Posted in China on Jul 28th, 2011
不久前订阅韩寒的博客。 追读大概有十几篇， 很感慨。 他的小说我没有读过。 只依稀知道他不愿上大学， 后来开赛车。 这个体制外的年轻人， 比大多数学院培养出来的文人更具知识分子情怀。 写字也勤奋。 他手底的文字， 逻辑， 阅历， 精神和文采样样可观。 最最难得他在当今中国这样一个泱泱浊世， 一直保持内心的独立和清醒， 顽强地用他的文字作人文意义上的启蒙。 在中国， 做这样的启蒙是需要勇气和智慧的。 他既有直面并张扬自由平等这些终极价值的勇气， 又有在强大的国家机器面前自保的智慧。 他的文字既是表现的， 又是踏实的， 节制的。 有针砭时弊的犀利和干脆， 有深沉低徊的人文关怀。 篇篇有血有肉， 关心的是市井百姓生活点滴。 他绝没有 indulge 在他自己的行文形式里顾影自怜。 话讲得很清楚形象， 也够有力量。 但是仅止于一针见血， 不无谓煽情。 这个选材上的脚踏实地和文字上的自我节制功夫， 在他这一辈的作者中是很难得的。 我想象中的潇洒， 莫过于此。 仗义。 行侠。 又文采斐然。 我尊敬。 我的祖国恰是因为存在有风骨有爱憎有才干的芸芸个体才显得可爱。
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Posted in China, life, music on Jul 21st, 2011
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Posted in China, life, music on Feb 10th, 2010
今天从新闻里听到小虎队为春晚进行的排练， 不由自主泪流满面。 我会唱的歌至少有一半是李子恒先生写的， 他的歌有一种直指人心的温暖和天真， 承载我几乎全部的童年和少年记忆。 80后90前的一代人有缘听李老师的歌长大， 真的很有福气！ 嫁给外国人最郁闷的事情之一就是， 对牢老公唱李老师写的情歌， 老公却不能领会。 这几天我给儿子唱的歌都是李老师写的歌， 歌声中我童年和少年的人和事一一浮现。 我一定要教儿子中文。 希望将来的儿媳能有福气听我儿子唱李老师的情歌给她听。 这篇文章先在这里开个头， 有时间慢慢写。
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Posted in China on Jul 27th, 2008
I heard that Shanghai is going to build yet another Disneyland which would cost around 4 billion euros. And, an artificial lake which costs 50 million euros is already being built in Shanghai, seems the main purpose is to boost the price of real estates around the lake. I don’t feel happy to hear these [...]
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Posted in China, Germany on Jul 20th, 2008
In the National Geographic German version issue July 2008, there is a story about China. I bought this issue and read the complete story. Very well written. The authors had lived in China for many years, what they described is quite fact-oriented. The critiques are quite to the point. The story was written with sympathy [...]
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The Wise: Helmut Schmidt, ex. Chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982. The talk below was on 2008.05.20. When I get time I’ll try to translate it into English. The complete interview can be found here. If only Angela Merkel were as half as wise as Helmut Schmidt is, Germany would have much less [...]
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Posted in China, Germany on May 14th, 2008
Just watched ARD’s report about why German people are so reluctant to donate to victims of the recent natural disasters in China or Myanmar. First of all, let me make clear that I know donation should be voluntary. People in today’s program talked about donation scandals, they worried that the donation would not get to [...]
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Posted in China, economics, investment, politics on May 14th, 2008
Sniff: Jim Rogers: China’s Economic Advance is All But Unstoppable Recently I was reading a 20-year-old book “Market Widzards: Interviews with Top Traders” and was deeply impressed by Jim Roger’s accurate prediction for the world economics in late 1980s. More impressive was his way of viewing the world economics. Now let’s see what he said [...]
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Posted in China, Germany on Apr 13th, 2008
Recently the Tibet and Olympic Game has been headlines in all kinds of German medias. Last Friday my boss asked me “Whether the Olympic Game should be boycotted or not”. My answer was, of course not. Reasons: The career life of sportsmen, no matter what nationality they have, is normally very short. The sportsmen have [...]
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Posted in China, Chinese, culture, music, nostalgia on Feb 8th, 2008
For readers do not read Chinese: the content here is too difficult for me to write in English or German. Too much Chinese mentality and nostalgia here. Sorry for my clumsiness. 老公去奥国公干， 一个人在德国的家里过中国的春节。 对牢南窗新装的竹簾突然乡情泛滥， 給我们的工作间起了中国名字。 我们住的小街在老城区，一百年前的格局，窄窄的黑石板街道两边是连排的红砖老公寓， 像是两堵高墙。 只有我们工作间的南窗对面有一道窄窄的缝隙， 晴天中午时分投来耀眼的阳光。 眼睛怨电脑屏幕上的内容没法辨认， 心里却是喜欢这温暖和一瞬间满屋子的澄莹通透。 我把工作间叫凿壁斋，一来应景， 二来愿效古人凿壁偷光之孜孜 （太喜欢玩Civilization了， 玩物丧志啊玩物丧志）， 惟愿勤能补拙而已。 如果在中国， 免不了要请人赐字， 然后装裱。 以我现时的处境只能从简。 斋名用550磅颜体打印，直接糊在门上， 足够端庄大方。 新置的文竹兰花等等， 一一起了名字， 贴在花盆上。 [...]
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Posted in China, video on May 22nd, 2007
In my From the Green Moss 1, I mentioned it was impossible for Japan to conquer China with fists. However, I hold a high respect to the Japan nation because they conquered the whole world with their anime and half world with their digital games. I mean it when I say respect. Here the RTL, [...]
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Posted in China, life, software engineering on May 21st, 2007
Stuff I wrote in my last blog entry is very difficult for people like my boyfriend to really perseive. I asked him what he had watched from TV when he was under 12. The answer was Sesame Street, Dalli Dalli, Verstehen Sie Spaß, etc. Well, no wonder we Chinese people (the generation born in early [...]
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Posted in China, life, music, video on May 20th, 2007
Maybe due to the rainy and bleak sky in this late spring in the Netherlands, recently I have been in a nostalgic mood. “From the green moss” is a series of curfew for my good old days. I looked at the internet, was astonished that actually many have similar feeling/memory patterns. This series also serves [...]
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Posted in China, life, personal news, travel on Mar 30th, 2007
Dirk and me had our winter break in China for three weeks. That was a really hectic holiday, we visited many places and walked till we really exhausted everyday…Now I’m back to my normal academic life again. Last week I got the results of the computer science project and exam I did last semester, they [...]
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Posted in book, China, history on Jan 29th, 2007
The book: 1587, A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline The history of China is long and it is very difficult to get a clear idea about the logic behind the countless events happened during the last several thousand years in China. I’ve read many books on China’s history, both Chinese ones [...]
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