陈建功
2022/8/20 People's Political Consultative Conference Daily
On the cover or back cover of a book, print out the names of several people, saying that someone recommended it, and have recently become a fashion. Of course, it has the meaning of attracting attention, but it is also a way to let readers pan for gold in the sand. I don't know what other recommenders are, but if I am asked to write a recommendation, I must look at the proof. Because you can't be a "good person". Of course, everyone will be happy for a while, but when people really read it, they are disappointed and will not be happy. Delaying the reader's time is tantamount to trying to make money and kill people. Of course, as far as I know, there is no "money" to "figure" in writing a recommendation, but it is insincere and harmful. Recently, I accidentally checked the old article, and I really sighed for several of my recommendations, "hitting the knot", but I missed something. The key to the recommendation is that the words are concise and concise. When I had carefully read a book, I had to refine it again and again, extract one or two hundred words, and deliver it to the publisher. The taste of not being able to speak up is uncomfortable. The editor urged the manuscript, and suddenly thought why don't I find a few out and gossip again. "One chicken and three eats" may not be without taste, and stir-frying "cold rice" or talk is better than nothing.
First, "Ninety Thousand Miles of Global Support" by Zhang Bo
Published by World Book Publishing Company
My testimonials:
Old age is like a monk, and youth is like a hero.
Knowing the year of destiny, we will set off again. 56 days to get a plane driver's license, with the earth as the trajectory, he flew out of the arc of his destiny. Although nine deaths and one life hang on the line, he never regrets it.
Dare to let go, and then let go is not only the body, but also the soul that stretches freely. People who constantly broaden the radius of life, people with pride and courage as wings, to the old, are also like chivalrous teenagers!
Holding the proof of Zhang Bo's book, reading through the scroll all night, the old man was actually in this bloodline.
It's a thrilling book. Zhang Bo is the first person to fly by car around the world in China. The book recounts his second round-the-world flight. Extraordinary view, often in the distance. Taking off against the wind in the midst of risk, flying over the North Pole in a cold current, encountering a moment of horror over Greenland, flying a plane with difficulty when the unilateral engine fails... Zhang Bo calmly told the story of the encounters where his life was hanging on the line, together with the colorful culture of Vientiane. We can't help but worry about it and revel in it.
This book made me read the author's arrogance and courage, and read his courage to constantly torture fate and interrogate life. Zhang Bo graduated from a famous school in Beijing and first worked in a state organ. And so on, boring. So he studied overseas, started a successful business, and saved enough food for the rest of his life. Ran Jinyu spent the rest of his life in fear. He said:
"In the eyes of many people, honor and wealth are both complete, and I seem to be enough to be labeled as a 'successful person' and 'winner in life'." Indeed, at that time, I had reached the age of 'knowing the destiny'. According to the normal trajectory of life, since the years have been like poetry and peace of mind, I should open my arms to meet the moment of success and retirement, and begin to enjoy leisurely and wanton life.
But I know myself that a hundred-year journey, halfway through, is definitely not the life I want. ”
Zhang Bo, who is half a hundred years old, resolutely once again perks up his clothes, sleeps at night, and has a great future, and won a private flight license in only 58 days, and since then, with the intention of holding the mountains and the sea, he has opened a new realm of life.
Although this belongs to Zhang Bo's personal life choice and life posture, I think happily that Liang Rengong's cry of "young China" may have been conceived in the blood of a new generation of Chinese.
My excitement after reading it was more because I thought about it.
Second, "The History of Red Studies" by Li Tong
Published by Zhonghe Publishing House in Hong Kong
My testimonials:
Pretty! Li Tong, who lived in the same house at Peking University at that time, had both the dashing style of the prodigal son and the obsession of green lantern rolls. After 30 years of going to China, it is not easy to make a living; Obsessed with "red" for 40 years, what is the spring heart? The epidemic is difficult, and it has awakened the old feelings of wantonness - telling the history of red learning: crawling the source of red learning, showing the rigor of people in learning; The academic circles of speech and righteousness are full of the charm of talking in the streets and alleys. There is me without me, and there is a lot of going in and out; No, no,
Li Tong has been in the same window as me in the literature major at Peking University for four years. Not only the same window, but also the same room, sharing a floor - the two upper bunks of Room 332 on the 32nd floor of Peking University. I have recalled in several essays that Li Tongshan composed poetry and calligraphy, and on the wall of his dormitory, guan Hanqing's "A Branch of Flowers. "I am a boiled, uncooked, not flat, fried, not explosive, loud as a copper pea..." Li Tong is also good at singing, especially known for Beijing opera, Wen Wu Kun chaos. Lying on the bunk, I listened to him in the water room opposite almost every night, and the brethren washed while shouting Yang Zirong and Guo Jianguang, and even listened to him "oral" the general score of the ballet "Red Detachment of Women", symphonic music and gongs and drums, cymbals, it was really dark. Li Tong or can he be called the "predecessor" of the "imitation show"? Just because of the imitation of this wonderful portrait, I also specially "tailored" a one-act drama script for him and Huang Beijia, Wang Xiaoping, Liu Zhida, etc., so that he had a "human art" addiction... However, Li Tong was by no means just a "prodigal son of the class", or that he did not delay "serious business" in composing poetry and acting; during his school years, under the guidance of Mr. Liang Zuo, Wu De'an, Ma Xinlai, and others, he organized the "Youth Red Studies Research Group" with Liang Zuo, and also jointly published research articles with Liang Zuo, which was jokingly called the "second echelon" of Li Xifan Lanling's "two small people". This is the recommended phrase referred to as "the obsession of the blue light yellow roll" also.
Li Tong claimed that after graduating from college, he "stumbled for 30 years", but I did not dare to agree with this statement. Not to mention his performance as a reporter in the literary and art department of a major newspaper after graduation, nor how hard he worked hard after moving overseas, turning himself into a "house worm". Since then, under the pseudonym "Fang Chong", he has published a book "North American Family Search", which has won many fans. During the epidemic, the alumni group of Peking University of Canada is very active, when Li Tong was invited to give a lecture on "Dream of the Red Chamber", I also sneaked in to listen, and after accessing ZOOM, I was listening to the host introduce the speakers, talking about "North America Home Search", several alumni exclaimed: "You are Fang Chong!" ”
Who knows where the clouds rain?
It is impossible to cut off a human life. Let's say that in "North America Searching for Home", the professionalism of the "house worm" condensed his twenty years of experience, and also condensed his twenty years of sorrow and joy. But I felt that I could taste the "prodigal son" spirit in the 332 dormitory.
The same is true of the History of Red Studies. The embarrassment of the epidemic certainly forced Li Tong back to the blue light and yellow scroll, so after completing the 520,000-word manuscript, he sighed "my epidemic year and the red study for a hundred years". The so-called "hundred years" means that "on March 27, 1921, Hu Shi wrote the first draft of "Examination of the Dream of the Red Chamber" and sent it to the Shanghai Yadong Library for distribution as the preface to the new edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber", thus creating a new red science, which is now a full 100 years. The so-called "my year" is that he "wrote secretary red as a good medicine to avoid the epidemic" during the year when the epidemic struck. "I write behind closed doors, visiting the red scientists of the past hundred years. Let the epidemic be fierce outside the door, rampant and deadly, but in my mind, it has revived the red scholars, and I have experienced sorrow and joy with them, singing and crying together. In my communication with them, my knowledge was enhanced and my spirit was baptized. I have the company of the red scholars, and I have my own spiritual trust and sense of accomplishment, so I do not feel lonely and lonely in isolation and shelter from the epidemic. Sigh what can't travel due to the epidemic? My writing is not only space without barriers, time can also be traveled, it is precisely in this year or so, I completed a reverse journey of life, I enjoy this sleepy trip to the red school centennial journey. ”
I read out the joy of "Phoenix Nirvana."
What is rare is that his emotions are burning and his narrative is calm. Or to use another of our classmates, Huang Ziping, in the preface to the book: "This is not a cold historical connection, but a life writing with temperature." ”
Despite his non-fiction writing, he walks between the lines and the gaps, and you can see that he is at ease. 学问、学识乃至趣闻的穿插、叙述的张弛，都呈现着独立学问人和自由思想者的魅力。
Third, "Escape from Los Angeles, 2020" by Tambar
Published by China Federation of Literature and Literature Publishing House
My testimonials:
Reading this essay is like a barbecue in the backyard of an American family, surrounded by flavorful human fireworks. Without leaving home, I have become friends with all kinds of people on the other side of the ocean.
2022 is a bumper year for female writer Tambar, since the first book of the "Los Angeles Trilogy" in 2017, "The Man I Met in Los Angeles" (Writers Press), the diplomat who used to be a cultural exchange in the United States, while accompanying her mother to the doctor in Los Angeles, was helplessly "blessed" by fate - in 2020, when the new crown epidemic broke out, she was involved in the crowd of people fleeing Los Angeles. The accounting of the writer's profession and the 14-day quarantine after entry gave birth to the second installment of the "Los Angeles Trilogy," Escape from Los Angeles, 2020.
"Escape from Los Angeles, 2020" takes her own encounter as an incision, uses a large number of personal details to tell the different reactions, circumstances and fates of the chinese and American peoples facing the plague of the century, and uses facts to show the national conditions, culture, and mentality differences behind this, objective, rational, full of human warmth, and also shows the recognition of cultural diversity and the desire to help each other in the same boat.
So it's not just a book of "escape." The author does not just want readers to worry about the hearts and lungs of those compatriots who have a country and cannot return, but expects people to understand and appreciate different ways of thinking under different cultural backgrounds and different institutional conditions, so as to create a good and beautiful spiritual realm for the virtues that human beings commonly respect— sympathy, love, communication and even appreciation. Gu Yun, brothers from all over the world, in the author's pen, Trump's fans can also be a kind old man, the French female nurse who jumped into the Sai Na River under pressure also made us cry, and even those "white garbage" that discriminated against Asians and finally swallowed the consequences of their own evil also made people pity... The writer's understanding and accumulation of exotic cultures, the presentation of various American personalities, the effort to understand the goodwill of other cultures, and even the discovery and joy of folk life and even grass, trees, birds and insects are all displayed as a broad vision and even a broad spiritual world.
To this end, my recommendation is to be alienated from the topic of "escape", and to emphasize the "human fireworks" of people of different countries, different races and different personalities, hoping that readers' attention to this work will move towards a more far-reaching proposition.
The creativity of the post-70s writer Tambarg is really amazing, just when "Escape from Los Angeles, 2020" was well received by the media attention and was widely praised by the publication, the third part of the Los Angeles trilogy, the essay collection "Waiting for a Rain in Los Angeles" (Guangdong Higher Education Publishing House) was immediately released. Different from the first part, the former focuses on the portrayal of characters, and the third part focuses more on the experience and description of the details of life unique to the United States, and it is not difficult to glimpse its contents by looking at the article alone: "The Tale of the Rental House", "The Eagle Above the Flea Market", "The Eggs Laid at Christmas", "Seeing the Doctor", "Buying Horses in the East Market, Driving Licenses in the West Market"... Tamba's prose is full of meaning, but it is not sculpted, and in the process of telling, it gives the reader an immersive experience. I have recently read her new prose works in several important domestic literary and art publications, such as "Days Related to Avocados" and "Dumb Grasshoppers"... See the continuation of her plain and calm style. The author's old friend and actor Ge You's recommendation after reading "Waiting for a Rain in Los Angeles" is particularly interesting - "There are books that you have to sit in and read straight." Some books, you have to go to a bath and burn incense and read again. Others were so thick and heavy that they had to be bent over the table and bowed to read. This interesting little book, I just read it in one sitting, you may wish to try it too. "Ge You lie" is already a kind of humor that netizens are familiar with, and Ge You took over this joke and conveyed his reading feelings, or also conveyed a certain realm expectation of good books by the majority of readers.
August 20, 2022
(People's Political Consultative Conference Daily)