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If You Fall Behind, Do You Get Beaten?

Culture & Public Commentary2005.12.07
If You Fall Behind, Do You Get Beaten?
“Backwardness” means getting beaten! Only when a country is strong can it avoid foreign aggression and truly achieve independence and autonomy……these are phrases we all know by heart. This principle inspires us to strive diligently and make China prosperous and strong, and of course that is a very good thing. But let us examine it carefully: is this principle really sound? In fact, the very first sentence of this article is problematic—saying that those who are “backward” get beaten, while those who are “strong” do not—I have paired “backwardness” with “strength,” and that pairing is misaligned! The concept opposite to “backward” should be “advanced,” and the concept opposite to “strong”…
culture China history civilization
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2005年12月7日
The Shortcomings of “Eradicating Feudal Superstition”

Culture & Public Commentary2005.12.04
The Shortcomings of “Eradicating Feudal Superstition”
Nowadays, when Chinese people with a bit of culture mention “feudal superstition,” they mostly grind their teeth and radiate murderous intent, striking an attitude of not stopping until every last trace has been eradicated. Yet on closer reflection, this hides certain shortcomings. In modern civilization, science and technology have attained supreme and unquestioned dominance, but this has also given rise to the predicament of “value” finding no place to stand. Why should people speak of morality? Why does society need ethical norms? — these were originally such self-evident questions, yet they have become a conspicuous source of perplexity in modern civilization. Science can only tell us what “is,” but it…
philosophy culture China tradition
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2005年12月4日
The Twin Dragons of the Great Tang

Life & Notes2005.10.14
The Twin Dragons of the Great Tang
It’s been a long time since I last wrote a reading note…… At the Di Tan book market, I bought a complete set of *The Legend of the Twin Dragons of Great Tang*, a wuxia saga running to several million characters. Back when Huang Yi’s serialization was nearing its end, I read it once online; later I bought a pirated copy and read it again. This time, though still pirated, the quality is much better than the one I bought before: there are no missing sections, and it reads much more smoothly. And yet my reading speed for this book has gotten slower each time; in fact, I now read…
everyday life China book review Chinese
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2005年10月14日
Compiled Q&A for Philosophy Department Freshmen

Life & Notes2005.08.07
Compiled Q&A for Philosophy Department Freshmen
Recently I’ve been talking with many younger classmates, both on the forum and on QQ, and have accumulated a number of Q&As on different topics. I’m now organizing and listing part of them here for more students to refer to. What follows includes a great deal of my own subjective opinion; my subjective opinion is for reference only, so keep it in mind and don’t take it too seriously. Q: What courses does the Philosophy Department require? A: In the first semester, the required courses are two major courses: Introduction to Philosophy (2 credits) and Mathematical Logic (4 credits). In addition, you can choose either Classical Chinese or Advanced Mathematics,…
philosophy everyday life China
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2005年8月7日
The View of Humanity and Nature in Traditional Chinese Philosophy

Chinese Civilization & the Way of Chinese2005.07.31
The View of Humanity and Nature in Traditional Chinese Philosophy
The annotations were lost in the original YiKu webpage; they have been reinserted according to the original doc.
philosophy China Confucianism Buddhism
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2005年7月31日
My View of the Germination of Capitalism in China (An Article from My High School Years)

Culture & Public Commentary2005.07.31
My View of the Germination of Capitalism in China (An Article from My High School Years)
Re-entered from the original document.
book reading China notes history of science
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2005年7月31日
A Brief Discussion of Political Culture and Social Forms in the Mongol-Yuan Period

Culture & Public Commentary2005.07.31
A Brief Discussion of Political Culture and Social Forms in the Mongol-Yuan Period
When I first started using the Waiku blog, I didn’t know how to operate it, and the original webpage lost the annotations. Here, I have re-entered the text based on the original Word file.
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2005年7月31日
Summer Vacation Notes from 2002

Life & Notes2005.07.31
Summer Vacation Notes from 2002
Summer Vacation Essays Origin Taking advantage of the rare opportunity of summer vacation, besides making the most of my time to study and amuse myself, I also had ample and continuous free time to read and think, and once school starts I’ll be even busier. So I decided to record my thoughts during this period: first, for my own later recollection; second, so that I can keep them on hand and use them as an essay for homework in the future; and third, so that they may serve as a kind of “thought report” and let the Party organization get to know me better. I’ll write whatever comes to mind,…
everyday life China history politics
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2005年7月31日
Midterm Exam for Introduction to Civilization and Environment

Life & Notes2005.07.31
Midterm Exam for Introduction to Civilization and Environment
1. Enumerate the major achievements attained by early Holocene Chinese ancestors in the realms of social economy and spiritual culture, and, on the basis of the several stagewise leaps in the development of human productive forces, attempt to demonstrate why human society thereafter entered an era of accelerated development. The early Neolithic cultures of China in the Holocene were spread across the country, including dry-farming cultures in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, the Liao River and Hai River basins, irrigated rice agriculture in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, as well as hunter-gatherer zones distributed throughout the country. China is the place of…
everyday life culture China history
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2005年7月31日