Li Ao

Li Ao (Chinese: 李敖; pinyin: Lǐ Áo; born April 25, 1935), is a Taiwanese writer, social commentator, historian, and independent politician.

He is considered by many to be one of the most important modern East Asian essayists today, although some critics have termed him as an intellectual narcissist. His political inclinations are more controversial; he is a very vocal critic of both the Kuomintang and the Democratic Progressive Party and their many politicians, including Chiang Kai-shek, Ma Ying-jeou and Chen Shui-bian. Although he favors unification, especially under "One Country, Two Systems", Li refuses to call himself a "Pan-Blue" due to its association with the Kuomintang. He firmly believes in Chinese nationalism and is given much media exposure in Taiwan due to his popularity as a writer.

Background

Li was born in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province to Li Dingyi (李鼎彝), a professor of Chinese, and Zhang Kuichen (張桂貞). His family has ancestry in Wei County (modern-day Weifang), Shandong Province, and Fuyu County, Jilin Province. The entire Li family, except for two children, moved to Taiwan at the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949. Li received his bachelor's degree from National Taiwan University's Department of History in 1959.

Li Ao (philosopher)

Li Ao (Chinese: 李翱; pinyin: Lǐ Áo) (772–841), courtesy name Xizhi (习之), was Chinese philosopher and prose writer of the Tang Dynasty. He was born in present-day Tianshui, Gansu, but some accounts relates he was from Zhao, Hebei. After achieving the degree of Jinshi in 798, he joined the imperial bureaucracy and served in the history department at Changan.

In 809, he was assigned to the southern provinces and made the trip with his pregnant wife from Luoyang to Guangzhou over nine months. The course they took included the modern provinces of Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Guangdong. His record of the trip, the Lainan Lu (来南录, "Record of Coming to the South"), contains detailed descriptions of medieval southern China and is considered one of the earliest forms of the diary.

At the time of his death in Xiangyang, Hubei, Li held the position of Governor of East Shannan Circuit (now Hubei and Henan). There is some debate about the year of his death. The Old Book of Tang gives the date of 841. While the Qing Dynasty historians, however, have argued that it should be 836.

Podcasts:

PLAYLIST TIME:

Leave Wit You (I Think I Wanna)

by: 3LW

[intro:]
uh-huh, uh-huh
uh-huh, uh-huh
[verse 1:]
lookin' familiar, i don't know,
have i seen you somewhere before,
kill the small talk let's hit the floor, (are you ready)
to do something you aint done before,
i'll work it 'til you can't take no more,
i think i'm the girl you came here for, (if you can't get it)
[hook:]
i like it
what your doin'
how your movin'
so keep it comin' boy put it on me
[chorus:]
i think i wanna leave wit you do you wanna leave wit me
tell me what you wanna do boy
oh-oh-oh
i think i wanna leave wit you do you wanna leave wit me tell me what you wanna do boy
(if you can't get it)
[verse 2:]
you're lookin' at me like you want more, so after the party let's explode, turn off the lights
and lock the door, (when we're ready) but we aint leavin' here 'til i'm full, freakin' eachother
'til we sore, think i'm the girl you came here for (if you can't get it)
[hook]
[chorus]




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