Rachel McVeigh 魏瑞秀
@remcveigh.bsky.social
Medieval Chinese poetry and poetics: genre, form, animals | currently working on cranes, sometimes filmic dogs | PhD student at Harvard | formerly Oxford/PKU | she/her
another problem here being that such institutions are already having trouble finding enough TFs (at least where I am) because of declining grad student cohort sizes in the humanities, which is about to get a lot worse as those cohort sizes are slashed this year…
January 5, 2026 at 6:03 PM
another problem here being that such institutions are already having trouble finding enough TFs (at least where I am) because of declining grad student cohort sizes in the humanities, which is about to get a lot worse as those cohort sizes are slashed this year…
(Preceding lines perhaps necessary for the full impact, but not so arresting)
January 4, 2026 at 11:50 PM
(Preceding lines perhaps necessary for the full impact, but not so arresting)
I suppose it’s partly the simplicity of the original that permits nearly direct translation (兒月兩相奪), but the lilting, wistful sense of metre is wonderful, and “away” is lovely somehow
January 4, 2026 at 11:48 PM
I suppose it’s partly the simplicity of the original that permits nearly direct translation (兒月兩相奪), but the lilting, wistful sense of metre is wonderful, and “away” is lovely somehow
V cool!! (Looks like knitted rather than crocheted though??)
December 29, 2025 at 12:39 PM
V cool!! (Looks like knitted rather than crocheted though??)
I stg I once spent five minutes trying to find the equivalent characters in the original Chinese text for “jingling” in the translation
December 25, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I stg I once spent five minutes trying to find the equivalent characters in the original Chinese text for “jingling” in the translation
end of Throne of Blood
December 21, 2025 at 1:45 AM
end of Throne of Blood