A Supplement to the Journey to the West (西遊補) is a Chinese novel written around 1640 CE by Dong Yue (董說). It acts as an addendum to the famous Journey to the West (1592) and takes place between the end of chapter sixty-one and the beginning of chapter sixty-two.[1] In the story, the Monkey King is trapped in a dream world by the Qing Fish demon, an embodiment of desire, who wishes to eat his...

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The fourth was: clear orders. He gave his soldiers clear delineations and his commissions were always clear and simple, so that they could be easily followed. Whoever went against them was invariably punished.

The fifth was: strict discipline. Even when his army was on the march, there was never the slightest misdemeanor such as the trampling of the people’s fields, damaging of agricultural...

Archive #2: Old Yue Fei paper - Part I

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Since I posted the Kaifeng Jew Haggadah on my blog for archival purposes, I have decided to do the same for another hard to find document. It is an old and often cited paper on the famous Song Dynasty general Yue Fei (1103-1141). It comes from the following publication:

Wilhelm, Hellmut. "From Myth to Myth: The Case of Yueh Fei's biography," in Confucian Personalities, ed. Arthur Wright and Denis Twitchett.

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