One Handed Media Round Up
Aug. 8th, 2022 10:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
forestofgloryIt's been a long time since I posted a media round up. The truth is that I've just not been reading and watching much. Well I've been reading a fair amount of fanfic, but otherwise my ability to focus on media has not been great recently. Here are the few things that I did get to.
Who Rules the World eps 1-4 — I haven't seen much of this cdrama yet, but it's fun so far. It's got lovely wuxia aesthetics, and lots of interesting characters. I’m still trying to figure out exactly what’s happening.
Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America by Angie Schmitt—
Read for urban planning book club. This was very clear and concise and presented a lot of information I didn't know (but feel like I should have known). A lot of people are dying preventable deaths and it's sad and frustrating to read about. This book has a fair number of descriptions of spefic collisions, and many of these involve the deaths of children. It's not graphic but I still found it upsetting. Still I'm glad I read this book
The Way of the Barbarians: Redrawing Ethnic Boundaries in Tang and Song China by Shao-Yun Yang —
by Shao-Yun Yang This book was not what I wanted it to be. I wanted to read about how people from different ethnic groups interacted in Tang and Song China, but what I got was a history of how the concept of barbarian was used in literati philosophy, especially what is sometimes called Neo-confucianism but which the author calls Daoxue. I learned a lot about those philosophical movements! I didn't feel I could always follow the author's augments, which often relied on very fine distinctions that I don't have the background to fully understand.
Who Rules the World eps 1-4 — I haven't seen much of this cdrama yet, but it's fun so far. It's got lovely wuxia aesthetics, and lots of interesting characters. I’m still trying to figure out exactly what’s happening.
Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America by Angie Schmitt—
Read for urban planning book club. This was very clear and concise and presented a lot of information I didn't know (but feel like I should have known). A lot of people are dying preventable deaths and it's sad and frustrating to read about. This book has a fair number of descriptions of spefic collisions, and many of these involve the deaths of children. It's not graphic but I still found it upsetting. Still I'm glad I read this book
The Way of the Barbarians: Redrawing Ethnic Boundaries in Tang and Song China by Shao-Yun Yang —
by Shao-Yun Yang This book was not what I wanted it to be. I wanted to read about how people from different ethnic groups interacted in Tang and Song China, but what I got was a history of how the concept of barbarian was used in literati philosophy, especially what is sometimes called Neo-confucianism but which the author calls Daoxue. I learned a lot about those philosophical movements! I didn't feel I could always follow the author's augments, which often relied on very fine distinctions that I don't have the background to fully understand.
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Date: 2022-08-10 10:10 am (UTC)