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The ancient song of the Cossacks chanted:
Our glorious land is not ploughed with a plough...
Our land is ploughed with horses' hooves,
The glorious land is planted with the heads of the Cossacks,
The quiet Don River is full of young widows,
Our father, on the quiet Don River, is full of orphans,
The rolling waves of the quiet Don River are Daddy's tears.
Entering March, it is not the grass warbler that flies. War, epidemics, air disasters, woven into the shackles of this era, shrouded in everyone's heart. It also shows the color of each individual. Or good, or ugly, or wise to protect oneself, or fall into the well. One day, by his own deeds, he will meet the judgment that will come. In the chaos of soldiers and horses, there are four kinds of reading.
Wen | Wu Hezhong
The History of Modern Chinese Thought (Volume II), edited by Xu Jilin
Shanghai People's Publishing House, December 2014, 1st edition, 1st printing.
The next volume continues to focus on the currents of thought (such as scientism, voluntarism), radicalism, liberalism, conservatism in modern China (before 1949), and the changes in Chinese thought in the first half of the twentieth century. As the editors of the book said, although the selection is limited to the traditional field of research on the history of political thought, what it tries to do is to re-question the study of the history of ideas, "problem-oriented research on the history of ideas", and thus collect the research papers of Zhang Hao, Lin Yusheng, Wang Yuanhua and others, called the community. This kind of homology also makes the reading of the whole book feel a full sense of distress and cultural consciousness at any time, and it is not conscious that people think in the awareness of the problem, why is it that in modern China, it is finally a certain trend of thought that overwhelms another trend of thought, and the east wind overwhelms the west wind, rather than another trend of thought wins? Or is it because of what Zhang Hao calls a "crisis of meaning"? All of this, perhaps, need to be covered up and contemplated in reading.
Mr. Chen Mengjia chronicles, written by Ziyi
Zhonghua Bookstore, 1st edition, 1st printing, June 2021.
Chen Mengjia was known as a poet when he was a teenager, and his poetry was highly theoretically conscious, which was appreciated by Xu Zhimo, Wen Yiduo, Hu Shi and others. After middle age, he threw away the laurel of crescent poets and devoted himself to academic research, making outstanding achievements in oracle bones, Yin Shang history, bronze ware, and Han Jian. "In the academic history of modern China, there are very few and only a few academic achievements like him (Liu Qingzhu)." In just over fifty years of life, the ups and downs are not enough. Together with the Cultural Revolution, they were humiliated and humiliated, and finally they could not release themselves and hanged themselves. It was 1966, but I was only 56 years old. The compilation of things to read, in general, can be circled, but in some places, the historical materials are still insufficient, and they need to be supplemented. Mentioning some things is quite worth a record. It is written that in December 1948, in the Qinghua Garden, the People's Liberation Army and the Kuomintang army were engaged, and the guns and cannons were heard, and the Mengjia and others avoided the basement of the library, with a relaxed attitude. I think I am looking forward to the future. In 1951, one day the radio loudspeaker came to the notice that all teachers and students should participate in collective work exercises, and Chen Boran was furious, "This is 1984, so fast!" "There is also a ghost market stall with Wang Shixiang, picking out the past of bright furniture, the two carry each other, and feel sorry for each other." Many years later, Wang Shixiang wrote "Ming-style Furniture Appreciation", which has the words "I would like to commemorate Mr. Chen Mengjia with this book", and people with hearts will inevitably read it a thousand times and be sad.
The Four Lectures on Democracy, written by Wang Shaoguang
Life, Reading, and New Knowledge Triptych Bookstore, October 2018, 1st edition, October 2021, 4th printing.
As one of the "Contemporary Academic" series, it is a big surprise to read. The first lecture talks about the origin and evolution of democracy, and there is naturally no problem in making Athenian democracy as the origin, but it is determined that "real democracy" is a democracy in which all people must participate, and the subsequent evolution is a castrated and harmless "democracy", which is "bad things". When the whole book makes a thesis on this, talking about the electoral system and the practical results of democracy, it is a bit of a sense of self-seriousness and sneering. Coupled with the criticism of different political views and the self-humility of democratic reflection as evidence, to evaluate the practice of modern democracy, it is even more a practice of viewpoint first. As for the specific practice of "the people being the masters of their own affairs" proposed, they give "lottery democracy," "deliberative democracy," "electronic democracy," and "economic democracy," so as to return to the participatory democracy of the whole people in Athens, and inevitably write off the democratic practice and thinking of hundreds of years and return to the dead end of "the original is good."
Notes of notes, by Lu Chunxiang
Guangxi Normal University Press, October 2020, 2nd edition, 1st printing.
Continue wandering through the vast sea of ancient notes, occasionally gaining something, and memorizing it casually. Take the ancient metaphor of the present, think of the past with the present, and each has its own gain. Some of the stories in the notes, read today, can really be posted in the offices of certain officials as a motto, far more interesting than those "quiet and far-reaching". For example: "Wang Anshi's wife's surname is Wu and has a habit of cleanliness, while Wang, as everyone knows, is a standard unhygienic and spontaneous man, so the two of them always quarrel over health problems." When Wang Zaixiang retired and returned home, there was a rattan bed in the public house, which Lady Wu occupied. The officials sent people to ask for it, but they were afraid of Madame Wu and did not dare to say it explicitly. The next morning, Wang Zaixiang climbed barefoot on the bed and lay down for a long time, and Madame Wu saw it and immediately agreed to return it. ”