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“A handle, a monochrome glow, and enough speed to feel modern for a while.”
“The ideas outlived the domain name.”
Founded by Li Yonggang, a political science lecturer at Nanjing University, Realm of Thought — known to its readers as sixiang.com — opened its doors in September 1999 as a home for serious academic conversation in mainland China. It took on big ideas and the hot debates of the day, and Chinese intellectuals showed up in droves. For a while, it was the most influential website in the humanities and academic circles o
On October 14, 2000, the site went quiet, retiring after barely more than a year at the center of the conversation. What it left behind was proof that a platform for free academic discussion could exist, flourish, and matter in China. The page is gone, but the habit of thinking together it encouraged is a harder thing to discontinue.
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“A handle, a monochrome glow, and enough speed to feel modern for a while.”
“It never let its windows overlap, but it opened one for everyone else.”
“It let your windows overlap, and the desktop was never the same.”