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Is China a Collectivist Society or an Atomized One?
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 …
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Romantic Love and Freedom
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 …
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On Loneliness
Loneliness is the destiny of human beings, an unavoidable and fated part of life. Since the 19th century, many philosophers, writers, and psychologists have expressed this attitude from different perspectives, such as Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Thomas Wolfe, Jean-Paul Sartre, Hannah Arendt, …
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Correspondence Between China and the World’s Mainstream Social Media: From Both Respectives
From the World’s Perspective: WorldChinaNotesFacebookNoAfter Renren’s demise, China no longer has an open, real-name, all-in-one social platformInstagramNoX/TwitterWeibo（微博）Weibo’s content is semi-closed loop, while X/Twitter is openMessenger/WhatsApp/TelegramWeChat (only chatting part)…
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TikTok is Bad, but REDNote is Even Worse
In response to a possible upcoming on TikTok in the USA, many young Americans are now flocking to REDNote. The saying goes that between two evils, people should choose the lesser one, but now they seem to be choosing the …
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The Dysfunctional Communication Between Academia and Public
The American public has a long history of distrusting universities, but the congressional hearings at Harvard, MIT, and Penn State have unfortunately taken that distrust to new heights. The three presidents were criticized for their overly lawyerly and nerdy responses. …
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Learning to Smile
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The Philosophy of World History: The Modern Age — A Hegelian Sequel
If Hegel lived today, how would he tell the story of world history in the last two hundred years? How do we use the basic principles of his philosophy of world history to write modern history? Here is my initial …
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How to Understand Intel CPU’s “Turbo Boost Power Time Window”?
This is the official description of the setting item, “Turbo Boost Power Time Window,” from XTU (Intel® Extreme Tuning Utility): The Time window over which the average CPU core power must be below the Turbo Boost Power Max.(PL1 Time)…