Лю Цысинь - Supernova Era

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First Edition: October 2019

Stars discovered after this book’s original date of publication include the dwarf stars Luhman 16A and Luhman 16B (announced in 2013), and sub-dwarf WISE 0855−0714 (in 2014).

The peacock feather was an honor bestowed on high-ranking officials.

Quotation from the Analects, 9.17.

Over 100,000 soldiers participated in the Huabei Military Exercises, conducted in 1981.

An inversion of an aphorism from the Zuo Zhuan, which warns against ascribing mean motives to virtuous people.

Wu Heng (1914–1999), a geologist who chaired the National Antarctic Research Committee (later the Chinese Arctic and Antarctic Administration) in the early eighties ahead of China’s first expedition, attributed this remark to Marshal Chen Yi (1901–1972).

A paraphrase of Cao Cao’s shocking statement to Liu Bei in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, chapter 21.

A Neolithic culture that flourished along the Yellow River 5000–3000 BCE, predominantly in what is now Henan, Shanxi, and Shaanxi.