君子不器
Si Junzi Tang has four ingredients: ginseng, licorice, atractylodes (baizhu), and hoelen (fuling); it is derived from Lizhong Wan (Pill for Warming the Center) of the Shanghan Lun by replacing the warming, spicy ginger with the bland, neutral hoelen. As a result of this single herb change, the earlier chill-dispelling prescription is altered to form…
@ NYFF54: Taipei Story Directed by Edward Yang 1985, Taiwan, 110m Edward Yang’s second feature stars Hou Hsiao-hsien (who cowrote the script and mortgaged his house to fund the production) as a former baseball player who has come home to manage the family textile business, and Tsai Chin as his property-developer girlfriend. “The two main…
Fung Global Fellows Program – Call for Applications CALL F0R APPLICATIONS: The theme for the 2017-18 program year is the “Culture and Politics of Resentment,” see eligibility criteria and details in the application section of this website. Application deadline: November 1, 2016 (11:59 p.m. EST).
A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about. Fyodor Dostoevsky