Cattle Queen And Modern Mandarin

Finding The Cattle Queen

Rachel Ossip | n+1 | 3rd April 2026

An investigation into the history of a "scandalous" 1967 advertisement for a Manhattan steakhouse, which showed a naked woman painted with lines dividing her into cuts of meat, leads to some astute observations about meat consumption, masculinity and body politics. "To eat steak is to be virile; to be virile is to eat steak. The butchered woman at the centre is simply a meal, the means to this end" (4,000 words)

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Just ‘English with Hanzi’

JingYu | Old North Whale Review | 9th February 2026

Modern Mandarin has undergone an "invisible revolution". European-style syntax, conjunctions and passive voice have been mapped onto the fluid parataxis of Classical Chinese. "One cannot uninstall an operating system update that has been running for a hundred years. China did not just translate Western books; it translated the Western mind, disassembled it, and rebuilt it inside the modern tongue" (1,800 words)