Year: 2007

On Jiang Jinsong’s Lecture 39 of the Science Forum, “The Experimental Scientific Tradition as the Root of Environmental Problems”

History of Science & Scholarship2007.10.20
On Jiang Jinsong’s Lecture 39 of the Science Forum, “The Experimental Scientific Tradition as the Root of Environmental Problems”
Although Teacher Wu didn’t come, this time the Keke Forum had far more listeners than usual. Many familiar senior students also went, and the atmosphere of discussion was unprecedentedly lively (a group from Peking University bullying one person from Tsinghua), which really showed Peking University’s distinctive style~~ In real life I’m usually rather timid; with so many teachers and senior students raising such good questions, I simply didn’t ask anything, especially since the teachers and senior students had already brought up everything that should have been said. But online I can be a bit more unrestrained, and I can still offer a few thoughts. I’ve already posted my comments on…
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2007年10月20日
Materials: A Four-Person Trip to Chuandixia–Lingshan in May 2005

Life & Notes2007.10.17
Materials: A Four-Person Trip to Chuandixia–Lingshan in May 2005
Materials: May 2005 Chuan Dixia—Lingshan, a Four-Person Trip Gu Chu posted on 2007-10-17 18:57:34 Two years ago the computer was reformatted once, the hard drive broke once, and the computer was replaced once; of the old files, aside from all the doc files I had backed up on my USB drive (mainly Suixuan’s articles), almost none remained. At the time I didn’t really care, thinking to myself that heaven wanted me to negate the past as well, so be it, so be it. Now that I look back fondly, there are still some things worth trying to retrieve. Especially this activity from two and a half years ago, which I’ve…
everyday life
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2007年10月17日
This Issue’s Music: Yeliya Girl (Tong Ang)

Life & Notes2007.10.16
This Issue’s Music: Yeliya Girl (Tong Ang)
A few days ago I saw UNIC post Tong Ange’s “Keep the Roots” (“把根留住”), and it stirred up nostalgia — this was one of the songs I used to hear a lot as a child. Speaking of which, when I was very little (probably in the early 90s, anyway very little, about not yet in elementary school), I often went out with my parents to socialize over meals, and we’d often end up singing karaoke. We also sang at home sometimes. I remember that back then it was played on those huge LD discs; CDs seemed only just to be coming into common use. “Keep the Roots” seems to have…
everyday life music
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2007年10月16日
[Repost] The CCP’s First Time Writing “Ecological Civilization” into a Party Congress Political Report

Life & Notes2007.10.16
[Repost] The CCP’s First Time Writing “Ecological Civilization” into a Party Congress Political Report
http://news.qq.com/a/20071016/001869.htm Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 15 (Reporters Cheng Zhiliang, Gu Ruizhen, Wang Pan) — In the process of comprehensively building a moderately prosperous society, China has proposed building an “ecological civilization,” and for the first time has written this concept into a political report of the Party Congress. When Hu Jintao delivered his report to the Seventeenth Party Congress on behalf of the Sixteenth Central Committee on the 15th, he put forward new requirements for realizing the goal of comprehensively building a moderately prosperous society; among them was to “build an ecological civilization and basically form an industrial structure, growth pattern, and consumption model that conserve energy and resources…
everyday life China future stars
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2007年10月16日
On the “Naturalness” of Laozi and Zhuangzi

Life & Notes2007.10.16
On the “Naturalness” of Laozi and Zhuangzi
Recently I helped a new first-year junior sister look over a paper, and in passing I jotted down a question here. This question is rather naive, but many people still make this mistake. Quite naturally, like many beginners and even some scholars who comment on Laozi and Zhuangzi only in part, she understood “自然” as the “自然” in “自然界” (“nature” as the natural world). But in ancient China and ancient Greece, the word “自然” did not have this meaning at all (see my earlier article “Ancient Greek Natural Philosophy and the Scientific Spirit”). Exactly what the word meant in ancient Greece may still require detailed textual verification, but in ancient…
everyday life China nature Confucianism
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2007年10月16日
[France] Tony Anatrella: “The Forgotten Sex”

Culture & Public Commentary2007.10.14
[France] Tony Anatrella: “The Forgotten Sex”
[Fr.] Tony Anatrella, “Forgotten Sex,” trans. Liu Weixu and Xu Jun, Guangxi Normal University Press, June 2003, 18.8 yuan The author is a Freudian social psychologist. Taking sex as his thread, he discusses topics such as the body, society, love, and growing up. In terms of readability and intellectual stimulation, this is a good book. The author points out that modern people seem on the surface to have “liberated” sex and liberated the “body,” but in fact they are often negating and rejecting them, so much so that they eventually move toward forgetting them. Today’s “sex” has been stripped away from reproduction, love, morality, and “sexual relations”; “sex for sex’s…
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2007年10月14日
[Dutch] J. Huizinga: Man the Player, 35 yuan — ☆

Culture & Public Commentary2007.10.11
[Dutch] J. Huizinga: Man the Player, 35 yuan — ☆
[Dutch]J. Huizinga: Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture, translated by Cheng Qiong, proofread by Wang Zuohong and Chen Weizheng, Guizhou Publishing Group, Guizhou People’s Publishing House, first edition January 1998, second edition August 2007, 35 yuan—☆ Often, just when I am thinking about certain topics, I can promptly find the book I want at a bookstore, and even at the new-books counter…… This book immediately came out in two editions, one of which (the one I chose) is a reprint, and the other is the latest translation by Huacheng Publishing House (the third Chinese translation), Huizinga: 2007, 9th month, first edition. I compared these two books for quite…
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2007年10月11日
[Repost] Global “Sexual Happiness” Survey: Mainland Chinese Men Have an Average of 3.5 Sexual Partners

Life & Notes2007.10.11
[Repost] Global “Sexual Happiness” Survey: Mainland Chinese Men Have an Average of 3.5 Sexual Partners
http://news.qq.com/a/20071011/002018.htm Ahem… I won’t paste the original text here; everyone can go look for it themselves… Of course, this kind of survey is still worth knowing about. I just want to raise a question: take a look at this, 16. How many male partners do you have? (asked of women) New Zealand (20.4) Global average (7.3) Hong Kong (4.1) Mainland China (2.3) India (1.8) 17. How many female partners do you have? (asked of men) Austria (29.3) Hong Kong (14.2) Global average (13.2) Mainland China (3.5) Clearly, the survey shows that men generally have more opposite-sex partners than women do. What does that mean? Are men always more promiscuous than…
everyday life sociology relationism statistics
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2007年10月11日
Is the Struggle Aspect of Contradictions Absolute?

Life & Notes2007.10.11
Is the Struggle Aspect of Contradictions Absolute?
This time’s entrance exam for the recommendation-for-exemption process was a complete disaster—of course, I had already expected to bomb it, but I thought I’d have to take the hit on English; I never expected the two Chinese-language questions to be even more disastrous…… Especially the second question, which was also worth 25 points, and of all things turned out to be a “Marxist philosophy” question. I nearly handed in a blank sheet on that one; in the end I managed to write a few lines, though I have no idea how many points I got…… Analyze: “The antagonistic aspect of contradictions is absolute.” My answer was roughly like this: First,…
philosophy everyday life determinism
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2007年10月11日
[Repost] Notice of Results for Recommended Exempt-Admission Graduate Applicants

Site Matters2007.10.10
[Repost] Notice of Results for Recommended Exempt-Admission Graduate Applicants
http://www.phil.pku.edu.cn/news.php?newid=30000000994
everyday life Peking University admissions
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2007年10月10日