Chinese activist Feng Zhenghu waves before he leaves for Shanghai at the Narita International Airport in Narita, east of Tokyo, Japan, Friday, Feb. 12, 2010. The Chinese activist who has spent more than three months living inside Tokyo’s international airport said Tuesday, Feb. 2, that Chinese officials have given him permission to return home.
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It was right before the Christmas of 2003, Yu Jie, one of the most famous “Angry young intellectuals” in 1990s, decided to receive the baptism of the holy spirit. On the day before the baptism, he told his wife Ning Xuan (Liu Min) “I don’t like cumbersome ceremony, and I’ll not kneel down in the [...]
名片上赫然印着：“书销中外六十本，诗译英法惟一人。”人说许渊冲狂妄，许渊冲觉得自己狂而不妄。
“妄”是浮夸、谮越、吹牛。许渊冲纳闷，“我的书就是六十本，现在比六十本还多，可以数一数。写六十本却说写了一百二十本才叫吹牛。”他是中国惟一能在古典诗词和英法韵文之间进行互译的专家，这一点也骗不了人。
“狂”是放达、豪迈、高行。夫子说，不得中庸，必也狂狷。在《论语》的英译本中，许渊冲把“狂”译为“radical”(激进的、奋发的)，切中孔子“狂者进取”的内涵。他说，“我们中国人，就应该自信，就应该有点狂的精神。”
(zonaeuropa) This is my second time in Xiamen. The weather here is great. No wonder people like to go outside and stroll. Hmmm … I just heard Teacher Deng spoke about certain issues on nationalism. I was reminded of a couple of sayings which I came across them previously. They [...]
Zong Fengming, the author of “Zhao Ziyang: captive conversations” (ISBN 9627934216 9789627934219) died at 1:30 last Thursday, he was 89 years old. The farewell ceremony was held last Saturday in Peking University Third Hospital (PUTH). Over 100 people attended the ceremony. Zong’s family refused the interview upon his wish.
Zong was the close friend of [...]
The China Times: There’s an anonymous comment on “Havel’s Open Letter to Hu Jintao on Liu Xiaobo’s Jail“:
Liu Xiaobo has received hundred thousands of US government funding via the NED in the past five years. Check NED’s China grants for Independent Chinese Pen Center and Zhongguo Minzhu magazine, which Liu heads.
If Liu is American he [...]
After Liu Xiaobo was sentenced to 11 years in prison, professor Cui Weiping has contacted some famous public intellectuals by telephone, asking their opinions on Liuxiaobo’s jail. “I had no intention to ‘torture the conscience of intellectuals’, I just want to know how they response to this case”, she said, “There’s a great gap between [...]
November 22nd, Caijing Magazine published volume 251. Editor in chief Wang Boming wrote the editorial “The Insistence supported by Ideas – To Readers”. Wang said he had never written editorials in his 12 years career life as editor in chief, but facing the empty building after the resignation of Caijing editors, he “had to” work [...]
(By Yang hengjun) In early 2008, I wrote a blog post entitled “Why I Don’t Criticize The United States” to explain to young readers that a nation is making progress or about to make progress when it allows criticisms. Two years have elapsed since and I have continued to regard being critical as my [...]
Implying “revolution”, Red has always been used as political color. In Taiwan, the DPP took green, the Kuomintang played with blue, leaving only red color for Shih Ming-teh to name his followers “Red Shirt Army”. The red color matched their “revolution” indeed, it is no wonder that some people doubted whether the “Red shirts” was [...]
