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Outline or Summary of the Document
This article is a little highly wrought. I would like to suggest a section including a simple outline of of the content of the letter to help balance the other more specialized information. Similar outlines can be found in the English Wikipedia articles for other Pauline letters, if you would like a to see a template for what I am suggesting. Alternatively, or in addition to the outline, a brief summary of the letter might be in order. I am very glad all the information that has been presented in the article is here, and would not like to see it lost. However, when the average reader performs an engine search such as "What is Phillipians about?" and is directed to the Wikipedia, such an outline or summary as the one I am proposing is likely what he or she is hoping to find. Can we expand the article a little for the benefit of the general reader without making it too long or too complicated? Matt Yaeger: You seem to be a significant editor on this article. How would you feel about taking this on? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.242.63.44 (talk) 17:57, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

 * I had left a critical comment in the outline section. A respected editor contacted me about what I was looking for on my talk page. I think responding here will be productive (and visible) to all. The outline seemed too long and boring. In my bible the epistle covers 5 1/2 pages which includes voluminous footnotes, so the outline seems huge by comparison.

 * My bible has the following outline:
 * I. Address (1, 1-11)
 * II. Progress of the Gospel (1, 12-26)
 * III. Instructions for the Community (1, 27-2,18)
 * IV. Travel Plans of Paul and His Assistants (2,19-3,1)
 * V. Polemic: Righteousness and the Goal in Christ (3,2-21)
 * VI. Instructions for the Community (4, 1-9)
 * VII. Gratitude for the Philippians' Generosity ((4, 10-20)
 * VIII. Farewell (4, 21-23)

 * By comparison, the current outline sounds torturous! I mean, it's just summarizing a short letter.

 * An even shorter outline appears in my same study bible (separate section):
 * I. Address (1, 1-11)
 * II. Body of the Letter (1,12 - 2,18)
 * A. Progress of the Gospel (1, 12-26)
 * B. Exhortations for the Community (1,27-2,18)
 * III. Conclusion (2,19-3,1; 4,21-23)

 * My point is that we don't want to lose the audience before they get to an explanation of the letter itself. The current one is (sorry) overly tediously detailed.
 * More to the point, the "composition" is probably too short. Some of the current outline should be moved down and expanded into real sentences. That would be a quick and dirty way of "fixing" what appears to be a problem to me. Student7 (talk) 16:08, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

 * I personally found the detailed outline very useful and interesting - if I didn't, I wouldn't have read it. People are more than capable of not reading parts that they're not interested in; it seems like this detailed outline does more good for those who are interested than harm to those who aren't. Caleb 00:32, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

 * Here is something that is being sidestepped. We want readers to be able to access these ancient letters but we are bothered by the complexity of Greco-Roman Epistolary nuances that are helpful in outlining ALL the letters of the New Testament, to say nothing about that genre of ancient letter writing in general. I understand the demand to provide an outline of Philippians that is readable and brief, but are we seeking to have content or are we seeking reductionistic content. One is - in my opinion - helpful the other not so much. Why don't we have two outlines instead of one. JovanPayes (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 05:47, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

 * If we use the word "outline" IMO, we are suggesting something shorter than the letter itself. The current outline, as I have mentioned, seems to exceed what an "outline" is. Fine to "outline" it briefly, then get into the details. Have a large outline or two outlines seems to me to be pushing the limits. The rule of thumb used to be 1) Tell them what you are going to tell them (outline), 2) Tell them (bulk of article). 3) Tell them what you have told them (summary). I think we can skip the summary for a written article, though! :) Student7 (talk) 20:02, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

Bible Verses
Matt, why did you just add four quotes from Philippians without any comment on them, or why they should be considered "important"? I think that they should be referenced and commented upon, but not necessarily quoted at length, in an encyclopedia article, if they're included. --Peter Kirby 06:27, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

I don't know how exactly you'd reference a Bible verse. I could have commented on them but probably couldn't have remained NPOV. As for the importance of the verses... well, with the possible exception of the first selection (which is notable mainly in how it can be taken to refer to sleazy televangelists), you'd be hard-pressed to find a Christian who doesn't know them, and many have them memorized. A Google search may not give that impression (most if not all hits for specific verses just come from online compilations of the Bible); however, any Christian will tell you that all of the last three are very important. They're among the most memorized selections in the whole Bible. I suppose if you think it's incomplete or irrelevent, you can take it out, but I think it should stay as it adds a good deal to the article (most people, when browsing a Bible book, wonder "Why does this book matter to Christians?", and including these passages shows why, at least to some degree). --Matt Yeager 06:39, August 20, 2005 (UTC)

Under "Historical": Who is Professor Beet and where did this quote come from? There is no citation.

 * I think that list of verses should be deleted, or at the very least cited. Who decides which verses are more important than others? Looks like WP:Original Research to me. Rocksong 04:58, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Hymnic change
Changed "liberal" to "some" in the section on authorship. There is no reason why a view on the non-Pauline hymnic character of 2:5-11 would make a scholar liberal as opposed to conservative.

Comment: While your change is probably for the good of the article, your statement isn't accurate. In the context of Biblical scholarship, the words "conservative" and "liberal" have a very specific meaning. "Conservative" biblical scholars tend to stick much more closely to traditional interpretations, to earlier dating of NT works, and frequently are more open to the possibility of the miraculous, and as a result take the miracle stories in scripture as literally true. "Liberal" biblical scholars tend to be more suspicious of the traditional interpretations, more trusting of textual criticism, prefer later dating of NT works, and often - though not always - do not accept the miracle stories in the Bible as literally true.

In this case, scholars who think that 2:5-11 is a non-Pauline insert are making that suggestion based on textual criticism, rather than the traditional interpretation. That alone makes them more "liberal" in the spectrum of Bible scholars. Doesn't impugn them in any way. Just points out that they are more willing to disagree with the stated authorship in the text, which claims that this was written by Paul. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.189.113.220 (talk) 17:18, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Your definitions of liberal and conservative do make sense, but the authorship of the hymn isn't an issue that cuts along liberal and conservative lines. Paul doesn't say that he wrote the hymn, and if he's quoting, then it actually establishes the hymn's high Christology as a very early feature of Christian belief (which bolsters conservative Christian arguments). Atterlep (talk) 13:35, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Place of Authorship Uncertain
There is substantial debate about whether Philippians was written during Paul's imprisonment in Rome or during an earlier time in prison. This isn't a "liberal/conservative" issue--the text doesn't say anything at all about the location, and if it wasn't written in Rome, then it's older than we traditionally assume. If I don't hear any comments in the next week or two, I can add a section summarizing the arguments on each side. Atterlep (talk) 13:35, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

This is an important discussion to this letter and the other "Prison Letters" of Paul traditionally: Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon. September 2009 is so far gone, was this content ever written? Furthermore, if it is to be written, the content should have references for all letters traditionally in that group because even if the authorship or location is question, they are grouped together in studies, commentaries, etc. JovanPayes (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 06:02, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

I've added a citation request re: "A similar unique expression that is shared only with 2 Timothy" because, although clear reference is made to the Reiher article, the Philippians article needs to specify which biblical expression is referred to - BobKilcoyne (talk) 00:16, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

I would question the validity of this statement: "Any identification of the place of writing of Philippians is complicated by the fact that scholars generally view Acts as being an unreliable source of information about the early Church." The citation is a book by 2 scholars, Parsons and Hornik. I have not read their book. While it is possible that those 2 authors view Acts as being an unreliable source of information about the early church, it seems like a very significant leap of logic to see their view as representing the general broad view of most scholars (if that is really what the authors meant in the portion of their book that is cited). So this statement about how scholars in general view the book of Acts seems foundationally unsubstantiated. It portrays a non-objective point of view on an issue that is hotly debated, that being the historical authenticity of the book of Acts. Furthermore, this point of view is brought out in a location where the historical authenticity of the book of Acts is not being discussed. Different scholars hold differing opinions on the identification of where Paul wrote Philippians, as well as holding differing opinions on whether or not the book of Acts indicates where he wrote it, as well as differing opinions on whether or not Acts is reliable. These varying opinions do not form a substantial enough base to justify characterizing the general opinion of scholars as believing the book of Acts to be historically unreliable, and therefore this statement cannot be relevant to the discussion on the location of where the Epistle to the Philippians was written. Gpancoast (talk) 22:21, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

History, original language
I wish this article had more about the history of this book of the Bible. Would anyone like to share the answers to these questions in the article?:
 * 1) What are the oldest editions of the epistle?
 * 2) What language(s) are they written in?
 * As with all of Paul's letter whether regarded genuine or not, they are written in Koine Greek. JovanPayes (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 06:09, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

 * 1) Why does the KJV of 2:5-6 say that Jesus "thought it not robbery to be equal with God", but the New International Version and American Standard Versions say Jesus "knew that equality with God was not a thing to be grasped." A little syntactic analysis of why the meanings are so different would be appreciated.
 * 2) Was there an intent to change the meaning of verses 5-6?  DBlomgren (talk) 18:12, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

 * @DBlomgren: I added a bunch of stuff in August 7, 2008 that was reverted; you may find some material there worth restoring to the article (check history). A Georgian (talk) 15:05, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

 * I do not know what the oldest edition of the epistle is. Unlike the Dead Sea Scrolls, it would be comparatively "recent" because the letters would have deteriorated fairly rapidly. You didn't ask because you probably know. We know the copies are "real" because they are derived from separate sources, at least one from the Western Church, another from the Eastern Church; perhaps others.
 * All written in Greek, which I inserted from ref at bottom of page.
 * As usual, the apparent difference in translation is not so bad as it appears. The intent is to treat "others in Christ" as you are treated "in Christ." The KJV seems to me to sound a bit arrogant to modern ears. Have no idea what the original Greek was.  Student7 (talk) 23:25, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

Unanimous? "no scholar"?
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Poem
If "it does not have a rhythmic or metrical structure in the original Greek", how can it be a poem? 98.143.79.127 (talk) 21:21, 11 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Poems don't always have to have metrical structure, and when I added the section I simply used the word "poem" because that is the terminology used by scholars who study the passage (see Bart Ehrman here). I'm going to go ahead and remove the contradiction header. Montgolfière (talk) 05:11, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

Discrepancy
In paragraph 2 of the main article, it says "While there is a general consensus that Philippians consists of authentically Pauline material, a few scholars believe that the epistle is a composite of multiple letter fragments from Paul to the church in Philippi...However, this hypothesis is not accepted by the majority of New Testament scholars." Then the entire next section "Composition" describes that there is "a general consensus has emerged among biblical scholars that Philippians was not written as one unified letter, but is rather a compilation of fragments from three separate letters from Paul to the church in Philippi." --Spicer5 (talk) 23:32, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
 * The discrepancy seems to stem from how the first sentence you mentioned does not distinguish well between "authentic" and "not fragmented". The latter is likely the intended meaning, but I don't know enough about the subject to rewrite the article. Also, I moved your contribution to the talk section to under a new section, rather than above the table of contents. 72.66.80.61 (talk) 15:55, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

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Confessionalism (religion)

In Christianity, confessionalism is a belief in the importance of full and unambiguous assent to the whole of a movement's or denomination's teachings, such as those found in Confessions of Faith, which followers believe to be accurate summaries of the teachings found in Scripture and to show their distinction from other groups - they hold to the Quia form of confessional subscription. Confessionalists believe that differing interpretations or understandings, especially those in direct opposition to traditionally held teachings, cannot be accommodated within a church communion. A denomination or church that shares these beliefs can be called a confessional denomination or confessional church, respectively.

Confessionalism can become a matter of practical relevance in fields such as Christian education and Christian politics. It's also very relatable. For example, there is a question over whether Christian schools should attempt to enforce a specific religious doctrine, or whether they should simply teach general "Christian values". Similarly, some Christian political parties have been split over whether non-Christians should be allowed to participate—confessionalists, arguing against it, stress the importance of religious doctrine, while non-confessionalists say that shared values are more important than adherence to exact beliefs. The comparative study of confessions is termed symbolics from the term "symbol" used to describe a creed or larger confession.

History
Historically, the term confessionalism for the first time was used in mid-19th century. Of course the phenomenon of confessionalism and the term “confession”, from which the term confessionalism derived, is much older, referring to once individual belief, then collective belief. Furthermore, the term confession in different languages implies different notions (faith or denomination in English, croyance, culte, communauté religieuse in French). Adherents of confessional churches have often made a public profession of faith to declare agreement with their particular confession.

In the 16th and 17th centuries the term confession was only used for the documents of belief (cf. Confessio Augustana) while the religious communities of Roman Catholics, Lutherans, and Calvinists were referred to as “religious parties”, different “religions” or “churches” – not as confessions. In the late 18th century the term confession started to expand to religious bodies sharing a common creed. The first evidence is the Wöllner and Prussian Religious Edict of 1788 (though there might be earlier proofs for the English-speaking world). The international Congress of Vienna in 1815 still didn’t use the term confession to mark different Christian denominations. Labelling Christian groups “confessions” implied a certain degree of civil progress and tolerance, accepting that other parties also claimed absolute truth. The original intention to pacify conflicts between the denominations in the 19th century turned into its opposite: Confession bore the ground for new conflicts, as for example in the about mixed marriages in 1837. The Roman Catholic Church refused to consider itself as merely a confession.

However ahistorical the terminology (cf. the latest semantical research of L. Hölscher), historians talk about the Early Modern period as a “confessional age” (first evidence: Ernst Troeltsch, 1906) and with good reasons use the terms of confessionalization and confessionalism.

In the second half of the 19th century the term confessionalism occurred in dictionaries. It referred to internal Protestant conflicts (orthodoxy v. “living” Protestantism), to conflicts between different confessional groups, to everyday resentments and to any exaggerated emphasis of religious identity against competing identities. The Catholic Staatslexikon in 1959 defines Confessionalism as the “endeavour of the confessions to defend their religious doctrine” and their identity, in opposition to indifferentism, but it also meant the “overemphasis of confessional differences, esp. transferring them into the realm of state and society”. In later editions of dictionaries there is no lemma any more since the phenomenon lost its wider impact. Confessionalism exerted a severe impact on European social and political history between 1530 and 1648 and again between 1830 and the 1960s.

Now confessionalism is of minor relevance in European state churches. It rose to importance in the early 19th century and nearly vanished in the 1960s. This is why some scholars talk about this time-period as a "second confessional age", comparing the dimensions of confessionalism with the "first confessional age" (16th to 17th centuries, for example Lutheran orthodoxy, Reformed scholasticism, Tridentine-era Catholicism, and the Thirty-nine Articles in Anglicanism). In intra-Christian dialogue, confessionalism was a significant consideration during the colloquies of Regensburg, Marburg, Montbéliard, and Kassel. However, various European free churches today consider their confessions to be important, for example, the Evangelical Lutheran Free Church and the Independent Evangelical-Lutheran Church both require clergy and congregations to declare a quia subscription to the Book of Concord, as such the denominations are classified as being Confessional Lutheran. Those that are or were part of the Confessing Movement who eventually deemed dealing with theological liberalism and theological progressivism within Mainline Protestant denominations as not being tenable anymore would later join or start Confessional Churches and Denominations that continue with the traditions of their respective denominations and in maintaining orthodox doctrine while being ecclesiastically separate.

Controversy
The idea of confessionalism can generate considerable controversy. Some Christian denominations, particularly newer ones, focus more on the "experience" of Christianity than on its formal doctrines, and are accused by confessionalists of adopting a vague and unfocused form of religion. Anti-confessionalists, declaring that the confessionalist view of religion is too narrow and that people should be able to seek religion in their own way, generally argue that it is the spirit and values of religion that matter, rather than the particular rules. Confessionalists generally counter that the "spirit and values" of any given faith cannot be attained without first knowing truth as given in formal dogmas.

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Brantridge Park

Brantridge Park, Balcombe, West Sussex, England is a 19th-century country house, formerly one of the lesser royal residences. It is a Grade II listed building.

History
The house and grounds replaced Brantridge farmhouse and farm. Sir Robert Loder, 1st Baronet acquired the estate in 1849, and by 1874, Brantridge Park mansion had been built.

Standing in Brantridge Forest, it was the seat of Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone (and brother of Queen Mary), and his wife, Princess Alice of Albany, the last surviving grandchild of Queen Victoria. They leased the house from Lord Cowdray from 1922 onwards.

Princess Beatrice, youngest and last surviving child of Queen Victoria, also lived in Brantridge Park with her niece, Princess Alice, until her death in her sleep here on 26 October 1944, aged 87.

Sir Denys Lowson, at one time Lord Mayor of London, lived there for some years after the Athlones. The house was then used as a home for disabled children.

21st century
The house was divided into apartments, and operated as a time-share resort until January 2008.

In December 2016, Brantridge Park was bought by the architect Anders Dahl and his wife, Fiona Bigwood.

As of January 2022, Brantridge Park is a hotel.

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Bicoherence

In mathematics and statistical analysis, bicoherence (also known as bispectral coherency) is a squared normalised version of the bispectrum. The bicoherence takes values bounded between 0 and 1, which make it a convenient measure for quantifying the extent of phase coupling in a signal. The prefix bi- in bispectrum and bicoherence refers not to two time series xt, yt but rather to two frequencies of a single signal.

The bispectrum is a statistic used to search for nonlinear interactions. The Fourier transform of the second-order cumulant, i.e., the autocorrelation function, is the traditional power spectrum. The Fourier transform of C3(t1,t2) (third-order cumulant) is called bispectrum or bispectral density. They fall in the category of Higher Order Spectra, or Polyspectra and provide supplementary information to the power spectrum. The third order polyspectrum (bispectrum) is the easiest to compute, and hence the most popular.

The difference with measuring coherence (coherence analysis is an extensively used method to study the correlations in frequency domain, between two simultaneously measured signals) is the need for both input and output measurements by estimating two auto-spectra and one cross spectrum. On the other hand, bicoherence is an auto-quantity, i.e. it can be computed from a single signal. The coherence function provides a quantification of deviations from linearity in the system which lies between the input and output measurement sensors. The bicoherence measures the proportion of the signal energy at any bifrequency that is quadratically phase coupled. It is usually normalized in the range similar to correlation coefficient and classical (second order) coherence. It was also used for depth of anasthesia assessment and widely in plasma physics (nonlinear energy transfer) and also for detection of gravitational waves.

Bispectrum and bicoherence may be applied to the case of non-linear interactions of a continuous spectrum of propagating waves in one dimension.

Bicoherence measurements have been carried out for EEG signals monitoring in sleep, wakefulness and seizures.

Definition
The bispectrum is defined as the triple product
 * $$B(f_1,f_2) = F(f_1)F(f_2)F^*(f_1+f_2)$$

where $$B$$ is the bispectrum evaluated at frequencies $$f_1$$ and $$f_2$$, $$F$$ is the Fourier transform of the signal, and $$^*$$ denotes the complex conjugate. The Fourier transform is a complex quantity, and so is the bispectrum. From complex multiplication, the magnitude of the bispectrum is equal to the product of the magnitudes of each of the frequency components, and the phase of the bispectrum is the sum of the phases of each of the frequency components.

Suppose that the three Fourier components $$F(f_1)$$, $$F(f_2)$$ and $$F(f_1 + f_2)$$ were perfectly phase locked. Then if the Fourier transform was calculated several times from different parts of the time series, the bispectrum will always have the same value. If we add together all of the bispectra, they will sum without cancelling. On the other hand, suppose that the phases of each of these frequencies was random. Then, the bispectrum will have the same magnitude (assuming that the magnitude of the frequency components is the same) but the phase will be randomly oriented. Adding together all of the bispectra will result in cancellation, because of the random phase orientation, and so the sum of the bispectra will have a small magnitude. Detecting phase coupling requires summation over a number of independent samples- this is the first motivation for defining the bicoherence. Secondly, the bispectrum is not normalized, because it still depends on the magnitudes of each of the frequency components. The bicoherence includes a normalization factor that removes the magnitude dependence.

There is some inconsistency with the definition of the bicoherence normalization constant. Some of the definitions that have been used are
 * $$b(f_1,f_2) = \frac{\left| \sum\limits_{n} F_n(f_1)F_n(f_2)F_n^*(f_1+f_2) \right|}{ \sqrt{\sum\limits_{n} |F_n(f_1)|^2|F_n(f_2)|^2|F_n^*(f_1+f_2)|^2}} $$

which was provided in Sigl and Chamoun 1994, but does not appear to be correctly normalized. Alternatively, plasma physics typically uses
 * $$b^2(f_1,f_2) = \frac{|\langle F_n(f_1)F_n(f_2)F_n^*(f_1+f_2) \rangle|^2}{ \langle |F_n(f_1)F_n(f_2)|^2 \rangle\langle |F_n^*(f_1+f_2)|^2\rangle} $$

where the angle brackets denote averaging. Note that this is the same as using a sum, because $$n$$ is the same in the numerator and the denominator. This definition is directly from Nagashima 2006, and is also referred to in He 2009 and Maccarone 2005.

Finally, one of the most intuitive definitions comes from Hagihira 2001 and Hayashi 2007, which is

 * $$b(f_1,f_2) = \frac{\left| \sum\limits_{n} F_n(f_1)F_n(f_2)F_n^*(f_1+f_2) \right|}{ \sum\limits_{n} |F_n(f_1)F_n(f_2)F_n^*(f_1+f_2)|} $$

The numerator contains the magnitude of the bispectrum summed over all of the time series segments. This quantity is large if there is phase coupling, and approaches 0 in the limit of random phases. The denominator, which normalizes the bispectrum, is given by calculating the bispectrum after setting all of the phases to 0. This corresponds to the case where there is perfect phase coupling, because all of the samples have zero phase. Therefore, the bicoherence has a value between 0 (random phases) and 1 (total phase coupling).

A physical interpretation
Among the three normalizations above, the second one can be interpreted as a correlation coefficient defined between energy-supplying and energy-receiving parties in a second order nonlinear interaction, whereas the bispectrum has been proven to be the corresponding covariance. Therefore, just as correlation cannot sufficiently demonstrate the presence of causality, a significant bicoherence peak also cannot sufficiently substantiate the existence of a nonlinear interaction.

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Su Wu

Su Wu (140s BC - 60 BC ) was a Chinese diplomat and politician of the Western Han dynasty. He is known in Chinese history for making the best of his mission into foreign territory. During his mission he was captured and then detained for nineteen years, enduring major hardship at least in the early years of his captivity. Nevertheless, he endured this treatment while remaining faithful to his mission and his homeland.

According to Chinese tradition, in the early stages of his captivity, Su Wu was so deprived of food that he only survived in the cold north lands by eating his coverings, then enduring long years of servitude herding sheep, before managing to return home. He was able to return home after deceiving his captors with a story about his having sent a message back to the Western Han dynasty by means of tying a letter on the leg of a wild goose.

Su's loyalty to the Western Han is emphasised by the story that during his detainment he married a wife, that he had children by her, but that he chose to return to his homeland, even though it meant abandoning his wife and children. Su Wu is depicted in the Wu Shuang Pu (無雙譜, Table of Peerless Heroes) by Jin Guliang.

Mission to Xiongnu
Little is known about Su's life or career other than his mission beyond the borders of the Western Han involving the Xiongnu, a mission which turned out to be drastically more trying and lengthy than expected.

In 100 BC, there was a short-lived détente between long-term adversaries the Western Han and the Xiongnu. One year earlier, in 101 BC, a new chanyu had come to power in Xiongnu, Chanyu Qiedihou (且鞮侯), who had expressed an interest in peace with the Han and who, as a goodwill gesture, had allowed some Han diplomats who had been detained by the Xiongnu to return to the Western Han, along with gifts from the chanyu.

In response, in 100 BC, Emperor Wu of Han commissioned Su, then the deputy commander of the imperial guards, to serve as an ambassador to Xiongnu. His deputy was fellow deputy commander, Zhang Sheng (張勝), and the third in command was Chang Hui (常惠). However, once they arrived at the Xiongnu chanyu's headquarters, Chanyu Qiedihou was far more arrogant than expected, which angered Zhang. In response, Zhang plotted with two Xiongnu officials, the Prince of Gou (緱王) and Yu Chang (虞常), to assassinate Chanyu Qiedihou's half-Han advisor Wei Lü (衛律) and kidnap the chanyu's mother.

The Prince of Gou and Yu Chang carried out their plot while the chanyu was away on a hunt, but someone alerted the chanyu, who quickly returned and killed the Prince of Gou in battle and captured Yu. Yu admitted to plotting with Zhang. Zhang, alarmed, informed Su, who had been unaware of Zhang's plot. Aware that the chanyu was planning on forcing him to surrender to Xiongnu, Su tried to preserve his dignity by committing suicide with his sword. Wei, who had wanted Su to surrender and become an advisor to the chanyu as well, quickly summoned doctors and was able to just save Su's life. Chanyu Qiedihou, impressed with Su's heroism, also sent messengers to care for Su's recovery, while putting Zhang and Chang under arrest.

After Su recovered, Chanyu Qiedihou decided to publicly execute Yu as an example and to force the entire Han mission to surrender. Zhang became apprehensive and surrendered. Su, however, was not shaken even when Wei put his sword onto Su's neck while Zhang tried to explain that he would be greatly honoured to be the chanyu's advisor. Su rebuked him for his faithlessness to the Western Han and refused to surrender.

Life in exile
Unable to force Su to surrender, Chanyu Qiedihou decided to try to torture him by starvation, and so put him in a cellar without food and drink. However, for several days, Su survived by consuming wool from his coat and the snow that fell into the cellar. The chanyu was further surprised and thought that the gods were protecting him. The chanyu then exiled him to Lake Baikal and ordered him to tend a flock of male sheep, telling him that he would be allowed to go home when the sheep produced young. It is conjectured, with some evidence based on correspondence later between Su and Li Ling that the chanyu gave Su a Xiongnu wife, and they had children.

During exile, Su often lacked food, as the food supplies coming from the Xiongnu headquarters were not arriving steadily. He often had to resort to eating grass roots and wild rodents. Regardless of the difficulties, however, Su always held onto the imperial staff (節) given to all imperial messengers, and he used it as the shepherd's rod so much that the decorative hairs on the staff eventually all fell off.

Twice, during exile, the chanyu sent Li Ling, who had surrendered to Xiongnu after being defeated on the battlefield in 99 BC, to visit Su. The first time, Li informed Su that his two brothers had both been accused of crimes and committed suicide; that his mother had died; and that his wife had remarried. He tried to convince Su to surrender, but Su refused. On the second occasion, Li informed him of Emperor Wu's passing, and Su was so despondent that in mourning that he vomited blood. When the Emperor of Han died, Su Wu faced south towards his old homeland of China and wept in utter sadness.

Return to Han
In 81 BC, Han was again in a détente with Xiongnu, when Han ambassadors inquired of Su's fate. The Xiongnu government claimed that Su had long died. However, Su's old assistant Chang Hui secretly informed the ambassadors of Su's exile, and the ambassadors, under Chang's suggestion, told then chanyu Huyandi (壺衍鞮) that Emperor Zhao had killed a migratory goose while hunting, and that a letter from Su seeking help was found on the bird's foot. Surprised, Chanyu Huyandi admitted that Su was in fact still alive, recalled him and allowed him as well as his nine followers to go home. In all, he was in exile for 19 years.

Once Su returned to Han, he was given the position of Director of Colonization (典屬國), a high-ranking official post. He remained in that post at least until the early years of Emperor Xuan's reign—late 70s BC. In 51 BC, when Emperor Xuan, in gratitude to 11 key officials who served him well, had their portraits painted onto the main gallery of the main imperial palace, Su was one of the 11 so portrayed.

Impact on Chinese history
Su was often regarded as the epitome of faithful service in light of great odds and trials. His story was often invoked when acts of great faith or courage were performed by officials. His story, as undetailed as it was in actual history, often became subjects of drama, poetry, and songs throughout Chinese history. Many people take him as a second Zhang Qian, who was also previously caught in the same situation, refused to surrender, and managed to escape back to Han China.

Music
Among other musical works on the theme of Su Wu, a traditional Chinese melody, "Su Wu Mu Yang" (蘇武牧羊), is based on the story of Su Wu herding sheep. It is generally played on a Chinese flute.

Pictures
In graphical representations, such as the folk art of Chinese paper cutting, Su Wu is typically depicted herding sheep, with his staff.

Literature
In the Japanese Tale of the Heike the story of Su Wu and the letter tied to the migratory goose is retold. In this version, the Xiongnu amputate Su Wu's leg.

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Paranoid Time

Paranoid Time is the debut EP by American hardcore punk band Minutemen. It is also the second ever release by the SST record label, founded by Black Flag's Greg Ginn and Chuck Dukowski. The album cover is a drawing by the American artist Raymond Pettibon.

Background
Minutemen's first record occurred almost immediately after they opened for Black Flag in Minutemen's hometown of San Pedro, California. Black Flag guitarist Greg Ginn offered the group a chance to record and release a record, and a late night session at Media Art Studio in Hermosa Beach, California was booked.

Recording
The group recorded all seven songs in the order in which they appear on the record, with no overdubbing except for backing vocals by the group and drummer George Hurley's brother Greg. At the beginning of "Joe McCarthy's Ghost", bassist Mike Watt can be heard telling guitarist D. Boon and the Hurley brothers, "You just sing 'Joe McCarthy', want to do that?". A discussion between the four participants can be heard underneath George Hurley's previously recorded drum introduction.

Ginn later told Minutemen how to put out a record, which spurred Watt and Boon to form New Alliance Records later that year.

The EP also appears as part of the My First Bells cassette (1985) and the Post-Mersh Vol. 3 CD. Two tracks from the EP, "Paranoid Chant" and "The Maze" appeared on the SST compilation The Blasting Concept.

A sample of the intro to "Joe McCarthy's Ghost" can be heard on one of the radio ads compiled on the "Crass Commercialism" track on Black Flag's Everything Went Black album.

Packaging
Early released copies of the EP were printed with black artwork. All other editions are green. In 1982, in Trouser Press, Robert Payes said the record is "a must for the savage Ray Pettibone artwork alone." The following year, however, Byron Coley - writing for The Boston Phoenix - would note that the artwork didn't fit the music.

Reception
John Leland and Ira Robbins wrote in Trouser Press that the EP "offers dogmatic politics redeemed by idiosyncratic Wire-type songs. Kicked along by drummer George Hurley, each abbreviated blurt of rhythm serves as a backdrop for the rants of bassist Mike Watt and guitarist D. Boon. The best is the apocalyptic “Paranoid Chant,” in which Boon screams, “I don’t even worry about crime anymore.”" According to Robert Christgau - who commented on it in his review of the band's first full-length album - the EP "could pass for speed-rock". Coley was more mixed: he found that the band's early music "didn't give much leeway to the imagination", going on to criticize the band's seriousness and the "naive wordplay" in their lyrics.

A retrospective review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine for AllMusic found the EP to be "a startlingly coherent set of primal minimalism -- a cross between Californian hardcore punk and the succinct experimentalism of Wire. It speeds by too quickly for any particular song to stand out, but the band's terse, frenetic energy is invigorating, as are their imaginative ideas." In a 2022 review of their second LP, Huw Baines says of Paranoid Time, "all the pieces are in the right places, from Watt’s wandering bass to Boon’s history-lesson-with-footnotes rants and lacerating leads". In a perfect score review from 2008, Punknews.org reviewer John concluded that Paranoid Time "is infinitely important to independent rock. There is no excuse not to own it."

Personnel
with:
 * Minutemen
 * D. Boon - guitar, vocals
 * Mike Watt - bass, vocals
 * George Hurley - drums, backing vocals
 * Greg Hurley - backing vocals on "Joe McCarthy's Ghost" and "Paranoid Chant"

Production

 * Greg Ginn - record producer
 * Spot - engineer

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