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Jottings from Today’s New Island Salon 09-12–5

Life & Notes2009.12.05
Jottings from Today’s New Island Salon 09-12–5
Last week’s salon took a break once; starting this week, it’s back to normal. However, today no one came to cough… Latest Comments benjaminbai 2009-12-06 06:05:44 Anonymous 219.234.81.110 [Reply] I’ll go next week~ Just in time to start preparing Fei-ge’s paper on religious anthropology. If I get it done before Saturday, I’ll present that one… probably Weber. By the way, there’s also a sociology paper on subculture that I finished writing this week, and I could show that as well… I feel like I haven’t been there in ages Asura 2009-12-07 19:40:07 Anonymous 118.229.147.153 [Reply] I’d like to go too. I wonder what will be discussed next time; could you…
everyday life faith sociology anthropology
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2009年12月5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
zz Liu Suli: European Cafés—The Cradle of the Birth of Modern Society

Culture & Public Commentary2009.02.21
zz Liu Suli: European Cafés—The Cradle of the Birth of Modern Society
The Cradle of Modern Society http://dzb.sznews.com/szwb/content/2007-11/05/content_1628691.htm ■ Liu Suli (book reviewer, founder of Wangshang Bookstore, Beijing) *Looking at Europe from the Café*, by Yu Zemin, published by Shandong Pictorial Publishing House in October 2007. If you take the book in your hand and regard it only as a guide map to cafés, then you have made a 50 percent mistake; if you take it as an ordinary book for leisure and diversion, then you have made a further 25 percent mistake. To each his own. What I read in the book was this: the European café—the cradle of the birth of modern society. I do not need to repeat all…
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2009年2月21日
[Witness] A Rectification Campaign on the Chinese Internet: Lists of Websites Exposed in the Nationwide Crackdown on the Vulgar Trend on the Internet (Batches 1 through 9)

Site Matters2009.02.20
[Witness] A Rectification Campaign on the Chinese Internet: Lists of Websites Exposed in the Nationwide Crackdown on the Vulgar Trend on the Internet (Batches 1 through 9)
Rant: 1. Just tell me which website isn’t vulgar, will you… 2. Any site that can make it onto this list is a great website! 3. Ycool is listed only in the seventh batch; looks like its influence is still rather weak. 4. For decades, the mindset of “rectification campaigns” has still refused to die. 5. Governance requires guidance and channeling, not sealing things off. 6. A “ban” must be carried out in the name of law, not in the name of morality. Even if you hypocritically hold high the banner of law, that would be preferable; but in the name of morality, while hardly speaking of legal principles at…
everyday life China internet sociology
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2009年2月20日
Markman Ellis, The Coffee-House: A Cultural History, trans. Meng Li, Guangxi Normal University Press, December 2007

Culture & Public Commentary2009.02.14
Markman Ellis, The Coffee-House: A Cultural History, trans. Meng Li, Guangxi Normal University Press, December 2007
Preface, page2 The story of the café needs to be traced back through history, and the17th and18th centuries play the leading roles. Since the first café appeared in London, over the course of this hundred years, the café has become an omnipresent feature of urban life, a necessary venue for social intercourse, gossip, discussion, and debate. It was the café that taught men a new way of building a hybrid kind of friendship, into which they poured business ventures, severe criticism, scientific discussion, political clubs, and all sorts of other contents. As the chapters of this book’s main text will explain, the early cafés were by no means limited…
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2009年2月14日
A Fourth Talk on the Olympics—Assorted Remarks and Miscellaneous Commentary

Culture & Public Commentary2008.08.26
A Fourth Talk on the Olympics—Assorted Remarks and Miscellaneous Commentary
l In the previous few installments I kept rambling farther and farther afield, so in the end I might as well just say a few odds and ends. l What was I doing during the Olympics? Apart from the daily new anime episodes, I basically had the TV on all day watching the Olympics. In the first half, I watched the Olympics while paging through books, mainly getting through 《大问题》 once. In the second half, I watched the Olympics while pedaling a stationary bike, with pretty good results; in the last few days I exercised nearly three hours a day on average. Unfortunately the Olympics ended, and in these past…
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2008年8月26日
Human Flesh Search Is Terrifying

Life & Notes2008.07.23
Human Flesh Search Is Terrifying
Today I saw CCTV’s program “The Roundup of Human Flesh Search” on Everybody Talks Law, and it was truly astonishing. Too terrifying. Before, I had only witnessed the “power of Chinese netizens” in the Zhou Laohu affair; that power was indeed formidable, and its effects seemed positive as well, but even then my comments were anything but optimistic. Looking again at these “human flesh search” cases, they also serve to confirm my longstanding judgment: the Cultural Revolution is still continuing. The essence of the Cultural Revolution is not dictatorship or autocracy, but mob violence, the uproar of “justice.” When we see Chinese netizens, so “full of a sense…
everyday life China internet sociology
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2008年7月23日
[Western] Ortega y Gasset: The Revolt of the Masses —☆

Culture & Public Commentary2008.02.14
[Western] Ortega y Gasset: The Revolt of the Masses —☆
[西]Ortega y Gasset: “The Revolt of the Masses,” translated by Liu Xunlian and Tong Dezhi, Jilin People’s Publishing House, October 2004, 16 yuan——☆ I read this book on the train while I was going home; thanks to a delay, I happened to finish it in one sitting. But the excerpts below were not entered into the computer until the last day before I returned to Beijing, which shows how completely I wasted my time at home. This is a wonderful book, so much so that I wanted to classify it as a “★” recommendation. After much hesitation, I lowered it by one grade, because I felt that the book’s mode…
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2008年2月14日
[Repost] Related Discussion on “Zhang Tiankan: For Maglev, We Must Persuade the Public with Scientific Evidence zz”

History of Science & Scholarship2008.01.21
[Repost] Related Discussion on “Zhang Tiankan: For Maglev, We Must Persuade the Public with Scientific Evidence zz”
http://hps.phil.pku.edu.cn/bbs/read.php?tid=316&fpage=1&toread=1 It is obvious that the discussion in this thread is mainly aimed at Teacher Tian (the Lean Knight). Schopenhauer’s swagger is long gone; what is being displayed now is basically my own swagger. Personally, I find this sort of dispute quite interesting. Although such arguments are hard to develop into something profound, they can still expose problems fairly well. Many of the ways I now phrase things first emerged in similar disputes—in the past on Teacher Liu’s and Teacher Jiang’s blogs, and now with BBS as an even better venue. I’ve been eagerly hoping that someone would come to my blog too and “provoke” me. How interesting that would…
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2008年1月21日
[Repost] Global “Sexual Happiness” Survey: Mainland Chinese Men Have an Average of 3.5 Sexual Partners

Life & Notes2007.10.11
[Repost] Global “Sexual Happiness” Survey: Mainland Chinese Men Have an Average of 3.5 Sexual Partners
http://news.qq.com/a/20071011/002018.htm Ahem… I won’t paste the original text here; everyone can go look for it themselves… Of course, this kind of survey is still worth knowing about. I just want to raise a question: take a look at this, 16. How many male partners do you have? (asked of women) New Zealand (20.4) Global average (7.3) Hong Kong (4.1) Mainland China (2.3) India (1.8) 17. How many female partners do you have? (asked of men) Austria (29.3) Hong Kong (14.2) Global average (13.2) Mainland China (3.5) Clearly, the survey shows that men generally have more opposite-sex partners than women do. What does that mean? Are men always more promiscuous than…
everyday life sociology relationism statistics
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2007年10月11日