The poet's new book "Silhouette of Xuelin" was recently published by Guangxi Normal University Press. This book records the stories of 30 Chinese scholars with the influence of the times, and the author Wu Lin shows the style of the older generation of intellectuals from the perspective of witnesses, which has very important data value.
Wu Lin was born in Shanghai in 1961. He graduated from the Law Department of East China University of Political Science and Law in 1983. Senior journalist, long-term commitment to the study of modern Chinese cultural history, the relevant results have been published in a large number of media such as China Reading Daily and Beijing Evening News. He has published "Who's Who's Interview", "Singing And Shouting", "Old Time Book Shadow" and so on.
"Silhouette of Xuelin" is An interview and memoir by Wu Lin, and the choice of interviewees is probably a titan figure in their respective fields who are over the age of eighty. At the beginning of writing, I hoped that these words would be collected in the future, and the book was called "Song and Weeping Life". One day, Teacher Wu Lin confessed his ideas to Mr. Qi Gong in the Red Chamber of the North Division, but he did not expect to be immediately opposed by Mr. Qi. He didn't like the word "cry" very much, and pretended to be angry and said, "You are happy, let us cry, don't do it!" Then Mr. Qi went to the writing desk and wrote four titles, including "Xuelin Silhouette", which is the origin of the title of this book.
Mr. Qi Gong inscription
Since the early 1990s, Wu Lin has followed and interviewed a large number of Chinese scholars such as Sheng Cheng, Zhou Youguang, Wu Zujian, Lin Geng, Shi Jingcun, Wu Zuoren, Li Keyan, Chen Congzhou, etc., and spent nearly 30 years enriching them. This book selects the silhouettes of 30 century scholars, not directly praising their academic achievements, but writing characters through small details, and establishing an image through an article of just four or five thousand words. Then pass through a group of people and look at an era, a microcosm of their 20th century. Wu Lin said that the reason why he wrote about these old cultural people who were very snubbed at that time was because these people were the most outstanding people of this nation, and he was willing to tell how these intellectuals managed to learn and behave and how they took on the fate of their homeland in the era of change.
"Silhouette of Xuelin" adopts a superimposed approach in writing: retaining the original text from many years ago, and adding the newly written "supplementary note", or even "re-note". This style of interlacing time and space can not only preserve and restore the interview scene of that year, but also add years of precipitation and thinking, making the content of this book more deep and heavy. The contents of the manuscript are all based on the first-hand information of Wu Lin's interaction with scholars. The book is accompanied by early and recent photos of the characters written, some of which were personally taken by the author Wu Lin and made public for the first time, which has a very important historical data value.
From 20:00 to 21:00 on December 17, Wu Lin will lead readers into the lives of the older generation of scholars in the form of WeChat voice group sharing and listen to different kinds of fancy years.