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发帖数: 6973 | 1 (1) Liao Yiwu, Walking Out on China. New York Times, Sept 15, 2011 (op-ed).
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/15/opinion
/walking-out-on-china.html?scp=1&sq=yiwu&st=cse
Note:
(a) LIU Xianbin 劉 賢斌
(b) International PEN
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_PEN
(PEN originally stood for "Poets, Essayists and Novelists"; world’s oldest
human rights organization and the oldest international literary organization
; founded in London in 1921 by Catherine Amy Dawson) Scott)
(c) singing bowl
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singing_bowl
(also known as Tibetan Singing Bowls, rin gongs, medicine bowls, Tibetan
bowls or suzu gongs in Japan; a type of bell; were historically made
throughout Asia; section 1 Origins, history and usage)
(i) Tibetan singing bowl 西藏 頌缽
(ii) The "suzu" and "rin" are, respectively, Japanese and Chinese
pronunciations (both in Japan) of Kanji 鈴.
(iii) The noun "gong" is of course English
(etymology: Malay & Javanese, of imitative origin; from www.m-w.com)
(iv) Some gongs look like singing bowls.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gong
(d) Records of the Grand Historian 史记 (written 109-91 BC)
(e) I Ching
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching
(易经; also known as the Classic of Changes)
Quote: "The oldest section of the I Ching is generally thought to date back
as early as 1,000 BC, although the earliest extant version of the text that'
s been found, albeit incomplete, is the Chujian Zhouyi [上海博物馆藏 楚简 周
易] written on bamboo slips, and dates to the latter half of the Warring
States period (mid 4th to early 3rd century BC))
(f) Berlin Tegel Airport
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Tegel_Airport
(It lies in Tegel, a section of the northern borough of Reinickendorf, 8 km
(5.0 mi) northwest of the city centre of Berlin; In 1988, Berlin Tegel was
named after German aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal)
(2) Ellen Bork, Hammer and Sickle and Cross; Many Chinese Christians worship
at unauthorized 'house churches' rather than at the state-controlled
variety. Wall Street Journal, Sept 15, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405
3111904353504576566660315414844.html
(book review on Liao Yiwu, God Is Red; The secret story of how Christianity
survived and flourished in Communist China. Harpercollins Publishing, 2011)
Note:
(a) God Is Red 上帝是紅色的
(b) Massacre 大屠殺
(c) slacker (n):
"1: a person who shirks work or obligation; especially : one who evades
military service in time of war
2: a person and especially a young person who is perceived to be disaffected
, apathetic, cynical, or lacking ambition"
(d) caw (v, n; imitative): "to utter the harsh raucous natural call of the
crow or a similar cry"
(e) Wenguang HUANG, Coffin Keeper. The Paris Review, No 193, Summer 2010
http://www.theparisreview.org/letters-essays/6019/coffin-keeper
The Paris Review
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Review
(a literary quarterly founded in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen
and George Plimpton; Company The Paris Review Foundation; Based in New
York City; Language English)
(f) stream of consciousness
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_of_consciousness
I did not know this term, which is 意识流 in China.
(g) For gumshoe, see Even Morris, Sneaky Feet. Word Detective, Mar 22, 1999.
http://www.word-detective.com/030299.html
(h) WANG Zhiming 王 志明. Biographical Dictionary of CHINESE Christianity
华人基督教史人物辞典, undated.
http://www.bdcconline.net/zh-hans/stories/by-person/w/wang-zhim |
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