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Full title: Path to Nowhere X Professor Chen Lishan Collaborative Mythology Documentary | Returning to the Mountains and Seas
This was released with Path to Nowhere's 2nd Half-Anniversary event, "Ode to Sun": https://youtu.be/0A3GhaOH42s

I read quite a few books, blogs, articles, and translated content to try and get a better understanding, but since I’m not a professional, my knowledge and translations may still be lacking in some places.
Most of the on-screen notes were present in the original video, but I also added a couple of my own to give further context to people unfamiliar with Chinese culture/history. I hope you found them helpful!
I borrowed key terms such as the ones below from other English texts, but other than that, all the translations in the video are my own unless stated otherwise.

Borrowed terms:
◘ [Scorching Vale]; [Murky Shore]: Contemplating “Return”: Xie Lingyun’s “Hillside Garden” by Ping Wang
https://brill.com/view/journals/joch/7/3/article-p286_4.xml
◘ [Abyss of Anxiety], [Celestial Patterns], [The Basic Warp] The Huainanzi - John S. Major, Sarah A. Queen, Andrew Seth Meyer, Harold D. Roth
◘ [When Will the Turning of Seasons End]： https://yyeintheplacetobe.wordpress.com/2016/06/27/%E3%80%8A%E8%99%9E%E7%BE%8E%E4%BA%BA%C2%B7-%E6%98%A5%E8%8A%B1%E7%A7%8B%E6%9C%88%E4%BD%95%E6%97%B6%E4%BA%86%E3%80%8B-overview-translation-and-analysis/ by Yvonne Ye. If you enjoy reading poem analysis, she does a nice detailed breakdown!
◘ [Never talk of strange phenomena, feats of strength, disorder, or spirits.] Analects of Confucius Book 7: new English translation by Richard Brown https://brownbeat.medium.com/analects-of-confucius-book-7-new-english-translation-b37cb9a74941#:~:text=%E5%AD%90%E4%B8%8D%E8%AA%9E%E6%80%AA%E5%8A%9B%E4%BA%82,strength%2C%20disorder%2C%20or%20spirits.

Others:
◘ The Floods of Autumn: https://ctext.org/zhuangzi/floods-of-autumn translated by James Legge
◘ You can find a great English translation of Heavenly Questions here by Mark Obama Ndesandjo! If you happen to read this, thank you for giving me permission to use your work, even though I decided not to directly use your translation in the end! 😊 https://atangpoetfromnairobi.wordpress.com/2018/01/17/heavenly-questions/
◘ Zuo Zhuan translation with commentary by Anne Kinney: https://www2.iath.virginia.edu/saxon/servlet/SaxonServlet?source=xwomen/texts/chunqiu.xml&style=xwomen/xsl/dynaxml.xsl&chunk.id=d2.11&toc.id=d2.11&doc.lang=bilingual

Full texts:
◘ [Classic of Mountains and Seas] full Chinese text: https://ctext.org/shan-hai-jing
◘ The Classic of Mountains and Seas translation by Anne Birell (The nouns are translated in an extremely painful way though…)

Wikipedia pages:
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_of_Mountains_and_Seas
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huainanzi
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mawangdui
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuo_Zhuan
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhuang_Zhou
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheng_Xuanying
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusang
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiaolong
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin_and_yang
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guo_Pu

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