Remove Taiwan flag?

> The file name for the mentioned language is zh_tw which is specifically for the Chinese language that people use in Taiwan (whether you believe it is a real country or not). If this translation is for Chinese speakers from Taiwan area, I don’t see any issues with the flag because flags here are not representing countries. Whether anyone believes Taiwan is a country or not (I don’t care personally, sorry) no one can deny that it owns a flag.

https://github.com/saadeghi/daisyui/pull/2150

Someone needs to tell Kissinger that current policy on US-China relations has already left him way behind at the station…

https://fxtwitter.com/jmzbeijing/status/1682172724347801600

《两蒋日记》确权诉讼落幕，日记和其他档案原件将于下半年起运返台，入藏国史馆。档案原件返台后，复制件将继续在胡佛研究所向学界提供使用。
该批档案包括蒋介石1917至1972年、蒋经国1937至1979年间的日记，以及演讲稿、外交信函、政治档案等，2005年出借给斯坦福大学胡佛研究所。蒋家后人中就是否将档案移转国史馆发生争议，胡佛所遂于2013年诉讼请求澄清物权，最终认定所有档案都归属国史馆，不再按是否属总统任内而分割。
国史馆受访说，档案返台后将陆续向公众提供，其中蒋介石第一任总统内（1948–1954）的日记拟于10月出版。
（旧金山标准报，中央社）

其實蔣介石日記可以在國史館免費下載，在 這個頁面 搜索「蔣中正總統檔案：事略稿本」，點擊搜索結果就可以免費下載原版日記的掃描版 PDF，書中還配有索引，可以按需查詢。讀一讀蔣的日記，比他人的評價更真實。

Xi's Focus on Communist Party Will Cost China

Xi clearly believes that expanding the party’s influence across China’s government and society will revitalize a regime weakened by decades of economic modernization and market reforms. More direct party control will, in theory, give the CCP greater power and thus security.

In his decade in power, Chinese President Xi Jinping has reversed many of the policies adopted by former paramount leader Deng Xiaoping. One of the most consequential casualties has been the clear division of labor between the party and the state.

In reality, however, seeking the party’s absolute supremacy is far more likely to produce a more inefficient, corrupt, and weaker Chinese regime.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-07-19/xi-s-focus-on-communist-party-will-cost-china

Kissinger Meets Xi as China Courts ‘Old Friends’ to Manage U.S. Rivalry

In meeting with Henry Kissinger, China’s leader, Xi Jinping, is turning to American contacts outside the Biden administration to try to influence Washington’s thinking on China.

China has also been courting American business leaders. Aside from Mr. Gates and Mr. Musk, Tim Cook and Jamie Dimon have visited China this year — some given the kind of high-level meetings with Chinese officials that senior officials from foreign nations also get.

“It’s unfortunate that a private citizen can meet with the defense minister and have a communication and the United States can’t,” Mr. Kirby said on Thursday. “That is something that we want to solve.”

为什么你应该开始用 ChatGPT 写日记

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRv0Z-M7NqM

What should China do to revive its economy?

1. Cut checks to regular Chinese people.
2. Build out a world-class health care system.

The basic policy recommendation is the same: to fight a recession, make people and companies feel financially healthy again. This means either bailouts and/or fiscal stimulus — either have the central government explicitly take on the debts of various other actors in the economy, or have it spend a bunch of money that people can use to pay down their own debts.

Maybe the Chinese government won’t do this; maybe Xi Jinping thinks that health care is weak and decadent, and that Real Men (TM) work in factories or construction sites. But what America’s New Dealers realized is that if you lower the amount of time that young people have to spend taking care of grandma and grandpa, you free up young people for more productive work. China would be wise to follow that example. And an economic downturn is a perfect chance to do this.

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/what-should-china-do-to-revive-its

对文中两个词组的解释（来自 ChatGPT）：

1. 这句话中的 “Real Men (TM)” 是一种嘲讽和讽刺的说法。在这里，“Real Men” 通常被理解为「真男人」，一种强调男性应该拥有的传统男子气概的概念，比如做硬体力活、在工厂或者建筑工地工作等。而 “(TM)” 则来源于 “Trademark” 的缩写，用来强调这种 “Real Men” 的观念就像是一个品牌，被广泛且深入地接受和传播。加在一起，“Real Men (TM)” 一词在此处用来讽刺和批评这种过于简单化和刻板化的男性形象（对应当今圣上所说的「不养懒汉」和「自找苦吃」）。

2. “New Dealers” 是指支持并执行美国历史上罗斯福总统的「新政」（New Deal）的一群人。「新政」是在 1933 年至 1939 年美国大萧条期间，罗斯福总统实施的一系列经济复苏政策和社会改革措施。这些政策和措施包括对农业、金融、工业等领域的改革，以及对公共工程项目的投资等，旨在恢复经济和缓解贫困。

On Getting Married

Today, I’m getting married. On this blog, I talk a lot about decision-making, data-driven analysis, and looking at everything through a critically technical lens.

But, this was the easiest decision I’ve ever made, and it came from the heart. See you tomorrow.

https://matt-rickard.com/on-getting-married

The past is not true

We think of the past like it’s a physical fact - like it’s real. But the past is what we call our memory and stories about it. Imperfect memories, and stories built on one interpretation of incomplete information. That’s “the past”.

You can change your history. The actual factual events are such a small part of it. Everything else is perspective, open for re-interpretation. The past is never done.

https://sive.rs/pnt

British Museum’s China’s Hidden Century exhibition an incredible history lesson whether or not you’re Chinese

The British Museum’s chosen title – “China’s Hidden Century” – is primarily for a domestic audience. For many in Hong Kong, the long Chinese 19th century is anything but hidden.

Despite the general long-term decline over the period, it was also a time of improvements and innovations – whether in engineering, technology, society, the arts – which are often forgotten or overlooked.

To British audiences, and to many visiting tourists this summer, the exhibition will be a revelation of a China little known or taught. To others, more familiar with the history, it will offer a rare chance to see an incredible variety of objects and curiosities, on display in one place, telling the widely varied stories of China’s long, very long, 19th century.

In case you don’t know how the Constitution of the PRC was created.

来源：师哲. 在历史巨人身边：师哲回忆录. 北京: 中央文献出版社, 1991. https://book.douban.com/subject/1719302.

每次看到让输入 Apple ID 密码的弹窗都用 Home 手势/键尝试关一下，如果关不了说明是 iOS 系统弹的，可以输入密码。如果能关掉，那肯定是 App 伪装的弹窗要骗你密码。

https://twitter.com/waylybaye/status/1683465059174068224

Former Belarus diplomat: “What was all this for? These months of useless negotiations about the same thing (Xi Jinping’s visit to Belarus in 2015). This game of arithmetic with steps at the museum at night?”

A subordinate of Qin Gang: “In Beijing, there are several hundred people rowing behind me for my position. So, if I don’t do this, someone else will.”

https://twitter.com/pavelslunkin/status/1683465198785425408

How to fix problems with iCloud and iCloud Drive

https://eclecticlight.co/2023/07/24/how-to-fix-problems-with-icloud-and-icloud-drive/

一位加拿大奶奶写了一本关于中国奶奶的书，真有意思 👍

Over the past century and a half, China has experienced foreign invasion, warfare, political turmoil and revolution, along with massive economic and technological change. Through all this change there is one stable element: grandmothers, as child-carers, household managers, religious devotees, transmitters of culture and, above all, sources of love, warmth and affection.

In this interdisciplinary and longitudinal study, China’s Grandmothers sheds light on the status and lives of grandmothers in China over the years from the late Qing Dynasty to the twenty-first century. Combining a wide range of historical and biographical materials, Diana Lary explores the changes and continuities in the lives of grandmothers through revolution, wars and radical upheaval to the present phase of economic growth. Informed by her own experience as a grandchild and grandmother, Lary offers a fresh and compelling way of looking at gender, family and ageing in modern Chinese society.

Lary, Diana. China’s Grandmothers: Gender, Family, and Ageing from Late Qing to Twenty-First Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009064781.

In Imperial China, the idea of filial piety not only shaped family relations but was also the official ideology by which Qing China was governed. In State and Family, Yue Du examines the relationship between politics and intergenerational family relations in China from the Qing period to 1949, focusing on changes in family law, parent–child relationships, and the Chinese state during this period.

This book highlights how the Qing dynasty treated the state-sponsored parent–child hierarchy as the axis around which Chinese family and political power relations were constructed and maintained. It shows how following the fall of the Qing in 1911, reform of filial piety law in the Republic of China became the basis of state-directed family revolution, playing a central role in China’s transition from empire to nation-state.

Du, Yue. State and Family in China: Filial Piety and Its Modern Reform. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108974479.