Archive for the ‘Culture’ Category
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“Ai Weiwei ‘Literally’ Smashes China’s Traditions in Art and Architecture” – Really?!
Ai Weiwei, a contemporary Chinese artist, was widely reported to “literally” destroy China’s tradition in art in his 1995 act of dropping a Han Dynasty (206 BCE – 220 CE) urn and breaking it.An article calls this performance “an iconoclastic act”. Ai was quoted as saying that this gesture is “powerful only because someone thinks ...
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“Zooming In” and “Zooming Out”: random thoughts on think patterns in Chinese and in English
I could compare the two ways in which we think in Chinese and in English as “zooming in” and “zooming out” respectively. By these I mean the Chinese, myself as an example, are used to thinking in general terms, choosing a broad context to start our writing; whereas thinking in English resembles more closely a ...