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On the Fan Paopao Incident

Culture & Public Commentary2008.06.07
On the Fan Paopao Incident
This was something I wrote two weeks ago when Ceiling initiated a group email discussion. Today I saw Fan’s new interview, so it counts as a hot topic too. I’ll just post my text to the blog; discussion is welcome — my position is roughly this: if you want to defend Fan, then I can criticize you; if you want to denounce Fan, then I’ll criticize you too. As for Zhou Xiaozheng’s attitude in the interview, I rather agree with it, though I didn’t read it carefully. Some of Fan Meizhong’s remarks are in fact quite reasonable — at the very least, they are worth thinking about — and one…
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2008年6月7日
Reading and Freedom (I)

Enlightenment & the Spirit of Freedom2008.06.03
Reading and Freedom (I)
In the essay “Reading as a Way of Thinking,” I said roughly this: if one merely sits there alone thinking desperately and turning things over and over, the effect is often counterproductive; one’s distress only sinks deeper and deeper, while the problem does not necessarily become any clearer. With the aid of reading, by contrast, one can both turn thinking into a pleasure and, with the help of books, carry out broader, clearer, and deeper reflection. However, not only is it not always a good thing to sit there daydreaming in silence, but burying one’s head in books is not always effective either. In particular, when someone reads with too…
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2008年6月3日
Civilization IV (Beyond the Sword) Tech Tree

Life & Notes2008.06.02
Civilization IV (Beyond the Sword) Tech Tree
Technology Name Era Prerequisite Technology Leads To Agriculture Ancient – Pottery Animal Husbandry Animal Husbandry Ancient Hunting Or Agriculture Writing Horseback Riding Archery Ancient Hunting – Bronze Working Ancient Mining Iron Working Metal Casting Fishing Ancient – Pottery Sailing Hunting Ancient – Archery Animal Husbandry Masonry Ancient Mining Or Mysticism Monotheism Architecture Meditation Ancient Mysticism Priesthood Philosophy Mining Ancient – Masonry Bronze Working Monotheism Ancient Masonry And Polytheism Monarchy Theology Mysticism Ancient – Meditation Polytheism Masonry Polytheism Ancient Mysticism Priesthood Monotheism Literature Pottery Ancient The Wheel And (Agriculture Or Fishing) Writing Metal Casting Priesthood Ancient Meditation Or Polytheism Monarchy Code of Laws Writing Sailing Ancient Fishing Calendar Compass The Wheel…
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2008年6月2日
An Overview of Theories of Human Origins (Animal Biology Assignment)

History of Science & Scholarship2008.05.28
An Overview of Theories of Human Origins (Animal Biology Assignment)
The second assignment for *Animal Biology* took me a full two days and more, the greater part of which was spent fruitlessly searching Chinese Academic Journals for reference papers. In the end I once again discovered that nine out of ten papers written by Chinese people are garbage; books are still useful. And among books, only those written by foreigners are useful. Although the bibliography includes two Chinese books, one a textbook and the other one I bought specially, both clearly plagiarize whole passages from Richard Leakey’s *The Origin of Humankind*. But does saying that a book is “compiled” rather than “authored” mean one can omit notes? Even if “compiled”…
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2008年5月28日
Choosing Peking University, Taking on Freedom

Enlightenment & the Spirit of Freedom2008.05.22
Choosing Peking University, Taking on Freedom
The original writing plan for “Yanyuan—The Four Schools” had stalled for a long time because I shut myself away and hid from the blog. Now that graduation is practically upon me, it’s time to restart this task. Just then the student union was organizing a “My Yanyuan Memories — A Commencement Essay Collection for Peking University’s Class of 2008 Excellent Graduates,” asking each department to nominate writers. Although I do not like taking part in essay contests, especially those initiated by official bodies, I was going to write something anyway. So I might as well take part. There was also a call for submissions from 《Communist Youth Garden》, and perhaps…
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2008年5月22日
Only when one can love the whole world and all people can one truly love a single person.

Philosophy & Thought2008.05.20
Only when one can love the whole world and all people can one truly love a single person.
“If I truly love one person, then I also love other people; I will love the world and love life. If I can say to one person, ‘I love you,’ then I should also be able to say, ‘In you I love all people, the world, and myself.’” — Fromm That passage above really sounds as if I had said it myself. In fact, I had already said something similar long ago; it’s just that although I read The Art of Loving, I didn’t notice this sentence from Fromm at the time. Clearly, it points to my view very succinctly. Why am I deliberately singling out this sentence? I want…
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2008年5月20日
Some of the Text I Posted on KKBBS During My Seclusion

Life & Notes2008.05.14
Some of the Text I Posted on KKBBS During My Seclusion
I'll just paste the links directly. Among them, I think the discussion about the Chen Jiaying lecture at the very end is still worth a look; the others are just recorded here for the record~ Peking opera education should not be forcefully piloted and promoted in primary and secondary schools What resources can a “fourth concubine” get? More on the question of opening up the forum ZZ argues that the United States is not suited to implementing democracy Three suggestions for the moderators KeKe Forum Lecture 49: The Transformation of Science and the Reconstruction of Society (February 29) Peking University Forum on the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology,…
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2008年5月14日
Comeback Preview~

Life & Notes2008.05.03
Comeback Preview~
Locking the blog was pretty pointless; it didn’t help change my way of life as I had expected. Rather, it has made my life even less regular, and there’s even the danger that it will sap my vitality. By the way, my mood lately has been very complicated, with all kinds of emotions mixed together, but on the whole I’m a bit exhilarated, with a strong urge to write; writing with a pen is no longer enough to vent it all~ And then, hey, even Wu Laoshi has started blogging too, wahahaha~~ wahahahahaha~~ So I’m planning to come back earlier than expected, though it will probably be about a month…
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2008年5月3日
Why Suixuan Is Not Afraid of Plagiarism

Life & Notes2008.02.22
Why Suixuan Is Not Afraid of Plagiarism
Not long after Suixuan first started running, a friend reminded me to be a little careful: academic articles posted there would always inevitably face the risk of plagiarism and theft. More recently, an older fellow student also suggested that I might as well submit more pieces to newspapers, which would both earn a bit of author’s fee and, to some extent, protect copyright. But for me, whether writing for newspapers or submitting papers to magazines, first, it is not commensurate with my present qualifications and level; second, it more or less sacrifices freedom; third, it is unnecessary, because I am neither short of money nor afraid of plagiarism and theft….
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2008年2月22日
Philosophy of Media: An Introduction

Philosophy & Thought2008.02.20
Philosophy of Media: An Introduction
Wu Laoshi once mentioned that in the future Xiaogu might perhaps be able to do some specialized research in the philosophy of technology of media; of course, that is something to think about later. Indeed, for me, concern with media is by no means a spur-of-the-moment interest, but a very fundamental, connecting perspective. Wu Laoshi once distinguished between two kinds of “philosophy of technology” (or, more generally, “XX-philosophy”): one is as a departmental philosophy, that is, taking XX as the object of philosophical reflection; the other is as a philosophical character, that is, taking XX as the foundation, direction, or point of departure of the whole of philosophy (in this…
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2008年2月20日