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Blog Relocation Effective Today

Site Matters2010.12.10
Blog Relocation Effective Today
I’d been thinking about moving away from Ycool for several years. Ever since the emails I sent to Ycool’s customer-service mailbox reporting bugs and making suggestions all sank without a trace, I began to keep an eye on other blog service providers. But I never found a suitable place. Domestic blog hosts were either too weak in features or too strict in censorship, while the foreign blogs that should have been reachable were all behind the Great Firewall. Of course, more crucially, I care about historical continuity and unity, and I’m unwilling to sever all my old posts and start over from scratch. Yet moving all the old posts over…
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2010年12月10日
On CCTV’s Blocking of English Abbreviations

Chinese Civilization & the Way of Chinese2010.04.08
On CCTV’s Blocking of English Abbreviations
After all, the General Administration of Radio, Film, and Television has always been an institution that only knows how to issue bans. That said, it is not the case that I would automatically oppose, or even ridicule, every ban issued by the General Administration of Radio, Film, and Television. As for this particular ban, overall I am affirmative and supportive. If replacing foreign-language abbreviations with their full Chinese names does not involve much difficulty, then why not do it? If the difficulty is very great, and switching over and adapting is hard, then all the more reason there is for correction. One argument is that most people actually do not…
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2010年4月8日
Why Do You Read or Not Read My Articles?

Site Matters2009.01.04
Why Do You Read or Not Read My Articles?
Those who do not read my blog out of contempt or disdain are people I respect quite a lot. Indeed, there are so many things worth reading, in China and abroad, past and present, that one lifetime would not be enough to get through them all—so why insist on reading my blog? Although I believe that one day my writing may well become a classic, it is certainly not now. So the people who look down on me are right. If my blog is worth reading right now, that is only on the basis of the following fact—I am alive! And I am right here within your reach, opening my…
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2009年1月4日
Draft Program for an Old-School Philosophy

Life & Notes2008.12.31
Draft Program for an Old-School Philosophy
If I were recruiting a crew, of course I would need to explain what sort of style and route this ship more or less has. When it comes to a program, it is actually a rather ambiguous thing: it is either too general or too specific. It can be condensed to a single character, “love” or “I”; to two characters, “freedom” or “seeking”; to three, “play games” or “possibility”; to four, “preserve sameness while seeking difference” or “strive for excellence”; to five, “know yourself” or “that old bear of a mother-in-law,” and so on. Any of these could be posted as a slogan at the entrance to Suixuan. Of course,…
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2008年12月31日
An Explanation of the Progress of My Pursuit of mm

Life & Notes2008.12.17
An Explanation of the Progress of My Pursuit of mm
In one sentence: there has been no progress. On the Progress of My Search for a Girlfriend In one sentence: there has been no progress. There are very few applicants, but there are indeed several—at least three, in fact—mostly second-year master’s students. It seems second year is a delicate period… The applicants before this were basically all frightened away. In the previous article I already said that I merely adopt a very ordinary cool indifference; I would never pretend to be anything in order to scare people off. On the contrary, the so-called methods of frightening people amount to nothing more than laying bare my true characteristics. Judging from previous…
everyday life blog Chinese self
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2008年12月17日
Miscellaneous Notes on the Daguang Festival

Life & Notes2008.11.12
Miscellaneous Notes on the Daguang Festival
Compared with the previous two years, this year’s Guanggun Festival was quite enjoyable. Of course, nothing good actually happened; it was just that I was in an especially good mood. Lately I’ve been in a very good mood all the time, and that is one of the motives behind my post soliciting a mm. What excited me most today was receiving the new MP3 I bought a few days ago. Originally I had bought it as a birthday present to myself, but unexpectedly it still arrived a little late. Oh well, let’s count it as a festival gift~ The old MP3 of mine actually hadn’t broken, it just had a…
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2008年11月12日
[Collection] A Small Subset of Japanese Loanwords in Modern Chinese

Culture & Public Commentary2008.11.08
[Collection] A Small Subset of Japanese Loanwords in Modern Chinese
I guess I’m just remembering to add some background material for Professor Chen’s lecture~（http://hps.phil.pku.edu.cn/bbs/read.php?tid=523 ） Liu Zheng (Tuyan) et al. (1984) compiled 890 loanwords of Japanese origin; I am citing this from Yang Xipeng, *Research on Chinese Loanwords* (汉语外来词研究), Shanghai People’s Publishing House, 2007, pp. 149–154. I have merely selected some of the words that are more related to scholarship or reasoning, for everyone’s enjoyment: — if it weren’t for these concepts introduced from Japan as Western learning moved eastward, could we still reason things out? implication, hegemony, saturation, insurance, guarantee, pessimism, tragedy, background, essence, proportion, necessity, organizational structure, dialectics, specimen, slogan, vote, phenomenon, doctor, museum, visit, inspect, refer to,…
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2008年11月8日
【This event has ended】[Paused][Unpinned][Pinned 3] Seeking mm~【This event has ended】

Life & Notes2008.11.01
【This event has ended】[Paused][Unpinned][Pinned 3] Seeking mm~【This event has ended】
一、Announcement 1. Male. Born in ’85. Philosophy of science and technology at Peking University. Suixuan Gucha. Born in Shanghai, settled in Beijing. I love wisdom, books, and cartoons. 2. Seeking one mm. 3. No conditions, no requirements (except those conditions that are analytically included within the ordinary understanding of the concept mm). 4. This post will remain in force until the blog entry is closed. 5. Reposting and circulation are welcome, but only this announcement section may be reposted, with the source indicated as EPR.ycool.com. 6. Aside from interested parties or people interested in introducing someone to me, I will not report related progress to any other friends. 7. Contact…
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2008年11月1日
[Unpinned][Pinned 2] An Introduction to Gu Chi, Contact Information, and Comments and Questions

Life & Notes2008.10.08
[Unpinned][Pinned 2] An Introduction to Gu Chi, Contact Information, and Comments and Questions
Suixuan’s miserably sparse comments and messages have always left me rather depressed. But when I look at those more popular academic blogs, most of the comments there are just “Good post,” “Respect,” “Adore,” “Saved,” and so on, or else a couple of contemptuous insults. Readers like me who can respectfully offer criticism are still very rare. Thinking of it that way, the quiet on Suixuan is actually a good thing. Many friends would rather communicate with me privately than leave even a few words on the blog, and of course I can understand that—as I, too, would rather argue online than ask questions in class. Everyone has his or her…
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2008年10月8日
Ways of Creating Concepts (Jottings)

Philosophy & Thought2008.08.09
Ways of Creating Concepts (Jottings)
Passive creation (mass communication) and active creation (scholarly invention). There are two active modes of creation: the natural-history style of “defining by pointing to the thing” and defining concepts through concepts. The latter is a way of abbreviating some meaning that was originally associated with a long string of concepts like A, B, C, D, E, F, or even with an allusion, or even with an entire philosophical system, into a convenient concept. Why create new concepts? Very simple: because the old concepts are not enough. If an intuition is so unfamiliar that people cannot naturally and smoothly place it in its proper position within the net of concepts, then…
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2008年8月9日