Author: 胡翌霖

This Issue’s Music: One Piece Opening Theme, “We Are!”

Life & Notes2009.02.20
This Issue’s Music: One Piece Opening Theme, “We Are!”
http://www.onepiecer.com/d/down/music/op1.mp3 After posting seven installments of classical music in a row, I think it’s time to change the style a bit. Right when the anti-vulgarity campaign is in full swing, I can’t afford to stand on the wrong side, can I? — Right, I absolutely can’t be lumped in with the refined and elegant crowd; I’m a companion of vulgar culture! Although most of the music I listen to is, after all, the sort that is said to be refined and noble, I only listen to it because it sounds good, that’s all. Vulgar is not the same as vulgar and mediocre, oh. I am a spiritual aristocrat full of…
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2009年2月20日
[Witness] A Rectification Campaign on the Chinese Internet: Lists of Websites Exposed in the Nationwide Crackdown on the Vulgar Trend on the Internet (Batches 1 through 9)

Site Matters2009.02.20
[Witness] A Rectification Campaign on the Chinese Internet: Lists of Websites Exposed in the Nationwide Crackdown on the Vulgar Trend on the Internet (Batches 1 through 9)
Rant: 1. Just tell me which website isn’t vulgar, will you… 2. Any site that can make it onto this list is a great website! 3. Ycool is listed only in the seventh batch; looks like its influence is still rather weak. 4. For decades, the mindset of “rectification campaigns” has still refused to die. 5. Governance requires guidance and channeling, not sealing things off. 6. A “ban” must be carried out in the name of law, not in the name of morality. Even if you hypocritically hold high the banner of law, that would be preferable; but in the name of morality, while hardly speaking of legal principles at…
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2009年2月20日
I Won’t Date in Cafés.

Life & Notes2009.02.18
I Won’t Date in Cafés.
Coffeehouses are not, properly speaking, places for dates, but places for encounters. Whether in the broad sense or the narrow sense, I won’t be arranging any dates in a coffeehouse this year. Nowadays, coffeehouses seem to have been fashioned into places with a special “atmosphere,” seemingly best suited to friends meeting up, especially couples on a date. But I want to revive the spirit of the coffeehouse and restore coffee to its original face. What I mean by not dating in a coffeehouse chiefly contains two layers of meaning. First, with regard to the broad sense of “dating,” I will not meet anyone at any agreed time in a coffeehouse….
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2009年2月18日
On Saturday, I Was on New Island. (A Manifesto for Launching a Truly Café Philosophy Club)

Life & Notes2009.02.15
On Saturday, I Was on New Island. (A Manifesto for Launching a Truly Café Philosophy Club)
As the main project of increasing my offline activities this year, the point is to return to cafés. About three years ago around this time, I used to frequent Plato Café; this was mainly during the second half of my sophomore year. Besides Plato, there were also Beifengtang and Azhudan (at the time Plato was not open 24 hours, while the latter two were). These were all places I frequented. Reading and grinding through papers in those places was most efficient. But I soon drifted away from them for several reasons. First, later on I rented a place outside the South Gate, namely “mutton-soup alley,” which gave me a fixed…
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2009年2月15日
Markman Ellis, The Coffee-House: A Cultural History, trans. Meng Li, Guangxi Normal University Press, December 2007

Culture & Public Commentary2009.02.14
Markman Ellis, The Coffee-House: A Cultural History, trans. Meng Li, Guangxi Normal University Press, December 2007
Preface, page2 The story of the café needs to be traced back through history, and the17th and18th centuries play the leading roles. Since the first café appeared in London, over the course of this hundred years, the café has become an omnipresent feature of urban life, a necessary venue for social intercourse, gossip, discussion, and debate. It was the café that taught men a new way of building a hybrid kind of friendship, into which they poured business ventures, severe criticism, scientific discussion, political clubs, and all sorts of other contents. As the chapters of this book’s main text will explain, the early cafés were by no means limited…
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2009年2月14日
A Small Collection of Weiming Signature Blocks

Life & Notes2009.02.12
A Small Collection of Weiming Signature Blocks
For a long time, my signature on Wenming has been nothing more than a simple blog address link, with limited advertising effect. Lately I’ve been hanging around the department board more often, and while looking at some interesting signature lines, I’ve come to feel that a rather rich signature line can indeed have quite a strong appeal. I don’t really like writing fragmentary, aphoristic pieces, but every now and then writing a few passages like this does feel pretty good. Before I knew it, I had already added 9 signature lines (the latest 4 of which, it seems, I still haven’t had a chance to use in posts), and together…
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2009年2月12日
A Rambling Travel Log of Our Family’s New Year’s Eve Dinner During the 2009 Spring Festival

Life & Notes2009.02.09
A Rambling Travel Log of Our Family’s New Year’s Eve Dinner During the 2009 Spring Festival
A Running Log of the Family New Year’s Eve Dinner Trip During the 2009 Spring Festival Gu Chu published on 2009-02-09 20:56:31 Photos at http://picasaweb.google.com/HYL510/09124 Read 152 times Comments Personal homepage Drop a note Folder: Life——Outings This was this year’s so-called trip by the whole family (including the maternal cousins) from New Year’s Eve to the second day of the first lunar month, our first attempt at eating New Year’s Eve dinner away from home. In short, it was mainly about eating the New Year’s Eve dinner, and really can’t be called much of a trip… I’ll jot down a brief running log along the photos: photos at http://picasaweb.google.com/HYL510/09124 On…
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2009年2月9日
This Week’s Music: Vivaldi, Winter from The Four Seasons.

Life & Notes2009.02.04
This Week’s Music: Vivaldi, Winter from The Four Seasons.
http://amisam.com/mp3/09.%20The%204%20seasons%20(Concerto%20No.%204%20in%20F%20minor%20-%20%27%27Winter%27%27)%20_-_%20Antonio%20Vivaldi.mp3 Aside from Bach, the composer I’ve listened to most should be Mozart; but when it comes to pieces I never tire of hearing, first is “that” canon; second is Bach’s six Brandenburg Concertos; third, probably, is Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. Besides The Four Seasons, many of Vivaldi’s other pieces are also excellent; lately they have nearly pushed Mozart out of my MP3 player. Though I’m tone-deaf when it comes to music, I can still sense how close Vivaldi is to Bach, so much so that I can be certain they were contemporaries without even checking the references. Baroque really is not bad. I’ve chosen Winter to post. Although the Spring…
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2009年2月4日
How Do I Read?

History of Science & Scholarship2009.01.21
How Do I Read?
About reading and writing, I said earlier that these two activities alternate in a cycle and become my mode of thinking: thought begins in reading and comes to a pause in writing. But that is too general a way of putting it, so the essay “The writer, one who pours forth” described my style of writing, and the more recent “How I choke out a paper” added a discussion of the specific mode of writing called paper-writing. Now, if I add a note on my method of reading, the picture is even more complete. Still the old saying: my style is not worth boasting about, much less imitating. In particular,…
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2009年1月21日
Four Readings of “Scholarship”

History of Science & Scholarship2009.01.18
Four Readings of “Scholarship”
The people who claim to be walking the path of “academia” often take very different routes. Although, in the final analysis, each person’s path is unique, still, in broad and rough terms, there are probably the following four ways of understanding the word “academia.” Of course, a given person may fall somewhere between several paths, but the general direction is probably these four. The first kind of “academia” I call “the power of the academy,” though that sounds somewhat unsavory. Yet this is indeed the path taken by most so-called “scholars.” What they seek is not their own growth, but labels such as titles, ranks, and authority; the only difference…
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2009年1月18日