Persisting in being wrong.
A reader commented: older people with a strong sense of hierarchy will keep insisting on their mistakes to save face. If someone is stubborn and unwilling to learn, the wealth they…
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Notes over timeFor a long time, I did not understand why China’s national firewall only blocked my blog after I went into exile in the Netherlands.
I probably do not count as an anti-communist in the traditional sense. What I oppose is any dictatorship, including the Chinese Communist Party. I am not someone who ignores right …
Some things still need to be written down.
To be honest, I dislike people showing off their good deeds online every day. But if you do not record them, nobody remembers them later, and when you really need proof, you have n…
Why I no longer use traditional Chinese characters (“orthodox Chinese”).
I used to write in traditional Chinese characters as a matter of habit. You can see that in my blog posts going back to 2012. I am not lying: you can check the history in the Inter…
Bye-bye, WordPress.
I probably first heard of WordPress when I was 13 or 14. I first started using it around 16 or 17, when I bought two domain names, ganwen.cn and ganwen.com.cn, and set up a blog. A…