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Ji Xianlin: “Miscellaneous Memories from the Cowshed”

Culture & Public Commentary2009.07.17
Ji Xianlin: “Miscellaneous Memories from the Cowshed”
Ji Xianlin: Memoirs from the Cowshed (manuscript edition), Zhongguo Yanshi Publishing House, 2006, 9787801288799 The ritual of mourning for Old Ji can be considered complete. By comparison, the book I would still recommend is *The Archive of Shuxingbei*, though *Memoirs from the Cowshed* has its own distinct flavor. If *The Archive of Shuxingbei* is a downright tragedy, then *Memoirs from the Cowshed* is more like a farce—dark humor, of course. How was the Cultural Revolution possible? This was the last question posed by Old Ji. The Cultural Revolution was a miracle; it gathered together every favorable condition of time, place, and people, and only then did it blossom in a…
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2009年7月17日
[Archive] Ji Xianlin: Preface to Miscellaneous Recollections from the Cow Shed

Culture & Public Commentary2009.07.16
[Archive] Ji Xianlin: Preface to Miscellaneous Recollections from the Cow Shed
http://vip.book.sina.com.cn/book/chapter_38306_22059.html Ji Xianlin: Preface to Miscellaneous Recollections from the Cowshed Miscellaneous Recollections from the Cowshed was written in 1992. Why, after six years, was it only now, in 1998, brought out for publication? This rather violates the usual conventions of book writing. Readers are bound to suspect that there must be some explanation. Their suspicion is justified: there is indeed an explanation, and it is not mysterious at all. It arises merely from a bit of personal selfishness—my own petty “judging a gentleman’s belly by a small man’s heart.” I had already been trampled on by the “revolutionary” youngsters—though in fact they were not necessarily all young—by a thousand feet,…
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2009年7月16日
Ji Xianlin: “Ji Xianlin on Translation”

Culture & Public Commentary2009.07.16
Ji Xianlin: “Ji Xianlin on Translation”
Ji Xianlin: “Ji Xianlin Talks about Translation,” edited by the Ji Xianlin Research Institute, Contemporary China Publishing House2007, 9787801705952 When Mr. Ji Xianlin passed away, Peking University set up a memorial hall for public mourning, but I did not go. Of course I very much identify with such commemorative rites; feelings of admiration, humility, reverence, remembrance, and so on are all contained in the ritual of condolence. Still, I myself did not go to pay my respects, because for me there are more fitting rites with which to remember this elder. The reason to come and pay tribute to Mr. Ji Xianlin is not because I feel any grief….
book reading notes Peking University translation
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2009年7月16日
I’m Still Just a Child~!

Life & Notes2007.09.29
I’m Still Just a Child~!
That day, during the interview, Teacher Sun said: how come that over your four years in college, you’ve already been studying according to our major, and yet still haven’t settled on a smaller academic direction? I said that these four years of college had already narrowed things down enough. Narrowed down to what degree? I said, isn’t it already determined as “Science Studies”? How is that not narrow? I said that in high school I liked math, physics, astronomy, geography, history, economics, and so on; hadn’t that already been a narrowing? Teacher Sun said that high school doesn’t count; that was still a child’s ideal. I said, hmm, I feel…
philosophy everyday life Ji Xianlin
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2007年9月29日