Monthly Archives: May 2006

thoughts (someone else’s not mine) on W.H. Auden….

May 31, 2006 peijin

From the Weekly Standard via Arts and Letters daily comes this interesting piece on a new AUden biography. There are a couple of fascinating passages, I’m going to lay down here. But it was difficult to hold all these tensions … Continue reading →

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madness II

May 31, 2006 peijin

everyone needs to find a community because there is no order in the madding crowd; they are a sweaty brownian motion that will do you in, it is an unordered chaos out there i can’t survive long in it. the … Continue reading →

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madness I

May 31, 2006 peijin

i’m a schizophrenic about China’s buses: lousy mood me hates them, whereas happy mood me likes them.  When it’s too crowded, sweaty and people are reaching over you and bumping into you, i lose all sense of security. There;s just … Continue reading →

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Hypocrisy among China’s elite? Getouttahere!

May 29, 2006 peijin

From the Australian  I read this article about how, in light of the scandals plaguing Chen Shuibian and his family, how the Chinese government  tried to get some KMT guy to talk about this at Beijing University: Beijing University, jumping … Continue reading →

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今晚感想

May 29, 2006 peijin

我一直很好奇：人家是怎麽看待死亡？不知道從什麽時候開始的我餓死亡情節變了尤其嚴重，看了人家好像平時也不會去想這種問題。我很妒嫉人家可以把自己故去的事情比較想得開，不像我這樣塼牛角尖，對解決任何問題也是無效的。那些東西不是幻想，不是妄想？方向感徹底朦了。 addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fpeijinchen.com%2Fblog%2F2006%2F05%2F29%2F%25e4%25bb%258a%25e6%2599%259a%25e6%2584%259f%25e6%2583%25b3%2F’; addthis_title = ‘%E4%BB%8A%E6%99%9A%E6%84%9F%E6%83%B3′; addthis_pub = ”;

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思想界與文學界的恩恩怨怨

May 29, 2006 peijin

最近看了一篇來自南都周刊的文章，裏面寫的是關於中國思想界對於中國文學界的批判。總而言之，有一些思想界的人認爲現在從事文學的人已經放棄了文學以往所有的社會責任，亦即不扮演對社會底層或弱勢群體的擁護者和喉舌，沒有對他們的疾苦有著應有的憐憫。 在最新的一期，某些作家接受採訪了並且對這些看法及觀點進行了探討，但部分的作家都拒斥了思想界對其的指責。 他們主要認爲“社會良知” 和與其相反的“脫離現實”這兩個理念是一個虛假的兩分法：人是群居的，每一個人是社會的一個分子，就算你對這個社會現實的態度是格格不入，你仍然還是社會的一部分，因爲沒有社會的話，你還能反對或者抗拒什麽呢？ 還有一點我覺得他們說很有道理：文學本來就不應該完全“爲人民服務”的，因爲藝術家一定要保持自身的獨立性且不依附權威。 但是一個不朽的作品的標尺最後還是誰決定的？無論剖析的是那個階層，每一個階層都是人，問題我不屬於什麽階層。縂感覺自己是游離于所有族群之外，與其境地不如不強求什麽“低層寫實”，索性就寫自己的精神生活，反正我只對這方面還是了如指掌。 addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fpeijinchen.com%2Fblog%2F2006%2F05%2F29%2F%25e6%2580%259d%25e6%2583%25b3%25e7%2595%258c%25e8%2588%2587%25e6%2596%2587%25e5%25ad%25b8%25e7%2595%258c%25e7%259a%2584%25e6%2581%25a9%25e6%2581%25a9%25e6%2580%25a8%25e6%2580%25a8%2F’; addthis_title = ‘%E6%80%9D%E6%83%B3%E7%95%8C%E8%88%87%E6%96%87%E5%AD%B8%E7%95%8C%E7%9A%84%E6%81%A9%E6%81%A9%E6%80%A8%E6%80%A8′; addthis_pub = ”;

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Pyramid schemes: an economic cult? (传销：一种经济邪教)　

May 28, 2006 peijin

By accident, ran across a report in Chinese about 传销 which is basically pyramid marketing. Apparently, these schemes began as small-time operations that had at least some kind of fake product behind them but have now evolved to the point … Continue reading →

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上海滩：Aegean (Greek restaurant)+铜川路 seafood market

May 28, 2006 peijin

i went to this place and they let me in, after sizing me up and down a few times. but i couldn’t get the free drinks and food, so we had to have Dan stride over and exert some influence … Continue reading →

China, Food, Shanghai
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My Lai all over again?

May 26, 2006 peijin

Somehow in the back of my mind, i knew this was bound to happen; somehow despite Abu Ghraib and despite the unsavory behavior showed there, I felt that as despicable as this war and war in general is, that at … Continue reading →

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May 26, 2006 peijin

i’ve decided that the problem with me is that i don’t live up to my own image of myself–and this is finally taking a psychological toll on me. When i smoke more than i ought to, when i go to … Continue reading →

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