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  • Youth and Politics

    Culture & Public Commentary

    Youth and Politics

    Today Huanqiu Times published a good commentary, “Young Students Should Not Be Encouraged to Rush to the Front Line of Conflict,” which says: Middle school students are minors. Their minds are not yet mature enough, but they are full of enthusiasm and highly sensitive. They have few worries and little social pressure, so they fear nothing and have strong explosive force and impact. They have no clear political interests to demand, nor any stable beliefs, so they are easily pushed along by adults, either becoming an expression of the correct social psychology or being led in the wrong direction. Since the founding of New China, the most striking eruption of…

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  • About Fang Yaohan

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    About Fang Yaohan

    I had long since gotten too lazy to care about Fang Zhouzi’s business, but this time, riding on Han Han’s fame, I had no choice but to take a look at Fang Zhouzi’s disgraceful performance as well. My sins, my sins…… Since I’ve already joined the crowd, I might as well jot down a few things while I’m at it~ Of course, I don’t need to take a side here; I believe the readers of my blog are absolutely incapable of thinking I would support Fang Zhouzi. In my view, Han Han and Fang Zhouzi simply do not have a reciprocal “vs.” relationship at all. Fang Zhouzi is nothing but…

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  • Ji Xianlin: “Miscellaneous Memories from the Cowshed”

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    Ji Xianlin: “Miscellaneous Memories from the Cowshed”

    Ji Xianlin: Memoirs from the Cowshed (manuscript edition), Zhongguo Yanshi Publishing House, 2006, 9787801288799 The ritual of mourning for Old Ji can be considered complete. By comparison, the book I would still recommend is *The Archive of Shuxingbei*, though *Memoirs from the Cowshed* has its own distinct flavor. If *The Archive of Shuxingbei* is a downright tragedy, then *Memoirs from the Cowshed* is more like a farce—dark humor, of course. How was the Cultural Revolution possible? This was the last question posed by Old Ji. The Cultural Revolution was a miracle; it gathered together every favorable condition of time, place, and people, and only then did it blossom in a…

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  • [Archive] Ji Xianlin: Preface to Miscellaneous Recollections from the Cow Shed

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    [Archive] Ji Xianlin: Preface to Miscellaneous Recollections from the Cow Shed

    http://vip.book.sina.com.cn/book/chapter_38306_22059.html Ji Xianlin: Preface to Miscellaneous Recollections from the Cowshed Miscellaneous Recollections from the Cowshed was written in 1992. Why, after six years, was it only now, in 1998, brought out for publication? This rather violates the usual conventions of book writing. Readers are bound to suspect that there must be some explanation. Their suspicion is justified: there is indeed an explanation, and it is not mysterious at all. It arises merely from a bit of personal selfishness—my own petty “judging a gentleman’s belly by a small man’s heart.” I had already been trampled on by the “revolutionary” youngsters—though in fact they were not necessarily all young—by a thousand feet,…

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  • Annotations on the Analects…………

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    Annotations on the Analects…………

    Today I picked up a strange book at the Inward Bookstore and ended up reading it until I was almost out of breath…… Peking University Department of Philosophy Class of 1970 worker-peasant-soldier students: Annotations to The Analects, Zhonghua Book Company, 1974 Below I randomly excerpt two relatively short “criticisms”: 10·22 A friend dies, with nowhere to turn, and he says: “It is for me to bury him” [Notes] 1 Friend — refers to someone who shared Confucius’s aspirations and path; this person died and nobody took care of him, clearly a decadent aristocrat. [Translation] (Confucius’s) friend died, and no one took responsibility for him; (Confucius) said: “Let me take charge…

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