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Tocqueville and the Fall of the Revolution
For most Chinese, the name Tocqueville was probably quite unfamiliar before Wang Qishan recommended “The Old Regime and the Great Revolution” at the end of 2012. However, many young people may not feel this way. As early as middle school, they had known this Frenchman in ideological and political textbooks. There Tocqueville is introduced as a critic of “individualism.” But he is best known for his research on the French Revolution and democracy. Charles Alexis de Tocqueville was born into an aristocratic family near Paris. That was 1805, 16 years after the outbreak of the Revolution. At that time, France was already under the reign of Emperor Napoleon. But this…
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“Serpent” in the Bible
In the “Bible”, there are many records and types of “snake”. In the Chinese version of the “Bible”, there are more records of “snake” and “虺” (in ancient Chinese books, it is called a poisonous snake such as viper, or it is generally called a small snake, or refers to lizard animals, etc.) or “venomous snake”. The category is not clear enough. In the English version of the “Bible”, there are Snake (for snakes, reptiles), Serpent (for big snakes, poisonous snakes), Adder (for wide snakes), Asp (for Asp snakes), Viper (for vipers), etc. . Among them, Snake and Serpent have more records and richer content. This article compares the English…
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“Martyr of Liberty” – Elijah Lovejoy
In 1837, the famous American anti-slavery publisher Elijah Lovejoy was shot and killed by mobs while defending his printing factory. This incident has important significance in the later history of freedom of speech and press in the United States. In 1964, Illinois State Senator Paul Simon wrote a biography of Lovejoy, calling him “the martyr of freedom”. In 1994, Simon, who had been promoted to a federal senator, renamed “Martyrs of Freedom” as “Fighters of Freedom” and published it again. It became one of the best-selling books at that time. Since then, Lovejoy, who fought for citizens’ freedom of the press, has been hailed as a hero, occupying the same…
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80 years ago, the Battle of Heavy Water destroyed the Nazi atomic bomb dream
In August 1945, the U.S. dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan then announced its unconditional surrender, and World War II came to an end. Looking at the mushroom cloud that rose with the atomic bomb, the top allied forces did not know whether they had ever felt afraid—fortunately, the Nazis did not develop this weapon that could end the war first. Historically, the Allies and the Nazis fought fiercely over the manufacture of the atomic bomb. From October 1942 to February 1944, the Allied forces launched three successive rounds of offensives, which ended with the Allied forces sinking the Nazi heavy water transport ship. This series of…
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Bruno Latour
On October 8, 2022, Bruno Latour, a famous contemporary French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist, died at the age of 75. Latour was born in Beaune, France in 1947. Philosophy was Latour’s original academic interest. Later, when Latour served in the military in Africa, he became interested in anthropology and began to envision an anthropologist-style fieldwork and ethnographic research. In the 1970s, with the book “Life in the Laboratory” co-authored by others, Latour started his creative and controversial academic journey. In the 1980s, Latour joined the Sociology and Innovation Center of the Ecole des Mines de Paris, France, and became the backbone of the “Paris School” in the sociology of scientific…
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The “magician” overwhelmed by rumors
He was born the son of serfs, but died as Pope; he studied hard and determined to spread the knowledge of another world to the Christian world, but he was called “magician” because of it; The Church of Aurillac, but has been haunted by all kinds of strange theories during his lifetime and after his death——Sylvester II, Gerbert of Aurillac, the first pope born in France, because His extraordinary life has become an immortal legend. Gilbert was born in 945 in Aurillac, in what is now the Saint-Simon region of France, where his statue stands today as the glory of his hometown. Around 963, Gilbert was lucky enough to enter…
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What is the official residence system
What exactly is the “official residence system”? The “official residence system” is a housing system for officials, which has been widely adopted in western countries and has been implemented for many years. The official residence is the residence provided by the state for officials of a certain level during their term of office, and the officials themselves have no property rights. Such as the White House in the United States, the Elysee Palace in France, No. 10 Downing Street in the United Kingdom, and the Kremlin in Russia are all typical official residences. Corresponding to the official residence is naturally the private residence. Of course, official residences are different from…
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Suzuki Ryomi decides to swing in chaos
The first time I saw Suzuki Ryomi’s name was after the announcement of the Akutagawa Prize in Japan in 2022. Many articles on public accounts described her like a hero: she is beautiful enough to see through the cuteness and stupidity of men, and to be precise Ruthless sarcasm; she is rebellious and provocative, she has a good background but ran to shoot AV, became a public relations lady, went to the moral boundary and then retreated; she is smart, an excellent political and economic reporter for major Japanese newspapers, and a sociologist who studied with a university student A researcher, a newcomer novelist whose debut work was shortlisted for…
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Marriage Economics
Mr. Hua is married again. It is said that this is his fourth marriage, and the bride is twenty years younger than him. Marriage is a matter of mutual consent between an adult man and a woman, and there is no need to explain it to outsiders. Although I have known him for many years, I don’t know much about the number of marriages of Mr. Hua. More than ten years ago, I sat next to him when I participated in a novel seminar. I heard that he had just arrived in Hainan, was divorced, and had a child alone. Because he did not have a local hukou, he had…
