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(Article written by Li Yousheng for the Chinese Writers Association of Canada on September 12, 2012) My grandmother was born in 1882 and passed away in 1967. At that time, girls were not allowed to go to school in my hometown, a rural area in Hebei. Although boys only attended school for three or four years before they were able […]
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Li Yousheng It is said that the world’s affairs, after a long period of division, will unite; after a long period of unity, will divide again. At the end of the Zhou Dynasty, the seven states fought for supremacy, eventually being unified by Qin. After the fall of Qin, the Chu and Han states fought for control, eventually being unified […]
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Separated by Heaven and Earth, Yet Possessing a Spirit of Unparalleled Passion: Reminiscing in His Seventies (Global Chinese Press, November 9, 2018, B4, Canadian Chinese Literature Issue 242) by Li Yousheng While living in London, Ontario, I met a man from Portugal, about my age. He told me that as a child he was obsessed with a mud toy that […]
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Local farmers grew cotton, and every household owned an old-fashioned spinning wheel (see Figure 1). Women spun thread, which was then woven into cloth. Farmers typically dyed the cloth black and blue in their own cooking pots before making clothes. Women also dyed the thread in various colors and used it for embroidery on women’s shoes and children’s clothes and […]
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In his poem “Watching the Wheat Harvest,” Bai Juyi wrote: “Farmers have few idle months; May is doubly busy. Last night, the south wind rose, and the wheat fields turned golden. Women and mothers-in-law carried baskets of food, and children carried jugs of water. They went together to the fields to deliver food, where the strong men were on the […]
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(Li Yousheng, November 2017) Taoism advocates taking animals, children, and even infants as role models to pursue the realm of the true person. If today’s world represents civilized humanity transforming its innate playful traditions into real life, then six thousand years of civilization has been a game played out in earnest. Although we can see traces of playfulness in people’s […]
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(Li Yousheng, November 2017) Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) once asked his patients to recall their early lives, that is, a person’s earliest memories. He found that they had great difficulty recalling experiences before the age of six to eight, a phenomenon he called childhood amnesia. This means that as adults, people forget memories they once possessed in their early years. It […]
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Li Yousheng (November 2017) Reflecting on my ordinary yet tumultuous life in my seventies, I realize that my emergence into the groundbreaking sociological theory of a two-tiered society during a period of despair in my later years was not accidental, but rather deeply intertwined with my life experiences. My earliest memory is a description of my father reading *Dream of […]
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Li Yousheng Author’s Note: This is part of my book “Looking at Confucius from a Different Angle,” published in China in 2014. Not a single word is fictional; it is all fact. My father participated in underground anti-Japanese work in the Hebei Plain. Faced with a powerful enemy, anyone could defect or desert at any time. Anti-Japanese personnel could only […]
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Li Yousheng Author’s Note: Scholars often say that communism and Christianity share similar doctrines. The European religious revolutions gave rise to the two major sects of Christianity and Catholicism, paving the way for the later capitalist modernization of the secular world; all three coexist to this day. China’s Cultural Revolution was a revolution against Soviet fundamentalist communism, paving the way […]
In his later years, Li Yousheng studied Taoist philosophy and proposed the concepts of a genetically encoded primordial society and an artificial secondary society.
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