2022.4Read the handwriting| people are sick, God knows no

Miyazaki once concluded: "After the Song Dynasty, when the dynasties were in revolution or social chaos, the city would show a harsh and miserable situation due to lack of food." When money is the lowest, things are secondary, and grain is the most expensive, in the end, the countryside has an advantage. "I didn't think that in the world of Chengping, I was still verifying this thesis. The so-called "people are sick, God knows whether it is or not", what is the matter. The situation is swinging, I want to get a moment of tranquility in the book, and I read seven kinds of books this month, but I still want to be quiet and can't.

Wen | Wu Hezhong

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Late Qing Dynasty Scholar and World Phase, by Yang Guoqiang, Life, Reading, and Xinzhi Triptych Bookstore, May 2017, 1st edition, 3rd printing in May 2021.

In the midst of major changes unprecedented in three thousand years, the people who are proud of the lifeblood of the country cannot help but think about each other. Either by discussing the government with a clean discussion, or by doing hard work to rejuvenate the country, but they are all in such a stormy and shaky situation, and they have no choice but to wither. Mr. Yang Guoqiang combed through the deeds of the soldiers in the late Qing Dynasty, and looked at the events of Jiaqing for more than a hundred years, including the Opium War, the Change of Gengshen, the Change of Law, the New Deal, and the Revolution, and the various things that wrapped the soldiers in this "autumn of wisdom and courage and difficulties". In the meantime, the situation of the scholar is behind the world, and it is also the trend of the times at that time. Although many practices are full of short-sightedness and absurdity in today's eyes, there are several individuals in history who can transcend the times and accurately grasp future developments, always intending to turn the tide in the struggle. Among them, the bloody place can really allow generations of scholars to enter the Forest of Monuments. Of course, there are also some people who are ugly. Wang Mingsheng, who wrote the "Seventeen Histories of Shangyu", "from the hair to the white, did not quit the book in a day", but he was eager to smoke his heart: when Wang Xizhuang was not in the first place, he tasted the rich family of the museum, and every time he entered the house, he would make his hands as an object. The man asked, "I want to put his wealth and prosperity into his own arms." After the eunuchs, Qin Yu Chuchen did not do much, and the day people asked: "Sir is rich in learning, but he is greedy and stingy, and he is not afraid of the name of the hereafter!" "Public Day": "Covetousness is only a momentary ridicule, and learning is the karma of eternity." Yu was confident that the name of the text could be passed down, and after a hundred years, the word of mouth was gone and the writings were still there, and my moral articles were still comfortable. Therefore, the books he wrote were mostly impassioned, covering themselves with greed and ugliness. It is really a high degree of greedy self-awareness.

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The Chinese among others: A History of Modern and Contemporary Chinese Immigration, by Kong Feili, translated by Li Minghuan, Jiangsu People's Publishing House, 1st edition in March 2016, 2nd printing in April 2016.

Kong Feili, who is familiar to domestic readers with "Calling The Soul", in this book that pays attention to the history of Chinese immigration, changes it to a small view, excavates materials in the vast original archives, deeply analyzes individual cases, and interprets the research methods of big history. Instead, we will comb through and compare the research results of our predecessors and construct a refreshing theoretical framework. The modern history of Chinese overseas immigrants began with the lifting of the sea ban in the Ming Dynasty in 1567, after which they either made a living, or did business, or Southeast Asia, or the New World, and the blue wisps of the Yanlu Road, during which they fought and fought with their lives to fight for a bloody road, "relocating the land and relocating" Yunyun, all of which were born here to survive, and even the struggle of "returning to the hometown". In this kind of migration, what plays a great role is not the encouragement and support of the government, but the various "channels" woven by relatives and hometowns, and what connects the two ends of the "passage" is the unique "small habitat". This is also the most noteworthy theoretical framework in the whole book. The history of 500 years of immigration, the great changes in the country and the world, both the big vision and the small people, are worth reading.

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The Modern Age of the Orient: The Renaissance of China, (Japanese) Miyazaki Ichi,(Japanese) Tonami Ed., Zhang Xuefeng, Lu Shuai, Translated by Zhang Zihao, CITIC Publishing House, July 2018, 1st Edition, 1st Printing.

As a disciple of Naito Hunan, Miyazaki Ichisuke on the one hand accepted the concept of historical periodization of the Master and also agreed with the Song Dynasty's theory of modern times; on the other hand, he did not stick to the rules, and in the process of reading a large number of historical documents, he opposed the practice of mechanizing and simplifying the historical records by discussing the history of the dynasty and overemphasizing economic factors, discussing the entry of China after the Song Dynasty into the modern stage from different aspects, and establishing the Song Dynasty modern era theory with personal characteristics. In this volume of "The Modern Age of the Orient", Miyazaki city has made a trustworthy historical compendium from the aspects of transportation, social economy, politics, nationalism, and culture, placing the development of Chinese history in the intermingling with West Asia and Europe. It is precisely because it is an overview that the book also includes papers such as "The Borrowing of China's Modern Life Capital" and "The Form of Land Ownership after the Song Dynasty" as a supplement to the socio-economic discourse, which can be roughly seen in the style of Miyazaki City. See the details in the big picture, see the progress of the times in detail, although some specific views are still debatable, but the insight is still everywhere.

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The Ancient Times of the Orient: From The City State to the Qin and Han States, (Japanese) Miyazaki City Dingshu, (Japanese) Tonami Pao, Ma Yunchao, Zhang Xuefeng, Shi Yang Translation, CITIC Publishing House, July 2018, 1st Edition 1st Printing.

Miyazaki City has a schematic expression of the development of ancient Chinese history, arguing that from the clan system, through the Bronze Age city-state (similar to the city-state), the Iron Age territorial state, and finally developed into the ancient empire of the Qin and Han Dynasties. Whether it is the truth that reaches the depths of history is self-evident, and this macroscopic construction has also become an important reason for his holding of oriental history. This volume of ancient history contains two treatises on miyazaki's ancient history, four truncated research papers on the "Chronicle of History", and two academic history review articles. As for the connotation of ancient history, Miyazaki has a definition, that is, "The scattered human beings at the beginning are gradually integrated on a large scale, and finally form a powerful human community like the so-called ancient empire, which is a process of historical development with the characteristics of ancient history." On the basis of this theory, the development of the urban state to the ancient empire became the fire of history viewed by Miyazaki from the other side. In the study of the specific chapters of the "Chronicle of History", Miyazaki Ichisei put forward a very creative point of view, believing that some of the texts in the history of history, Sima Qian, based on the performance scenes rich in body language (such as the "even language" of multi-person dialogue), are analyzed in detail, reasonable and well-founded, and really impressive.

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The Scourge of witchcraft and the Rise of the Confucian Empire, by Cai Liang, translated by Fu Qiang, Beijing Normal University Press, 1st edition in December 2020, 2nd printing in January 2022.

Unlike Dong Zhongshu's view of "deposing a hundred families and respecting Confucianism alone", Cai Liang carefully analyzed the historical materials left by the Western Han Wu Emperor in this monograph and found that Confucianism at that time was inconspicuous in the political sequence. Yuan Xun's foreign relatives and military nobles occupied the tip of the power pyramid of the Wu Emperor Dynasty. Confucianism and Confucian discourse were not insignificant during this period, and the Chronicle of Rulin and the Book of Han consciously made historical imagination in their narratives, constructing a confucian group with a clear genealogy, which may be far from the truth. In the data analysis, the author proposes that the scourge of wu in his later years, the great purge and massacre of the elite, left a huge power gap. Huo Guang stepped onto the political stage, and the establishment of a new political order required new interpretations, and Confucianism and Confucian discourse appeared on the scene, gradually forming a Confucian group. These views are indeed very beneficial.

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Hong Ye: The Founding History of the Qing Dynasty, by Wei Feide, translated by Chen Suzhen and Bo Xiaoying, Jiangsu People's Publishing House, March 2005, 1st edition, 5th printing.

In 1644, the Qing army entered the pass and blasted the Dashun army occupying the capital of the Ming Dynasty out of the Ming Ancient Capital, and the Ming Dynasty for more than two hundred years was almost about to come to an end. This magnificent history, in Weifeld's pen, is displayed in a panoramic and moving way. After reading the whole book, the deepest impression is the burning and plundering of the eyes. The Manchus killed Han people, the Han killed Han people, the Qing army, the Ming army, the Southern Ming army, the rebel army, the peasant army, and the Da Shun army, killing each other and killing each other, and there was no mercy for the ordinary people, slaughtering tens of thousands of people at every turn, leaving behind the old and young, and even slaughtering the hungry in order to save grain. The rise and fall of the people's suffering is really vividly remembered in the book. He also elaborated on the Ming Dynasty minister who was in Nanjing at that time, and pulled up the banner to retake the old family mountain with the southeast half of the wall. But if the reader stands on the orthodox side of the Ming Dynasty and advocates for the doomsday empire, he will simply be angry. In the midst of the storm, Lord Lord Quan is plotting to kill people and plunder the land, and to form gangs and factions, and he will want to kill his opponents. Where there is chaos and tyranny, where there is an atmosphere that turns the tide on the upside down. Such an unsupportable Ah Dou makes people suddenly fall into deep thoughts in the face of the "History of the Southern Ming" that has just been started. The network paragraph said: "Good young people, read what the history of the Southern Ming Dynasty, be killed alive!" "Read carefully.

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Reflections on Modernity: The Reconstruction of Modern Chinese Historical Writing, by Huang Kewu, Sichuan People's Publishing House, January 2021, 1st Edition, First Printing.

Mr. Huang Kewu's book, reading it, always has a sense of déjà vu, and I don't know if it belongs to the collection that has been re-collected and changed the title. Among them, the exemplary transfer of modernity is based on the reflection process of Western sinologists on China's development, from Fairbank's "impact-reaction" theory, to "modernization theory", to "China-centrism", the cycle is repeated, and the criticism is elevated, which is full of the stone of the mountain that can attack the jade. In addition to this section on "Exemplary Transfer", the book also includes "Reflection on the History of the Late Qing Dynasty" and "Review of the History of the Republic of China", which is often written first to review historical documents, then repeat and state views, and finally make conclusions. The specifications are neat and clear at a glance. Let's do a bunch of chaos in the mainland academic circles at that time, and today I read it in one go, which is very smooth.