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On Zhang Weiying and Reform

Life & Notes2006.03.18
On Zhang Weiying and Reform
Mingzi asked me to comment on this article http://blog.sina.com.cn/u/4836a351010002id#comment. Seeing the two keywords “Zhang Weiying” + “reform” really stirred up a lot of long-buried feelings. An excerpt from the comment follows: I don’t want to say very much, because ever since I first set foot at Peking University, the first Peking University professor I looked down on was Zhang Weiying. Under this intensely special emotional state, I can’t guarantee that my judgment is calm. Peking University is not trash, but even in the best place there will be trash, and Zhang Weiying is trash. I don’t understand economics very well. I “came to know” Zhang Weiying when, in my senior…
everyday life Peking University
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2006年3月18日
“A Pitch-Black Void”

Life & Notes2006.03.17
“A Pitch-Black Void”
“Pitch-black!” It is said that when I first said this sentence, it gave my mother quite a shock, and at the same time filled her with joy. I can’t remember anything about the situation at the time… hmm, it was probably when I was three years old. It must have been when my mother was carrying me down the stairs, with no lights on and everything very dark, and for some reason I suddenly blurted out that line. When I said it, my mother thought: Good heavens, this kid can hardly even talk yet, and he already knows how to use idioms! Hmm, he’s got a future; I must…
everyday life Chinese language children
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2006年3月17日
Could It Be That My Article “Gongqingyuan” Cannot Be Used?

Life & Notes2006.03.10
Could It Be That My Article “Gongqingyuan” Cannot Be Used?
When I mentioned to ZW that I could take ready-made articles from my blog and put them in Qinggongyuan, ZW said, “Spare us~” Sigh, sigh… are my articles really so unbearable to everyone? I’m rather hurt here~~~ Most of the complete articles on my blog are just casual reflections anyway; to say that these few articles of mine are “too academic” is simply absurd. They’re all written very casually, and they’re still far from any “academic” level. Of course, whether the quality of the articles is too poor to make it into Qinggongyuan I’m not quite sure; it’s very hard to judge one’s own writing objectively. As editor-in-chief, I originally…
everyday life tradition Confucianism Gongqingyuan
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2006年3月10日
Brief Notes from the First/Third/Fourth Day of Classes in the New Semester

Life & Notes2006.02.23
Brief Notes from the First/Third/Fourth Day of Classes in the New Semester
A Brief Note on the First Day of the New Semester’s Classes Xingding posted on 2006-02-20 22:12:01 1. Liu Zhuanghu: Set Theory — Teacher Liu is very likable. Unlike Xing Taotao, who paced back and forth slowly in front of the blackboard, Teacher Liu dashed rapidly back and forth… I copied the textbook; at first glance, set theory still seems like a difficulty one can bear. Set theory is quite important. If one is studying philosophy of science and technology, one must understand science; it is unacceptable to stand on a humanistic position and speak in airy abstractions while having no understanding of science at all. One can begin to…
philosophy everyday life philosophy of science religion
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2006年2月23日
A Call for Submissions for “Gongqingyuan”～～

Life & Notes2006.02.14
A Call for Submissions for “Gongqingyuan”～～
Sender: EPR (Xingding), Section: Philo Subject: About submissions for “Qingqiuan”~~ Posting station: Peking University Weiming Station (Tuesday, February 14, 2006 10:59:42), internal message Submissions for the 40th issue of “Qingqiuan” have long been solicited in secret, and because of my negligence I never posted an ad… It had originally been planned to put out an issue after the winter break ended, but that now seems rather difficult; still, I will do my best to rush it out, and the plan to publish two issues this year has not changed. The next issue of “Qingqiuan” may be organized around a special topic, but this issue has no fixed theme. Any…
everyday life blog Gongqingyuan
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2006年2月14日
It Turns Out That the People Who Support the Market Economy Most Are the Chinese

Life & Notes2006.02.07
It Turns Out That the People Who Support the Market Economy Most Are the Chinese
I came across an article in yesterday’s Cankao Xiaoxi, and found the full text online: http://business.sohu.com/20060206/n241679830.shtml This passage is quite thought-provoking: For a long time, there have been statements internationally such as “Chinese are born knowing how to make money,” “Chinese are economic animals,” and “Overseas Chinese are the Jews of the East.” A recently released global public opinion survey seems to have, to some extent, confirmed these claims. The University of Maryland’s Program on International Policy Attitudes and the polling organization “Global Scan” jointly conducted a sampled public opinion survey in 20 countries around the world. The results found that Chinese people are even more enthusiastic about the free…
everyday life China economy trust
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2006年2月7日
A fortunate chat with Professor Li Deshun

Life & Notes2006.01.14
A fortunate chat with Professor Li Deshun
Alas, I’m so tired today, I won’t record it…… Latest comments Me 2006-01-14 21:52:45 [reply] Just jot down a few odds and ends: We were told to assemble at nine in the morning. I wasn’t properly awake; ZW had a nosebleed; CG sprained his wrist. It seemed everyone was having a pretty rough time. LY overslept; at first, when we texted and called, he didn’t respond at all, and I even thought something had happened to him, like he had chipped a front tooth or something. In the end, we confirmed it was because he had stayed up all night and only gone to sleep at six. We didn’t bring…
philosophy everyday life Kant Confucius
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2006年1月14日
Ice Skating Is So Fun~~

Life & Notes2006.01.09
Ice Skating Is So Fun~~
RT Latest Comments mist 2006-01-10 20:54:16 [Reply] What a comfortable fall 🙂
everyday life kinaesthesia
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2006年1月9日
On the South China Tiger Incident

Life & Notes2006.01.08
On the South China Tiger Incident
http://hps.phil.pku.edu.cn/bbs/read.php?tid=282 Lately it’s felt a bit like repressed feelings have suddenly burst out in one concentrated explosion, with momentum gushing up from the stomach~ Maybe it’s borrowed from Schopenhauer’s stimulation? As for the South China tiger affair, I’d long wanted to say a few things, but had never managed to get them out. Taking the repost on the forum, and riding this surge of momentum, I finally can’t keep quiet anymore. This is a joke post—surely I can see that, can’t I? Of course I can. The moment I saw “reposted from XX forum” and “repost MP,” I knew it was only a joke, and a really brilliant one at…
everyday life internet public sphere responsibility
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2006年1月8日
What Do I “Want” to Do?

Life & Notes2006.01.03
What Do I “Want” to Do?
Heaven knows how I still had the leisure to write an essay during final-exam season. Contemporary politics and economics have already been smashed to pieces, tomorrow’s English is hopeless too, and I can’t even finish reading Chinese philosophy…… Sigh. But today during a group chat CG mentioned that he wanted to “bring social, political, and economic studies into one coherent whole,” of course just as casual chatter, but it made me think of some questions. Someone once shouted the slogan “bringing Chinese, Western, and Marxist thought into one coherent whole,” and very soon someone else coined the matching line, “boasting of smashing through ancient and modern cattle.” To shout about…
philosophy everyday life knowledge pursuit
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2006年1月3日