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How do we relate to the world in the post-pandemic era? In the new book "Xu Zhuoyun's Ten Days' Talk: The Pattern of Today's World and the Future of Mankind", the Guangdong People's Publishing House may have the answer you want.
In the book, Mr. Xu Is worried about the epidemic situation in today's world and the chaotic human heart under the spread of the plague. In the book, the author focuses on a series of themes such as the characteristics of the times, the changes in ideology and culture, the integration of multiculturalism, the progress and transformation of scientific and technological intelligence, and the comparative interaction between Chinese and foreign civilizations, selects the key nodes of each era in politics, economy, society and culture, restores the background of the times and the historical origin of vivid cases in the form of dialogue, vividly showing Mr. Li as a historian based on China and the world-oriented historical concepts and humanistic care.
This book can be regarded as a summary of Mr. Xu's 90 years of life thoughts, and can also be regarded as his overall response to the problems and ways out of this era.
"I look forward to going through this situation here and now, and having the opportunity to say these words to everyone, so that everyone's heart can be excited, and a ripple can be made in the otherwise calm and waveless heart." Small waves can create big trends and push everyone to make continuous progress. 'Tianxingjian, a gentleman with unremitting self-improvement', only unceasing self-improvement is truly healthy and sound. In the preface to "Xu Zhuoyun's Ten-Day Talk: The Pattern of Today's World and the Future of Mankind", Xu Zhuoyun said so.
Xu Zhuoyun, a native of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He has taught at a number of well-known Universities at home and abroad, and was awarded honorary professorship by Nanjing University and Southeast University in October 2000, and is now an emeritus chair professor emeritus of the Department of History at the University of Pittsburgh.
Mr. Xu has studied chinese and Western studies, is good at using the theories and methods of social sciences to govern history, and his research areas are mainly in Chinese cultural history, social and economic history and Ancient Chinese history, and his representative works include "Ancient Chinese Social History", "Han Dynasty Agriculture", "History of Western Zhou", "Wangu River" and so on.
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"The world is like the past, there are always many unpredictable storms coming, you must always be prepared to face the storms, do not chaos, do not panic." So to develop this attitude, you have to think about it often, to cultivate yourself, is your desire fully realizable? Is it possible that your hopes are there, or are your desires simply not fulfilled? Or hope not to be there? ”
Mr. Xu Is 91 years old, and many times, he has to fight with his body. "When I go to bed and get out of bed, I have to hang it with a sling, and I have to cooperate with other people's time, otherwise I can't get out of bed, and I can't go up when I get off... I'm used to my insiders coming to feed me because I can't take a spoon and chopsticks myself. ”
"Xu Zhuoyun's Ten-Day Talk: The Pattern of today's World and the Future of Mankind" was completed under such circumstances. "Today's speech is in the ward, which is the ward that the hospital helped me set up at home. This one in front of the camera is an electric sling that lifts me from the wheelchair to the bed and from the bed back to the wheelchair. I can't move myself, I have to rely on the machine to help. In this case, I will not work with you for too long. Of course, every word comes from my sincerity. ”
Luo Xiang, a professor at the China University of Political Science and Law, said that Mr. Xu Zhuoyun is a major historian in the world, and mr. Lao especially rarely has a heart that loves ordinary people and seeks to settle down for ordinary people.
For Mr. Xu, historian and professor of East China Normal University Xu Jilin is very impressed: "There are not many learned experts, but there are too few people with wisdom, and Mr. Xu is one of the great wise people in the world today." ”
Liu Qing, a political scientist and professor at East China Normal University, praised Mr. Xu in this way: "Mr. Xu Zhuoyun is concerned about the situation of the nation and the people and the fate of human civilization with his knowledge of the past and the present. His insights, worries, and admonitions embody extraordinary wisdom and conscience that deserve to be listened to and pondered by each of us. ”
For the book "Xu Zhuoyun's Ten-Day Talk: The Pattern of Today's World and the Future of Mankind", Li Lun, producer of "Thirteen Invitations" and deputy editor-in-chief of Tencent News, believes that in this "Ten Days Talk", Mr. Xu Zhuoyun has involved a wide range of phenomena and issues, and has always held the vision and awareness of comparing China and the West. He uses "easy" as the premise to establish thinking, to watch the changes and fusion of knowledge and thought around the world, to make us historicize our own existence, and thus to believe that "there is no historical determinism, and history can only be pursued, corrected and improved forever."