Archive for March, 2009

Blog Love

Saturday, March 14th, 2009

This episode of blog love is dedicated the Fingarette Reading Group. You’ll find a post here by Sam at Useless Tree on Fingarette’s famous example of the “ritual handshake”. If you go here, you’ll find Peony’s (at Tang Dynasty Times ) first post on Fingarette, called “Talking to Fingarette.” If you go here, you’ll find the second Peony post on Fingarette, on “yu”. Hopefully soon enough we’ll see some posts from our other group members (at Manyul Im’s, Alexus McLeod’s and Alan Baumler’s blogs). If/As soon as those posts come up, I’ll link to them here.

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Fingarette I: Confucius Hates Choice

Saturday, March 7th, 2009

The way I see it, it doesn’t matter whether I agree with everything Herb Fingarette says because this is one interesting little book! It’s bold, provocative, it’s thought provoking, and it’s written well. That said, I want to turn in this post to his second chapter, on “choosing” (I’ve blogged on this before, so this is an extension of that older discussion). It’s a complicated subject, so my post is broken up into a bunch of parts. You’ll have to excuse the length, and I’m afraid it meanders a bit. I’m settling into living in Beijing and it’s been difficult as of yet to find large blocks of time to think and write in an organized manner. So the post below was put together in bits and pieces, and the thinking no doubt reflects that.

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