In 2020, the Spring Wind Reading series of activities opened its 8th year, and the winners of the eighth Spring Wind Reading List were also released.
2020 is a special year, and the COVID-19 pandemic has affected everyone's life.
So, what can we get out of reading?
Li Oufan, born in 1939 in Henan, is currently an emeritus professor emeritus in the Department of East Asian Studies at Harvard University. His representative works include "The Scream in the Iron House", "Shanghai Modern", "The Other Side of the West Tide", "Fox Cave Discourse" and so on. This is a cross-cultural observer and researcher. Paying tribute to this scholar is also a tribute to the symphony of the times, to the solid humanistic quality and the bold and pluralistic spirit of innovation.
The winners of the 8th Spring Breeze Yue Reading List
8th Annual Platinum Book Awards
"In the Clouds" by Alai
Tribute of the Year Award
The Imagination of Modernity: From the Late Qing Dynasty to the Present by Li Oufan
Silver Book of the Year Award (Fiction)
"Life Sea Sea" by Mai Jia
Silver Book of the Year Award (Nonfiction)
Persian Notes by Li Zero
Annual Zhejiang Edition Good Book Award
"Heartless People Mo Wei Official- The Lower Ginger Model of Accurate Poverty Alleviation"
By Wang Huimin (Laohan).
Zhejiang People's Publishing House
The Tale of the Flying Locust by Chen Yingsong
Wind Direction of the Year Award (Naturalist Science Fiction Category)
Orphans of Mars by Liu Yang
Annual Spring Breeze IP Award
"The Twelve Hours of Chang'an" by Ma Boyong
Newcomer of the Year Award
"The Wrath of the Great Khan" by Zhou Sicheng
For those who like modern literature, Li Oufan's books are the electricity that we must recharge after reading the novel.
Scholars believe that Li Oufan is the second generation of Chinese scholars who study modern literature overseas after Xia Ji'an and Xia Zhiqing.
He describes himself as a "fox-type" scholar, who often "likes the new and dislikes the old" and "touches the east and the west" academically, and his works are varied and complex, and he does his best to be a "fox" - the theory of modernity is his "scalpel", modern Chinese literature is his "old book", cultural research is his "new joy", and popular culture is his "hobby".
The Imagination of Modernity: From the Late Qing Dynasty to the Present, published by Zhejiang University Press, includes Li Oufan's new works and a small number of old works in recent years, and includes his recent works on the translation of the late Qing Dynasty, including the re-exploration of Yu Dafu's novels.
"Modernity" is still the background of the 81-year-old scholar.
I am a fox-type scholar
It's enough for the niche to like my stuff
About "Modernity"
Start with Yudaf's quotations from Western literature
In the late 1970s, Li Oufan wrote about "modern literature" for the Cambridge History of China, proposing the concept of "pursuing modernity". This concept was originally used to refer to the general orientation of the Chinese literary scene from 1895 to 1927, examining how literati intellectuals intervened in history and reality over a generation.
Before we get to know Li Oufan and the "modernity" of modern Chinese literature that he has consistently studied, let's listen to what he sees as "modernity" and his way of reading.
Li Oufan: Modernity is an academic term, which is a generalized description of some historical and cultural phenomena at the theoretical level by later scholars and critics.
Yu Dafu's "Sinking" may be the earliest collection of short stories in the history of modern Chinese literature besides Lu Xun's "Scream". "Moving South" contains a large number of quotations from other Western literature, and even many in German, including a poem by Goethe. A writer who puts other texts into his own text is not plagiarism, but a transplant and quotation, and examples abound in musical composition, but not yet common in modern Chinese literature. Therefore, Yu Dafu's "Southward Migration" is also a phenomenon in the history of modern Chinese culture that absorbs Western learning.
In general, writers in the May Fourth period quoted Western literature, only staying on the surface of "citations", or identifying with Western writers and using them as an example. However, I think that Uddhav has gone further, both "quoting" his favorite Western literary works and injecting them into the form and content of his own works. The "Southward Migration" and "Silver Gray Death" in the "Sinking" novel collection are two examples, while the "Sinking" article is only a quotation from the scriptures.
My wife said I was pretty enough
It's enough for a few people to like my stuff
Li Oufan is not a traditional knowledgeist who sticks to the Shuzhai Academy. He watches movies, listens to music, and has a unique research on the film industry, especially Hong Kong popular films. In addition, he also has high opinions on popular novels such as Qiong Yao and Wang Wenhua. When teaching Kafka at school, Li Oufan directly used the Japanese anime "Valley of the Wind" as a "prop".
Li Oufan: My wife calls me a bookworm, and people who read books all day long may be very stuffy, but I hope to please my wife, I don't want to be too stuffy, so I subtly put the more playful things in the book into my head, and I began to humor. I used to be a very serious scholar, and I always had to show a "moral appearance" as a teacher.
I want to always keep myself in mind to study and stay young. I once taught a course called "History and Memory", and I revisited the experience of Chinese intellectuals in the War of Resistance, which is a sad topic, but after reading the book, it is full of admiration. They were so young, running alarms every day, dressed very badly. For example, Mr. Jin Yuelin's 300,000-word philosophical works are gone, so write them again, I admire them, these people are always young.
As for me, looking young, that's a credit to my wife, who calls me to do soft gymnastics at home every day. The other is the interest, the interest in all aspects of literature and art, I do not recognize my old age. As for whether it is beautiful or not, my wife said that I am beautiful. She also said this morning that I was pretty pretty, and that was enough.
I taught a course called Modern Literary Classics, which is a must-read book, such as Don Quixote. But I read the English version of the book. When I read the book, it seems that I am re-examining what I have read in my youth and middle age, which is a reflection and combing.
After Don Quixote, I taught everyone to read Dream of the Red Chamber. I found that the "Dream of the Red Chamber" in front of the "Dream of the Red Chamber" talked about stones, and the large number of prefaces before "Don Quixote" was also a troublesome chapter, deliberately proposing a character, all fictional, but also very realistic, placed in a historical situation, it is similar to "Dream of the Red Chamber".
In one lecture, a gentleman asked: Professor Lee, are you a little bit of Don Quixote? It means that your values have nothing to do with us anymore and are outdated. But I told him that I deserved it, but I was honored.
I am a niche figure, and it is enough for a few people to like my things. For example, I started a club with a few young friends — B is Bruckler, M is Mahler, Wagner is Wagner, and it has nothing to do with cars. I use this method to satirize Hong Kong's pursuit of material civilization, I deliberately pursue unpopular things, just a few of us listen, which may be the reason why I remain young: Anxer.
Marvel at the enthusiasm of Hangzhou people for reading
A bibliography of classical literature in his eyes
4 years ago, the money newspaper book club invited Mr. Li Oufan. Li Oufan has always marveled at the enthusiasm of Hangzhou people for reading. "In Hong Kong, there is no bookstore and book club like Hangzhou, if it is a movie star's new book club, it will definitely squeeze the head, my new book is published, up to two or three kittens, sitting half is not bad." In Hangzhou, it is too popular. ”
I once asked him to make a list of books —
Li Oufan: I have read two novels written by the Mai family, "Dark Calculation" and "Decryption", which are unique, and no one has written them like this. Mo Yan and Yan Lianke are the mainstream, but the Mai family creates a niche world in China, which requires you to use your brain, and it is not easy to watch.
Jin Yucheng's "Blossoms", I haven't finished reading it yet, I read it very slowly, because this novel is half In Shanghainese, and I don't dare to read it casually. I have a strange temper, and after I recognized the author, I did not dare to write about him.
After Chen Yinke's generation, there was no master, and now who else can write "Liu Ru is a Biography", I can't write it in three lifetimes. He wrote it at the hardest time, and in Lingnan, he wrote that his eyes were blind.
I was influenced by Xia Zi'an, and attached great importance to some Chinese classical works that everyone did not pay much attention to, such as "Journey to the West Supplement", which was proposed by Xia Zi'an, which is a sequel to Journey to the West.
I recently came up with a small book about the classic bibliography of classical Chinese literature taught in the first year of college, and specifically selected what I liked, such as "Xiang Yu Benji" and "Chibi Fu" by my favorite author Su Dongpo. In the Confucian tradition, Kong Meng, I did not choose, but chose Han Yu's "Original Tao", and then "Pearl Shirt" in "Three Sayings", which is about the relationship between men and women, which I especially like. Add another "Old Remnant Journey". In the end, Lu Xun was chosen, and Lu Xun was a summary of the entire Chinese tradition.
(Originally titled "I Am a Fox-Type Scholar, Enough is Enough for the Niche to Like My Stuff", The Winner of the Annual Tribute Award: Li Oufan," was originally written by Ma Li.) Edited by Zhang Zhongwen)