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  • Never Forget National Humiliation, Never Harbor National Grievance

    Life & Notes

    Never Forget National Humiliation, Never Harbor National Grievance

    After 9/18 had passed, seeing that the 7-Eleven downstairs was still open for business as usual, I finally let out a slight sigh of relief. The article I had meant to write yesterday but didn’t get around to writing, I’ve decided to make up today. I don’t know why 9/18 is called “National Humiliation Day.” At first glance that doesn’t seem like a problem, but the more you think about it, the more something feels off. What is “humiliation”? Shamelessness, brazen lack of shame, “to know shame is close to courage”… Dictionaries define it as “inner shame caused by damage to one’s reputation,” or as shame, disgrace, or embarrassment. If…

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  • Maid Cafés and “Professional Ethics”

    Maid Cafés and “Professional Ethics”

    Maid Cafés and “Professional Ethics”
    Philosophy & Thought

    Maid Cafés and “Professional Ethics”

    Stirred by the Fang Yaohan incident, I wrote three articles in a row, which is already quite enough to have gotten my money’s worth. Since Han Han has also announced that he is stopping writing and not talking about it anymore, I may as well stop here too. So this article continues from the earlier piece “The Kingly Way”; everyone can skip the previous three articles, and we can continue talking about “morality.” We say that the kingly way is the path to supreme goodness, and supreme goodness is nothing other than “the best life.” But in the traditional sense, for a ruler, the kingly way merely provides one of…

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  • The Difference Between Pirates and Heroes?

    The Difference Between Pirates and Heroes?
    Life & Notes

    The Difference Between Pirates and Heroes?

    The “hero” in the ancient Greek sense is roughly the same as a pirate, but the “hero” in the modern sense refers more to those warriors who possess great moral integrity, sacrifice themselves bravely, and save others. Although in my youth I of course also longed for heroes and sages, the “Pirate King” I now long for does not give me that feeling at all. What, then, is the difference? In the latest episode of One Piece, Luffy offered a perfect explanation. Although my philosophical reading of One Piece will have to wait at least until it ends before I begin, I can’t help but bring up this passage first……

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  • The Road of the Azure Sky

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    The Road of the Azure Sky

    After being busy for a stretch, one should, as usual, allow oneself a little indulgence. Before I begin my book-scanning plan, let me first finish scanning a whole manga series…… Stirred by the new Three Kingdoms TV drama, I remembered this masterpiece, hailed as the best Three Kingdoms manga. Back when I watched the animated version—the first season was roughly equivalent to a third or a quarter of the manga—I already had a sense of being dazzled. In the first few episodes I still couldn’t quite make out what was special about it, and thought it was just another little-Japanese gag on the Three Kingdoms, until I saw the appearances…

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  • On “吐嘈”

    Philosophy & Thought

    On “吐嘈”

    Recently I’ve had a way of putting it that philosophy is a kind of act of “tucao.” I’m going to boldly adopt this “term” in my own philosophy; it really is strikingly apt. Anyone who often watches Japanese anime will know the word “tucao,” but “outsiders” and beginners probably won’t quite understand what it actually means, so let me explain it roughly. The explanations circulating online seem all to be copied and pasted from a passage by the POPGO subtitle group. That’s really quite lazy. You can look it up on Baidu Baike or the like. I’ll combine some easily found online materials and briefly restate it in my own…

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

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    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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  • From Fisherman to Pirate

    Life & Notes

    From Fisherman to Pirate

    The will that is inherited, the surging currents of the age, people’s dreams… these are things that cannot be stopped. As long as people continue seeking the answer to freedom, they will never cease! Recently, an online friend thought I was impressive and said he wanted to imitate my way of studying. Of course I told him, please, don’t ever do that. My lazy, irregular, and unambitious way of studying—if anyone else tried to imitate it, it would almost certainly be ruined. And I myself have always faced the danger of becoming a heap of useless waste who accomplishes nothing, so it’s definitely not something to take casually. More to…

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  • Thinking of EVA

    Culture & Public Commentary

    Thinking of EVA

    Another anime song post? What can I do—recently in Shanghai, because I didn’t have speakers and for other reasons, I haven’t really been listening to music at all, and the only melodies I could summon up from memory just happened to be anime songs. I was reminded of EVA that day when I went to a relative’s house and saw the latest domestic animated film, “Qin Shi Mingyue.” Its gaudy 3D visuals only served to throw its shallowness into sharper relief; if this animation has made any progress at all, I’m afraid it is progress in a disappointing direction. Thinking of the difference between Chinese and Japanese animation, I couldn’t…

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  • This Issue’s Music: Akatsuki no Kuruma (Insert Song from Gundam SEED)

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    This Issue’s Music: Akatsuki no Kuruma (Insert Song from Gundam SEED)

    Looking for a song that fits a graduation mood, I entered a few keywords and, by a strange twist of fate, found this one. Just recently I happened to hear it in some restaurant; at the time I couldn’t remember what song it was, and so it turns out it was this one. I haven’t watched GUNDAM SEED (among all the anime I’ve watched, not a single GUNDAM series has yet been watched through in full; I’m truly ashamed. By the way, the latest GUNDAM 00 is very good, reaching a kind of brand-new realm), but of course I’ve heard this famous song. If one is looking for a classic…

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  • This Issue’s Music: One Piece OP, Jungle P

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    This Issue’s Music: One Piece OP, Jungle P

    http://podcache.cctv.com/published1/2007/11/23/pub1195778342427.mp3 I’ve posted a few installments of classical music, so it’s about time to change things up once in a while too~ Today, all of a sudden, I had an impulse to post something a bit more stimulating—to lift the spirits, and at the same time give people a little scare. But after thinking it over, I still decided to be a bit more peaceful and go with something moderately so—namely the latest OP of *One Piece* (OP means the opening theme song). I think the lyrics are pretty good. Below I’m posting the lyrics translated by the Fengxue subtitle team: Roam the world’s seas, and shout at the top…

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