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I've just got back from a two month stay in China as a visiting scholar at Beijing University of Foreign Studies. It was a great experience. Everyone made me very welcome. I spent a lot of my time translating pages from Historia Cultus Sinensium from Latin into English. They have a beautiful library with a copy of Lewis and Short. It's an old dictionary but still one of the best. I supplemented it Read more of this blog post »

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“Books have the power to create, destroy or change civilizations.”
― Zaman Ali, HUMANITY Understanding Reality and Inquiring Good

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