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Music of This Issue: Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand

Life & Notes2007.10.25
Music of This Issue: Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
http://media.ewen.cc/wma/n00000027/n0000002749028318.wma Last time in Master Xian’s Schopenhauer class, he mentioned the chaotic, dark state of the world before the first pair of eyes opened. Master Xian said this state is impossible to describe, and cannot be depicted in painting either, but perhaps music could express it somewhat, so he gave this example—the opening section of Ravel’s Left Hand Piano Concerto. When I got back and searched it out to listen, it really did have something going on. Of course, aside from the opening, the overall feeling is also quite good, very marvelous. This piece is one you have to listen to with your eyes closed. The music from the previous…
everyday life music art Schopenhauer
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2007年10月25日
[Repost] Funeral Industry Launches Graduate In-Service Training Class; Practitioners Can Attend Peking University to Study Philosophy

Life & Notes2007.10.21
[Repost] Funeral Industry Launches Graduate In-Service Training Class; Practitioners Can Attend Peking University to Study Philosophy
News here; I won’t reproduce it: http://news.qq.com/a/20071020/000050.htm I hadn’t originally thought of commenting, but after seeing it reposted on the department board, and then reposted again to the Joke board, and seeing that classmates’ reactions seemed mostly displeasure or contempt, I couldn’t help but voice my opinion. Below is my reply on the department board: (The person above said: “Reviving Zhou ritual is not something our department would get around to doing.”) Do you all think it’s bad? I, for one, think it’s terrific! Absolutely terrific! This is far more meaningful than opening a traditional-culture class for CEOs. If reviving ritual and music is not something our department is to…
everyday life culture Peking University tradition
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2007年10月21日
Materials: A Four-Person Trip to Chuandixia–Lingshan in May 2005

Life & Notes2007.10.17
Materials: A Four-Person Trip to Chuandixia–Lingshan in May 2005
Materials: May 2005 Chuan Dixia—Lingshan, a Four-Person Trip Gu Chu posted on 2007-10-17 18:57:34 Two years ago the computer was reformatted once, the hard drive broke once, and the computer was replaced once; of the old files, aside from all the doc files I had backed up on my USB drive (mainly Suixuan’s articles), almost none remained. At the time I didn’t really care, thinking to myself that heaven wanted me to negate the past as well, so be it, so be it. Now that I look back fondly, there are still some things worth trying to retrieve. Especially this activity from two and a half years ago, which I’ve…
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2007年10月17日
This Issue’s Music: Yeliya Girl (Tong Ang)

Life & Notes2007.10.16
This Issue’s Music: Yeliya Girl (Tong Ang)
A few days ago I saw UNIC post Tong Ange’s “Keep the Roots” (“把根留住”), and it stirred up nostalgia — this was one of the songs I used to hear a lot as a child. Speaking of which, when I was very little (probably in the early 90s, anyway very little, about not yet in elementary school), I often went out with my parents to socialize over meals, and we’d often end up singing karaoke. We also sang at home sometimes. I remember that back then it was played on those huge LD discs; CDs seemed only just to be coming into common use. “Keep the Roots” seems to have…
everyday life music
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2007年10月16日
[Repost] The CCP’s First Time Writing “Ecological Civilization” into a Party Congress Political Report

Life & Notes2007.10.16
[Repost] The CCP’s First Time Writing “Ecological Civilization” into a Party Congress Political Report
http://news.qq.com/a/20071016/001869.htm Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 15 (Reporters Cheng Zhiliang, Gu Ruizhen, Wang Pan) — In the process of comprehensively building a moderately prosperous society, China has proposed building an “ecological civilization,” and for the first time has written this concept into a political report of the Party Congress. When Hu Jintao delivered his report to the Seventeenth Party Congress on behalf of the Sixteenth Central Committee on the 15th, he put forward new requirements for realizing the goal of comprehensively building a moderately prosperous society; among them was to “build an ecological civilization and basically form an industrial structure, growth pattern, and consumption model that conserve energy and resources…
everyday life China future stars
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2007年10月16日
On the “Naturalness” of Laozi and Zhuangzi

Life & Notes2007.10.16
On the “Naturalness” of Laozi and Zhuangzi
Recently I helped a new first-year junior sister look over a paper, and in passing I jotted down a question here. This question is rather naive, but many people still make this mistake. Quite naturally, like many beginners and even some scholars who comment on Laozi and Zhuangzi only in part, she understood “自然” as the “自然” in “自然界” (“nature” as the natural world). But in ancient China and ancient Greece, the word “自然” did not have this meaning at all (see my earlier article “Ancient Greek Natural Philosophy and the Scientific Spirit”). Exactly what the word meant in ancient Greece may still require detailed textual verification, but in ancient…
everyday life China nature Confucianism
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2007年10月16日
[Repost] Global “Sexual Happiness” Survey: Mainland Chinese Men Have an Average of 3.5 Sexual Partners

Life & Notes2007.10.11
[Repost] Global “Sexual Happiness” Survey: Mainland Chinese Men Have an Average of 3.5 Sexual Partners
http://news.qq.com/a/20071011/002018.htm Ahem… I won’t paste the original text here; everyone can go look for it themselves… Of course, this kind of survey is still worth knowing about. I just want to raise a question: take a look at this, 16. How many male partners do you have? (asked of women) New Zealand (20.4) Global average (7.3) Hong Kong (4.1) Mainland China (2.3) India (1.8) 17. How many female partners do you have? (asked of men) Austria (29.3) Hong Kong (14.2) Global average (13.2) Mainland China (3.5) Clearly, the survey shows that men generally have more opposite-sex partners than women do. What does that mean? Are men always more promiscuous than…
everyday life sociology relationism statistics
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2007年10月11日
Is the Struggle Aspect of Contradictions Absolute?

Life & Notes2007.10.11
Is the Struggle Aspect of Contradictions Absolute?
This time’s entrance exam for the recommendation-for-exemption process was a complete disaster—of course, I had already expected to bomb it, but I thought I’d have to take the hit on English; I never expected the two Chinese-language questions to be even more disastrous…… Especially the second question, which was also worth 25 points, and of all things turned out to be a “Marxist philosophy” question. I nearly handed in a blank sheet on that one; in the end I managed to write a few lines, though I have no idea how many points I got…… Analyze: “The antagonistic aspect of contradictions is absolute.” My answer was roughly like this: First,…
philosophy everyday life determinism
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2007年10月11日
[Repost] Notice of Results for Recommended Exempt-Admission Graduate Applicants

Site Matters2007.10.10
[Repost] Notice of Results for Recommended Exempt-Admission Graduate Applicants
http://www.phil.pku.edu.cn/news.php?newid=30000000994
everyday life Peking University admissions
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2007年10月10日
This Episode’s Music: Azurite (Heroic Age ED)

Life & Notes2007.10.10
This Episode’s Music: Azurite (Heroic Age ED)
The turn from late September to early October is a transitional period: the matters of graduate recommendation, grant papers, and so on have all come to a close, and a new era is about to unfold. At the same time, it also happens to be anime season-change time. Japanese anime is generally broadcast by the season, and many series are one season or two seasons long—around 13 episodes or 26 episodes. During this stretch from late September to early October, I happened to catch the endings of various new shows I was watching in sequence; for about a week before that I watched more than a dozen finales back to…
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2007年10月10日