Comments on: A Quzhou Christmas

By: Evan

Evan — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 06:45:44 +0000

James, I wish we had taken you up and contacted you about Jingdezhen, because we found it to be kind of of a hell hole outside of a few specific areas around the University. Thanks for the praise as well.

Shuang, it has been our experience that almost nobody knows anything about their own 文化, especially in urban areas. A few people, those who take their education seriously, have been able to converse with us about literature or philosophy, but the majority of people either don’t know or don’t care. To be honest, I think most Americans don’t really know squat about our short but rich literary history, but I think that if there were a statue of Walt Whitman in a city square, the inhabitants might be able to tell me at least who he was.

By: foxhidden

foxhidden — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 02:09:52 +0000

Oh, Quzhou is my hometown, and I always live here.

By: Shuang

Shuang — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:50:43 +0000

I can’t help to response to an old post about Zhuangzi when you in Mengcheng even without finishing it. I’m totally astonished that so many people just don’t know who is Zhuangzi in your tiny scale survey. Although we don’t have a serious philosophy class in the fundamental and high school levels, at least we learned Zhuangzi and Laozi in Chinese literature class, including their main writings and theories. I knew them from the text book at first, and I was asked to recite like 北冥有鱼其名为鲲, though I can’t remember all in details now. Anyway, I am just totally astonished. It sounds to me like some people are lack of basic knowledge, something like a Christian don’t know who Moses is.

By: james

james — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:11:37 +0000

and another nice stocking stuffer of a post.

I didn’t think you were going into Jiangxi, but I guess this has been modified to make it so. I really dug Jingdezhen because it was such a contrast to the north where I’m familiar. I had a ball there, and if you need any information on it drop me a line.