still grading, almost done

肚子饿了。难以集中经历。输入分数要细心，不能出错啊。过一会儿到中国BUFFET去买烧卖。刚搬家到这里的时候经常光顾，这一两年很少去了。食品全都想工厂里制作的, あじもない。照料餐馆的人肯定是偷渡来的。生活在这样一个罕有中国人的环境里，也很不简单。

update:

总算输入完成了。是去买烧卖的时候了。外面阳光明亮刺眼，需要带墨镜。中国的空气清洁程度跟这里无法比拟，会有什么样的阳光呢？

一年来写博客的经历

我为什么会那么激愤? 现在的我跟那个时候真的是同一个人吗？

回国的准备3

在网上逐个POST学生的最终分数。一共四十五个学生这个班，INTRO CLASS。每个学生的名字能唤起他或她的面孔在脑海里浮现。整整一个学期的接触。刚刚开学的时候，冬天的时候，除了坐在第一排的学生，名字全都跟面孔对不上号。学期结束，大家要各奔东西了。

POST分数是在这个学校要做的最后一件事情了。然后就自由了。想到不再需要面对同样重复的しごと，まいにち，如释重负。千万不要等环境变得很有毒才准备离开。看准机会，该出手时就出手。到岸离船，不可拖泥带水。

回中国后，把这几年在美国教书的经历写下来，张贴在博客上。推想会有人看。国内那个网站的博客比较好？望同仁赐教。

两则关于中国污染状况的文章

调子是正面积极的。
Can China Go Green? from Business Week

Call for a green China: permanent improvement, with room for more, from David Dollar’s blog

回国的准备2

空旷的教学楼，打扫卫生的打扫。过去的几年里，我从那条岔道一样的楼道，匆忙走
向教师，携带着手提电脑，走向坐在那里的学生。

结束这一段生活，内心的感觉很复杂。有怀念，对那些如同隔世的经历。有解脱感，
这个环境里的生活不会吞没我的下半生。新的生活要开始了。新的可能会出现。

正在做回国的最后准备1

千头万绪不知从何下手。把这个过程纪录下来，没准儿有谁
用得上。

回国之前一定要做的是办理。

根据大使馆网站上的信息，程序是这样的：

Three Models of World History and Three Views on China: the Ideological, the Civilizational, and the Functional, Part I

1st Draft

Written by Bianxiangbianqiao, April 19, 2009

Foreword

Over the last year I have posted writings on various blog sites, mainly on my blog, but also on the Fool’s Mountain and the comment section in the blog of Richard Spencer, the Beijing correspondent for the Daily Telegraph. Most of those words were not worth revisiting. For the fraction that has contributed to my intellectual growth, I have been trying to build a structure to hold its pieces together. Two books have offered useful insights in this process, (1) the End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama (1992) and (2) Clashes of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington (1996).

北京每天的天色

ASIA SOCIETY的人每天站在窗前拍照。污染状况每天变化挺大的。

有没有别的城市同样的逐日写真记录？想得到不同城市见空气品质的VISUAL比较。

Collectivism and individualism determine what you see and hear in Lin Miaoke and Yang Peiyi, as well as the entire Olympics opening ceremony.

From Foolsmountain:

Chen Qigang (the music director of the opening ceremony): We have a responsibility to explain this to the Chinese viewers. I think the viewers should be able to understand that, in the national interest, for the perception of the country, it was an extremely important and serious matter to present the flag [in the best possible manner]. We made a decision, which I think was fair to both Lin and Yang. We felt the coupling of a perfect voice with the best appearance produced the most optimal result….

Mr. Chen’s Chinese mind naturally combines Miaoke’s best appearance and Peiyi’s perfect voice in a coherent picture, along with the marching in of the other 56 children in minority costumes representing China’s 56 ethnic groups, carrying the Chinese flag, the context of the National Stadium and its ninety thousand strong audience.

Thoughts on the Beijing Olympics III: Lipsynching, Collectivism and Individualism

If the Chinese had wanted to draw attention to themselves with the Olympics, they have got it. From the child singers and torch lighter in the opening ceremony, to the elegant girls’ gymnasts, to the useless soccer dudes, their representatives and collective images are scrutinized intensively in the West. What have they seen in the Chinese through the lens of the Olympics?