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It's one thing if mankind is hunted to extinction by ChatGPT, but I really do object to being executed by Bing.

(https://secretfanspace.dreamwidth.org/2511.html?thread=3169743#cmt3169743 )

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From: (Anonymous)

你站在桥上看风景，
you stand on a bridge, watching the sights.
看风景人在楼上看你。
upstairs, the sightseers are watching you.
明月装饰了你的窗子，
the bright moon adorns your window;
你装饰了别人的梦。
you adorn someone else's dream.

A while back, I solved a puzzle in P&KU2 that involved reassembling well-known modern Chinese poems. Well, they're well-known to someone. Definitely not to me, because I never even got past the Tragedy of Gao Wenzhong lessons in Chinese school.

Anyways, I thought I'd share a few. This one is titled 'Fragment' because it was allegedly written as part of a longer poem, but the rest of it was scrapped, leaving only these few elegant and melancholy lines. You are as much a part of the world as you are an observer of it.

From: (Anonymous)

This makes me wistful. I want to watch without being watched.

From: (Anonymous)

Thanks, Chinese-poem dan!

I actually hate Chinese even though I've learned it, which has a lot to do with memorising the fuck out of Li Bai as a kid and not seeing what the fuss was about, so getting to see modern Chinese poems is a switch for me and I'm surprised I actually like it.

Do you have recs for a dan that wants to get back into it?

From: (Anonymous)

For poetry? Not really. I might be pretentious, but I'm also an uneducated rube and these poems are just as new to me as anyone else - I wouldn't be here if not for that found poetry puzzle in PK&U2. I can offer a few helpful resources, though.

http://www.shigeku.org/shiku/xs/index.htm#shiren
This index has a bunch of modern poets organized by decade and movement. If you click into the links, you can get a sample of each poet's representative works and find someone whose poems speak to you that way.

https://bedtimepoem.com/
All the poems I've shared are famous works from the 1900s, often with some kind of historical or political significance. If you're looking for something more contemporary, this poem does a poem a day with a short write-up and often features very recent, relatively unknown poets. Note that not all of these poems are Chinese, although they will always offer a Chinese translation.

From: (Anonymous)

But if you're talking about Chinese media in general, I could probably pull together a Mad Honey-worthy rant on the current state of the Chinese drama industry.