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  • On the A Yi “Crying Poor” Incident

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    On the A Yi “Crying Poor” Incident

    The so-called “Peking University associate professor crying poverty” incident has become quite a sensation lately; for the specifics, a quick search online will tell you. The original blog post should be: http://blog.sina.com.cn/u/48dcce8e0100061k The follow-up journalist interview can be seen at: http://blog.sina.com.cn/u/48dcce8e01000687 After reading these two pieces, I still have some sympathy for this associate professor. The fact that teachers’ pay is not high is indeed a problem, and from the current reform trend in the educational system—for example, the personnel system reforms causing such a fuss at Peking University—I do not see any obvious tendency for professors’ situation to improve. Professors’ income depends on moonlighting; professors’ professional titles depend on…

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  • Recent Life Jottings (October 1, 2006)

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    Recent Life Jottings (October 1, 2006)

    Some time ago I was living in a very abnormal way, wasting a long stretch of time again in games and cartoons. My grandfather’s death hit me very hard. It was the sort of blow that others could not see. Apart from choking up uncontrollably at his bedside when he passed away, I did not cry again when the coffin was laid out, and after I returned to school everything seemed normal. But at bedtime every night, and when I called home every week—only Grandma would answer the phone now; it could no longer be Grandpa… In the past, when I called Grandpa, I actually did not say much: ask…

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  • A New Beginning That Is Increasingly Disappointing

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    A New Beginning That Is Increasingly Disappointing

    Nowadays young people…… why are they all so practical, so mature? Lately I’ve begun interacting again with the incoming class of 2006 in the Philosophy Department. I have never lost my enthusiasm for wandering around the Weilai Beida Ren community; I like interacting with new students. One reason I like wandering around the Weilai Beida Ren community is this: my own entrance into Peking University, into the Philosophy Department, was really a matter of pure chance, and for that I especially need to thank one teacher in Peking University’s admissions office. I think the best way to express gratitude is precisely this: in a certain sense I too do work…

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  • How to Fall in Love with Mathematics

    How to Fall in Love with Mathematics
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    How to Fall in Love with Mathematics

    I have never lost interest in anything I once fell in love with. Even when it was not yet love, but merely a passing fondness or interest, the same was true: my hobbies always multiplied. For example, in my freshman year I was drawn to philosophy, psychology, and wandering over to Weiming Lake; in my sophomore year, to religion, philosophy of science, and memorizing Tibetan mantras by rote; in high school, to popular science books, wuxia novels, and philosophy in the first year, to history and turn-based strategy computer games in the second year, to economics, Japanese animation, and buying books in the third year; in middle school, to physics;…

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  • On Zhang Weiying and Reform

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    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…

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  • A Post and My Reply (About Speaking Out Online)

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    A Post and My Reply (About Speaking Out Online)

    Future Peking University People Community – Webmaster’s Workshop – Strongly Requesting (well, let’s say suggesting instead)                                                       Shujian Piaoling                                                       Strongly suggest:                                                       Could you please leave up those articles that take Peking University to task? Why can’t I find a single one? “Listening to all sides makes one wise”!!!                                                       2005-8-11 08:41 PM                                                       Flying Dolphin                                                       But that’s too extreme, ah                                                       2005-8-11 09:45 PM                                                       Gu Cha                                                       “Listening to all sides makes one wise” is certainly right, but you also have to distinguish among places, occasions, and situations. Some articles may indeed contain a little bit of truth, but behind that little bit of truth there are also many distortions. Of course, “listening to all…

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