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  • Why Should Young People Publish Books?—Starting from Sounding the West, Striking the East

    History of Science & Scholarship

    Why Should Young People Publish Books?—Starting from Sounding the West, Striking the East

    Recently, Teacher He Huaihong wrote a book review of a work by a sophomore student, which sparked a lively discussion. Teacher He affirmed the philosophical vision and concern for reality displayed in *Sounding West, Striking East*, but he was by no means uncritically flattering; rather, he offered some well-founded criticism. He pointed out some problems in Han Qian’s use of academic concepts, and also offered his views on the book’s style: “As an academic paper, it could still have contained more detailed analytic argumentation and stricter formal requirements than the existing articles; and if it is a commentary, then it could be sharper and more vivid and forceful. If the…

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  • An Explanation Regarding Going to Teach a Public Class at 706 and the Strike

    Life & Notes

    An Explanation Regarding Going to Teach a Public Class at 706 and the Strike

    A few weeks ago I went to 706 Youth Space to give three public lectures. The course was originally planned to have five sessions, but I decided not to continue with the last two. Any students who participated and would like to continue the exchange are welcome to stay in touch with me through the blog, Weibo, email, and so on. As for the background and aftermath of starting the course and the strike, let me explain here. I had not previously known much about 706 Youth Space. I went to give the lectures because I received an invitation from Zhou Ruixuan. I checked the organization’s positioning online—spontaneous pursuit of…

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  • A Discussion of Aliens as a Modern Superstition

    History of Science & Scholarship

    A Discussion of Aliens as a Modern Superstition

    Recently, some netizens have been leaving comments on the blog discussing the issue of aliens (there were some earlier discussions under Jiang Xiaoyuan’s lecture commentary). Since his comment was placed under the introduction page Who Is Gu Bo?, it felt a bit out of place (in general, casual comments and questions may as well be posted under the message board), so I decided to open a new post and transplant the comments over directly~   Although I have already discussed this here and there in bits and pieces, I have always wanted to write a dedicated essay on the issue of aliens; it could be an essay on “science and…

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  • Updated the Blog Email Address

    Site Matters

    Updated the Blog Email Address

    After switching to the Aliyun server, besides setting up the blog, I also took the opportunity to set up my own mail server. I used the iRedMail suite, which bundles and installs the whole package, including smtp, pop3, imap, SSL encryption, and webmail, making it quite convenient. Given Gmail’s increasingly difficult situation in China, but since I don’t want to switch to some domestic website’s email service, using a mail service I run myself may be a good choice. Of course Gmail has its irreplaceable advantage—search—so my own mailbox will not replace Gmail for the time being; it will only serve as an auxiliary tool to some extent. At present,…

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  • Blog hosting moved to Aliyun~

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    Blog hosting moved to Aliyun~

    I had been using Huaxia Mingwang’s shared hosting all along, and it had been almost two years. The cheapest plan was only a little over one hundred yuan a year. After a year, I upgraded to a somewhat better one, buying it through an agent for a little over two hundred yuan a year, and I ended up purchasing three years at once. Huaxia Mingwang’s hosting had plenty of problems, but basically they were still tolerable. Most of the time the site wouldn’t go down outright, though there were plenty of minor glitches. In short, I just kept enduring and enduring until now. But a couple of days ago there…

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  • My Book-Writing Plan

    Life & Notes

    My Book-Writing Plan

    Yesterday, at a dinner gathering, we happened to mention publishing books. I heard that in some places one book counts for the equivalent of three papers; in others it counts for nothing at all. But in any case, it can at least be regarded as one kind of achievement. For me, perhaps writing three books would be easier than publishing ten papers, so if writing books could also earn me some credit, that would be a good thing. Of course, I am indeed willing to write books, and not only for the sake of credit. Although, in my view, philosophical texts in the pre-network era may have been mainly in…

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  • The 1000th Blog Post

    The 1000th Blog Post

    The 1000th Blog Post
    Site Matters

    The 1000th Blog Post

    Suixuan opened for business on July 31, 2005, on Yiku Blog. On December 10, 2010, I switched blogs to Ixiezi. My original plan was to make it a transit station and first move the articles over to WordPress. Later I did settle down there for a while as well, but for various reasons I ultimately gave it up. On January 8, 2011, I finally made up my mind to buy my own virtual space and independent domain name, and truly set foot on the proper road of an “independent blog”; before I knew it, almost a year and a half had passed. As early as July 23, 2007, I had…

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  • Why Place Ads

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    Why Place Ads

    Has everyone noticed that “advertisements” have appeared in the blog’s sidebar? I added them in the middle of the night when I couldn’t sleep because my rhinitis flared up~ Of course, putting up ads was also something I had long had in mind. Why put up ads? First of all, of course, ads can make money. Right now, to keep this blog running, with hosting fees and domain fees, I spend about 300 yuan a year. Although I don’t really care about money, after all I’m only spending my parents’ money, so if I can make up a little of it, that’s always good. But judging from this blog’s current…

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  • Let’s test posting a Weibo directly on the blog~

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    Let’s test posting a Weibo directly on the blog~

    Spring has arrived, and so has my rhinitis~ To date, I’ve had three submissions rejected and one accepted (the one I least expected, yet somehow had long had a premonition about; I’ll keep you in suspense for now). For the very first piece, I unconditionally accept the outrageously, ridiculously expensive page fee, but if you ask me for it again after that, we’ll have to talk it over~

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  • Revised the Blog’s Copyright Rules

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    Revised the Blog’s Copyright Rules

    An exception clause has been added for articles published in print media; see: https://yilinhut.net/about/published The essence of Suixuan’s copyright policy is this: in addition to being allowed to reprint and quote it as one would treat an ordinary academic work, one may also freely adapt and distribute it. According to the copyright terms, adaptations must credit both the original author and the adapter, but there is no need to cite line by line; it is enough simply to indicate something like “originally written by Guci, adapted by Zhang San.” At the same time, such adapted versions must also abide by the same terms—that is, they too must allow others to…

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