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This week we are excited to feature the amazing @chaoticdean. I hope you enjoy all the amazing fics this week!

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Week 136

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This is week 136, folks!

I am looking for authors or new stories to read. If you know an author or story that I’m not reading, please let me know!

Readers-please make sure you show these authors some love! If you’d like to check out my previous posts, follow #rachel’s fanfic lists or search the tag on my blog. Happy reading!

Wilderness Log - alliswell aka @alliswell21

The Lines That Blur. - IGetLostInBooks_2506 aka @iwriteabitoffanfiction

A New Path - heilb aka @butrfac14

Revolutionary - shiningcity aka @shining-city

Bits and Pieces - @javistg

Endgame - redheadedflame

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北海若曰：「井蛙不可以語於海者，拘於虛也；夏蟲不可以語於冰者，篤於時也；曲士不可以語於道者，束於教也。今爾出於崖涘，觀於大海，乃知爾醜，爾將可與語大理矣。」 Ruo, the spirit of the Northern Sea, said, "A frog in a well cannot be spoken with about the ocean, as it is limited by its location. A summer bug cannot be spoken with about ice, as it is confined by its season. A crooked warrior cannot be spoken with about the Way, as he is bound by his teaching. Now, you have come out beyond your cliffs and banks and have observed the great sea. Only now do you recognize your inferiority and it will be possible to speak with you about the Great Principle."

Zhuangzi: Outer Chapters- Autumn Floods (庄子·外篇·秋水) by Zhuangzi (庄子). Warring States period. Translated by Emily Hou. 

Zhuangzi, born Zhuang Zhou, is an influential philosopher from the Warring States period, whose work, the Zhuangzi became an important Daoist text. 

In this passage, the River Earl, seeing how hundreds of streams were flowing into the river, was delighted and pleased with himself and the grandness of the river. However, upon seeing the oceans and drawing a comparison, he realizes that there is a lot more out there. In this passage, Ruo, the spirit of the Northern Sea, is teaching this principle to the River Earl through a series of analogies. 

The first analogy used, the frog in a well (井底之蛙), has become a common Chinese idiom, used to comment on sheltered and often narrow mindsets, usually from people with limited experiences. 

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Selected Works. Hung Liu (刘虹). Mixed media on panel. 2015-2018.

Hung Liu, born on 1948 in Changchun, China, is a Chinese American contemporary artist. Being one of the first Chinese artists to establish a career in the West, she is often seen as “the greatest Chinese painter in the United States.” 

Growing up during the time of Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution, she was sent to work in rice, wheat and cornfields with peasants. The people she encountered during her years working at the countryside became the subjects of her paintings, and Hung Liu desired to give them respect, beauty and life. She attended the Central Academy of Art in Beijing and eventually pursued her Master’s degree at U.C. San Diego and becoming widely known in the United States for her paintings depicting Chinese concubines and field workers she met during the Cultural Revolution. She also uses Chinese historical photographs of women, refugees, children, prostitutes and soldiers as her subjects, bringing Chinese history and memory to the viewer. Hung Liu believes in “calling spirits home,” and believes that her paintings will give the forgotten a spirit, and to give them a place to rest for eternity.

Hung Liu’s paintings are created with layer brushstrokes and washes of linseed oil to give them its signature indistinct, drippy appearance, their meaning reflective of the way the washes and drips dissolve the images, suggesting the passage of memory into history. Although painting is her primary medium, she often moves between mixed media, murals and installation. Since arriving in the United States, she has received several prestigious fellowships and awards and her work has been exhibited in top museums. 

Images courtesy of Turner Carroll Gallery

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The Farewell. dir. Lulu Wang. 2019.

The Farewell is based off a true story that director Lulu Wang shared on radio programme This American Life. The film follows the story of Billi, played by Awkwafina (Crazy Rich Asians), a Chinese-American girl whose grandmother has terminal lung cancer. The entire family keeps the illness a secret from the grandmother herself, and uses the false pretense of a wedding to gather together in China and see the grandmother for what is presumably the last time. Billi struggles to understand the motivation behind keeping it all a secret, but throughout the film she begins to navigate and embrace the differences between the two cultures. 

The Farewell was screened at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, and is scheduled to release on July 12, 2019. 

Wang was born in Beijing but moved to Miami, Florida at the age of six. She graduated from Boston College, studying music and literature, before moving to L.A. to pursue filmmaking. She cites her own multi-cultural experiences as part of the inspiration behind The Farewell.

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