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  • Capitalism Is the Best Era for Romantic Love — and Where Erich Fromm’s The Art of Loving Goes Wrong

    Capitalism Is the Best Era for Romantic Love — and Where Erich Fromm’s The Art of Loving Goes Wrong
    10/04/2025
    Cultural Critics

    For people on the Left, nothing seems easier than sitting in one’s study, nightcap on, brooding over the defects of capitalism and posting lofty takes on social media. I could do that too, but playing the cynic isn’t really my style. The dramatic collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe—and China and…

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  • Lacan in the Matchmaking Ad: Postmodernism and Feminism Through the Lens of Costly Signaling Theory

    Lacan in the Matchmaking Ad: Postmodernism and Feminism Through the Lens of Costly Signaling Theory
    09/29/2025
    Cultural Critics

    One day, I happened to see a WeChat Offical account post a matchmaking ad for a young woman. For various reasons of relevance, I clicked in with interest. Three things caught my eye: first, she required the man to provide a marital home in Shanghai; second, she refused premarital sex. Let’s pause there for a…

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  • On the Shanghai Marriage Market

    On the Shanghai Marriage Market
    09/20/2025
    Cultural Critics

    What many Chinese people may not know is that the Shanghai Marriage Market is internationally famous, and it’s a spot many foreign travelers to Shanghai make a point of visiting. It has a detailed English Wikipedia entry, yet not even a Chinese one. Several English-language travel sites have written how-to guides for visiting it. There…

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  • Eating While Looking at Your Phone

    Eating While Looking at Your Phone
    09/13/2025
    Cultural Critics, Technology

    One afternoon, I was installing a custom Rom on my phone. Even though it was a 2024 model, it still only had USB 2.0, so data transfer was painfully slow—and I had a lot to back up and restore. Dinner time rolled around and the job still wasn’t done, but I had to eat, so…

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  • Falling in Love as a Transformative Experience

    Falling in Love as a Transformative Experience
    09/05/2025
    Philosophy, Psychology

    Why do we describe the act of loving someone as “falling in love”? It is not entirely clear who first used this expression, but it is said to have originated around the early modern period, around 1500, and some people connect it to Shakespeare. Fall in love has long become a commonplace expression in English,…

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  • The Substantial Foundation of Work-Life Balance: High-Quality Private Time

    The Substantial Foundation of Work-Life Balance: High-Quality Private Time
    09/03/2025
    Cultural Critics

    The phenomenon of extremely long working hours—more than 40 hours per week—exists in both the United States and China. Yet in the U.S., it is mostly confined to a few “bloodsucking” industries, while in China, it permeates nearly every sector of the workforce. One could say that the U.S. lacks a widespread overtime culture, but…

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  • How to Escape the Age of Mediocrity: Founding an Entirely New System of Education, Art, and Science Institutions

    How to Escape the Age of Mediocrity: Founding an Entirely New System of Education, Art, and Science Institutions
    08/11/2025
    Cultural Critics

    A “genius” is someone with extraordinarily high creativity. Today, we cannot say there are no geniuses, but they are exceedingly rare. For example, the greatest living philosophers today might be Habermas, Žižek, and Agamben—but compared with Kant, Fichte, and Hegel, who lived in roughly the same historical period, the difference is like night and day.…

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  • The Rise of Artificial Intelligence and the Great Stagnation of the Human Spirit: How AI Will Destroy Creativity and Genius

    The Rise of Artificial Intelligence and the Great Stagnation of the Human Spirit: How AI Will Destroy Creativity and Genius
    05/29/2025
    Philosophy

    Today, major tech companies around the world are engaged in an arms race over AI products, releasing new iterations of their generative AI tools every few months. A few months ago, China’s Deepseek caused a brief panic in Silicon Valley and Washington by achieving performance close to ChatGPT at a significantly lower cost—this only intensified…

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  • Is China a Collectivist Society or an Atomized One?

    Is China a Collectivist Society or an Atomized One?
    04/11/2025
    Cultural Critics

    Is China a collectivist society or an atomized one? As I was reading through various academic papers, I noticed some scholars still describe China as a collectivist society, while others have already picked up on its growing atomization. On online forums and insightful blogs, it’s rare to find anyone still clinging to the label of…

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  • Romantic Love and Freedom

    Romantic Love and Freedom
    02/01/2025
    Philosophy

    There is a rather superficial view that romantic love and freedom are contradictory. Some people even recite Petőfi’s widely known verses: “Life is dear, love is dearer. Both can be given up for freedom.” I used to think this was just a joke, especially when people used it to explain why they were still single.…

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