August 14, 2006
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Cleavage Term
“… a point of common understanding between the classic and romantic worlds. Quality, the cleavage term
between hip and square, seemed to be it. Both worlds used the term.
Both knew what it was. It was just that the romantic left it alone and
appreciated it for what it was and the classic tried to turn it into a
set of intellectual building blocks for other purposes.”For such building blocks, see
A Trinity for Rebecca(4/25/06)
and yesterday’s lottery
in Pennsylvania:
mid-day 713, evening 526.
These numbers prompt the
following meditation
on the square and the hip:In memory of
Kermit Hall,
college president,
who died Sunday,
August 13, 2006:Square
7/13:
Carpe Diem
President Hall
(SUNY Albany)
meets with
Wenzhou University*
delegation, 4/25/06.In memory of
Duke Jordan,
jazz pianist,
who died Tuesday,
August 8, 2006:
Jazz clubs
on 52nd Street
on a summer night
in 1948, pictured in
Log24 on 4/25/06.Square and hip may each have a place
in heaven; for a less pleasant destination,
see the previous entry.
__________________________________* Update of 3 PM 8/14/06:
See Forrest Gump on God
in an Aug. 11 entry and
the related paperRenegotiating Chinese Identity:
Between Local Group
and National Ideology,by Kristen Parris:
Center and Locality in China
The Roots of Group Identity in Wenzhou
Wenzhou as a Negative Identity
The Wenzhou Model as a Positive Identity
The New Wenzhou Narrative
Wenzhou Identity and Emergent Class Interests
Conclusion: Local Group Identity and National Transformation.
The paper is found in
The Power of Identity:
Politics in a New Key,
by Kenneth Hoover et al.,
Chatham House, 1997.Related material
may be found
by a search on
“the Wenzhou model.”
