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The Starry Sky Belongs to Children

Life & Notes2007.06.07
The Starry Sky Belongs to Children
During the winter vacation, when I went to Nanbei Lake with my relatives (a dozen or so people), I casually mentioned whether you could see a few more stars here at Nanbei Lake than in Shanghai. At first, Mom, Dad, uncles, and aunts all seemed completely at sea, until I added that nowadays in Shanghai you can hardly see even a few stars at night; then the “adults” were all astonished— in their impression, the night sky still looked full of stars, so many that they were beyond counting. How could there be only the seven or eight stars you can count on your fingers left? That day happened to…
everyday life culture religion civilization
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2007年6月7日
[Repost] Beijing Haidian Book City Pedestrian Street Reopens

Life & Notes2007.06.03
[Repost] Beijing Haidian Book City Pedestrian Street Reopens
http://www.whxw.com.cn/Article/gg/200706/20070601090150_97206.shtml Source: “Jinghua Times” Updated: 2007-6-1 9:01:50 Traditional Chinese One of the city’s 10 distinctive commercial streets; studios for animation, film, and other fields are distributed among them This newspaper report: On the morning of May 30, the Haidian Book City Pedestrian Street, after more than 10 months of renovation and transformation, was officially opened. This pedestrian street is the earliest completed project among the 10 city-level distinctive commercial streets planned to be completed in this city before 2008, and it is also the largest single street of book culture in the country. The newly completed pedestrian street is 220 meters long, about 10 meters wide, with a floor area…
everyday life culture China script
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2007年6月3日
“Chess Game” and Rational Pluralism

Philosophy & Thought2007.06.02
“Chess Game” and Rational Pluralism
The paper I wrote on philosophy of technology before was too rushed—I only decided to switch from Heidegger to Feenberg at two in the morning on Tuesday, spent all of Tuesday and Wednesday reading, and didn’t finish the paper until 6 a.m. on Thursday morning… In fact, many places could still have been developed further. On the question of plural rationality, the example Feenberg gives is a very good one— In the paper I wrote: Here, Feenberg agrees with historicism and social constructivism in holding that not only the content of rational beliefs, but also the principles and forms of reason itself, are historical and culturally plural. In order to…
philosophy culture sociology pluralism
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2007年6月2日
The Mood for Going to a Café

Life & Notes2007.05.27
The Mood for Going to a Café
Today’s effort to make yet another return to the café has once again failed. This time it was not entirely due to subjective reasons; there were also some objective factors: Plato Café has changed. When I came in today, I was first startled by the “Merry Christmas” decoration at the door: at this point in the year, we are in the period farthest from both the previous Christmas and the next one, so why is “Merry Christmas” still posted at the entrance? Still, I gathered my courage and charged in, only to discover after entering that the room layout had been adjusted, and I didn’t recognize a single one of…
everyday life culture Plato
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2007年5月27日
The Eternal Dragon Ball

Life & Notes2007.05.20
The Eternal Dragon Ball
A while ago, when A Fei and I went to study at A Zhu’s place, every time we would see a set of Dragon Ball Complete Collection glowing brilliantly on the shelf at the Third Wave bookstore next door…… dazzling…… resplendent…… multicolored…… sure enough, in the end I still couldn’t help buying a set…… When I announced that I was going to buy a set of Dragon Ball, Mist also thought of buying a set of Doraemon (later he transferred it to me; I’ll talk about that next time). As expected, once these two sets of books were placed in the dormitory (mainly Dragon Ball, of course), they immediately attracted…
everyday life culture China anime
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2007年5月20日
This Issue’s Music: Orff, Carmina Burana

Life & Notes2007.05.15
This Issue’s Music: Orff, Carmina Burana
http://vod.lpes.tyc.edu.tw/vod/files/2_400df694bd3c57fa34de7d2d031d7ae3.mp3 Latest Comments Gu Du 2007-05-17 00:17:54 http://epr.ycool.com/ [Reply] (The background music that often appears in the anime Death Note, and that I often heard on television before) Reposting an introduction: (Because reposts are everywhere online, the original source is almost impossible to trace; a quick search turns up a huge pile, so I won’t indicate the source here either.) —-Have you seen pop king Michael Jackson’s MTVs? ——Have you seen the film Natural Born Killers? ——Or have you ever heard boxer Holyfield’s entrance music?…… Then you should not forget a majestic and imposing chorus—that is the opening section of Carmina Burana, one of the most popular classical music…
everyday life culture Middle Ages
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2007年5月15日
Midterm Discussion Outline for “Deng San” (On the Scientific Outlook on Development and Coordinating the Harmonious Development of Humanity and Nature)

Culture & Public Commentary2007.05.07
Midterm Discussion Outline for “Deng San” (On the Scientific Outlook on Development and Coordinating the Harmonious Development of Humanity and Nature)
……Would the teachers in the School of Marxism go insane after reading this? Outline for the Midterm Discussion of “Deng San” Requirement: choose one aspect of the “five coordinated balances” in the concept of scientific development and talk about your reflections. “The scientific outlook on development is, in essence, people-oriented, comprehensive, coordinated, and sustainable development.” We say that “people-oriented” is the essence and core of the scientific outlook on development—“Adhering to people-oriented development means taking the all-round development of people as the goal, seeking and promoting development from the fundamental interests of the people, continuously satisfying the people’s ever-growing material and cultural needs, earnestly safeguarding the people’s economic, political, and…
culture science environment Marx
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2007年5月7日
Traditional Textbook-Style Argumentative Tactics

Culture & Public Commentary2007.05.05
Traditional Textbook-Style Argumentative Tactics
Good question! The trouble with traditional textbooks is not really their views, though I do dislike many of the views in traditional textbooks. After all, they represent a certain popular way of understanding problems, and that in itself is not too bad. But the problem lies in their style of argument and their attitude. In a sense, the strategy of traditional textbooks is quite powerful and ingenious (otherwise how could they have had such a profound influence in the Soviet Union and China?). Similar strategies are actually used quite often in many other places as well. We ourselves may even use them unconsciously quite often. In short, it is to…
philosophy culture tradition discussion
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2007年5月5日
On the Discussion on the Teachers’ Blogs: An Interpretation of the University

Culture & Public Commentary2007.05.01
On the Discussion on the Teachers’ Blogs: An Interpretation of the University
One Interpretation of the University 2007-04-28 09:19:49 http://blog.sina.com.cn/u/48c5bb42010009ql Tags: university Confucianism education general education personality formation one interpretation of the university Mei Yiqi [Tsinghua Journal] (The main text omitted) Comments (16)┆Quotation┆Reads (45)┆Circle┆Print┆Rewarded Report Article Comments The following comments from netizens represent only their personal views and do not represent the views or position of Sina.com [anonymous] Xinzhai Old Jiang 2007-04-28 16:39:14 Tired from working, I’ve come up to chat a few words: my office is Xinzhai, so I took it as a condition for my screen name, because among the teachers working in Xinzhai, I’m the only one surnamed Jiang. Next door are Mingzhai and Shanzhai, and in front are…
culture education Confucianism university
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2007年5月1日
This Issue’s Music: Various – Medley (Traditional strathspey)

Life & Notes2007.04.18
This Issue’s Music: Various – Medley (Traditional strathspey)
http://www.ycnow.com/atts/200702/Music/45VpA4xH.MP3 The Eternal Harp 永恆的豎琴 1. Various – Medley (Traditional strathspey) A harp album I came across some time ago while looking for Irish music. If a flute is like the sound of wind, then the zither is like the sound of rain. Basically, that means I am, after all, an incarnation of rain. I’m not the sort of person who goes mad over music, but I do get a certain kind of feeling from it. Where that feeling comes from, I can’t quite say. This album is basically Celtic-style harp music. Some pieces are Irish folk music, others Scottish. They all sound pretty good, and I couldn’t decide what…
everyday life culture tradition music
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2007年4月18日