Xie Yong's "Records of Xuelin Palms" (data map/figure)
"Xuelin Palm Record", by Xie Yong, Zhejiang Ancient Books Publishing House, December 2020, price: 45.00 yuan
In 2015, Xie Yong opened a column in Shenzhen Shudu Magazine, not in the name of a person but with the name of "the beauty of mimeographing", the article has not been read, has first won my heart. This "Records of The Palm of Xuelin", that is, the articles written by Qian Wenxuan, the consul of the Early Minchu in San Francisco in the United States, typical old scholar Li Shiju, collector Zhang Boju, botanist Hu Xianhua, jurist Lin Zhijun, and the former family Qu Duizhi, who were searched for by him, are mainly based on the articles written by Qian Wenxuan, the former consul of the People's Republic of China in San Francisco, and the collecting people Zhang Boju, the botanist Hu Xianhua, the jurist Lin Zhijun, and the former family Qu Duizhi, which were mimeographed after the founding of New China, and describes this "forgotten contemporary literary activity" in a concentrated way. In order to attract the attention of literary historians, he even wanted to write a book called "The Beauty of Mimeography" to "lament the elegance of the old literati after the change of the times."
The Palm Record not only has many articles that have made me feel like a new meaning, but also a number of excellent essays, such as "The Evaluation of Private Mimeographed Poetry Collections", and his conclusion is: "These privately published poetry collections now seem to be more valuable, but some of the works that were popular at that time are no longer interested in today." The value of books depends on time, and those in the "Shanghai Lotte Poetry Case" and the "Taiyuan Jinyang Lou Yaji Poetry Case" described in this article and their books can be witnessed and documentary evidence.
Reading the "Palm Record", it is very obvious that Xie Yong's interest in governance is interesting. In addition to the mimeographed collection of poems, he also collected a considerable number of Qing Dynasty treasure scroll banknotes, and made a gratifying study, and the traditional Chinese version of the "Qing Dynasty Treasure Scroll Banknote Classic Eye Record" is one of the phased results of this kind of academic interest.
Tan Qijun's "History of Chinese Immigration" (data map/photo)
"History of Chinese Immigration", by Tan Qijun and compiled by Wang Weidong, Fudan University Press, May 2021, price: 380.00 yuan
In his early years, when he read Tan Qihua's "Changshui Collection", he knew that he had an unpublished "History of Chinese Immigration". Thirty years have passed, and I saw the book photocopied and published by Fudan University Press. After reading through, three exclamations were generated: first, the graduation thesis of a college student in the old era could be written so extraordinary; second, how lucky it was to meet a guidance teacher like Pan Guangdan! The third is that this 70,000-word graduation thesis that made Pan Guangdan excited could have been published eighty years ago, but Tan Qihua, who was extremely cautious and cautious and did not easily publish a word before seeking solid and complete evidence, did not rob the first merit of pioneering the study of Chinese immigration history, so this manuscript was pressed for eighty years.
Pan Guangdan used a total of eight criticisms in red pen on Tan's manuscripts in that year, almost to the point of deficiencies in historical materials and historical knowledge, and now only one or two are given.
Tan wrote the first chapter "The Great Importance of the Migration of Ancient Nations"... Pan Commented: "From Shang to Yin, to seven or eight times, it should be found out and supplemented." Shang Shu Pan Geng" and Cheng Yangzhi (author's note: the collator mistakenly interpreted Cheng Jing's word 'Yangzhi' as 'Yuanzhi') Mr. Shang's "Shang National Society" can be examined. ”
Tan discusses in the second chapter, "The Actual Guanzhong and Shubian Commandery of the Qin and Western Han Dynasties": "Guanzhong is solid and not literate, but looking at the Western Han Dynasty, Guan Chinese is not weak. What does this generation do? Then it is also related to the migration of the Kanto. Pan commented: "See Mr. Wu Jingchao's recent work "Journal of Sociology". ”
The article that Pan Guangdan asked Tan Qihua to read was "Population Movement and Culture of the Two Han Dynasties" (Shangxia) published by Wu Jingchao in the Journal of Sociology edited and published by the China Sociological Society, and the time and period were vol. 2, No. 4, in 1931, and Vol. 3, No. 2 in 1932, respectively. It can be seen from this that Pan Guangdan's criticism of Tan's writings was not in 1930, when Tan Qijun graduated from Ji university, but in 1932, after he entered the history department of Yenching University as a graduate student.
Xu Hong's "Searching for the City on the Ruins" (data map/figure)
"Searching for the City on the Ruins", by Xu Hong, The Commercial Press, May 2021, price: 55.00 yuan
Archaeologist Xu Hong "stepped on the ruins to find the city", and I also rummaged through the old paper pile for an ancient city that originally existed but was not recognized by many historians and archaeologists. By chance, I was able to read Xu Hong's various works, including "Discovery and Reasoning: Archaeological Chronicles at the End of the Book (I)" (April 2021) by Shanxi People's Publishing House.
In the field of geology and archaeology in the previous generation, there were several good writers who could write articles, such as geologist Ding Wenjiang and paleontologist Yang Junjian. Entering the new era of New China, this kind of specialist seems to be rare, but the shadow of these predecessors can still be seen from Xu Hong. What I appreciated most was Xu Hong's international vision of the origin of human civilization, as evidenced by his "Revisiting the City (Duyi) as the Only Sign of the Arrival of the Age of Civilization." As the leader of the archaeological team of yanshi erlitou site, which has made great archaeological achievements, he did not hastily announce that this was the "Summer Ruins". This spirit of "having a point of evidence to say a point of speech" is admirable!
In addition, the article "Review of the Naming of Pre-Qin City Sites in State Security Units" in the book also aroused my great interest. Because the State Administration of Cultural Heritage criticized the naming of the city-like sites in the national key cultural relics protection units is very irregular, it not only requires the knowledge of toponymy, but also requires courage. Irregular naming is especially a problem with sites named after ancient countries and place names (city names). For the "×× Ruins" and "×× Ancient City", Xu Hong believes that there are two kinds of universal and ideal naming methods: one is "modern place name + site name", the other is "ancient place name + site name"; one is "modern place name + ancient city name", the other is "ancient place name + ancient city name", and "×× ancient city site", "×× ancient city site", "×× city ancient city site", "× country site", "ancient × country site", etc., most of which are quite irregular new creations, the most typical example is the naming of "corpse township mall site". This problem is detailed in his "Discernment of the Name of the City Site" and "Why Can't It Be Called 'Corpse Town Gou Mall'" in "Discovery and Reasoning The Inexhaustible Yanshi Shangcheng". This innovative naming of state security units should attract the attention of the relevant departments of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the national geographical names management organ.
Hu Wenhui edited "Quotations of Chen Yinke" (data map/photo)
Quotations of Chen Yinke, edited by Hu Wenhui, Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House, August 2021, 49.00 yuan
Disciples of disciples or admirers of someone, or records the words and deeds of the master, or compiles the classic quotations of the worshiped, in order to pass on their ideas and learning, in ancient China, to be loved by the people. However, since the end of the era of "one sentence to ten thousand sentences", the quotation style of writing has gradually declined. Hu Wenhui's "Quotations of Chen Yinke" broke through the ice, and for many ordinary readers, it is nothing less than a gospel for reading.
Reading this book compiled by Hu Wenhui, what I have been taught is still the ideology and spirit of governance. Previously, I only knew that the famous phrase "independent spirit, free thought" came from the inscription written by Chen Yinke for the Monument to Wang Guowei, but I still did not know that in his "Reply to the Academy of Sciences", there was still "independent spirit and free will that must be fought, and must be fought for with life and death... Everything is a small thing, but this is a big thing. The purpose held in the inscription has not been changed so far" firmly. I have read "The Last Twenty Years of Chen Yinke", but the book quotes Wang Qi's "A Brief History and Academic Achievements of Chen Yinke" as "I want to fight for academic freedom." I have held the aim of academic freedom for more than twenty years since I wrote the Wang Guowei Memorial Inscription," but I ignored it. I also have a full set of "Wu Mi's Diary", but it is only for double examination, and I have not finished reading it once, but Hu Wenhui found a conversation between Chen Yinke and Wu Mi on June 29, 1927: "In order to preserve the freedom of personal thinking and spirit, we can only abandon school and find another life." Difficult countries are poor, and they are at peace. ”
In this arrangement, it can be clearly seen that Chen Yinke's adherence to the "spirit of independence and the idea of freedom" is consistent.
It has to be said that this book is too cumbersome in classification, and there are many out-of-school places, and it is expected that it will be corrected when it is republished.
Chinese Elites and Political Change: Zhejiang in the Early 20th Century, by Xiao Bangqi, translated by Xu Liwang and Yang Taoyu, Jiangsu People's Publishing House, September 2021, price: 72 yuan
It was a book that was translated almost forty years late, as it was originally the author's 1982 doctoral dissertation. Instead, the author won the Levinson Book Prize in 1995, "Blood Road: The Legend of Shen Dingyi in Revolutionary China", which was translated and published by Jiangsu People's Publishing House in 1999.
Xiao's book, Chinese Elites and Political Change: Zhejiang in the Early 20th Century, was heavily influenced by the American sinologist Shi Jianya's research on the theoretical model of Chinese social history in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Shi's research model, that is, the use of the "core-periphery" system, shows the economic and cultural differences within and between regions, so as to make a comprehensive interpretation of the politics, economy, culture and society of a province or prefecture in modern China. As long as you have read Shi Jianya's "Cities in the Late Chinese Empire", you will not feel very new about the research model under this theoretical framework. There are three points that am interesting to me about Xiao Bangqi's "Chinese Elite and Political Change": first, his definition of what constitutes "elite", second, whether There were enough "elites" in Zhejiang to change the direction of Chinese politics in the early 20th century, and third, the "Administrative Division Table of the Late Qing Dynasty", "The Administrative Division Table of Zhejiang Province during the Beiyang Government Period", and the "Administrative Division Table of Zhejiang Province during the National Government" that he listed in other Sinology works.
With regard to "elite", Shaw defines it this way: "a person who controls public policy through a leadership role in politics, society, and economy" (see page 7 of the book for the specific composition of personnel), which is very different from what we understand as "elite". As for whether Zhejiang's "elites" have changed the course of Chinese politics, I checked Lin Lujian's Dictionary of Figures of the Republic of China (Zhejiang University Press, 2013), which included a total of 3,434 celebrities (including natives, guests, and foreigners). In my personal opinion, this huge "elite group" has actually transformed China, albeit for short periods of fashion.
Su Hua