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Ideas Worth Saring


30 Ways of Living
Opening What is the greatest confusion of our time? It’s that we respect everything, we want to achieve everything — yet amid all this...
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9 min read


Let Us Be Strange and Upright:
Hello everyone. My name is Shen Xincheng , from Shanghai Jiao Tong University . I’m a young writer, a small Bilibili creator — but above...
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13 min read


Finding One’s Place in the World
Hello everyone, my name is Ruan Yunting . I’m a cartoonist, and also a teacher at the China Academy of Art . I’ve been teaching there for...
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10 min read


Crossing the Distance, Connecting with People
Hello everyone, my name is Ale , I’m from Italy, and I’m a writer. The three names you see on the screen are all me. Ale is my nickname....
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9 min read


Small-Town Test-Takers: The Cost of Mobility
Xie Ailei Hello everyone. My name is Xie Ailei, from the School of Educational Science at South China Normal University. My research...
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9 min read


Real Growth
Zhang Lin, documentary filmmaker Hello everyone, my name is Zhang Lin. I am a documentary director. My work Real Growth was released...
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18 min read


Adolescence: The Wandering Years
My name is Du Sujuan . I am a professor at East China University of Political Science and Law, and also the creator of the Bilibili...
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10 min read


Ideal
Hello everyone, my name is Du Sujuan , and I teach literature at East China University of Political Science and Law. To be honest, my...
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11 min read


The Unity and Plurality of Values
Today I want to talk about values and norms — in other words, about the relationship between the one and the many . I’d like to begin...
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7 min read


Seeing the world, Seeing Myself
Story of Qin Xiaoyue Hello everyone, my name is Qin Xiaoyue, and I’m a documentary filmmaker. But for a long time, I didn’t feel much...
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15 min read


To See Oneself with Curiosity
Tianshu Pan He told me that he wanted to share, on that platform, the story of how he came to study anthropology and eventually make a...
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10 min read


Unmasking Life
I remember the moment he stood on stage and said he felt nervous. He said it very directly, that standing there under the lights while...
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16 min read


The Adventure of Life
When he began, he said he was very glad to be there, and that he would give this talk in English. If he were introducing his website, he...
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9 min read


Seeing Education Through Freedom
I remember him introducing himself simply as a middle-school Chinese teacher—the kind of weary, plain-faced man students meet every day...
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12 min read


The Disqualified Ones — A Life Missed, A Mind Unlearned
I’ve come to realize that what we are witnessing today is a profound disqualification of human life. The degeneration of our society is,...
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12 min read


Life Is a Thousand Reasons Worth Living
The Story of Cai Gao I met Cai Gao on a quiet afternoon in Changsha. The light from her rooftop garden spilled into the room, brushing...
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18 min read


The Power of Childhood
He once told me that everyone believes childhood, once gone, can never return. The child we used to be vanishes as we grow up — and he...
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15 min read
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