万物·生命

• 俗女老王

  2014-01-28
  Beijingers dispose their bodies as citizens wherever bodily comforts, social gratification, and cultural enjoyments can be cultivated. Thousands of particular lives humanize the streets, each a minor oeuvre, every one responding to conditions that are "never sufficient to explain what was born of them, in them."
• 俗女老王

  2014-01-28
  Duanfang Lu......She argues that "the debris that has been smashed by the previous storm is more than just a residue, it holds the potential to bring about another storm."
• 俗女老王

  2014-01-26
  But we wish to argue that the yangsheng we investigate in this study is nevertheless a living tradition, even if (as some would say) it has been brought back to true liveliness quite recently.
• 俗女老王

  2014-01-26
  But within this sensible instrumental reasoning lies a historically nuanced formation of the passions.Utilizing all manner of socialist apparatuses of power, the Maoist state determined what proper life would be-collective, productive, egalitarian, and so on--while openly and violently expelling bare life from its polity.
• 俗女老王

  2014-01-26
  Most important for the topic of yangsheng is the withdrawal of the state from the provision of health care. In the 1980s, a great deal of national government support was withdrawn from hospitals, medical schools, and clinics, and there was a rapid shift to fee-for-service models of payment.....Health insurance is too expensive for many, the premiums and copy amounts are too high, and the costs of medical care are rising fast. ......Where their health is concerned, most people realize that they are on their own.
• 俗女老王

  2014-01-24
  It has made acquaintance with the daily lives and values of the postrevolutionary generation that most enthusiastically embraces life nurturance.
• 俗女老王

  2014-01-24
  Thinking now about "belief," though, maybe we also need to say that yangsheng is a form of attachment--not just to Chinese culture, but to the living of life,not just a mental or bodily commitment, but a total participation. No wonder everyone walking, dancing, and singing in the parks, "chatting of heaven, speaking of earth," gathering and harmonizing their lives, talks about enjoyment!
• 俗女老王

  2014-01-24
  I do think that one goal of yangsheng is to move quietly beyond the "moderate well-being"promised by reform-era modernism.