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  • Never Forget National Humiliation, Never Harbor National Grievance

    Life & Notes

    Never Forget National Humiliation, Never Harbor National Grievance

    After 9/18 had passed, seeing that the 7-Eleven downstairs was still open for business as usual, I finally let out a slight sigh of relief. The article I had meant to write yesterday but didn’t get around to writing, I’ve decided to make up today. I don’t know why 9/18 is called “National Humiliation Day.” At first glance that doesn’t seem like a problem, but the more you think about it, the more something feels off. What is “humiliation”? Shamelessness, brazen lack of shame, “to know shame is close to courage”… Dictionaries define it as “inner shame caused by damage to one’s reputation,” or as shame, disgrace, or embarrassment. If…

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  • On the Diaoyu Islands

    Culture & Public Commentary

    On the Diaoyu Islands

    Recently the internet has been filled with cries for killing and slaughter, with rancor spilling everywhere; it’s heartbreaking to watch, and I can’t help but state my own position as well. First, I have always clearly leaned toward the “traitor to the nation” camp. I do not think that so-called “sovereignty” is anything particularly important, especially “territory.” Unless it is a place like Qufu, which is indeed a cultural or religious shrine, territory is nothing “sacred” at all. The foundation of a country is its people; land without people is at most just some property, and in diplomacy it is a bargaining chip in a game of strategy, nothing more….

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  • Maid Cafés and “Professional Ethics”

    Maid Cafés and “Professional Ethics”

    Maid Cafés and “Professional Ethics”
    Philosophy & Thought

    Maid Cafés and “Professional Ethics”

    Stirred by the Fang Yaohan incident, I wrote three articles in a row, which is already quite enough to have gotten my money’s worth. Since Han Han has also announced that he is stopping writing and not talking about it anymore, I may as well stop here too. So this article continues from the earlier piece “The Kingly Way”; everyone can skip the previous three articles, and we can continue talking about “morality.” We say that the kingly way is the path to supreme goodness, and supreme goodness is nothing other than “the best life.” But in the traditional sense, for a ruler, the kingly way merely provides one of…

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  • [Collection] A Small Subset of Japanese Loanwords in Modern Chinese

    Culture & Public Commentary

    [Collection] A Small Subset of Japanese Loanwords in Modern Chinese

    I guess I’m just remembering to add some background material for Professor Chen’s lecture~（http://hps.phil.pku.edu.cn/bbs/read.php?tid=523 ） Liu Zheng (Tuyan) et al. (1984) compiled 890 loanwords of Japanese origin; I am citing this from Yang Xipeng, *Research on Chinese Loanwords* (汉语外来词研究), Shanghai People’s Publishing House, 2007, pp. 149–154. I have merely selected some of the words that are more related to scholarship or reasoning, for everyone’s enjoyment: — if it weren’t for these concepts introduced from Japan as Western learning moved eastward, could we still reason things out?  implication, hegemony, saturation, insurance, guarantee, pessimism, tragedy, background, essence, proportion, necessity, organizational structure, dialectics, specimen, slogan, vote, phenomenon, doctor, museum, visit, inspect, refer to,…

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  • Thinking of EVA

    Culture & Public Commentary

    Thinking of EVA

    Another anime song post? What can I do—recently in Shanghai, because I didn’t have speakers and for other reasons, I haven’t really been listening to music at all, and the only melodies I could summon up from memory just happened to be anime songs. I was reminded of EVA that day when I went to a relative’s house and saw the latest domestic animated film, “Qin Shi Mingyue.” Its gaudy 3D visuals only served to throw its shallowness into sharper relief; if this animation has made any progress at all, I’m afraid it is progress in a disappointing direction. Thinking of the difference between Chinese and Japanese animation, I couldn’t…

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  • This Episode’s Music: Azurite (Heroic Age ED)

    Life & Notes

    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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  • The Eternal Dragon Ball

    The Eternal Dragon Ball
    Life & Notes

    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…

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  • Reflections on a Japanese Anime Series: Introduction: How Should We View Japanese Culture and Eastern Character?

    Culture & Public Commentary

    Reflections on a Japanese Anime Series: Introduction: How Should We View Japanese Culture and Eastern Character?

    My leisure and recreation since college have mainly consisted in watching Japanese animation. I have seen many animated works, long and short, of all sorts and kinds, and I often want to write down some reflections on certain classics or typical examples—I watch anime purely for entertainment, but I do still think about it. On the one hand, excellent animated works themselves contain many elements that invite deep reflection; on the other hand, I myself must also take the initiative to reflect, otherwise, after years of immersion, I will certainly be permeated by Japanese culture. Of course, from the very beginning I have not been anti-Japan. Japanese culture has many…

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