君子不器
This post from Thursday’s LTN (自由時報 08.15.19) reports that the PLA has moved within 10 minutes of HK and called Hong Kong protesters 「港毒分子」(HK poisoners) and 「秋後的螞蚱」(post-Autumn grasshoppers) on Weibo. The former is a corruption of 「港獨分子」(HK independence supporters) but the latter is a saying used to describe something/someone that is ephemeral, as in ‘wont…
Front page of Apple Daily (tw) on Weds.
(观看中文字幕版本: vimeo.com/112187978 或 v.youku.com/v_show/id_XODI2MDc2MDgw.html) (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)
Roadside Picnic, Strugatsky bros.
The unique position occupied by the scholar elite in Chinese society has led historians to view social and political change in China in light of the evolving status of the scholar. One theory holds that the virtues of the scholars were appreciated only in times of cultural upheaval, when their role was one of defending,…
Intersectionality 101 Interesting commentary