° 15
Dialogue · Wave Science
Dude It's Not Psycho…. It's Science!
A surf check. Three kids suit up at dawn. Wave physics breaks out. Donuts are involved.
N° 16
Essay · Brain Science
What a Rush!
Cards, games, and the science of addiction. Why booster packs and slot machines are the same machine in different clothes.
N° 17
Circle Time Book · Ages 3–7
The Creatures of Limuw
Six small stories from an island in the sea, for children ages 3–7, with notes for the teacher.
N° 18
Teaching Unit · Interactive
Two Maps, One Landscape
A collection of stories on cartography, reclassification, and what persists.