程师兄又在批判啦，这回是针对不爱读书的中华民族！：“相对世界其他民族而言，中华民族可能是世界上最不喜欢读书的民族之一。如果不是隋朝以后延续一千多年的科举考试和如今的高考和就业与职务晋升的要求，这种学而优则仕的利诱，中国恐怕没有多少人乐意去读书，更遑论终生学习”。
Month: June 2012
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Know before You Go
Noa just came back from Israel and preparing for her trip to Beijing. Prof. Swatek is also thinking to get connected in person with some Kunju performers. A few more folks are planning and want to meet before they book the flight. Although I am well connected, I have some disappointment on every trip. Shocking news from H-Net: ALL of the Republican era archival materials have been withdrawn from public access for “scanning”. I had trouble last fall in Beijing and couldn’t get anything from the archives there. We really need to know before we go.
This book keeps me up today–The Vancouver stories: west coast fiction from Canada’s best writers. I love Vancouver more now and feel different when I just saw the “Lions of Vancouver”. I am sure the stories will come back to me next time when I stroll in Stanley, West End or Chinatown. As Stephen said at our Rose Garden, this is a town “full of 灵气”。But, back to the Conference time, I couldn’t feel any aura surroundings.
The kids are making some new Philipino friends when they start Hip pop dancing. Maria said that her son will keep attending the Portuguese school this summer. Last party we attended in Jan’s house was just like the town we live in. Megan was speaking French for most of the night with A.P. and his mother. Several CBC friends and their mixed kids told us their interest in learning Chinese as a foreign language, and the food was from all over the world…
It was hard to turn down the invitation from China, but maybe it’s time to put other countries on my agenda, since I am already well connected.