Posted in Prints and Visual Communication, Syntax, William M. Ivins Jr. on August 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
William M. Ivins, Jr., Prints and Visual Communication (New York: Da Capo Press, 1969), 53, 59, 63.
(Excerpted passages. Subtitles are my own.)
The Net
The only way that anyone can gain acquaintance which objects, as distinguished from knowledge of them, is through immediate sense awareness of them. It is thus necessary to keep clear the distinction between [...]
Posted in Northern Song, Stephen West, 《東京夢華錄》, 和諧社會, 太和宮, 奚如谷, 孟元老, 汴京, 道君皇帝, 金明池 on August 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
駕回儀衛
駕回﹐則御裹小帽簪花乘馬﹐前後從駕 ﹑臣寮﹑百司﹑儀衛悉賜花。大觀初﹐乘驄馬。至太和宮前﹐忽宣小烏﹐其馬至御前﹐拒而不進﹐左右曰﹕“此願封官。”敕賜龍驤將軍﹐然後就轡。蓋小烏平日御愛之馬也。莫非錦繡盈都﹐花光滿目﹐御香拂路﹐廣樂喧空﹐寶騎交馳﹐綵棚夾路﹐綺羅珠翠﹐戶戶神仙﹐畫閣紅樓﹐家家洞 府﹐遊人士庶﹐車馬無數。妓女舊日乘驢﹐宣政間惟乘馬﹐披涼衫將蓋頭背繫冠子上。少年狎客﹐往往隨後。亦跨馬﹐輕衫小帽﹐有三五文身惡少年控馬﹐謂之﹐“花褪馬。”用短韁促馬頭﹐刺地而行﹐謂之﹐“鞅韁。”呵喝馳驟﹐競逞峻逸。遊人往往以竹竿挑掛終日關撲所得之物而歸。仍有貴家士女小轎﹐插花不垂簾縸。自三月一日至四月八日閉池﹐雖風雨亦有遊人﹐略無虛日矣。
根據孟元老《東京夢華錄》的記載﹐北宋末年的汴京是一個和諧社會。皇家的金明池定期向百姓開放﹐從道君皇帝到市民妓女小流氓﹐各得其樂﹐同一個大宋﹐同一個夢想。
以前上 Stephen West （奚如谷）教授的課的時候﹐念過這一段﹐覺得太酷了﹐所以記憶猶新。
下面是 Stephen West 教授的翻譯, quoted from his paper, “Spectacle, Ritual, and Social Relations: The Son of Heaven, Citizen, and Created Space in Imperial Gardens in the Northern Song.”
“Ceremonial Guard of the Return of the Auriga”
When the Auriga returns, his head is wrapped in a [...]
Posted in Benjamin I. Schwartz, Enlightenment, Hegel, Industrialization, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Marx, Saint-Simon, Satan, ethical drama, historicization, 让•雅各•卢梭 on August 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
[卢梭（1717-1778）的油画像，寻自 Wikipedia。]
Benjamin I. Schwartz, “The Rousseau Strain in the Contemporary World” (1978) in China and Other Matters (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996), 217-218, 220-221.
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With the strong emergence of the notion of an impersonal, progressive history after the French Revolution, one witness the transformation of both the Rousseau strain and the engineering strain in modern [...]
Posted in Arabia, Coffee, Wolfgang Schivelbusch, chicory, 咖啡 on August 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants (New York: Pantheon Books, 1992), 72-73, 76.
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The German relationship to coffee was an index of Germany’s relationship to the advanced nations of the West. Coffee, in fact, would never have attained the eminent position it did in German middle-class life had [...]
Posted in Arabia, Coffee, Wolfgang Schivelbusch, chicory, 咖啡 on August 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants (New York: Pantheon Books, 1992), 72-73, 76.
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The German relationship to coffee was an index of Germany’s relationship to the advanced nations of the West. Coffee, in fact, would never have attained the eminent position it did in German middle-class life had [...]
Posted in Arabia, Coffee, Wolfgang Schivelbusch, chicory, 咖啡 on August 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants (New York: Pantheon Books, 1992), 72-73, 76.
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The German relationship to coffee was an index of Germany’s relationship to the advanced nations of the West. Coffee, in fact, would never have attained the eminent position it did in German middle-class life had [...]
Posted in Arabia, Coffee, Wolfgang Schivelbusch, chicory, 咖啡 on August 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants (New York: Pantheon Books, 1992), 72-73, 76.
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The German relationship to coffee was an index of Germany’s relationship to the advanced nations of the West. Coffee, in fact, would never have attained the eminent position it did in German middle-class life had [...]
Posted in Descartes, Epistemology, Jean Piaget, psychology on August 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Jean Piaget, Psychology and Epistemology: Towards a Theory of Knowledge (London: Penguin Books, 1972), 65.
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Clearly there is none which would unite all thinkers: the concept of knowledge as a whole is still (and perhaps always will be) a matter of provisional synthesis, a synthesis which is in part subjective because it is in fact [...]
Posted in Feng Zikai (1898-1975), 丰子恺, 漫画 on August 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
还是摘自：金梁（1878-1962），《光宣小记》。
内廷供奉
内廷演剧向有升平署承直，咸丰 后始常传外伶，太后幸园驻苑时传召尤频，荣其称曰“内廷供奉”。时由那中堂桐、诚内卿璋为戏提调，内监、外伶每多龃龉，周旋两者之间，余曾目睹屈膝调停， 欣欣然，殊不自以为愧。那常笑对人曰：“今日又坐蜡矣。”众皆戏称为“坐蜡中堂”，甲乙争端，闻此辄一笑而解。
