The Surging News reporter Luo Xin
Since 2011, when it took root in the Museum of Modern Chinese Literature, the system of training young critics, the visiting researcher system, has turned to the tenth session. Over the past eleven years, groups of visiting researchers have learned from each other on this platform, and they have put forward sincere and sharp views on important literary works and literary phenomena, and they have made a strong voice in the discourse field of literary criticism. A total of 88 young scholars and critics have joined the team of visiting researchers in the previous nine sessions, plus 12 newly hired this year, which is exactly the "tenth hundred people".
On August 12th, the appointment ceremony of the 9th Invited Researcher and the 10th Visiting Researcher of the Museum of Modern Chinese Literature was held at the Museum of Modern Chinese Literature, and Liang Fei, deputy director of the Museum of Modern Chinese Literature, presided over the ceremony. In a short film reviewed by a visiting researcher at the Museum of Modern Chinese Literature for the tenth time, the writer Mo Yan bluntly said that the system "gathers talents, trains the team, and accumulates rich research results."
The scene of the appointment ceremony was photographed by Wang Jiguo
On the new era and new journey of the world's "unprecedented changes in a hundred years" and China's "best development period in modern times", the Museum of Literature welcomed the tenth session of visiting researchers. After strict evaluation by the Academic Committee of the Museum of Modern Chinese Literature, 12 young critics, including Deng Xiaoyan, Shi Anshu, Liu Yueyue, Liu Yangyang, Liu Xinyue, Li Yuyang, Li Bin, Luo Yalin, Hu Yanyan, Xiang Yi, Jiang Zhenyu and Fan Yingchun, became the 10th visiting researchers. The 9th visiting researchers Li Jing, Lu Yang, Zhao Kun, Wang Yumeng, Shen Shan, Cui Rong, Zhou Zhan'an, Chen Shujie, Zeng Pan, and Kang Ling left the museum at the end of their term, and they were hired as special invited researchers of the Museum of Modern Chinese Literature and will continue to participate in the research activities of the Museum of Literature in their new capacity.
Tie Ning, chairman of the China Writers Association and chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and Zhang Hongsen, secretary of the party group and vice chairman of the China Writers Association, issued a letter of appointment to the 10th visiting researcher, and also issued a letter of appointment and a commemorative plaque for the 9th visiting researcher of the "Specially Invited Researcher of the Museum of Modern Chinese Literature".
The critic is not only an identity, but also an ideal and a cause
Li Jingze, member of the party group, vice chairman and secretary of the Secretariat of the China Writers Association, said that the original establishment of the system of visiting researchers of the Museum of Modern Chinese Literature was to stimulate young scholars and critics to actively intervene in the scene of contemporary literature, so that they can become the active force to promote the development of contemporary literature and become a new force in the team of critics. "Eleven years and ten years have passed, the earliest group of 'youth batches' have become 'middle batches', and new 'youth batches' are constantly emerging." We can say that our original vision has been successfully realized. A large number of young and middle-aged critics are playing an increasingly prominent role in the flourishing development of literature in the new era, and we already have such a team that we once expected. ”
He also stressed that the development of literature in the new era, new criticism, and new era is inseparable from the prosperity and development of theoretical criticism in the new era, which also means that the majority of critics are shouldering heavy responsibilities and expectations. "A critic is not only an identity, but also an ideal, a cause. Because of this ideal and dedication, we cannot be 'former critics'. At such times, I am also willing to work with you as a current critic. We must always be full of vitality, never rigid, we must always be full of responsibility and mission, never obscene and reckless, we must always be sharp, never greasy. We must always open up to a new and vast world of life, spirit and knowledge, and never slacken off. ”
"In the past eleven years, we have held more than 70 academic conferences with many key universities, academic journals, local writers associations, and publishing institutions across the country." Li Er, former deputy director of the Museum of Modern Chinese Literature, professor and writer of Peking University, said that because of these activities and exchanges, he has established a deep relationship with the researchers, and has also learned a lot from the researchers. Most of them are now important scholars and critics in the field of modern and contemporary Chinese literature. ”
Mo Yan handwriting
Zhang Wei's handwriting
Qian Liqun handwritten
A sense of responsibility, creativity, and a passion for building
At the ceremony, Lu Yang, the representative of the Ninth Visiting Fellow, said that over the past ten years, with the potential change of academic generations, from the "post-70s" to the "post-80s" to the "post-90s", each generation of young scholars has entered the broad world of contemporary literary criticism with their own historical experience and practical feelings, and the visiting researcher system is like the selection and cultivation of seeds, effectively ensuring and promoting a group of young researchers to participate in the transformation and renewal of academic paradigms and critical discourse.
Li Bin, the representative of the 10th Visiting Fellow, said frankly that it is a great personal honor for him to be a member of this team, "The Museum of Modern Chinese Literature provides a platform for visiting researchers to discuss and provide institutional guarantees, which is a lifelong support for our young scholars." ”
Yang Qingxiang, the first visiting researcher of the Museum of Modern Chinese Literature and deputy dean of the School of Literature of Chinese Min University, mentioned that from 2011 to 2022, the eleven-year visiting researcher system can be said to be fruitful, 100 visiting researchers have published nearly 100 contemporary literary criticism works, according to the year of each guest in the museum, the average person participates in about 10 seminars per year, publishes about 10 articles, and the total is nearly 100 seminars and nearly 1,000 articles. These do not include the results of the conversion to Distinguished Fellows at the end of the visiting period. "But these quantitative statistics are not enough to illustrate the importance of the visiting researcher system, but more importantly, the values and values that this system conveys." He said, such as a sense of responsibility, such as creativity, such as a passion for construction.
Group photo of visiting researchers
The vitality of criticism ranges from the literary world to colleges and universities to the wider society
In the view of critic Ding Fan, many visiting researchers have become the pioneers and bookmakers of today's literary criticism, and their keen observation ability and delicate literary style are refreshing. In particular, the new style of criticism sweeps away the previous rigid interpretations, adding a new wind to the literary world and adding vitality to criticism. More importantly, this new wind has pushed to colleges and universities, and it has also quietly undergone revolutionary changes in academic criticism, and the vitality of criticism is the embodiment of the essence of literature. ”
Critic Chen Sihe believes that the visiting researcher system is a model for a group of people who originally did research in the high walls of the college, lectured in the classroom, and published papers in academic journals, directly entered the social practice field and had face-to-face contact and exchanges with creations.
"For young people, the most important thing is that they interact with each other, collide, communicate, build friendships, and in friendship, they compete in ideas, which I think is a very important way for young people to grow academically." Critic Chen Xiaoming said.
Yang Qingxiang has a deep understanding of this. He said that as far as the on-site criticism of contemporary literature is concerned, the visiting researcher system has become the "engine" of contemporary literary criticism, and the important literary issues of the past decade can be seen as the active figure of visiting researchers, "'Qingping' has become a proper noun, almost equivalent to 'visiting researcher'." "As far as the academic production of contemporary literature is concerned, a large part of the visiting researchers come from colleges and universities across the country, and the Chinese Writers Association has introduced them to the scene of literature, allowing them to understand the richness, diversity and complexity of contemporary literature, and young critics have brought this sense of presence into the university classroom and passed it on to more young students. The 'hand-to-hand teaching' approach attracts more young minds, and to a certain extent, changes the current situation that university academic research lags behind the development of contemporary literature, so that contemporary literary research has gained a better position in the academic system. ”
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