The Intellectual History within the Cheongsam

Author: Wang Yuqing
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Publish Date: 2003-03-01
Features: Having ideas but not expressing them; nurturing a fleeting insight that always stays trapped within oneself can be so frustrating. Even if there are plenty of "silence" or "gold," what good are they when one feels stifled? When I'm really suffocated, I sometimes go to Peking University to vent my "ramblings" to a few young scholars teaching there. Gratefully, they found my "ramblings" quite interesting and encouraged me to write them down. And so, as you see, there you have this collection. The contents include: The History of Thought in the Cheongsam, Distance, Sensuality, The Sandwich, Life, The Age of Sensory Experience, Hoping for a Toilet, Why Not "Fragrant" Anymore?, Eastern and Western on an Envelope, Eastern and Western in Address, What Happens When Snow Melts?, "Does It Look Like?" vs. "Is It Good?", French People, Japanese People, Korean People.