User:Bathrobe
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Australian, speaker of Chinese and Japanese, interested in Vietnamese. Living in China (formerly Hainan, now Beijing and Macao).
Have done a lot of edits, mainly related to China and Japan, and added comments to Discussion pages. I've also tinkered with a few historical articles, mainly putting Chinese characters in parentheses and inserting links to relevant articles.
When unable to log on from my own computer, I've used other computers with other IP addresses, including 61.149.184.84, 202.175.171.243, and 202.86.158.40.
Articles I've started or expanded considerably include: Sinocentrism, Temple of Confucius, Yushima Seido, Motoori Norinaga, Keichu (scholar), Kamo no Mabuchi, Language planning, Hai Rui, Sino-Japanese, Academies (China), White Deer Grotto Academy, and Donglin Academy. I also wrote stubs for José dos Santos Ferreira, Van Mieu, Le Quy Don, Phung Khac Khoan, Taihang Mountains, Wuling Mountains, Nanling, David Hawkes (scholar), Ivan Morris, A L Sadler, Helen Craig McCullough, Edwin McClellan, Joyce Ackroyd, Culai Academy, Dongpo Academy, Guozijian, and Saxaul. I also did a big cleanup of Japanese poetry.
I have deleted my screed (rant) on the naming of the Yangtze River because I am rather tired of the mindless responses that this attracts from certain Chinese nationalists, who seem to be attracted to Wikipedia by the opportunity to impose their views on the world. Bad as Western Imperialism no doubt was, it does not excuse the imposition of a new orthodoxy by another chauvinistic tradition.
