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Fishing information
The Diaoyu Islands have been a sacred territory of China since ancient times. After World War II, the United States privately granted the management of the Diaoyu Islands to Japan, which aroused the dissatisfaction of patriotic students and protests from the Chinese government, and students from Taiwan and Hong Kong who studied in Europe and the United States launched a patriotic movement centered on "defending the Diaoyu Islands", which lasted for ten years. This patriotic campaign to protect the land is known as the "Overseas May Fourth Movement", and a large number of materials generated during the movement are currently collected in the Research Center for Fishing Materials Collection in tsinghua university libraries. The collection of fishing materials donated by those who participated in the fishing campaign in that year is rich in materials that truly record and reflect this history. The variety and quantity of fishing materials collected by our museum is the largest in the world.
The War Report (1971)
During the overseas "fishing protection" campaign, more than 400 kinds of fishing publications were produced worldwide. The Journal of War is one of the most representative publications during the Fishing Campaign, published by the Action Committee for the Defense of Diaoyutai at the University of California, Berkeley. The first issue was published on February 15, 1971, and the second issue was published in June 1971, with a total of two issues.
Most of the chief writers of "War News" such as Liu Daren, Guo Songdi, and Dong Xulin were Taiwanese students who went to the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s to study for degrees. In the War Journal, they published a large number of articles about the Diaoyu Dao, publishing articles attacking the weakness and incompetence of the Kuomintang authorities in Taiwan against the Diaoyu Islands.
The international students put forward a declaration in the "War Report": "Students: Facing history, facing the critical juncture of the interests and choices of all Chinese people, facing ourselves, thousands of consciences burning for justice, we should say: It is no longer an era of silence, no longer an era of tolerance." From now on, going forward, is the 'era of declaration of war' for international students. To all the evil forces, to all the dark sides, we stand hand in hand and open fire! Let the 'era of war declaration' for international students begin now! ”
The "War Pao" was considered by the Kuomintang government in Taiwan to have an overly "radical" attitude, and the contributors to the "War Pao" were branded as "caterpillars" and leftists, blacklisted, and made them unable to return home and forced to live in the United States. "War News" only issued two issues, but it dropped shock bombs for the "fishing protection" movement at that time, which had a far-reaching impact.
Diaoyutai Express (1971-1977)
During the "Fishing Protection" campaign, there were several publications named after the "Diaoyutai Express", and the Chicago Diaoyutai Express was one of the publications with a large circulation and a long circulation time. It was founded in February 1971 by the Shiba Tai Defense Diaoyutai Action Committee and was issued in 161 issues by the end of 1977.
This publication attaches special importance to uniting students from Taiwan province, and the Chicago Diaoyutai Express was initially in a "center-left" state during the "fishing protection" campaign.
Buffalo (1971-1977)
"The buffalo clumsily, but tirelessly, turns over the fields that have been frozen in winter, so that the farmers can take advantage of the spring to sow new seeds. It neither asks farmers what seeds are sown, nor does it intend to share future harvests. I hope that our bullish energy can loosen a few frozen heart fields. ”
This is the phrase "Cow Talk" from Buffalo magazine. Buffalo was founded in October 1971 by Zhang Xingang, then a teacher at the State University of New York (BUFFALO Campus). Because Buffalo was translated as Buffalo, their title came from it. Buffalo magazine is a hand-copied publication, distributed throughout the United States, once a month, until the fall of the Gang of Four (December 73rd, 1977), is the overseas fishing movement, the publication cycle is long, the most influential magazine.
The articles of the journal are mainly based on theoretical discussions, the use of words is mild, involving current affairs, politics, diplomacy, Taiwan issues, literature and art, religion and many other aspects, is a magazine that discusses current politics based on patriotism.
Open Letter to President Nixon
(May 23, 1971)
On May 23, 1971, the New York Times published a full-page advertisement: "Open Letter to President Nixon and Members of Congress" hoping that the U.S. government would respect China's sovereignty over the Diaoyu Islands.
The open letter was first proposed by Professor Chen Shengshen of the University of California, and later written by Wang Hao and Li Hao of Columbia University, and was sponsored and supported by well-known scholars such as Yang Zhenning and Lin Jiaqiao. On this basis, Xiang Wuzhong (Yale University), Xie Dingyu (Brown University), Wu Hongxi (University of California, Berkeley), Li Iyan (Columbia University), Yuan Xu (State University of New York) and other fishing colleagues launched the "Open Letter to President Nixon" campaign and published the open letter in the Form of advertisements in the New York Times (May 23, 1971). In order to demonstrate the general enthusiasm of overseas compatriots to protect the land and raise advertising costs, they launched the Open Letter Signing Campaign and donation campaign. At the call of Yang Zhenning, Chen Shengshen, Lin Jiaqiao and others, the donation campaign raised a total of 19,076.36 US dollars, almost twice the cost of the page, and more than 600 Chinese professors and professionals and more than 2,000 international students signed the open letter.
"Although China has undisputed sovereignty over the Diaoyu Islands, since the 1968 United Nations oil survey, Japan and the Ryukyu government have repeatedly tried to steal the Diaoyu Islands for themselves," the open letter said. The Japanese side has committed a series of extremely unfriendly acts, such as expelling Chinese fishermen from the waters of the Diaoyu Islands and destroying the Kuomintang party flag on the Diaoyu Islands, which is a provocation to the Chinese people who have suffered japanese aggression for a long time since World War II. Equally important, Chinese considered such provocations to be a sign of Japan's all-out resurgence of militarism. Therefore, the open letter asks President Nixon and the United States Congress to reconsider U.S. policy on the issue, stating that the forthcoming Treaty of Restitution violates the principle of U.S. neutrality. Therefore, it demands that "1. reject any statement that the Diaoyu Islands are part of the Ryukyu Islands or the South Western Islands under the jurisdiction of the United States; 2. recognize China's sovereignty over these islands; 3. condemn the japanese and Ryukyu governments' violations of China's sovereignty and their attempts to resolve the dispute by force." ”
The open letter attracted the attention of American society, and even attracted the attention of the British Embassy in Washington, D.C., they sent a full-page advertisement of the open letter back to the British Far East Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and pointed out: "The open letter was attended by more than 3,000 Chinese academics, some of whom are academic heavyweights." ”
Guo Moruo replied to the Yale University Fishing Club in the United States
(1972)
The Yale University Fishing Association is an important member of the U.S. University Fishing Action Committee. The timing of the Yale Fishing Association's letter to Guo Moruo was precisely the period of transformation of the fishing movement into the Chinese unification movement, and it was also a period of reflection by the intellectuals involved in the fishing movement.
On July 7, 1972, Guo Moruo, then vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, wrote a reply letter to the comrades of the Yale Fishing Association, which was the only letter from the national leader to the overseas fishing protection movement during the fishing protection movement, and the most direct written statement of the Chinese government on the fishing protection movement and the fishing protection group. The letter expresses three meanings:
I. Guo Moruo expounded the relationship between Taiwan Island and the mainland from the excavated cultural relics, and the letter not only pointed out the sovereignty issue of the Diaoyu Islands, but also specifically elaborated that Taiwan, Hong Kong and the mainland are inseparable and are an inseparable part of China, reflecting the firm position of the Chinese government at that time.
Second, with regard to his understanding of the political situation in Japan, he pointed out in particular the question of the two paths: whether to take the road of reviving militarism or to take the road of peace and neutrality. The issue of Japan's coveting of Chinese mainland oil mines, which Guo Moruo said so clearly more than forty years ago, still has practical enlightenment significance today.
Third, the evaluation and positioning of the fishing campaign. When Premier Zhou Enlai received a visit to the fishing group to visit Chinese mainland, he spoke highly of the fishing movement and praised it as the "May Fourth Movement overseas." Guo Moruo continued to affirm the patriotic enthusiasm of the Yale Fishing Association, and at the same time hoped that comrades would throw away their burdens and work together for cross-strait reunification.
Photo album donated by Professor Yang Size
(1975)
Yang Size, originally from Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, was born in February 1947 in Taipei, Taiwan Province. In the 1970s, while studying for a doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley, Yang Participated in the Overseas Fishing Campaign and the Movement to Promote the Reunification of the Motherland, and played an important role in the Overseas Fishing Campaign in Berkeley.
Together with his progressive classmates, Yang Size established the left-leaning society Baicheng Guoshi Research Society, published the journal "Baicheng Qingmiao", carried out various campus activities, and organized various lectures and exhibitions in tandem with other fishing organizations. During the Fishing Protection Movement, he struggled with the RightIsts and Kuomintang agents, paid a bloody price, and also made him realize the true face of the Kuomintang authorities in Taiwan.
From the beginning of September 1975 to the beginning of January 1976, Yang Size returned to China to participate in the Third National Games as a swimmer from the Taiwan Provincial Delegation, and visited and studied in various parts of the motherland, which lasted for 4 months. From 1979, Yang Size applied to return to China to serve, entered the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and worked until retirement.
Marx and Engels literature and rare books in Spanish
Marx was a "thousand-year-old great man" in the history of human thought and had an important impact on world history. Tsinghua University's collection of Marx and Engels literature can be traced back to the beginning of the founding of the university a hundred years ago, tsinghua scholars collect and study the history of Marx and Engels literature, but also the history of Chinese intellectuals to seek the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and explore the truth. Over the past century, Tsinghua University has accumulated more than 30,000 multilingual, specialized and systematic collections of rare books of Marx and Engels, and its most representative collections can be divided into five categories:
► Pictures of marx and Engels's original manuscripts
► Various "The Complete Works of Marx and Engels" and collections of works
► Representative literature of Marx and Engels
► Classic Literature of Western Humanities and Social Sciences
► Japanese Marxist literature
Capital, Vol. 1, 1st Edition (1867)
The first edition of the first volume of Capital, published in Hamburg, Germany in September 1867, has a circulation of only 1,000 copies and is rarely preserved. The earliest collection of this collection was held by the Labor Lyceum Library in Philadelphia, USA.
Capital, Vol. 1, Chen Qixiu Edition (1930)
The first volume of the earliest Capital Chinese edition, but only the first of Capital was translated. The translator Chen Qixiu (also known as Chen Baoyin) was a famous economist in the early days of China. Chen Qixiu's edition is based on the Kautsky Popular Edition and references various versions, such as the Japanese translation.
Esperanto version of the Communist Manifesto
Esperanto version of the Communist Manifesto. It is based on the revised translation of the "Centennial Edition of the Publication of the Communist Manifesto" published by the Japan Society of Sciences (Nippon Science Society) in 1948.
Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1892)
The Condition of the Working Class in England is an early work by Engels in 1844 to explore a new view of history, and is an important socialist document of the 1840s. This collection is in English from 1892.
Rare books in Western languages are an important category of rare books. This exhibition selects the works of some famous Western scholars who have a relationship with Marxism.
Hobbes, On Citizenship (1651)
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was a famous British politician and philosopher. The base of this English translation is On the Citizen, published in Latin in 1642. The book consists of three parts, eighteen chapters and three appendices.
Kant's Metaphysical Principles of Law (1797)
The Metaphysical Principles of Law is a work on the philosophy of law by the German philosopher Kant, first published in 1797. Kant expounded his philosophy of law in four parts: The Preface, the General Introduction to moral metaphysics, the general classification of moral metaphysics, and the science of rights.
Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (1807)
The System of Science: Part I: Phenomenology of The Spirit, First Edition. The book was originally titled The Science of Conscious Experience. In early 1807, Hegel officially renamed it System of Science Part I: Phenomenology of Spirit. Phenomenology of Spirit was called "the true birthplace of Hegel's philosophy" by Marx.
The Complete Works of Rousseau (1824-1825)
Rousseau (1712-1788), the great French Enlightenment thinker, philosopher, educator, writer, and one of the representative figures of the Enlightenment. The collection includes important works such as On the Origin and Foundation of Human Inequality, The Theory of the Social Contract, Emile, Confessions, The New Eloise, and Botanical Correspondence.
Tsinghua old papers
Tsinghua University has been established for more than 100 years, and talents have emerged. Old papers in the library's collection document the extraordinary talents of the students and professors who are supervising. This batch of old thesis, including graduation thesis, term thesis and special research papers, dates back from 1925 to the early liberation period, covering various disciplines of arts, science and engineering. The authors of the paper are not short of later social leaders, scientific giants and revolutionary heroes, such as Lin Jiaqiao, Zhao Wanxiong, Liang Sizhong, Feng Zhongpu and so on. The old papers not only record the author's achievements, but also the comments and annotations left on the papers also show the true insights of the instructors, such as Liang Qichao, Chen Yinke, Wen Yiduo, Ye Qisun, Qian Zhongshu, Zhang Yinlin, Wu Mi and other academics, which are very precious.
The collection of more than 800 old papers was transported from Beijing to Kunming on the eve of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and then returned to Beijing after victory, surviving through war bombardment and several migrations.
Liang Qichao's guidance
Guan Xiaoxian, "The Explanation of Benevolence and Righteousness in the Seven Chapters of Mencius" (Class of 1927)
In the 1927 class of the National Academy, Guan Xiaoxian's graduation thesis, "The Explanation of Benevolence and Righteousness in the Seven Articles of Mencius", on the title page, there are fourteen words written by his mentor Liang Qichao, "There are unique places between the arguments, and the organization of the first draft is more advanced" on the title page.
Guan Xiaoxian was admitted to Tsinghua Guo college in 1926 and graduated in 1927. In 1930, he edited and published the Complete Works of the Second Lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty.
Liang Qichao (1873-1929) was a well-known political activist, Enlightenment thinker, educator, historian and writer in modern Chinese history. At the beginning of 1925, Tsinghua University set up a university department to organize the "Institute of Chinese Studies", liang Qichao was hired as a tutor of the Institute of Chinese Studies, and together with Wang Guowei, Chen Yinke, and Zhao Yuanren, he was called the "Four Great Mentors" of the Institute of Chinese Studies. Participating in the rules and regulations of the founding of the National College, the formulation of student enrollment and training programs, and other constructive work, he has made special contributions to the development of tsinghua Institute of Chinese Studies.
Xia Xiangrong, "Jiangxi Stratigraphic Examination" (Class of 1934)
Class of 1934, Xia Xiangrong's graduation thesis "Jiangxi Stratigraphic Examination" was submitted.
Xia Xiangrong (1910-2001) was a regional geominologist and expert in the history of geology. He graduated from the Department of Geosciences of Tsinghua University in 1934. It has created a precedent for the establishment of a geological and mineral division in China's provincial local history. He has made great contributions to the study of mineralization areas and metallogenic laws in China, and is one of the important advocates and founders of the study of the history of geology in China.
Huang Shaoxiang, "The Ming Dynasty Kaizhong System" (Class of 1937)
In 1937, Huang Shaoxiang's graduation thesis of the Department of History was "The Ming Dynasty Kaizhong System". There are hand-drawn maps by the authors in the paper.
Huang Shaoxiang (1915-2015), historian, one of the founders of the study of American history in China, was the chairman of the Chinese Society for the Study of American History. In 1935, he participated in the "12.9" movement and became the backbone, and graduated from the Department of History of Tsinghua University in 1937.
Chen Yinke's guidance
Yang Liansheng,"From Rent to Two Taxes Law" (Class of 1937)
Yang Liansheng of the 1937 Department of Economics graduated from the thesis "From Rent to Two Tax Laws".
Yang Liansheng (1914–1990) was a literary historian and Yenching Chair Professor at Harvard University. He graduated from the Department of Economics of Tsinghua University in 1937, and his graduation thesis "From Rent to Two Tax Laws" was supervised by Chen Yinke.
Wu Mi's guidance
Kwan Yi-hsien, Vanity Fair (Class of 1943)
In 1943, Guan Yixian's graduation thesis "Vanity Fair" at Southwest United University had the score and signature of her mentor Wu Mi on the title page. Wu Mi's more than a dozen papers, the title pages are written in artistic font, the style is distinct.
Guan Yixian is a well-known library science expert and a professor in the Department of Library Science of Peking University.
Wu Mi (1894-1978) was a famous Western writer, master of traditional Chinese studies, and poet. One of the founders of Tsinghua University's School of Chinese Studies, he is known as the father of modern Chinese comparative literature.
Shao Xunke's guidance
DuanmuZheng, "China and China Legislation" (Class of 1947)
In 1947, Duan Muzheng's graduation thesis "China and China Legislation" was supervised by Shao Xunke.
Duanmu Zheng (1920-2006), jurist. He received a master's degree in law from Tsinghua University in 1947, served as vice president of the Supreme People's Court, and was a deputy to the Seventh and Eighth National People's Congress.
Shao Xunke (1911-1975), a jurist, was admitted to the Political Science Department of Tsinghua Law School in 1926, a graduate student of the Political Science Department in 1930, and returned to China in 1939 to be employed by southwest United University.
Lin Huiyin's guidance
Wang Qiming, Ru Jinghua, "Investigation and Analysis of Qing Dynasty Barracks Near the Yuanmingyuan" (Class of 1951)
In 1951, Wang Qiming of the Department of Construction and Construction cooperated with Ru Jinghua to complete the paper "Investigation and Analysis of Qing Dynasty Barracks Near the Yuanmingyuan". At that time, the tutor Lin Huiyin believed that the problem of the Eight Flags Barracks in the Qing Dynasty was an important topic, so he chose the Yuanmingyuan station of the "Three Banners" not far from Tsinghua to guide the two female disciples to visit the site. After the thesis was completed, Liang Sicheng wrote a comment according to Lin Huiyin's opinion, and Lin Huiyin personally signed and stamped it. This paper is the only student paper personally supervised by Mr. Lin Huiyin during his teaching at Tsinghua University.
Lin Huiyin (1904-1955), architect, writer, professor at Tsinghua University.
Tsinghua Library
Founded in 1987, Tsinghua Library mainly collects the personal academic works, manuscripts, letters and archives of Tsinghua scholars (including teachers, staff and alumni who have served at Tsinghua University); tsinghua school journals and other internal or external publications since the establishment of tsinghua university, as well as various books and materials on Tsinghua people, events, objects, history, etc., as well as the literature of some famous scholars. At present, there are academician libraries, famous teacher libraries, celebrity rooms, celebrity shelves, etc
Manuscript of Yang Chen's essay "Drinking Tea"
Yang Dai (1911-2016), real name Yang Jikang, is a modern Chinese writer, literary translator, and researcher of foreign literature. He studied at Tsinghua University from 1932 to 1935 and taught at the Department of Foreign Languages of Tsinghua University from 1949 to 1952.
The most creative works by Mr. Yang Dai are her prose works. Her prose is meticulously observed, the narrative is plain, and the writing is delicate. It is often possible to see deeply in the plain and affectionate in the subtleties. The essay "Drinking Tea", written in the 1940s, is a life essay.
Xu Yuanchong's Course Notes on the History of Chinese Philosophy (taught by Feng Youlan)
Xu Yuanchong (1921-2021), translator, was the first Asian translator to receive the "Northern Lights" Outstanding Literary Translation Award, one of the highest awards in the international translation industry. He graduated from the Department of Foreign Languages of Southwest United University and was admitted to the Institute of Foreign Literature of the Institute of Tsinghua University in 1944. He has been engaged in literary translation for more than 60 years.
This 24-page notebook is a note taken by Xu Yuanchong between 1942 and 1943 when he listened to a lesson on the History of Chinese Philosophy taught by Mr. Feng Youlan.
Yang Zhenning's signature
Yang Zhenning's signature "Sixty-Eight Years of Heart Road", 2014.
"Sixty-Eight Years of Heart Road" is a collection of epilogues from two anthologies, "Selected Papers of Yang Zhenning" and "Selected Papers of Yang Zhenning II". It vividly presents Mr. Yang Zhenning's scientific research process, his taste and love for physics, his evaluation of modern physics masters, and his criticism of obvious injustices in science. This book is an extremely important historical material and is of great value to the study of the history of physics in the 20th century.
On May 14, 2021, Mr. Yang Zhenning decided to donate books, manuscripts, correspondence, video materials, calligraphy, paintings and statues and other works of art (about 2,000 pieces/volume) in his office and information room to Tsinghua, and Tsinghua Library received and set up a special room "Yang Zhenning Reference Room" for safekeeping and display.
Einstein's Autograph (1949)
Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist Einstein: Philosophers and Scientists is the seventh volume of The Library of Living Philosophers. This collection is a limited edition Einstein autograph.
The Library of Living Philosophers was created in 1939 to allow critics to engage in creative exchanges with living philosophers. Each volume of the library contains an autobiography of the ideas of an important philosopher and a catalogue of his writings, as well as sharp questions and answers from one of the most talented critics.
The same is true of the 1949 Einstein volume, which contains Einstein's autobiography (bilingual in German and English), comments by 25 scholars on his ideas and Einstein's answers, and a bibliography of Einstein's writings.
On the occasion of the centennial celebration in April 2011, Mr. Stephan Loewentheil, an American antiquities researcher and collector, donated the collection to our museum as a gift at the opening ceremony of the Museum of Liberal Arts.
Zhao Yuanren is in the special collection
Zhao Yuanren (1892-1982) was an internationally renowned linguist and musician. He was a pioneer of modern Chinese linguistics, along with Liang Qichao, Wang Guowei and Chen Yinke, known as the "Four Great Mentors" of Tsinghua Guoguo College, and returned to Tsinghua twice in the 1920s to teach physics, mathematics and psychology.
Mr. Zhao Yuanren was versatile throughout his life, proficient in language, mathematics, physics, philosophy, psychology, music and other disciplines. He is also an avid photographer, and since he bought his first camera overseas in the 1910s, he has been with the camera all his life, leaving tens of thousands of precious historical materials for that historical era. In 2017, Mr. Zhao Yuanren's family donated the photos, negatives and slides taken by Mr. Zhao who had been treasured for nearly a hundred years to Tsinghua University free of charge, and the precious historical materials totaled more than 20,000 pieces.
Zhao Yuanren's special collection also includes more than 1,000 precious items such as copies of Mr. Zhao's diaries, manuscripts, archives, treatises, letters, audio-visual materials, and pianos, which were donated by Mr. Zhao's family to Tsinghua University in 2014 and 2015 and entered the library of his alma mater.
Zhao Yuanren 17-year-old (virtual) Xiaoying (1908)
Zhao Yuanren and his wife feast on Russell and others (1921)
Zhao Yuanren holding his daughter and friends in front of the Tsinghua Library (1925-28)
From 1924 to 1925, when Zhao Yuanren and his family were roaming Europe, he registered to attend classes in Paris, where he listened to classes by linguists Meillet, sinologists Maspero and Pelliot. This exhibit is a lecture card at that time, with a black-and-white photo of Zhao Yuanren and autograph.
Zhao Yuanren's "Wu Vocabulary" Notebook and Card & "Modern Wu Language Research"
From 1927 to 1928, Zhao Yuanren personally recorded the notes and cards of the "Wu Vocabulary" while inspecting and studying the Wu dialect. It was later compiled into a book called "Studies on Modern Wu Language", which was published by the Tsinghua School Research Institute in 1928.