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Zhuang Qiushui
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01 The Memoirs of Mrs. Mandstadt
Nadezhda Mand Stam translated by Liu Wenfei
Guangxi Normal University Press, September 2013
[Recommended reason] This book has been bought for a few years, and it is only regrettable this year. Translator Liu Wenfei said that this book is a "testimony of history." After reading it, I feel that this statement is true. It can be said that Mrs. Mandelstam described the “external situation†and “inner situation†of intellectuals in the era of great horror with a careful stroke of women.
The twentieth century is the century of the acceleration of human science and technology, and it is also the century of evil acceleration. The East and West seem to be in competition, competing to show the enormous destructive power of evil. Although evil eventually went to ridiculousness and self-sufficiency, it also engulfed the land from Europe to Asia during the period.
Mrs. Mandelstam recorded and remembered the human beings under the hood of "witnesses". How people are alienated, live a double life, become empty shells without souls; the truth is obscured, history is rewritten; social divisions, prisons and the outside world penetrate each other; children are hypnotized, people have no future; fear becomes a wave The death of a sickle...
But most unfortunately, people lost their sense of history as "witnesses." "Everyone is working, fighting for their status, hoping to save themselves and trying to think only about what is happening. In such an era, the immediate thing is the real drug. People hope that the more such things are better. You should be immersed in These things go in, so that the years will fly faster, leaving only a faint sigh in memory." ("Wolf is full of legs and legs") Of course, this is also because people have experienced unprecedented unmatched Horror, after such an experience, people are no longer able to recover.
Therefore, this female witness is very precious. Brodsky said it was wonderful: "His widow is hiding on the surface of one-sixth of the earth. He clings to a saucepan that stirs up his song. She recites these songs in the middle of the night. In case they are taken away by the vengeful goddess holding the search warrant. This is our metamorphosis, our myth."
In the process of reading this book, while constantly arguing with our history and reality, we sigh, where is our "witness"? After experiencing so many horrific and incredible times, if all are silent, how should future generations think about that era?
Galthai counts one, and Wu Ningkun counts one. anything else?
02 "I am dead, I am surviving, I testify"
Shao Yanxiang Writers Publishing House July 2016
[Recommended reason] Soon, I read Mr. Shao Yanxiang’s memoirs, "I am dead, I am surviving, I testify." In the preface to this book, Mr. Shao Yanxiang said that he should "open the pen and use his personal experience as a clue, and emphasize my re-recognition of this period of history."
Bacon once said that the memoirs are an unfinished history, or the first sketch of history. To some extent, I think Mr. Shao’s book is just a sketch. He discovered something from the catastrophe of time. This chronology, written from 1945 to 1958, attempts to reveal some historical events. People's behaviors and performances are still the history of the big events. However, there are not many real and intrinsic roots. .
What I hope for is a true historical work, a person who has digging dark and desolate historical caves with reason and conscience from the past travels.
In this sense, I prefer the appendix of the author's wife after the book. As a right-wing wife, she has the expression of humanity and vitality, which made her life come out vividly. Under her fluent and delicate style, the pain and fear in the right-wing family emerged as a riverbed of history. Especially the helplessness and fragility of children, through the dust of language, become a witness to history. This emotionally memorable article portrays how children live in disorder and chaos, how they panic about the times they encounter in their emotions.
Mr. Shao Yanxiang could not stand shoulder to shoulder with Mrs. Mandelsham. Although the former is a senior writer, the latter did not write anything except the petition before writing the memoirs. This may be highly correlated with the spirit of the author. Can it be out of the party's consciousness, whether it can be higher than the simple condemnation, or even higher than the condemnation of the system, and enter the level of human consciousness interpretation.
03 Selden's Map of China
Bu Zhengmin, Liu Lijie, Translated by CITIC Publishing House, October 2015
[Recommended reason] If we look at the unstructured "cultural" and "historical" factors, the vitality of Ocean China may be high and low, but never lost. "Selden's Map of China" gives us a chance to uncover a historical moment and look at the passion of some Chinese in the 17th century.
The passion that dominates East and West for four consecutive years is to shorten the insurmountable distance through trade. The Eastern world entered the lives of Westerners in the form of artifacts. Europeans use silver to buy precious commodities such as Chinese silk tea, and China needs a lot of silver circulation. This supply and demand structure connects China and the world. On the seas of Manila to the South China coast, traders, adventurers, immigrants and pirates, sailors and industrialists, write a history of flesh and blood. The power of trade integrates economies that were originally affiliated with different societies into one world.
Globalization may be a new term, but a long time ago, trade opened a new world of globalization.
Knowing this background is crucial to reading Selden's Map of China. In February 2008, Bu Zhengmin first saw an ancient Chinese map named "Selden Map". In 1659, the map was sent to the Bodley Library of Oxford University along with other books and manuscripts donated by a British lawyer named John Selden.
All his understanding ends with these simple materials, and then Bu Zhengmin is like a real detective, or an archaeologist, searching for clues, a little bit of restoration, where does the map come from, how it is drawn, and by whom. Finally, he even gave a specific drawing year, 1608.
Bu Zhengmin restored the historical information that Selden's map was lost for hundreds of years. At the same time, he also revived a "non-mainstream China", a China outside the traditional narrative and obscured by dynasty history. (I have written a long book review of the era when China is inextricably linked to the outside world.)
04 "The Art of History: Tachman on History"
Barbara W. Tachman, Zhang Xiaoyu, Translated by CITIC Publishing House, March 2016
[Recommended reason] After reading Barbara Tachman's "Historical Skills", there is only one regret - why didn't you read such a book early? Of course, this is to blame yourself for being too poor in English. She talked about history, talked about writing, and felt that some of them actually came out of my lungs. Her precise grasp of the atmosphere of the historical era, the use of historical details, is the ability I hope to have.
"We can never guarantee that the story we rewrote is the truth. The only thing we can do is to make sure to speak with evidence." "I never make anything, including the weather. A reader told me that he especially likes the August fire. In one of the paragraphs, the paragraph wrote about the British army landing in France in the afternoon, a summer thunder burst in the air, followed by bloody sun. He thought that my art produced a kind of end-time scene, but in fact it is true I found this detail in the memory of a British officer. He took part in the landing, heard the thunder and saw the bloody sunset. If there is art processing, it is just that I jumped out of this detail and finally used it. The place."
Tachman believes that the choice of materials determines the quality of the final work, so she uses only the original literature - including memoirs, letters, autobiography, novels and newspapers. The reason why her narrative is vivid is "conclusive details." The details can produce realistic effects. From Thucydides, historians accurately describe the terrain – “the appearance and orientation of the city, the look of the river and the port, the characteristics of the sea and the country, and their relative positionsâ€.
Tachman likened the history of writing to the "extremely exciting inner treasure-hunting game" and defined the historical writer as "a historical writer who is not a historian, but a historical writer as an artist, a creative writer, and The poet and the novelist are at the same level."
From her writing methods and writing style, we can get some inspiration. How to look at history, if such value can take root, it will certainly stimulate ambition. Of course, the most important thing is that you decide to write.
05 "Screaming: Wang Jingwei's Political Career"
Li Zhiyi, Oxford University Press
[Recommended reason] Wang Jingwei is a historical figure with great controversy and fascination. I used to write a regent Wang Zai’s article, and I had some information about him. I remember that the title of an article called "From Assassin to the Spurred Wang Jingwei" can be said to capture the key to his life. Li Zhizhen's book is very good to read. The rare citation materials are very appropriate, and they do not affect the reading pleasure.
When the author analyzes Wang Jingwei's dramatic life, especially his last "falling water", he grasps his "martyr complex" and a good attitude, and puts him in a historical background like "the literati in the militarized era". under. The "fine guard complex" of heroic sacrifice runs through his life, insisting on sacrificing himself to accomplish one thing or even impossible. If he is not willing to live, he will not be willing to become a senior member. Number character. However, unfortunately, she did not analyze in detail the influence of Wang Qichen in his life, and lacked an important dimension in Wang Jingwei's life.
06 "Gorgeous Family: Six Dynasties Chen County Xie Family"
Xiao Ronghua lives, reads, and learns Sanlian Bookstore August 2008
[Recommended reason] Because I like Xie An very much, read this book. The Xie family was extended in the Six Dynasties, more than ten generations, for more than three hundred years. This book is the history of the rise and fall of this gatekeeper, especially the family's spiritual and cultural traditions. The family history is the history of the country, and it can also be regarded as the history of the "six dynasties."
07 "Dongjin Gate Valve System"
Tian Yuqing, Peking University Press, May 2012
[Recommended reason] This book has been bought for a long time. After reading "Gorgeous Family", read it by the trend, and understand the background of the era in which the Xie family is in, to understand the reasons for the rise and fall of the family like Xie and Wang. The Six Dynasties and the imperial powers ruled the world together. How did this regime model emerge, how to maintain it, and how it declined.
In addition to the imperial power and the scholars, the author introduced the power of the migrants from the north to the south. The author concludes: "In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the emperor was arched, the gentry was in power, the squadron was in power, and the doorkeeping politics could be maintained... The emperor restored the authority of the driving sect, and the sect retains a great social influence. This is the imperial politics with the characteristics of the Southern Dynasties. ."
The Six Dynasties can be called the chaotic and interesting era in Chinese history. Philosophical thoughts, Shilin customs, literature and art are all very distinctive. Coupled with the politics of the door, if you want to write China's "Song of Ice and Fire", it is an ideal. Background template.
08 "May 4th Movement: The Revolution of Thought in Modern China"
Zhou Ce, Jiangsu People's Publishing House, June 1999
[Recommended reason] In the past century, the May Fourth has carried out various "names" and has been described as several types of stories. In different stories, it has a certain degree of difference or contradiction as image, vocabulary, symbol and thought. These stories criss-cross and form a mottled historical grid memory.
Throughout the twentieth century, the world of the May Fourth Movement, the ideological, academic, and literary paradigms that were established at that time, as well as political positions and methods, have been constructing generations of Chinese. To this day, the consequences of this are still lingering in the spiritual world of intellectuals.
In my opinion, Zhou Ce’s book is still a book of the generals of the May Fourth Movement.
09 "Frustration of China's Modern Thinking"
Shimada's translation of Gan Wanping
Jiangsu People's Publishing House July 2010
[Recommended reason] This book is the first research work in Japan to raise the issue of "modernity" in China. The author outlines the two aspects of China's modernity and modern Chinese nature. It has a broad vision, from Wang Yangming, from Taizhou School to Li Zhuowu's history of modern Chinese thought, and then suffered from setbacks. Li Zhuowu was imprisoned and self-disciplined. The author regards China as a symbol of the fate of the modern society in the modern world.
10 "Gentleman in the living room"
Maugham Zhou Chenglin translated Shanghai Translation Publishing House July 2013
[Recommended reason] In 1922, Maugham traveled to Southeast Asia for a long journey, and wrote this travel story set about five years later. I have been reading for a long time, reading a section every night before going to bed, and the house has become unbearable. He has the ability to master the essence of things in trivial matters, which is an inexplicable subtlety. Go read it.
11 "Looking for George Orwell in Myanmar"
Emma Larkin, Wang Xiaoyu, Central Compilation Press, October 2016
[Recommended reason] I have to admit that Western writers will write too much. The author entered Myanmar in the 1990s and wrote this book in an attempt to find the conceptual clues and spiritual bonds between Orwell and Burma that wrote "The Animal Farm in 1984" - Orwell used to be in Myanmar. An imperial policeman who served in the colonial period for five years.
The author is very good at capturing the mental state of the Burmese. Although most of them are silent out of fear, she has meticulously described their daily life and inner world.
However, Chinese readers are afraid that this kind of contradiction and absurdity in daily life is no stranger. This is also the meaning of reading, dialogue with humans in different time and space, knowing that we are not lonely souls, knowing that hope is still there.
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