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我1978年暑假住 ESSEX 大學所在地COLCHESTER 街區的校產時，有所感.......談趙元任夫婦和 高希均先生退休將房產娟服務過的大學 ( 高希均以自己寫在回憶錄的例子，談自己當年從一無所懼到美國留學、教書，直到2000年退休後，將美國的房子與退休金捐贈給三所他讀書教書的大學，回到台灣是一無所有，卻滿載而歸。他以此回應「人文是歸程」，分享與回饋才是生命的本質。)，AI 解釋美國稅法和捐法(英文 )

 

我1978年暑假住 ESSEX 大學所在地COLCHESTER 街區的校產時，有所感.......


高希均.人文空間〉

  2026年6月12日高希均參加上海交大「高希均人文空間」揭幕儀式。

「上海交通大學安泰高希均人文空間」於2026年6月12日正式揭牌啟用。遠見．天下文化事業群創辦人高希均與發行人王力行受邀到上海交大徐匯校區包兆龍圖書館一樓參加揭幕儀式。會後由高希均發表專題演講「書是我一生的世界」，並與王力行發行人及捐贈人楊振宇（上海交大教育發展基金會副理事長兼首席投資官）三人座談「高希均回憶錄：從天下哪有白吃的午餐到和平幸福」，探索「商業向深處，人文是歸程」。

  在揭幕致詞時，高希均感性談到九十歲的人生旅程，皆是以書相伴。在1949年離開上海前，他曾在上海交大附近的復旦中學讀過兩年初中，上學途中路過交大，每每望向象徵知識殿堂的大門，總能激起他內心探索知識的熱情，埋下「讀一流書，做一流人」的心志。

  揭幕典禮後，高希均與安泰經濟管理學院陳方若院長分享他對大學如何吸引人才的看法，他以「人才走向人才之處」勉勵大家保持對知識的渴求之心，以及保有開放心態接納不同的人才，唯有人才能吸引人才，發揮正向的影響力。

.「高希均人文空間」是由上海交通大學教育發展基金會副理事長兼首席投資官楊振宇捐贈，他是上海交大的校友，長期關注母校的教育建設。同時也感念高希均多年來指導他的人生與事業，捐贈冠名「高希均人文空間」，希冀將高希均的教育理念與人文關懷扎根在自己的母校。此為上海交大第二處以「高希均」為名的圖書閱讀空間，另一處為李政道研究院4樓的「高希均閱讀空間  。

  揭牌儀式結束後，高希均於包兆龍圖書館A301報告廳專題演講「書是我一生的世界」。他從他的最新著作《高希均回憶錄：從天下哪有白吃的午餐到和平幸福》談起，除了他在1949年前曾在上海復旦中學讀書時，對上海交大的印象外，他第一次到上海交大演講，是在1988年應余秋雨先生邀請，到他的課堂為同學上經濟課。對比30年前他看到的上海，與現今的上海相比，進步得太多了，而讓上海成為國際大城市就是開放，唯有開放，才有進步的空間。

  揭牌儀式結束後，高希均於包兆龍圖書館A301報告廳專題演講「書是我一生的世界」。

  座談會主持人楊振宇談及他捐贈「高希均人文空間」的初衷，呼應座談主題「商業向深處，人文是歸程」，他認為高希均是知識份子的君子楷模，作為教授，他的言傳身教影響很多人，耶魯大學投資長David Swensen就是他的優秀學生之一。他的影響力不僅在教育界，在推動社會進步上，有很大的貢獻，以2003年在上海開始創辦華人峰會為例，持續至今每年都辦，對兩岸華人企業家有很大的影響力量。

   遠見．天下文化事業群發行人王力行從出版書籍的角度，談到遠見．天下文化43年出版將近5000種新書，提供財經企管、社會人文與科學文化等西方進步觀念。她自己最喜愛閱讀的是傳記，每一本傳記就如同一片拼圖，可以拼出一個時代的樣貌，同時也可以看出偉大人物的智慧與思索。

  高希均以自己寫在回憶錄的例子，談自己當年從一無所懼到美國留學、教書，直到2000年退休後，將美國的房子與退休金捐贈給三所他讀書教書的大學，回到台灣是一無所有，卻滿載而歸。他以此回應「人文是歸程」，分享與回饋才是生命的本質。

  這是一場從經濟、出版與資本投資三個不同視角，共同思索知識份子如何促進社會進步向前。以人文為前提，讓我們更了解商業的本質，以及如何面對新科技的挑戰。




AI Overview
Donating property to the universities you served offers a meaningful way to leave a lasting legacy while unlocking significant tax benefits and potential income streams. With thoughtful planning, you can support your alma mater or former employer while securing your financial future in retirement.
Key Donation Methods
Depending on your financial goals, several strategic ways exist to transfer real estate to a university:
  • Retained Life Estate: You deed your home or property to the university but retain the right to live in or use it for the rest of your life. This removes the property from the probate process and grants you an immediate, substantial charitable tax deduction.
  • Charitable Remainder Trust (CRT): You transfer your real estate into a trust. The university sells the property (often avoiding capital gains tax), and the trust pays you regular income for life or a set term. The remainder then goes to the school.
  • Outright Bequest: You can leave the property to the university in your will. This keeps the property in your control during your lifetime and avoids the burdens and costs of selling it through your estate.
  • Outright Gift: You transfer the deed of the property directly to the university. You receive an income tax deduction based on the property’s current fair market value and avoid income taxes on its appreciation.
Benefits of Gifting Real Estate
  • Tax Savings: Avoid paying capital gains tax on the property’s appreciation, and claim a charitable income tax deduction for the property's fair market value.
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For Universities in Taiwan
If you are engaging with Taiwanese institutions (such as National Taiwan University or National Chengchi University), you should consult their specific development and endowment offices. Because real estate laws and tax deductions can vary by location (such as specific deductions under the Income Tax Act in Taiwan or U.S. IRS guidelines if you hold properties stateside), expert legal and financial guidance is highly recommended to align with your personal situation.
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OUP 的英國人傳記資料庫 Virginia Woolf's father, Sir Leslie Stephen, was an eminent Victorian author, critic, and mountaineer who served as the first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography (DNB). He oversaw the ambitious biographical project from 1882 to 1891, laying the groundwork for a comprehensive record of notable British figures.： 從《人生苦短》(Brief lives《尚友錄》《英國國家傳記辭典》)到《妙趣人生》(21世紀訃聞，‘Eccentric Lives’ Britain’s Daily Telegraph)。附Book of Obituaries (The Economist)



Virginia Woolf's father, Sir Leslie Stephen, was an eminent Victorian author, critic, and mountaineer who served as the first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography (DNB). He oversaw the ambitious biographical project from 1882 to 1891, laying the groundwork for a comprehensive record of notable British figures. [1, 2]
Leslie Stephen and the DNB
  • His Role: Stephen was the driving force and founding editor of the DNB.
  • The Project: The dictionary is a monumental biographical reference work covering notable figures in British history who died before the 20th century. Stephen personally wrote numerous entries for the collection. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
The Father-Daughter Connection
  • Literary Inspiration: Stephen's exhaustive work with British biographies heavily influenced his daughter's literary career. Virginia Woolf grew up with open access to his extensive personal library, largely shaping her intellect. [1, 2, 3, 4]
  • Fictional Portrayal: Her father’s complex and occasionally tyrannical nature inspired the character of Mr. Ramsay in her acclaimed novel, To the Lighthouse. [1, 2]
Would you like to know more about how Leslie Stephen's background in biography influenced Virginia Woolf's own writing, or perhaps explore her role in the Bloomsbury Group?



 “What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.” ― from TO THE LIGHTHOUSE By Virginia Woolf, 1927

2022年12月12日 星期一

從《人生苦短》(Brief lives《尚友錄》《英國國家傳記辭典》)到《妙趣人生》(21世紀訃聞，‘Eccentric Lives’ Britain’s Daily Telegraph)。附Book of Obituaries (The Economist)

  從《人生苦短》(Brief lives《尚友錄》《英國國家傳記辭典》)到《妙趣人生》(21世紀訃聞，‘Eccentric Lives’ Britain’s Daily Telegraph)。附Book of Obituaries (The Economist) 

https://www.facebook.com/hanching.chung/videos/2409961892485540

A Book of Cheeky Obituaries Highlights ‘Eccentric Lives’

This new collection is full of oddballs, mavericks and cranks.

This new collection from Britain’s Daily Telegraph is full of oddballs, mavericks and cranks.

By Dwight Garner


Brief lives : 新 《尚友錄》，重要的人物個個都有像胡適之先生寫的《丁文江傳》；《英國國家傳記辭典》

Brief lives : twentieth-century pen portraits from the Dictionary of National Biography 
1945-1990 
150位當代英國名人寫剛過世的熟人(著名的《英國國家傳記辭典》第一次選刊)

http://hcbooks.blogspot.tw/2012/05/brief-lives-twentieth-century-pen.html

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思果《藝術家肖像》台北：大地出版社，1977，《無題》頁124。

希望有一天我們有部新 《尚友錄》，重要的人物個個都有像胡適之先生寫的《丁文江傳》那樣的傳記，那就是國家的大幸了。



Rebel architects: building a better world

Working on the fringes of the law, rebel architects are trying to improve people’s lives in tough areas. From floating homes to disaster-proof houses and bamboo domes, Aaron Millar meets the men and women building for their communitiesl

BRIEF LIVES : INTIMATE BIOGRAPHIES OF THE FAMOUS BY THE FAMOUS
這本書，愛不釋手。今天才知道同一書名、同性質的傳記集，在17世紀末英國即有了--- John Aubrey (1626–1697) 參考傳主提供之資料撰寫。BRIEF LIVES : INTIMATE BIOGRAPHIES OF THE FAMOUS BY THE FAMOUS的特色可從副標題得之，由熟悉傳主的名人撰寫。

Brief Lives: Twentieth-century Pen Portraits from the Dictionary of National Biography

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Colin Matthew, Henry Colin Gray Matthew
Oxford University Press, 1997 - 601 頁
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Drawn from the archives of the Dictionary of National Biography, this collection of sharply drawn portraits offers a rich cross-section of the men and women who shaped Britain's identity in the twentieth century. The DNB is an unrivalled record of modern British thought and achievement, combining critical insight with lively prose, entertaining anecdotes, and private data. Brief Lives contains many of the best articles from the twentieth-century supplements to the DNB, collected for the first time in a single, affordable volume. Both insightful and witty, and sometimes surprisingly frank, these are definitive, diverse, and often intimate biographical sketches--most were written by people who knew their subjects personally.
Here, writers, artists, and musicians rub shoulders with scientists, industrialists, politicians, and soldiers in a unique and highly readable anthology of national endeavour. From Laura Ashley to P.G. Wodehouse, from Tony Hancock to Bertrand Russell, Brief Lives presents no fewer than 150 fresh and enlightening snapshots of British life and culture in modern times.
Books 書海微瀾: Brief Lives : John Aubrey (1626–1697) BRIEF LIVES : INTIMATE BIOGRAPHIES OF THE...
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朋友說，她在翻譯這本名著。當時笑說這是第51本重譯。沒想到小王子回答：要想看蝴蝶，總得容得下毛毛蟲。......這是奇怪的文化現象，幾年前台灣的7-Eleven 連鎖店用力推印此圖的瓷器.....
今天90元買150人:Brief lives : twentieth-century pen portraits from the Dictionary of National Biography
1945-1990 150位當代英國名人寫剛過世的熟人(著名的英國國家傳記辭典第一次選刊)  我第一看的是BBC的創辦人Reith  參考:BBC - The BBC Story - John Reith  (8篇) The life of Lord Reith, first Director-General of the BBC.
還花約520元兩本英文傳記 各約650頁 美國文豪S. Bellow傳和Grant 總統回憶錄


Brief lives : twentieth-century pen portraits from the Dictionary of National Biography


1945-1990 150位當代英國名人寫剛過世的熟人(著名的英國國家傳記辭典第一次選刊)

最先讀的是Reithˋ

 其他兩本本是S. Bellow的傳記和 Ulysses S. Grant Personal Memoirs

 2012.6.18 立讀林義正老師《春秋公羊傳倫理思維與特質》（2003）的結語
 (此書的日文參考資料真令人開眼界)空言。不如見之於行事之深切著明。託之空言
 讀Brief Lives 之Pevsner 傳



這則沒有記下我的同學蓓蒂所提到的餘生努力養生，最幸運的話也不過再卅年，真是Brief Lives。Ken 談起生命之品質……。我說可能生命(活著)本身就有意義 (想到的是許多學問家，譬如說Ken從書櫃中拿出的錢先生百歲紀念文集；畢竟這些都只是他的身後事)。

 KJ Wu
多與老同學老朋友聚聚吧



 2001.6.19


In Memory of H. A. SIMON
( A mail to Learning Organization Forum on Learning and Teaching Styles )
Last weekend I read The Economist 'Obituary' on Herbert Simon（1916-2001）.
http://www.economist.com/people/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=511223
(please help us to locate as many information as possible.)

I started to write my own series of appreciation for this great learner, scientist and educator. One theme we discussed several years ago is about this subject. If you like to read his Models of My Life (MoML) and Sciences of the Artificial (SoA), there are plenty insights on this important subject.

For example, I quoted his "In the Afterword I reflect on the methods I have used in my research...if permitted, I will stay at this pleasurable, exciting work a while longer."( MoML, please also see his learning and teaching journey.)

He defines the 'style' in SoA, together with Marshall's Economics textbook and so on.
It is difficult to tell the nuance of this subject but you might like to read his quote of Paul Valery's Instants( ...As one speaks to the closest one.) in MoML.

I didn't meet Herb but we knew our own learning styles through emails partially at least.
Herb knows Chinese and we know the meaning of 'history' , Words, Deeds, and Worth of an evergreen life and his theories in sciences.

hanching chung
3月16日回永和，接到卡耐基-梅隆大學(CMU)校長室（Office of the President）的信，稱呼我' Dr. Hanching Chung'
原 來是該校校長室和董事會（Boards of Trustee）邀請我參加3月18日的紀念會的；內有特別事件辦公室（Office of Special Events）回函。我嘆聲氣。決定在網路上紀念你。可惜先生你一向未介紹師母，我未能致點哀，失禮。先生 Herbert A. Simon
The Richard King Mellon University of Computer Science and Psychology
Dear Herb,
ECONOMIST.COM
Edward de Bono died on June 9th
The father of lateral thinking and “Six Thinking Hats” was 88 | Obituary


Published works[edit]

De Bono on Channel 4 lecture programme Opinions, produced by Open Media in 1994

A partial list of books by de Bono includes:



The Economist Book of Obituaries: Keith Colquhoun, Ann Wroe

https://www.amazon.com › Economist-B...
"The Economist Book of Obituaries"is a collection of 200 obituaries that the paper published between 1995 and 2008. The length is fixed --- about 1,000 words.
Publisher： ‎Bloomberg Press; 1st edition (Nove...
Dimensions： ‎6.5 x 1.32 x 9.6 inches
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