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Settling Accounts After the Fall and Talking About Shoes

Life & Notes2013.03.27
Settling Accounts After the Fall and Talking About Shoes
A few days ago I reposted and mocked Xi’s “shoe theory” on Weibo, and my dad got unsettled. He immediately called to warn me to be careful with what I said, so as to avoid settling accounts after the autumn harvest. Generally speaking, it is rather awkward when the blogs and Weibo accounts of people born in the 1980s and 1990s come under the gaze of their parents, and I am no exception. Although my writing is addressed to anyone, and even if it is watched by parents and relatives it will not place any real pressure on me, it would be a lie to say that it causes no…
China freedom history Aristotle
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2013年3月27日
On Page Charges

Life & Notes2013.03.22
On Page Charges
Submission up to now, although quite a few short pieces and book reviews have been published, the situation with my properly serious academic papers is still rather worrying. The key, I suppose, is that I have simply not been conscientious enough; I only became energetically “sending many manuscripts to many journals” at a few particular points in time, and for most of the time I basically left things to fend for themselves. But two of my papers were both rejected after being accepted because of the issue of page charges, and this is a situation worth explaining. Perhaps you would guess that I refused to pay the page charges out…
China scholarship autobiography internet
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2013年3月22日
The First Weibo Post That Got Blocked~

Life & Notes2013.01.23
The First Weibo Post That Got Blocked~
My first Weibo post to get blocked~ So excited~ Gotta save an archive~ What got blocked was a repost, but the original post wasn’t blocked, and they just blocked me directly. Looks like it really was these two lines I posted that caught their eye. What I said was perfectly ordinary—why on earth was it blocked? Do they really think this sentence is threatening? In any case, being blocked is truly an honor; next time I’ll aim for a mute~
everyday life China social media Weibo
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2013年1月23日
The Paradox of Fairness—On Halting Ticket-Grabber Plugins

Culture & Public Commentary2013.01.19
The Paradox of Fairness—On Halting Ticket-Grabber Plugins
I had just seen in the afternoon that the Ministry of Railways said they would not, and in fact had no authority to, prohibit browser ticket-grabbing plugins, and I felt somewhat relieved. I never expected them to go find the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to ban them instead. I can only sigh. The reason for banning ticket-grabbing plugins sounds very high-minded: the plugins are indeed effective, but they are unfair to other passengers. Is that so? Indeed it is. A ticket is released and within a few dozen seconds it has been snatched up by ticket-grabbing software—what are the other passengers supposed to do? But the key issue…
culture China freedom commentary
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2013年1月19日
Contempt and Locality

Culture & Public Commentary2013.01.05
Contempt and Locality
This article had actually been ready to write half a year ago, or even earlier. It was during the Olympics, and I wrote a few articles in the form of “…and …”, including two bad-stub pieces; I only wrote down the title “Contempt and Locality” and never went on. Now, although I’d like to change it to a more provocative title—say, “Why Do We Contempt Migrant Workers?”—after thinking it over, I still decided not to go in for clickbait. At first I wanted to start from international contempt in the Olympics (for example, how Chinese people look at Koreans and Japanese). Recently, when I thought of rewriting it, I tried…
culture China value sociology
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2013年1月5日
Equality or Freedom: On the Question of Attending School Outside One’s Hometown

Culture & Public Commentary2012.12.17
Equality or Freedom: On the Question of Attending School Outside One’s Hometown
Recently, the case of the non-Shanghai girl Zhan Haiter has drawn a lot of attention, especially because it happened in Shanghai, so I can’t help but offer a few comments as well. Of course, I support Zhan Haiter’s struggle, and I support every citizen’s open expression of his or her demands; but as for the content of those demands, I do not support it. This matter involves too many questions, all tangled together, making an already complicated issue even more complicated. So first we need to break down the questions involved. There are two big issues: one is education, the other is regionality. It should be noted that the problem…
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2012年12月17日
Travel Notes from the Guangzhou Conference

History of Science & Scholarship2012.12.16
Travel Notes from the Guangzhou Conference
In Guangzhou I caught a cold, and after coming back I spent several days recuperating, so the task of writing up the trip was delayed by several days as well; I only began writing on December 8…… First, a bit of emotion: how time flies. In a daze, the annual conference on phenomenology and philosophy of technology has already been held six times, and this was the fourth conference I have attended. I took part in the Nanning conference as a master’s student, and in the blink of an eye I am almost done with my doctorate. As for these conference “takedowns” of “I love my teacher,” this is already…
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2012年12月16日
On Elitism and Esoteric Truth

Culture & Public Commentary2012.10.18
On Elitism and Esoteric Truth
Today I went to sit in on the World Congress of Chinese Philosophers, took a look at some academic celebrities whose names I had only heard before, and was greatly disappointed. I’m too lazy to go again tomorrow. That Tang Yijie was unreliable I already knew; that Chen Lai was reliable I also already knew. But I didn’t know many of the other famous figures very well. After listening to one round today, basically the only one of any interest was Chen Lai; the others, such as Lin Yusheng, sounded academically fairly sound, but the reports themselves were a little dull. As for the much-vaunted Gan Yang and Liu Xiaofeng,…
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2012年10月18日
Never Forget National Humiliation, Never Harbor National Grievance

Life & Notes2012.09.19
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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2012年9月19日
[Reprint] Zhou Ruixuan: Lovers of wisdom, the things you don’t know — A note on Hu Yilin, a doctoral student in the Department of Philosophy, Class of 2010

Life & Notes2012.09.18
[Reprint] Zhou Ruixuan: Lovers of wisdom, the things you don’t know — A note on Hu Yilin, a doctoral student in the Department of Philosophy, Class of 2010
Note: The author is a girl I met back then when I was a TA for the “What Is Science?” course, and of course I was very honored to accept the interview. This should count as the first time I was written into an interview article, though of course one can still find an interview from when I was in middle school, as the “Dong Gezhi Star,” but that interview was fake; what I said was made up. This piece, however, really was the product of an actual conversation, and the author also used a lot of material from my blog. She showed it to me before publication, so it…
philosophy China autobiography Peking University
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2012年9月18日