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8 mars 2008

finally

And finally I start writing stuff in Chinese again. Yesterday, having just about torn up the textbook in frustration with its sappy, sentimental, saccharine-laden texts, and having reviewed and then studied a few paragraphs of 《活着》/To Live (yes, I know,...

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18 février 2008

comfort

One key aspect to studying, and something I've been lacking over this winter holiday, is a comfortable place to study. Even before I decided to all but abandon the university-supplied big box of 麻烦 computer and just plug in the laptop, the computer desk...

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25 novembre 2007

爹 and 娘

I've been wondering for a while about the origin of the Chinese words 爸 (ba, dad) and 妈 (ma, mum). Why? Well, in films set as late as the sixties the words 爹 (die, dad) and 娘 (niang, mum) are more commonly used. lzh tells me 爹 and 娘 are the older words....

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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...

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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...

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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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23 mars 2007

Beijing or Peking?

Well, I don’t actually want to pose the question. I tell my students Beijing is Beijing; Peking is only used in an historic context. But I always wondered how Beijing got to be called Peking. I always put it down to some ridiculous old system of romanisation,...

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20 mars 2007

nom chinois

For seven years living in China I've managed to get away with not having a Chinese name. I never saw why I'd need one. Still don't. But some Chinese people seem to think it a necessity for us laowai to have a Chinese name. I'm quite happy for Chinese...

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