The Reading Diary of Ge Zhaoguang, a professor of history at Fudan University: Habermas's English version

The author, Ge Zhaoguang, is a professor of history at Fudan University.

A reading diary that integrates more than a hundred books. Because each article is a summary of reading, the content is very concise, in other words, very condensed and abstract, plus the books that enter the reading range, although the author himself says that it is "idle books", are basically more serious works, and many of the contents are very difficult for laymen to understand.

During this period, the author's academic research probably began with the history of Chinese religion and later expanded to the entire history of Chinese thought, and the general scope of reading did not leave the scope of the author's research, and the authors of the books read were basically the big masters in this field. If you want to know about good books in related fields, this diary can be regarded as a good recommended reading list.

Personally, I find the most interesting passage is the reading notes of Habermas's book "Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere", which begins with this paragraph, "... Hu Zhide of the University of California came to see me at Tsinghua University, talked with me at the First Institute, and gave me a copy of Habermas's Structural Transformation of the Public Domain. I looked at English too hard, so I never read it carefully..." (2006 Reading Notes).

Ge Zhaoguang is one of the first-class scholars among living Chinese historians (in 2006, he was poached by Fudan University in the Department of History at Tsinghua University and served as the first dean of the Institute of Literature and History of Fudan University), born in the 78th Peking University after the Cultural Revolution, and later went to the United States (Harvard, Princeton, etc.) to give lectures many times.

I think his English level should still be very good even if it is not as good as Dr. Liu Mei, but in the published reading notes, he is willing to admit that he is too difficult to read English (or used to be very difficult), which is very admirable.