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Category Archives: Scholarship and education
Bootleg-mobiles, sutras retold by Wang Shuo, and bad habits in contemporary fiction
Bootleg fantasy novels sold out of the back of a van; Wang Shuo retells the Diamond Sutra in his new book ‘My Thousand-year Chill’ (我的千年寒); Modern Chinese lit started with ‘Flowers of Shanghai’; today’s novels have problems with glibness, says Hu Chuanji.
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What makes a master?
A new book by Ji Xianlin (季羡林), Li Ao (李敖) on the mainland’s lack of cultural elite, a six-point definition of a great master in academia, and a review of a new Southern Metropolis Daily book that talks to elderly literary folk, The Last of the Cultural Nobility (最后的文化贵族).
Posted in Books, Media and Advertising, Scholarship and education
Tagged guoxue, Ji Xianlin, Li Ao, Southern Metropolis Weekly, Zhang Guoqing
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Is modern Chinese in need of a revival?
Tang Yi (唐逸), an etymologist and world religions researcher with CASS, argues that the Chinese language needs a ‘New Chinese Movement’ (新汉语运动). He’s written a book: ‘A Chinese Language Cultural Reader’ (汉语文化读本)
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Top language errors for 2006
‘Yaowen Jiaozi’ magazine (咬文嚼字) picks the top errors in Chinese language usage for the year 2006. Also, the complete works of Wang Xiaobo (王小波) published by Yunnan People’s Publishing House is rife with typographical errors.
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Tagged GAPP
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Dealing with cultural garbage
GAPP vice-director Liu Binjie (柳斌杰) calls for a fight against cultural trash. Netizens ask what that is – should we resist ‘Outlaws of the Marsh’ (水浒传)?
Posted in Books, Media regulation, Scholarship and education, State media, Trends and Buzz
Tagged Beijing Daily Messenger, cultural garbage, culture wars, GAPP, Liu Binjie, Outlaws of the Marsh, People's Daily, Yangcheng Evening News
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No space to speak, or simply no one listening?
Battling over pseudoscience on Phoenix TV and online.
Posted in Media and Advertising, Scholarship and education, State media, Trends and Buzz
Tagged ESWN, Fang Zhouzi, mathematics, online media, pseudoscience
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Pseudoscience in four glorious colors
Philosopher Li Ming (黎鸣) threatened to commit suicide if his Laozi-based proof of the Four Color Theorem was wrong. Turns out it is. Also, Liu Zihua’s Eight Trigrams Cosmology (八卦宇宙学理) as an example of the relationship of traditional Chinese culture to modern science.
Posted in Internet, Media and Advertising, Media regulation, Newspapers, Scholarship and education
Tagged @classic, Fang Zhouzi, four color theorem, Li Ming, Liu Zihua, pseudoscience, Song Zhenghai, XYS
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A fairy tale in Guangxi
Guangxi schoolchildren write in to the People’s Daily complaining about fraud perpetrated by their county leadership.
Posted in Media and Advertising, Newspapers, Scholarship and education, State media
Tagged @classic, fraud, Guangxi, People's Daily
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Confucians vs. Christmas
Ten PhD’s from major Chinese universities author a document calling for rejection of Christmas and return to native Chinese belief.
Posted in Internet, Newspapers, Scholarship and education, Trends and Buzz
Tagged Christmas, Confucianism, culture wars, letters
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