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Thoughts after reading Li Youzheng’s “Recollections and Facts”

Li Yousheng (Completed in March 2017) (one) The back of Li Youzheng’s book “Remembering the Past and Narrating the Reality” states: “Through Li Youzheng’s unique experience, we see a microcosm of the painful struggle of Chinese intellectuals against Western culture in the more than one hundred years since the introduction of Western learning to the East, and at the same […]

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Human Beings: A Comparison of Li Youzheng’s Early Life and My Personal Experiences

Li Yousheng (March 2017) I received a copy of “Recollections and Facts” from Li Youzheng (1936-) in 2012. After reading it, I was deeply impressed by his unique life experiences, his objective and realistic spirit that blended Chinese and Western perspectives, and the profound insight of a scholar in his later years. I initially planned to write a review, but […]

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Earliest memory

Li Yousheng (March 2017) Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) once asked his patients to recall their early life experiences, that is, a person’s earliest memories. He found that they had great difficulty recalling their 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 […]

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Li Zehou’s Philosophical Thought from the Perspective of Two-Tier Society Theory

Li Yousheng (2014/09/21) Around February 28, 2013, I read several online articles about Li Zehou’s philosophical thought and also consulted relevant online literature. This article is based on my notes at that time and has been slightly expanded. Li Zehou is one of the most influential thinkers in China after the reform and opening up. He synthesized the ideas of […]

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Thoughts on the Three Poems on Pitying the Peasants

Li Yousheng (April 2017) I. Even in his seventies, he can still recite the three poems about sympathy for the peasants that he read in his childhood. Around 1955, I learned the three poems titled “Sympathy for the Peasants” in my elementary school Chinese class, taught by teacher Zhao Xiuzhong. I haven’t encountered them since. Today, reading Mr. Li Youzheng’s […]

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Read: Chen Guang: Deciphering 60,000 Peking University Archives: Who are the people who get into China’s top universities?

(Chen Guang’s original article can be found at: http://www.aisixiang.com/data/106309.html) After reading the article, Li Yousheng wrote: “I entered the prestigious Peking Union Medical College in 1963 and studied in the Department of Biology at Peking University until 1967. I came from an ordinary rural family in Hebei, so my research aligns with Professor Li Zhongqing’s findings. However, I must point […]

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A Comparison Between Cultural Revolution Educated Youth and Christian Missionaries: Reflections on Qin Hui’s Article “We and the Missionaries of That Time”

Li Yousheng (September 2017) Abstract: In his article, Qin Hui mentions that during the Cultural Revolution, educated youth sent to the countryside and Western missionaries arrived in the same remote rural areas. In fact, the European religious revolutions rebelled against the Roman Catholic Church, paving the way for the later development of modern capitalism; the Chinese Cultural Revolution rebelled against […]

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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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