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[American] Dan Brown: Angels & Demons

Culture & Public Commentary2007.07.08
[American] Dan Brown: Angels & Demons
[U.S.]Dan Brown: Angels and Demons, translated by Zhu Zhenwu, Wang Qiaoli, and Xin Yan, People's Literature Publishing House, February 2005, 29.8 yuan—☆ The second book I read during my Shanxi period. Since I have never been very enthusiastic about bestsellers, I nearly missed The Da Vinci Code; later the movie came out, and I heard it had something to do with science and religion, so I downloaded it and watched it. It really was quite remarkable—after all, there are many good books even among bestsellers~ Although I still haven’t read the original The Da Vinci Code, after reading this Angels and Demons, I am certain that this book is even…
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2007年7月8日
[American] Dan Brown: Angels & Demons

Culture & Public Commentary2007.07.08
[American] Dan Brown: Angels & Demons
[U.S.]Dan Brown: Angels and Demons, translated by Zhu Zhenwu, Wang Qiaoli, and Xin Yan, People's Literature Publishing House, February 2005, 29.8 yuan—☆ The second book I read during my Shanxi period. Since I have never been very enthusiastic about bestsellers, I nearly missed The Da Vinci Code; later the movie came out, and I heard it had something to do with science and religion, so I downloaded it and watched it. It really was quite remarkable—after all, there are many good books even among bestsellers~ Although I still haven’t read the original The Da Vinci Code, after reading this Angels and Demons, I am certain that this book is even…
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2007年7月8日
Paul Hoffman: The Man Who Loved Only Numbers—A Biography of Erdős

History of Science & Scholarship2007.07.08
Paul Hoffman: The Man Who Loved Only Numbers—A Biography of Erdős
Paul Hoffman: Digital Abiding Passion: The Life of Erdős, translated by Mi Xiujun, Zhang Xiaoyan, and Miu Weidong, Shanghai Science and Technology Education Press, August 2000, 21 yuan This was the first book I read during my trip to Shanxi. It was something Senior Brother Botian had mentioned before, and it really is very good. It had been a long time since I last read a scientist’s biography. In fact, biographies of scientists are a superb form of popular science: through literary means, they can interestingly combine first-order popularization with second-order popularization. That is to say, in a scientist’s biography, one can not only occasionally insert explanations of scientific knowledge,…
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2007年7月8日
The Third Way—An Interpretation of Feenberg’s Philosophy of Technology (Reading Notes)

Philosophy & Thought2007.05.31
The Third Way—An Interpretation of Feenberg’s Philosophy of Technology (Reading Notes)
As usual, let me first post a rough draft of the essay. I had originally planned to write about Heidegger, but Heidegger’s articles are really too ethereal; when I read them, it’s all clouds and fog, impossible to get a grip on… Among the philosophy of technology thinkers discussed so far, aside from Marx, Feenberg is still the one most to my taste, though Ellul and Mumford are also worthy of respect. [US]Andrew Feenberg: Critique of Technology, translated by Han Lianqing and Cao Guanfǎ, Peking University Press,2005 Preface, p. 1, v, (first sentence) Must humanity submit to the harsh logic of machines? Or can technology be fundamentally redesigned so that…
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2007年5月31日
[English] Brian Ridley: “Is Science Magic?” —★

History of Science & Scholarship2007.05.27
[English] Brian Ridley: “Is Science Magic?” —★
[English] Brian Ridley: *Is Science Magic?*, translated by Li Bin and Zhang Butian, Guangxi Normal University Press, May 2007, 1st edition, 1st printing, 1–7000 copies, 118,000 characters, 787×1092, 9.625 sheets, 25 yuan — ★ Guangxi Normal University Press is really getting cooler and cooler! I couldn’t resist buying this set yesterday when I saw it at WanSheng, even though today I saw that the Wild Grass Bookstore’s 25% discount copies had also arrived (by the way, Wild Grass has finally taken back and merged in the neighboring “Masterpiece Movement” that couldn’t stay in business, doubling its space). But when you see such a cool series, you really can’t not make…
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2007年5月27日
Yang Shoujian: “A Critique of Academic Corruption in China,” 1st edition, Tianjin People’s Publishing House, February 2001, 16 yuan

History of Science & Scholarship2007.04.02
Yang Shoujian: “A Critique of Academic Corruption in China,” 1st edition, Tianjin People’s Publishing House, February 2001, 16 yuan
Yang Shoujian: Critique of Academic Corruption in China, Tianjin People’s Publishing House, 1st edition, February 2001, 16 yuan The academic world is by no means an earthly paradise; rather, it is a truly filthy and sordid place, a gathering spot for swindlers, plagiarists, and robbers. I had in fact already been fairly clear-eyed about this, but when I read many of the cases, I was still shocked. Take, for example, Wang Tongyi’s so-called Language Encyclopedia, which has been praised as a collection of jokes and is enough to make one laugh out loud: (Wang Tongyi styled himself the “Dictionary King”; over 10 years he edited 25 dictionaries totaling 170 million…
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2007年4月2日
Form Is Emptiness, Emptiness Is Form (Old Post)

Philosophy & Thought2007.03.24
Form Is Emptiness, Emptiness Is Form (Old Post)
This article was a small paper for Teacher Shangzhou’s “Selected Readings in Buddhist Original Texts” course back then, but I felt it was written awkwardly and in a complete mess, and I was too embarrassed to post it on my blog at the time. However, looking at it now, since my blog already has plenty of lousy text, one more piece of that sort hardly matters. I had originally been quite interested in Buddhism and Buddhist studies. Besides being deeply impressed by the philosophical depth of Primitive Buddhism (atheistic Buddhism), I was also rather interested in Tibetan esoteric Buddhism. Back then I found a number of audio recordings of…
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2007年3月24日
Highly Recommend “New Sayings from Peking University” — ★

Culture & Public Commentary2007.03.19
Highly Recommend “New Sayings from Peking University” — ★
Just finished reading a little over half of it. Of course it’s a quarterly recommendation! And more than that, a seriously urgent quarterly recommendation. Here’s a passage I just happened to read: Page 76: In 1998, Peking University held its centennial celebration. A TV reporter interviewed Chen Hansheng and asked him to say a few words wishing Peking University well. By then Chen was already a hundred years old; counting on his fingers, he said: “I have three things to say to Peking University’s teachers: first, take good care to help young students; second, don’t become officials; third, write more books.” The reporter insisted that he say something in祝福, a…
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2007年3月19日
Jiang Xiaoyuan, Liu Bing: “A Babel of Voices—A Dialogue on the Relationship between Science and Culture”

History of Science & Scholarship2007.03.15
Jiang Xiaoyuan, Liu Bing: “A Babel of Voices—A Dialogue on the Relationship between Science and Culture”
Jiang Xiaoyuan, Liu Bing: South Accent, North Tune——A Dialogue on the Relationship between Science and Culture, Peking University Press, 1st edition, January 2007, 32 yuan—☆ As soon as I arrived in Beijing this semester, I went to the bookstore to look for this book (of course I also bought many other new books). I read it as soon as I bought it, but after reading half of it in one sitting, for some reason I put it aside. Today, when I thought of it, I read the second half in one sitting as well. An introduction to this book can be found on Teacher Liu Huajie’s blog http://blog.sina.com.cn/u/485ea879010006j1. What I…
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2007年3月15日
[U.S.] Steve Silverman: “Einstein’s Refrigerator—A Different Kind of Story Collection”

History of Science & Scholarship2007.03.13
[U.S.] Steve Silverman: “Einstein’s Refrigerator—A Different Kind of Story Collection”
[U.S.] Steve Silberman: *Einstein’s Refrigerator—An Alternative Collection of Stories*, translated by Yang Rongxin, Nanhai Publishing Company, March 2003 I recently discovered that the special-price books sold by Welan are pretty good. Many worthwhile academic books—the ones that sell at a 25% discount at places like Boyatang, and so on—are marked down to 35% off; even more books that are normally sold at 50–60% off in ordinary discount bookstores (for example, books from Jiangsu People’s Publishing House) are sold at 70% off. Well worth picking up a batch~~ Among them there is one very interesting book, and as soon as it arrived I read it at once: *Einstein’s Refrigerator*. In fact,…
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2007年3月13日