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@davidmoserbeijing.bsky.social

Sinologist, linguist, jazz pianist. Author of "A Billion Voices: China's Search for a Common Language," Penguin Books. https://amzn.to/38rGZ2q

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There has never been a more incompetent, unqualified, corrupt President and administration. We all know Stephen Miller, an angry, hateful, vengeful man, is running the show. Trumpโ€™s too damn dumb. They work for Putinโ€ฆthe destruction of our country, Republic and democracy. ๐Ÿ˜ก

08.09.2025 15:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 104    ๐Ÿ” 48    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
Bach, Brandenburg Concerto no. 3 in G major, 3. Presto
YouTube video by smalin Bach, Brandenburg Concerto no. 3 in G major, 3. Presto

Visual Bach. Stephen Malinowski's amazing visualizations of Bach's music enables the listerner "see" the architecture of his compositions. Worth visiting his YouTube site. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm1K...

02.09.2025 03:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ˜ก๐Ÿ˜ก๐Ÿ˜ก

31.08.2025 15:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 31    ๐Ÿ” 19    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Notice he wants to make this change overnight, with no consideration for funding, logistics, election disenfranchizing, and nothing about funding so that voters don't have to pay fees for processing voter ID or handicapped voters who have difficulty getting to the polls. This is voter suppression.

31.08.2025 15:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
I never understood why matter curves spacetime...until now!
YouTube video by FloatHeadPhysics I never understood why matter curves spacetime...until now!

If you are an amateur physics buff, or a total neophyte, I really recommend this dude's YouTube. In 30 minutes Maheesh explains -- with passion and humor -- Einstein's General Relativity in a totally intuitive way that blows your mind. A great science explainer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKZv...

31.08.2025 01:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Right. And if your staff is too intimidated to point our your egregious error, you're a bad leader.

25.08.2025 16:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"Nice little news channel you have there. It'd be a pity if anything were to happen to it."

25.08.2025 03:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Remember that Chomsky once said "The US Republican party is the most dangerous organization on Earth." This is how it plays out. The GOP will go down in history as the worst contributor to America's bloody gun carnage.

25.08.2025 02:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Just a hunch.

23.08.2025 16:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Donald Trump in 2008: Hillary's "A Wonderful Woman"
YouTube video by TDC Donald Trump in 2008: Hillary's "A Wonderful Woman"

Listen to Trump voicing effusive praise for Bill and Hillary Clinton in 2008. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2Ob...

23.08.2025 16:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Many thanks to David Moser and Jeremiah Jenne for this great conversation!

26.11.2024 16:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Character Amnesia in China During a visit to Beijing many years ago, I was having lunch with three PhD students in the Chinese Department at Peking University, all of whom were native speakers of Chinese. I happened to have a c...

As pen-and-paper writing becomes less and less common, Chinese people are increasingly forgetting how to write Chinese characters. In this essay in Global China Pulse, David Moser discusses how this has led to debates about the cultural value of traditional character writing.

25.10.2024 08:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 46    ๐Ÿ” 23    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8
Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard
David Moser
On Classical Chinese

โ€œโ€ฆclassical Chinese really consists of several centuries of esoteric anecdotes and in-jokes written in a kind of terse, miserly code for dissemination among a small, elite group of intellectually-inbred bookworms who already knew the whole literature backwards and forwards, anyway.โ€

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Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard David Moser On Classical Chinese โ€œโ€ฆclassical Chinese really consists of several centuries of esoteric anecdotes and in-jokes written in a kind of terse, miserly code for dissemination among a small, elite group of intellectually-inbred bookworms who already knew the whole literature backwards and forwards, anyway.โ€ https://pinyin.info/readings/texts/moser.html?fbclid=IwAR1-ELCcqD2NX8NNCAtXbi5zcn-zfJpugnxqsadiCwnOSu6quCN1sfvZPw0#_ftn1

Perhaps this โ€œโ€ฆclassical Chinese really consists of several centuries of esoteric anecdotes and in-jokes written in a kind of terse, miserly code for dissemination among a small, elite group of intellectually-inbred bookworms who already knew the whole literature backwards and forwardsโ€œ

David Moser

04.08.2023 18:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

David Moser, who is an excellent explainer, writes about Chinese "character amnesia," in a way that serves as a great primer on how Chinese writing works

21.11.2024 11:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Erudite and readable piece from scholar David Moser on the phenomenon of โ€œcharacter amnesiaโ€โ€”the diminishing ability to write Chinese characters (with no effects on reading/recognizing). History of language + cultural insights

25.10.2024 12:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
China Keywords: Webinar 4: River Elegy
In the fourth webinar in the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute's โ€œChina Keywordsโ€ series, Eric Hendriks talks with David Moser about China's tradition of unsparing, sometimes hyperbolic, cultural self-criticism. This is the tradition of the democratizers of the May Fourth Movement, who rejected Confucian hierarchy; of the Red Guards, who, during Mao's Cultural Revolution, sought to obliterate China's traditional cultures and authority structures by force; and of the documentary series River Elegy (1988), which in the run-up to the 1989 protests claimed that conservatism and isolationism had dried up China's cultural vitality. David Moser is a Beijing-based linguist, academic, and public intellectual, who watched the six-part CCTV miniseries River Elegy in his dorm room at Peking University in June 1988 and witnessed it "hit academic circles like an atomic bomb." What was River Elegy about? What were its ideals? What is left of River Elegy's legacy and the broader tradition of cultural self-criticism in contemporary China? The Telos-Paul Piccone Institute is pleased to present this webinar in cooperation with the Danube Institute. For more information about TPPI's China Initiative, visit our website at https://www.telosinstitute.net/china-initiative China Keywords: Webinar 4: River Elegy

NEW VIDEO: The video of the fourth webinar in TPPI's "China Keywords" series is now posted. Eric Hendriks of the Danube Institute talks with David Moser about the 6-part TV miniseries "River Elegy" and China's tradition of scathing cultural self-criticism.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0W4...

02.08.2024 18:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A ChinaFile Conversation with Daniel A. Bell, Geremie R. Barmรฉ, Michael Szonyi, and David Moser, published in February 2024.

15.01.2025 00:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Living History: Stories from the Opening of China - Interview with David Moser

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH36...

21.05.2024 02:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks for having me on again, always great to talk with you & David Moser

16.10.2024 14:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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China Keywords: River Elegy, ๆฒณๆฎ‡ The fourth webinar of the Telos-Paul Piccone Instituteโ€™s โ€œChina Keywordsโ€ series, with Prof. David Moser.

NEW WEBINAR: China Keywords: River Elegy ๆฒณๆฎ‡. Eric Hendriks of the Danube Institute will talk with Prof. David Moser about the 6-part TV miniseries "River Elegy" and China's tradition of scathing cultural self-criticism. July 18 at 10 to 11 am ET. Register today!
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18.06.2024 15:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A Billion Voices: China's Search for a Common Language: Penguin Specials (Penguin China | Penguin Specials) A Billion Voices: China's Search for a Common Language: Penguin Specials (Penguin China | Penguin Specials) - Kindle edition by Moser, David. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading A Billion Voices: China's Search for a Common Language: Penguin Specials (Penguin China | Penguin Specials).

โ€œMany of these so-called Chinese โ€˜dialectsโ€™ are in fact, different languages.โ€
โ€”David Moser (@davidmoserbeijing.bsky.social), in his book _A Billion Voices: Chinaโ€™s Search for a Common Language_ www.amazon.com/Billion-Voic...

08.06.2025 17:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Very suspicious. He's laying the ground work for a Democratic conspiracy to put his name in the Epstein files.

16.07.2025 13:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Emergency Podcast from Barbarians at the Gate: @davidmoserbeijing.bsky.social and I discuss the future of US-China educational exchanges and the latest developments in the Trump Administration's actions against Harvard University and Chinese students in America.

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02.06.2025 11:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Jesus, the HHS secretary can't even come out and recommend a measles vaccination for kids?? Kooks and crackpots are running Trump's government. This is a perilous state of affairs.

14.05.2025 16:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Ceci n'est pas une pope.

03.05.2025 17:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 304    ๐Ÿ” 36    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 53    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8
Dr. Strangelove - Water Fluoridation
YouTube video by Jacob Dr. Strangelove - Water Fluoridation

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr2b... RFK is a kook.

01.05.2025 12:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr2b...

01.05.2025 11:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Total kook. This fluoride conspiracy is more than 60 years old. It was even parodied in Kubrick's "Doctor Strangelove" (1964).

01.05.2025 03:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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