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Category: Culture & Public Commentary

  • Reading: A Bridge to the Future

    Reading: A Bridge to the Future
    Culture & Public Commentary

    Reading: A Bridge to the Future

    Commissioned piece for China Science Daily China Science Daily (2025-03-23, p. 4, General) — I am posting the original draft here The theme of World Book Day 2025 is “Reading: A Bridge to the Future” (Reading: A Bridge to the Future). Come to think of it, this formulation seems a bit strange, because the future will always arrive; no matter what we do, time will always pass, and we will always move toward the future. Reading, by contrast, is always touching “the past,” and what becomes a book always originates in the past and settles there. Perhaps the point of the metaphor is the “bridge” — we will always enter…

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  • Talking About Trump

    Talking About Trump
    Culture & Public Commentary

    Talking About Trump

    When Was America at Its Greatest? So-called “Make America Great Again” — but at exactly which period in history was America the greatest? This historical question actually determines how one judges present policy and the respective international situation. One standard answer is the post–Cold War period. At that time, the United States stood alone in glory, unrivaled, becoming the sole hegemon, the world’s policeman, imperious and overbearing. But in terms of industrial capacity and total GDP, America during this period was only about one quarter of the world. The highest share of GDP should have been at the end of World War II. By then, the whole world had been…

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  • On the Left’s Self-dug Grave

    On the Left’s Self-dug Grave
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    On the Left’s Self-dug Grave

    https://x.com/epr510/status/1893851683534643208 (Reflections on watching the right rise in the German election) What’s funny is that many left-wing intellectuals earlier all thought the enemy was Trump, and that once this oddity had run its course, everything would be fine. But the facts have shown that the left’s collapse is global; Trump’s rise is not an exception but a trend. I think many people still haven’t figured this out even now. Of course, the left’s collapse has something to do with the general spirit of the age, but fundamentally it is still an internal problem. In short, left-wing parties themselves abandoned left-wing positions. So the essence of the left’s defeat is not…

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  • Common Knowledge as Life

    Common Knowledge as Life

    Common Knowledge as Life
    Chinese Civilization & the Way of Chinese

    Common Knowledge as Life

    A while back I went to Chiang Mai to attend ckcon, where I read Simondon to the ckb community and also gave the somewhat endorsement-like talk below. Of course I have a personal relationship with ckb and also a stake in it, but what I said was indeed sincere. ckb’s distinctive design really does fit quite closely with my own entrepreneurial direction: digital artistic creation that fuses life, culture (history), and information (blockchain). Both my ideas about “a new history of the blockchain” and “an AI life with individuality” can be done on ckb; moreover, the new “Common Sense” (from Common Sense to Common Knowledge) can serve as the foundation…

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  • From Journey to the West to Black Myth: On the Medium of Culture

    From Journey to the West to Black Myth: On the Medium of Culture

    From Journey to the West to Black Myth: On the Medium of Culture
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    From Journey to the West to Black Myth: On the Medium of Culture

    I bought Black Myth and still haven’t had time to play it, so I first wrote a commissioned essay, published in China Science Daily (2024-09-20, p. 4, Culture). At publication, its title was changed to “Black Myth” as a Vehicle for “Cultural Export” — Does It Measure Up? On August 20, 2024, the action role-playing AAA game Black Myth: Wukong, produced by the Chinese company Game Science, was officially released. Both Black Myth’s preorder revenue and its peak concurrent online player count set records in Chinese game history, and reached world-leading levels, coming in second only to the record of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds on Steam. The so-called AAA game is a…

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  • The Influence of Chinese Culture on Chinese DAO

    The Influence of Chinese Culture on Chinese DAO

    The Influence of Chinese Culture on Chinese DAO
    Chinese Civilization & the Way of Chinese

    The Influence of Chinese Culture on Chinese DAO

    This is a commissioned piece for SeeDAO’s 卧虎藏龙 project, https://chinese3.substack.com/p/chinese3-newsletter2dao-2f0?r=3lmuif&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true In fact, my understanding of the current state of Chinese-language DAO is not all that comprehensive. Among the several DAOs I hang around in, I’m mostly a lurker. But this year at the Hong Kong Web3 Carnival, I happened to give a talk titled “The Possibility of the Revival of Traditional Chinese Culture in Web3,” and since the content was somewhat related, I took on this topic as an excerpt and expansion of that talk. The talk was too long, so in this article I’ll try to make things as concise as possible. This topic can be divided into three…

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  • The Possibility of the Revival of Chinese Traditional Culture in Web3

    The Possibility of the Revival of Chinese Traditional Culture in Web3

    The Possibility of the Revival of Chinese Traditional Culture in Web3
    Chinese Civilization & the Way of Chinese

    The Possibility of the Revival of Chinese Traditional Culture in Web3

    It was also at the 2024 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival that, right after the previous talk, “Accelerationism Is Not Liberating Enough; Only by Combining It with Web3 Can AI’s Potential Be Released,” I immediately gave another hour-long talk at Open Stage. Of course, I also want to thank Wanxiang for providing the stage. This talk was also something I was even more eager to share with the broader Chinese Web3 community: “The Possibility of the Revival of Chinese Traditional Culture in Web3.” Are Chinese People Inferior to Westerners? Most of the people at the Hong Kong Web3 Carnival were Chinese, and more than half of the talks and events were…

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  • A Few Rambling Thoughts on “How to Lead One Billion People into Web3”

    A Few Rambling Thoughts on “How to Lead One Billion People into Web3”

    A Few Rambling Thoughts on “How to Lead One Billion People into Web3”
    Culture & Public Commentary

    A Few Rambling Thoughts on “How to Lead One Billion People into Web3”

    Yesterday, in my capacity as the initiator of Huawendao, I took part in a roundtable discussion titled “How to Lead One Billion People into Web3.” Recently, whenever I’m invited to participate in a program in the name of Huawendao, I’m willing to join for free. That said, I actually don’t much like the so-called roundtable format, especially when the participants aren’t very familiar with one another and there are more than three people. In practice, everyone is basically just talking past one another, and the time is so tight that the topics can’t really be unfolded in depth. Of course, there are indeed times when some sparks of thought do…

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  • Huawendao White Paper 3.0 (Q&A Version)

    Huawendao White Paper 3.0 (Q&A Version)

    Huawendao White Paper 3.0 (Q&A Version)
    Chinese Civilization & the Way of Chinese

    Huawendao White Paper 3.0 (Q&A Version)

    1.What is Huawendao? Huawendao is a decentralized autonomous organization based on identity markers formed on the blockchain, aimed at gathering Chinese pioneers who are courageously exploring the world of Web3, while also attracting lovers of Chinese culture, so that Chinese civilization may glow with new life in the digital age. Joining the Web3 tide, we are not ashamed of being Chinese or of using Chinese characters; we do not need to disguise ourselves as foreigners in order to promote ourselves, nor do we need to trail behind Westerners scavenging their leftovers. Chinese people, and Chinese culture, should confidently and proactively lead the wave of the times, becoming an element of…

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  • Chinese Character Inscription Is About to Launch

    Chinese Character Inscription Is About to Launch

    Chinese Character Inscription Is About to Launch
    Chinese Civilization & the Way of Chinese

    Chinese Character Inscription Is About to Launch

    See @epr510 on Twitter for details Let us proudly inscribe Chinese writing into blockchain history! (Tutorial in a follow-up tweet https://twitter.com/epr510/status/1746151703915725284?s=19) We have launched two sets of Chinese-character inscriptions, classical and modern: the classical version is the Thousand Character Classic, containing one thousand unique traditional characters, forming a beautiful rhymed prose—“Heaven and Earth dark and yellow, the universe vast and ancient…” This is a foundational textbook that every scholar in ancient China had to read, and it is also the main way of sorting sequences by character count. This set of characters is positioned to attract some cultural elites from the humanities, arts, and technology fields to join in reviving…

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