This China Digital Times post has been sitting open in my browser for several days now. If you’re stuck behind the GFW, it’s a question and answer Chinese artist and social commentator Ai Weiwei did with a private Chinese BBS forum, full of social questions and snappy answers. It’s worth a read, but one question [...]
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Tags: Ai Weiwei, Art, Literature, Lu Xun
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If we say that the essence of the Lu Xun spirit is skepticism, seeing things clearly, being critical, and taking a stand [against bad things], then [Lu Xun] is needed and relevant during any time period. The problem is, it seems as though teachers today don’t plan to present things that way.
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Tags: Education, Lu Xun
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