Love stories of the late Ming

Who says grad school is no fun? At least once every 1000 pages or so we come across passages like this:

In [馮夢龍/Feng Menglong's 《情史》/Anatomy of love (first half of the 1600s)], a young man surnamed Sun is accused by a neighbor woman of seducing her daughter; the daughter is so mortified that she hangs herself. The mother, determined to punish Sun, ties him to the corpse and goes off to fetch the magistrate. Left alone with the corpse, Sun is overcome by her beauty and does indeed make love to her - whereupon she comes back to life! The magistrate unites them in marriage.

On the other hand, it may just be the history program that's like this. Ariel gets to read 17th century porn all day.

Happy Armistice Day!

Let's take a moment to remember that imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism, that World War I was the inevitable result of contradictions among the capitalist powers, and that our past is also our future.

Happy Armistice Day!