Cedules is my blog on cjk.com. Here I describe aspects of the  CJK world that I find  amusing, titillating, fascinating or even distasteful as well as anecdotes and musings from my somewhat remote life here in the Montana woods. In the other sections of cjk.com, I try to stick to the topic, but in Cedules I wander at will.

The rarely used English word Cedules means something like short diplomatic dispatches or messages. I picked up the word in 1969 from Cedules from a Workshop in Asiatic Philology by Peter A. Boodberg, my professor in classical Chinese at UC Berkeley. Anticipating open source publishing by about five decades, Professor Boodberg typed his laconic one-page essays onto stencils, then ran off about fifty copies and mailed them to people around the world who he thought would be interested in his fine-bore analysis of the Chinese script and traditional Chinese poetry, among other topics. (About half of the fifty odd Cedules appeared in Selected Works of Peter A. Boodberg, University of California Press, 1979.) As an amateur sinolog, and certainly without his erudition or precision, I have tried to follow Professor Boodberg’s example in my other posts to cjk.com, in Tang Poems, Translating Buddhism, etc. But here I allow myself to ramble.