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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

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China’s “Reportage” magazine: pay to get published

This magazine, considered a national level magazine, has been discovered by some plucky reporters at the Youth Daily to be quite amenable to the idea that you can publish something as long as you pay for it. Of course, not … Continue reading

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Books I’m Reading: Paris: The Secret History

I looked up the word “flaneur” in the index of hte boojks and skipped straight to it: I’d heard this term first in books by and about Walter Benjamin, and the idea of these urban wanderers–poets, wastrels, misfits, outsiders, rebels–was … Continue reading

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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

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An interesting quote from Tristan Tzara

Ever since stumbling across his grave at the Montparnasse cemetery, I have been not quite obsessed persistently inquisitive about the life and times of the Romanian-French poet Tristan Tzara, one of the founders of the Dadaist movement. I … Continue reading

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Poet Billy Collins: the theme of poetry is death

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