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Tag Archives: books
作为一个词语“,活着”在我们 …
作为一个词语“,活着”在我们中国的语言里充满了力量,它的力量不是来自于喊叫,也不是来自于进攻,而是忍受,去忍受生命赋予我们的责任,去忍受现实给予我们的幸福和苦难、无聊和平庸。 This is from the preface to YU HUA’s “To Live”, and was written by the author himself. The gist of it is that “to live” is not something you shout out, or something that is aggressive, outwardly defined, but … Continue reading
Subjectivity and mathematics education
This is from a paper I found on the web, on subjectivity and mathematics education, perhaps prompted by my recent return to teaching calculus, however briefly, which has reawakened my interest in the subject. Especially now, when I realize that … Continue reading
Pirouettes on the edge of madness: Bertrand Russell, me, and other fucked up peeps
With my own sanity and mental health at greater peril than ever before, i start reading, for some inexplicable reason, about Bertrand Russell’s personal life. I have read some of his books before, on happiness, marriage, etc. and of course … Continue reading
Books I’m Reading: 写给大家的中国美术史
Something’s been running around my mind since I started reading this book: the idea of the scholar-painter. Each of the early Chinese dynasties had court painters, but its during the first centuries AD, after the fall of the Han and … Continue reading
Amazon.cn: not exactly the paragon of literacy
Excuse me for being a dick, but I just had to point out this email that I found … someone said that it might be phishing type email, but I think it might be real … I have shopped at … Continue reading
A few snippets from a David Foster Wallace appreciation on Newsweek
This from “David Foster Wallace: An Appreciation by David Gates (Newsweek Books). I suspect that Wallace was a genius who happened to be a writer, rather than a writer who happened to be a genius-Hemingway, for instance. You can’t imagine … Continue reading
Can you buy Opening Ceremony DVDs at the Shanghai Book City?
视频：奥运会开幕式DVD上海热卖_视频新闻_新闻_腾讯网 via kwout According to this report, you can or will be able to soon. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fpeijinchen.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F08%2F14%2Fcan-you-buy-opening-ceremony-dvds-at-the-shanghai-book-city%2F’; addthis_title = ‘Can+you+buy+Opening+Ceremony+DVDs+at+the+Shanghai+Book+City%3F’; addthis_pub = ”;
Hu Yang comes out with new photo series on young people in Shanghai
Hu Yang (胡杨) is the Shanghai based documentary photographer that takes shots of people living in Shanghai, in their native environments–their homes. He did a series that got a lot of publicity in the last year or so, it was … Continue reading
Photography books capture Wenchuan earthquake and aftermath
I saw this book when i was in the Xingguang Photographic Equipment Center on Luban Lu, in one of the bookstores on the third floor. The book is called 震动中国(百名摄影记者震区全记录 and cost 80 rmb, but I felt cheap at the … Continue reading