Spring cleaning papers dump

15 Nov 2022 papers stream-of-consciousness

The survey would be disseminated throughout online groups such as Reddit & Discord, with certain targeted groups such as r/transprogrammer.

obviously a biased survey. try some random chinese or ex-soviet university; if your choice is between staying up all night because of hunger and staying up all night while slinging code for some capitalist pigdog as a side hustle, gender stereotypes do not even come into the equation.

The Inheritance and Spreading of Confucianism in Modern China and South Korea

written by two members of the School of International Studies, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

The findings are
(1) compared with China where several radical movements in modern times started from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement have dealt a serious blow to the status of Confucianism, Korean witnessed a rather moderate process of Confucianism development.
(2) Korea lays great emphasis on moral education of Confucianism, while academic achievement seems to be prioritized in China’s teaching activities.
(3) Korea takes full advantage of mass media to popularize Confucianism, the degree of which hasn’t been realized in China. These practices in Korea shed light on China to better improve the culture soft power embodied in Confucianism in modernization.

both china and korea must be grappling with the push and pull between a flat organization structure and hierarchy.

china had barely expanded out of the plains during the late 春秋時代, which if you eyeball it looks comparable to goguryeo at its max

this is obviously not a fair comparison as the heyday of confucianism would have been later during the joseon dynasty, but something like a revolt on the scale of the taiping heavenly rebellion, as the authors pointed out, would have been unthinkable.

c.f. the muslim-initiated dungan revolt, although i would argue the Hui in general are extremely sinicized (despite maintaing a unique identity, not unlike speakers of Judaeo-*)

...Instead it indicates that the rebels wished to exact revenge on personal enemies for injustices...

autocracy tends to work best (or, rather, have less chances of going wrong / more resistant to opposing ideologies) in small areas, e.g. city-states (e.g. singapore, and using a more stark example, the UAE)

滇文化と鶏

MtF の揺らぎを経験した人達についての文化人類学的研究―仙台市国分町とインドネシア・スラウェシ南部の事例を中心として―

Subjective and Penile Plethysmography Responses to Aversion Therapy for Homosexuality: A Partial Replication

Model minorities are always interesting. A Sudeten German invented the penile plethysmograph.

柳宗悦の展示創作活動に関する研究

A Large Scale Study of License Usage on GitHub

can't remember exactly what the conclusion was, but i was debating license usage with someone who wanted to license his work CC0 because he saw the GPL as being restrictive precisely because it was copyleft; and i was of the opinion that freedom to let others take away your freedom isn't exactly freedom if anyone can just take your work and use it without contributing back especially if they have more resources than you (e.g. allwinner, xiaomi)

The ISO/IEC 9899 C17 and C18 standard costs 198 CHF, or USD 250 from the ANSI store. The reason, or so I've heard, is because they formulaically charge by printed page.

TWENTY CASES SUGGESTIVE OF REINCARNATION, by IAN STEVENSON. Richmond: The William Byrd Press, Inc. I966.

The 2019 漢文 Suneung paper

Q1 is a very rambly conversation between a teacher and student about a 部부分분月월蝕식 from which we are supposed to infer the title of the painting, 月下情人.

Q2 asks the definition of 白眉, the backstory of which comes from 三國志

Q3 indirectly describes a character that sounds similar to 走, has the same stroke count as 昇, looks a particular way in 甲骨文, and forms a compound with 知: 周；周知；衆所周知

Q6 gives a long passage which i google translated because i cannot into korean, and it seems to be something about 士사大대夫부 not doing as they say, hence 表裏不同.

Q9 is "one of these characters in the 4char idiom is wrong", given the phonetic hint, pick the correct character

Q10 is a rearrange the characters to fit the sentence exercise; i assume it makes sense to do this way because it tests your inference abilities (not unlike the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Language_Aptitude_Test) as opposed to blind memorization of the passage.

a 君子nobleman, 貴values人people而yet賤degrades him己self,

rearrange these characters to complete the sentence: 己先而後人 -> 先prioritizes人people而yet後diminishes him己self, if you recognize that 貴, 先, and 後 are being used as verbs here.

Q12 is a "pick the 4char idiom out of this set of characters"

Q18 is another long passage about building 兵병船선 to 防방禦어 against the 倭왜敵적 (lol), and the required 材재木목 having to be pine, which takes 數수百백 of years to grow, and confucius steps in and says something about "what if i didn't enact a decree forbidding setting fire to the mountain and caring for the trees", thus 人無遠慮, 必有近憂