The book lending list reflects the ideas and interest preferences of college students in an era, and the amount of information is very large.
The Open Syllabus Project, a U.S. database project, collected more than 1 million courses and book reading information from universities over the past 15 years, published bibliographic data for U.S. college students, and china's major universities also published book lending for the year.
As soon as the reading list was released, the intellectual friends compared the reading lists of famous schools in China and the United States, and found that there was a big difference.
Before you read it, can you guess which book is the favorite of Chinese and American college students?
Book lending list of 17 famous schools in China and the United States
American colleges and universities
Comprehensive ranking of ten colleges and universities in the United States for book reading:
1. The Republic, Plato
2. Leviathan, Hobbes
3. "On the Monarch", Niccolò. Machiavelli
4. Clash of Civilizations, Samuel. Huntington
5. Elements of Style, William. Strunk
6. Ethics, Aristotle
7. "The Structure of the Scientific Revolution" by Thomas. Kuhn
8. On Democracy in America, Alexis. Tocqueville
9. The Communist Manifesto, Marx
10. Political Science, Aristotle
Princeton University
1. Clash of Civilizations, Samuel Huntington
2. Globalization and Its Discontent, Stiglitz
3. The Logic of U.S. Congressional Action, Douglas Arnold
4. "Finance", Harvey M. S. Rosen
5. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, Joseph Schumpeter
6. History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides
7. "The Great Diplomacy" by Henry Kissinger
8. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber
9. "Truce" Richard Hoblock
10. Ethnic Groups in Conflict, Donald Horowitz
Harvard University
1. A Letter Written in Birmingham Prison, Martin Luther King Jr
2. Elements of Style by William Strenker
3. "It's Not Easy to Lead" by Ronald Haefez
4. Clash of Civilizations, Samuel Huntington
5. "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Carneman
6. On the Monarch, Niccolò Machiavelli
7. "Introduction to Policy Analysis" Edith Stoki
8. "The Theory of Justice" john Rawls
9. Principles of Corporate Finance, Richard Breley
10. "Thank you for your advice" by Jay Heinrichs
Yale University
2. Quarterly Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
3. The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
4. Homer of the Odyssey
5. "Let's Sing the Praises of Those Famous" by James Aiji
6. On Democracy in America, Tocqueville
7. Anthropology, Franz Boas
8. Zapata and the Mexican Revolution, John Warmak
9. "The Anti-Political Machine" by James Ferguson
10. Homer of the Iliad
Columbia University
2. The Republic, Plato
3. On Liberty, John Mill
4. The Social Contract, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
5. Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes
6. Political Science, Aristotle
7. The Metaphysics of Morality, Immanuel Kant
8. The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith
9. Calculus: Early Transcendence, James Stewart
10. Civilization and Its Discontent, Sigmund Freud
Stanford University
University of Chicago
1. Ethics, Aristotle
2. The Ethics of Nicomacho, Aristotle
3. "Statistical Analysis Using STATA", Lawrence Hamilton
4. "Office Hours" by Noam Foster
5. On the Monarch, Niccolò Machiavelli
6. Treatise on the History of Rome, Niccolò Machiavelli
8. Confessions by Augustine
9. Artificial Intelligence, Stuart Russell
10. "On Government," John Locke
Mit
1. Leviathan, Hobbes
2. The Communist Manifesto, Marx
3. Macroeconomics, Olivier Blanchard
4. "On the Monarch", Niccolò Machiavelli
5. Lecture Notes on Macroeconomics, Olivier Blanchard
6. Capital, Marx
7. Elements of Style, William Strenker
8. Economics, Paul Krugman
9. "Speaking Japanese Spoken Japanese" Harz
10. Quarterly Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Duke University
1. Econometrics, James Stoker
2. "The Problem of Social Costs", Coase
3. The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith
4. Tragedy of the Commons, Garrett Harding
5. Econometrics, Lin Wenfu
6. "Leadership Is Not Easy" by Ronald Haefez
7. "Analytic Politics", Melvin Hicknick
8. Principles of Corporate Finance, Richard Breley
9. Macroeconomics, Robert Barrow
10. Macroeconomic Theory, Thomas Sargent
University of Pennsylvania
1. King Oedipus, Sophocles
2. The Art Writing Guide, Barnett
3. "Dark Heart" By Conrad
4. Evolution of Collaboration, Robert Iserrod
5. The Republic, Plato
6. The Autobiography of Franklin Benjamin Franklin
7. Art and Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent, Halley
8. The Canterbury Tales by Jeffrey Chaucer
9. Confessions by Augustine
10. "Persuasion" by Jane Austen
Brown University
1. Learning and Teaching by Harold James Sheridan
2. Cyber Citizen, Chris Gray
3. The Techno-Society, Jacques Elul
4. Learning Center, Robert Brown
5. The Communist Manifesto by Marx
6. "Transparent Society" by David Brin
7. A History of American Technological Society, Ruth Schwartz Cowan
8. "Enlightenment" by Walter Benjamin
9 "Anthropomorphism" by Jean Baudrillard
10 Controlling the Revolution by James Beniger
From the top 10 of the comprehensive ranking, it can be seen that American students read the most classic political science and philosophical works, and these classic books rarely appear in the list of Chinese college students.
Mi Hong, a professor at the School of Public Administration of Zhejiang University and the executive director of the Institute of Population and Development of Zhejiang University, analyzed that the difference in reading the list actually reflects the difference in teaching models of Chinese and American universities.
"Many teachers in European and American universities teach classic monographs mainly, which are basically not affected by the current Internet. Under the influence of teachers teaching classical masterpieces, it is not surprising that Ivy League students read monographs and documents that are the foundational works of the capitalist system such as "The Republic" and "The Wealth of Nations". ”
In contrast, the proportion of courses taught by Chinese universities, the classical ratio is not very large, "we mainly target the problems facing the present and future development." ”
Mi Hong suggested that Chinese college students should also read more Chinese classical works, including cultural, historical, scientific and technological and even military works, and try to choose the traditional version, because the traditional characters themselves contain profound classical cultural traditions.
Chinese universities
Zhejiang University: "Ordinary World" has won four times
1. "Ordinary World"
2. "I Cling"
3. "Fifteen Years of Wanli"
4. "Wolf Totem"
5. "Common Sense"
6. The Economics of Milk Coke
7. Psychology and Life
8. "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"
9. "Tianlong Babu"
10. "The Wealth of Nations"
Tsinghua University: The "Three-Body Problem" series is popular
Literature
1. "Three-Body 2"
2. "Relief Grocery Store"
3. Midnight Night
4. "Passing Through Your World"
5. "Three-Body 3"
6. "The Man Who Stole the Shadow"
7. "The Three-Body Problem"
8. "The Dedication of Suspect X"
9. "What Do I Talk About When I Talk About Running"
10. "Ordinary World"
Social Sciences:
1. A Minimalist History of Europe
2. "Dark Time"
3. "The Alien"
4. "Scarcity"
5. "Thirty Years of Turmoil"
6. Machine Learning in Quantification
7. "The Way cai Kangyong speaks"
8. A Brief History of Mankind
9. "Ancestors"
10. "Three Thousand Years of Jerusalem"
Technology:
1. Introduction to Algorithms
2. "LateX Primer"
3. "Breaking Away"
4. Gödel, Escher, Bach
5. LATEX 2e Complete Learning Manual
6 MATLAB Complete Learning Handbook
7.MATLAB R2014a Complete Self-Study
8. Spark Big Data Processing
9. "The Road Few People Take"
10. A Brief History of Time
Peking University: I am most concerned about democracy
Political Law:
1. "On Democracy in America"
2. Selected Declassified Russian Archives
3. Selected Documents of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
4. The Clash of Civilizations and the Rebuilding of world order
5. Reference Materials on the History of the Communist Party of China
Economy:
1. "Thirty Years of Turmoil"
2. The Age of Big Data
3. "Currency Wars"
4. Capital in the 21st Century
5. The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
Philosophical religions:
1. Psychology and Life
2. Structural Transformation of the Public Domain
3. "Calling the Soul, the Great Chinese Witchcraft Panic of 1768"
4. "Open Society and Its Enemies"
5. The Complete Works of Aristotle
Literature:
1. Notes on the Tomb Robber
2. "The Tibetan Code"
3. "Lao She Anthology"
4. "Tianlong Babu"
5. The Complete Works of Wang Xiaobo
Fudan University: I most want to see "Psychology and Life"
Liberal Arts Books:
1. Selected Readings of The Original Works of Western Philosophy
2. The Complete Works of Wang Xiaobo
3. "The Theory of Justice"
4. Econometric Analysis Methods and Modeling
5. "The Second Sex"
Science Books:
1. Calculus Tutorial
2. Basic Organic Chemistry
3. Feynmann Lectures on Physics
4. Mathematical Analysis
5. Mechanics
Medical Books:
1. "Color Atlas of Human Anatomy"
2. Histopathology Color Atlas
3. Biochemistry
4. Neuroscience
5. Principles of Biochemistry
Most Wanted Books of the Year:
3. "The Kite Chaser"
4. "Ordinary World"
5. "How to Read a Book"
Wuhan University: Lovers of martial arts novels
Chinese Books:
1. "Those Things of the Ming Dynasty"
2. "Ordinary World"
3. "Eagle Hero"
4. "Reading Library"
5. Notes from the Tomb Robber
6. "The Tibetan Code"
7. "Wisdom Day"
8. New Weekly's Annual Masterpiece
9. "Absolute Double Glory"
10 "The Complete Collection of Zhang Ailing"
Shandong University: Love to chase "Those Things of the Ming Dynasty"
1. "Those Things of the Ming Dynasty"
3. "The Tibetan Code"
4. Notes from the Tomb Robber
5. A Song of Ice and Fire Vol. 1 Game of Thrones
6. "Hello, Old Time"
7. A Song of Ice and Fire Vol. 2 The Clash of Kings
9. "Frog"
10.《Late Night Dining Room》
South China University of Technology: See also "Ordinary World"
1. The first part of "Ordinary World"
2. The Second Part of "Ordinary World"
3. "Eleven Words Killing"
4. The third part of "Ordinary World"
5. C++ Programming
6. "Life and Death Fatigue"
7. "The Siege"
9. "Those Things of the Ming Dynasty"
10.Wildfire Collection
For these lists of Chinese universities, Cai Tianxin, a professor at the School of Mathematical Sciences of Zhejiang University, commented:
Judging from the list, Chinese college students read less imaginative books, less books with an international perspective, and fewer books of comprehensive or universal significance in the natural and social sciences.
There is also a phenomenon that there is not much difference in reading between students in famous schools and ordinary colleges and universities. I wish college students had more personalized reading. For more than two hundred years, the University of Cambridge has had an Apostolic Society that regularly discusses a book or a topic every week, and finally many outstanding talents have emerged. It can be said that without the Apostolic Society, there would be no English civilization.