Year: 2007

This Issue’s Music: The Season of Love – from The Time Traveler Who Left My Heart in the Aegean Sea

Life & Notes2007.09.08
This Issue’s Music: The Season of Love – from The Time Traveler Who Left My Heart in the Aegean Sea
Season of Love – excerpted from "Time Traveler: My Heart Remains in the Aegean Sea" Marching Season From "Aphrodite Greece" (or still from "Heat Is On") Latest Comments Gucha 2007-09-20 22:59:16 [Reply] I thought I should mention this: I heard that this piece comes from the new-age electronic music master Yanni, and that the original version should be "Large-Scale Modern Electronic Instrument Concert." So I later went and bought two of Yanni’s CDs (http://www.amazon.cn/detail/product.asp?prodid=bkmu601517). Sure enough, all the pieces were large-scale electronic music, with this one alone still being a piano solo. It has now been found that this piece is taken from 1987’s Private Collection: Piano Solo 2,…
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2007年9月8日
The Rainbow Beside Me

Life & Notes2007.09.08
The Rainbow Beside Me
At noon today the sun was blazing overhead, and it was hot enough to be excruciating. I was riding my bike across campus. As I hurried along, I happened to see a couple by the roadside, embracing and looking at something. Following their gaze, I glanced over and saw that it was the automatic sprinkler in the landscaped area, spraying water. I had complained about this thing many times before; it was truly a waste of water resources. Besides, it was just sprinkling grass, not putting on a decorative fountain display—what was there to look at? Just as I was about to ride out of that stretch of road, I…
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2007年9月8日
[American] Leon Lederman and Dick Teresi: “The God Particle”

History of Science & Scholarship2007.09.07
[American] Leon Lederman and Dick Teresi: “The God Particle”
[US]Liang Lederman, Dick Teresi: The God Particle—If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?, translated by Mi Xijun, Gu Hongwei, Zhao Jianhui, and Chen Hongwei, proofread by Yin Chuanhong, Shanghai Science and Technology Education Press, December 2003, 33.5 yuan This book is one of the Gold Fleece series. At 400,000 characters, it is far too long for a popular science book; still, since it is a popular work by a Nobel Prize winner in physics, it is rare enough. The theme of the book is humankind’s quest for the “atom” (the basic element of the world), from Democritus, Newton, Dalton, all the way to modern physics. Of course,…
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2007年9月7日
On Certain Matters

Life & Notes2007.09.05
On Certain Matters
This time the city-state’s approach was a misstep…… Television and the Internet were originally the magic weapons for wearing down modern people’s political passion; a few hotheaded youths venting online could hardly stir up any waves, nor did it have much influence. On the contrary, the more people vent on television and the Internet, the harder it is for them to cohere in real life. Young people today are, after all, not the same as they were 18 years ago. But now that all sorts of forums have also been shut down across the board, it is bound to make many people who were originally indifferent to politics have to…
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2007年9月5日
Seeing My Junior Schoolmate Getting Triggered

Life & Notes2007.09.05
Seeing My Junior Schoolmate Getting Triggered
Now, ordinarily I don’t go around meeting junior male and female students, but I heard that a direct junior female student of mine had arrived, and she was also a guaranteed-admission student from the science track at the Second Affiliated High School of Huazhong Normal University. However you look at it, I ought to go meet her. She really does make one feel that the younger generation is formidable; or rather, since she came out of our Second Affiliated High School, she’s just plain impressive… even scarier than last year’s junior student from Shanghai~~ Feeling emotional…… Actually, I’ve always wanted to say that science-track guaranteed-admission students with an interest in…
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2007年9月5日
On the Problem of Wealth Inequality in China

Culture & Public Commentary2007.09.05
On the Problem of Wealth Inequality in China
The problem of China’s rich-poor gap is both a sharp short-term issue and the most crucial issue in the long-term strategic picture; how to handle this problem is vitally important to China’s economic and political future. What needs to be addressed is the problem of the rich-poor gap, not the elimination of the rich-poor gap. The rich-poor gap cannot be eliminated, neither in theory nor in reality; all one can do is figure out how to face it. China’s rapid economic development has, to a very large extent, been driven by a huge rich-poor gap, and the paradox is this: if the poor want to become a little richer, they…
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2007年9月5日
On the “Ungrateful Poor College Student” Incident

Culture & Public Commentary2007.09.03
On the “Ungrateful Poor College Student” Incident
A little while ago I saw a piece of news online saying that five poor college students in Xiangfan had their funding canceled because they were “ungrateful.” Today I happened to see a follow-up report on TV, and I can’t help writing a few words. At first, when I heard the two words “ungrateful,” I thought: just how badly had they behaved, and how much embarrassment had they caused the benefactors, that those female entrepreneurs would angrily give up their sponsorship? But after watching for a long time, I found it was only that after receiving the money they never took the initiative to write letters or make phone calls…
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2007年9月3日
On the Current Situation of Suixuan

Site Matters2007.09.02
On the Current Situation of Suixuan
The new place has already been renovated, and the owner of Suixuan is also in a state of everything waiting to be revived~ Originally, it should have been time to invite friends over to visit, but the bookshelves are still being organized, and right now the floor is completely covered with books, all in utter chaos, so I’m still too embarrassed to receive guests. However, if anyone wants to come visit and, by the way, help me sort books, then you can come now~ Living in a place like this is too burdened with guilt…… I should really bg more and build up more rp. But one should keep a…
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2007年9月2日
This Issue’s Music: Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, Fourth Movement

Life & Notes2007.09.01
This Issue’s Music: Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, Fourth Movement
I like to claim that I enjoy classical music, but that seems rather untrue—not only am I woefully lacking in knowledge about classical music, I in fact do not even like what is supposedly classical music’s highest form: the symphony. In truth, the classical-music figures I like are headed by Bach, and my preferred genre is the concerto—that is, music centered on one instrument such as the violin, cello, organ, piano, harpsichord, or flute, with several other instruments or the piano in a supporting role. I also quite like solo piano or solo string pieces, and from time to time I will listen to choral works; as for symphonies performed…
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2007年9月1日
First Entering Yanyuan

Life & Notes2007.09.01
First Entering Yanyuan
It’s that time of year again for new-student registration. As usual, I won’t be going to welcome the freshmen tomorrow, though I’ll probably go take a look at the lively atmosphere on campus. Back when I came to register, I didn’t see any senior students coming to greet us either. After handing in my materials, I headed straight for the dormitory. I suppose there are probably more seniors involved in welcoming freshmen now—especially the sophomores who have just come back from military training. If military training and freshman welcoming hadn’t conflicted back then, I definitely would have gone to welcome the freshmen when I was a sophomore too. Thinking back…
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2007年9月1日