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This Issue’s Music: Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, Fourth Movement

Life & Notes2007.09.01
This Issue’s Music: Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, Fourth Movement
I like to claim that I enjoy classical music, but that seems rather untrue—not only am I woefully lacking in knowledge about classical music, I in fact do not even like what is supposedly classical music’s highest form: the symphony. In truth, the classical-music figures I like are headed by Bach, and my preferred genre is the concerto—that is, music centered on one instrument such as the violin, cello, organ, piano, harpsichord, or flute, with several other instruments or the piano in a supporting role. I also quite like solo piano or solo string pieces, and from time to time I will listen to choral works; as for symphonies performed…
everyday life music
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2007年9月1日
First Entering Yanyuan

Life & Notes2007.09.01
First Entering Yanyuan
It’s that time of year again for new-student registration. As usual, I won’t be going to welcome the freshmen tomorrow, though I’ll probably go take a look at the lively atmosphere on campus. Back when I came to register, I didn’t see any senior students coming to greet us either. After handing in my materials, I headed straight for the dormitory. I suppose there are probably more seniors involved in welcoming freshmen now—especially the sophomores who have just come back from military training. If military training and freshman welcoming hadn’t conflicted back then, I definitely would have gone to welcome the freshmen when I was a sophomore too. Thinking back…
everyday life education autobiography Peking University
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2007年9月1日
Cooking, cooking~

Life & Notes2007.08.30
Cooking, cooking~
Today I finally cooked for myself for the first time~ I said I was going to learn to cook during summer vacation, but I really didn’t learn much at all; at most, when Mom or Grandma was cooking, I just watched from the side, and I didn’t even do that very many times. Anyway, cooking isn’t something all that hard, so I’ll just figure it out myself when the time comes~ Today I finally did it myself, so let’s start with something simple: washing rice and cooking rice doesn’t seem to have much difficulty. It looks like I controlled the water-to-rice ratio pretty well too; the rice came out neither…
everyday life China tradition
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2007年8月30日
Reflections on the Social Practice Project “The Preservation of Traditional Culture and Its Relationship with Tourism”

Life & Notes2007.08.30
Reflections on the Social Practice Project “The Preservation of Traditional Culture and Its Relationship with Tourism”
Our social practice project was themed “The Protection of Traditional Culture and Its Relationship with Tourism.” With this question in mind, we examined places such as the ancient city of Pingyao and Mount Wutai in Shanxi. Below, I will mainly connect my impressions from the visit and investigation of the ancient city of Pingyao to offer my views on this topic. First, if we look at this theme more concretely, it gives rise to three main questions: first, what is tradition? Second, how should it be protected? Third, what is the significance of tourism—after all, is tourism to be developed in order to protect tradition, or is tradition to be…
everyday life culture history tradition
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2007年8月30日
At Last, All the Various Delays Have Been Settled

Life & Notes2007.08.27
At Last, All the Various Delays Have Been Settled
All Kinds of Procras——————tination Have Finally Been Resolved This summer, all sorts of things that should have been finished long ago, or should have been started long ago, kept getting delayed… delayed… First is my magnificent thesis. In the plan, by this moment it should have reached the final-draft stage, but the reality is that the reading project has not even systematically begun yet… I can only buckle down in the next week or two! (Of course… even during the period of idleness, there was not absolutely no progress; at least I did think about some questions…) This matter was delayed for about a month and a half. Second is…
everyday life education Peking University report
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2007年8月27日
This Issue’s Music: The Legend of Sword and Fairy Original Soundtrack, Battle Music

Life & Notes2007.08.26
This Issue’s Music: The Legend of Sword and Fairy Original Soundtrack, Battle Music
I first saw people playing the earliest Chinese-language 95 version of *Xianjian* at someone else’s home, and afterward I bought the just-released 98 “Romantic Edition” myself. *Xianjian* is the only RPG I’ve played no fewer than three times (I can’t remember exactly how many times), and even now I’m still willing to play through it again. The most recent time I replayed *Xianjian* was when the TV drama adaptation aired and I simply couldn’t stand it anymore, so I played it again. Let me stress once more: absolutely do not watch the *Xianjian* TV drama, or if you do, do not connect it with *The Legend of Sword and Fairy*…… …
everyday life China music anime
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2007年8月26日
A One-Month Running Account of Stock Trading

Life & Notes2007.08.24
A One-Month Running Account of Stock Trading
Before I knew it, I had been dabbling in stocks for more than a month, and a summer vacation that ought to have been the busiest of all is now clearly on the verge of being wasted away in vain (of course, not because of stock trading). And as my life rhythm returns to normal, and my stock-trading ideas grow increasingly mature, I will no longer spend more time researching stocks. So I’ll just casually jot down here my reflections from this past month of stock trading: Stock trading counts as yet another “social practice” I’ve done this summer. Originally, the point of my parents’ letting me trade stocks was…
everyday life economy capitalism practice
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2007年8月24日
The legendary CET-6~~

Life & Notes2007.08.18
The legendary CET-6~~
Exam type: CET-6 Admission ticket number: 110010071210419 Your total score: 453 Listening: 124 Reading: 205 Comprehensive: 36 Writing: 88 I made it through! Hahahahaha~~~~!!!!! PS: I’m already back in Beijing. All sorts of things have only just started to normalize, and the renovation is nearing completion; it’s just that one door that still hasn’t been installed. However you look at it, it should all be complete by next week~ Latest comments Yiwu 2007-08-18 23:03:35 [reply] Oh! Oh!! Oh!!! Oh!!!! ………Congratulations! Haha!!!!!!!!! You’ve got to treat us!!! Hahahahaha!! A low-probability event actually happened!!!! Haha!!! Congratulations! Congratulations!……… Gǔbó 2007-08-19 15:39:56 http://epr.ycool.com/ [reply] I really do…
everyday life education
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2007年8月18日
[Reposted] Perils Everywhere in Private Academic Bookstores and Academic Book Publishing

Life & Notes2007.08.03
[Reposted] Perils Everywhere in Private Academic Bookstores and Academic Book Publishing
http://www.gmw.cn/01ds/2007-08/01/content_648751.htm More than 60% of academic book sales are carried out by privately run bookstores, and they largely determine whether academic books can survive. But at present, most of these bookstores are facing a survival crisis. Privately Run Academic Bookstores and the Publishing of Academic Books Beset by Crises Ye Zhi The scope of the objects discussed in this article is limited to privately run academic bookstores in provincial capitals. For a long time, they have been the main force in academic book sales. The reason I am discussing the crisis of the privately run book trade together with the predicament of academic publishing is that more than 60% of…
everyday life culture economy
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2007年8月3日
This Issue’s Music: the Music of “Civilization” CivIIIAncEurope

Life & Notes2007.08.02
This Issue’s Music: the Music of “Civilization” CivIIIAncEurope
http://hyl510.googlepages.com/CivIIIAncEurope.mp3 I still haven’t played any games since the start of this summer vacation, and I’m really depressed…… The long-awaited Heroes of Might and Magic 5: Hammers of Fate still hasn’t appeared; Sword and Fairy 4, which I had preordered early on at Amazon.cn, has already been delivered to Beijing, but now I’m in Shanghai…… As for Civilization, I’ve been playing it far too much…… Today I discovered that GooglePage has been restored, and for the time being I couldn’t find a place to upload music. I noticed that there were already two background tracks from Civilization uploaded there, so I’m just casually posting one of them here. This piece…
everyday life culture music game
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2007年8月2日