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21 octobre 2007

八年

Well, first of all, congratulations to South Africa. It's good to see the World Cup back on the right side of the equator. But more importantly: Today is my eighth chinaversary. Eight years ago today I arrived in China for the first time. In Changsha,...
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20 octobre 2007

half-remembered slogans, again

I was in the classroom in Teaching Building 1 for my last class yesterday morning, and glanced at the signs on either side of the blackboard. For some reason that particular room has two of these slogans that the management of Building 1 love so much....
10 octobre 2007

music

Another excellent piece from Danwei, this one on ethnomusicology in China. Unfortunately, one thing that's been missing from my experience of Yanqing has been music. Well, sure, several times I've been told I can go and 看戏 (watch the show), and once I...
9 octobre 2007

Dazhai Spiritual

Danwei has a great post up about religion at Dazhai. It includes a translation of an article by Li Xiangping called Dazhai Builds a Temple. It's well worth reading, but there was one aspect of that article that grabbed my attention: There is a pervasive...
4 octobre 2007

discovering Mozi

First up, a quick note: Unless otherwise stated, all quotations and page and chapter references in this post are from Selected Philosophical Writings of Fung Yu-Lan (Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, 1991). All references to classical Chinese texts, unless...
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3 octobre 2007

Rediscovering Kongzi

First up, a quick note: Unless otherwise stated, all quotations and page and chapter references in this post are from Selected Philosophical Writings of Fung Yu-Lan (Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, 1991). All references to classical Chinese texts, unless...
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