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Li Yousheng Author’s Note: Although I have loved literature and history since childhood, I wouldn’t say I have a particular fondness for classical Chinese poetry. In recent years, while sorting through old belongings, I discovered several classical poems written between 1967 and 1971, preserved word for word. I’m sharing them with readers for their appreciation, as they also have sociological […]
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Translated by Li Yousheng; written by Canadian author Michael Ondaatje (1943-). Title page 1 Joy will bow down to sorrow and grief. After you depart for the underworld, I will let your hair grow long, and you will wear the skin of a lion, wandering the wilderness. —The Epic of Gilgamesh Never again will a single story be told as […]
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Li Yousheng I recently read a lecture transcript by Tsinghua University professor Qin Hui online. He said that after the Cultural Revolution rebels went abroad, they became democrats who promoted the democratization of mainland China. He also said, “In my personal opinion, the most important fact of the Cultural Revolution is that the ruling faction persecuted the people far more […]
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Li Yousheng (Community Newspaper, Issue 39, July 2016) In the early 1980s, when I was pursuing my doctoral degree at Cambridge University in England, I wanted to write Qu Yuan’s poem “The road ahead is long and winding, I will search high and low” on the title page of my dissertation. When I went to the library to look for […]
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Li Yousheng (2017) China’s Cultural Revolution was part of a broader global movement at the time. In the United States, there were Black and women’s liberation movements, student movements, and the world-renowned French student movement. When I traveled to Tehran, the capital of Iran, in 1979 while studying abroad, I saw portraits of Chairman Mao and slogans proclaiming “Long Live […]
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I. Ah Q did not die 1. Ah Q did not die. Ah Q did not die, and became the first person in history, both ancient and modern, to truly see a ghost, and indulged in the fantasy of being an emperor: first, he sat on the throne of Qin Shi Huang, and then, as Emperor Wu Cheng, he experienced […]
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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