History Professor Xu Yilin Review "The past is not as good as smoke"
Author: Yang Min
Xu Yilin, born in 1957, professor of History of East China Normal University, the main research field is the history of modern China's intellectuals and thoughts. Representative works: "Endless confusion: the historical career of two Chinese intellectuals", "The dignity of the wise man: intellectuals and modern culture", "Chinese Modernization" (editor), "seeking significance: modernization and cultural criticism "Wait.
Wang Yuanhua has a high evaluation of the article
Recently, Zhang Bi's female chapters and books "Past things are not as smoke" has been published by People's Literature Publishing House, and the protagonists of their memories have history, Sang, Luolongji, Zhang Bo, Kang Tong, Nie Wei and other democratic parties, you What is this review?
Xu Yilin: After the "Chen Yu's last twentie years", he did not see any good biography, and this book came out to make people look bright. The elderly people come over, such as Mr. Wang Yuanhua, has a high evaluation of these articles, often recommend others to see. I was very familiar with the history, and I have written the article several cases, trying to study them, but because the lack of information is abandoned. Therefore, the biggest value of this book is the value of historical materials, and it is a living history.
History needs to be imagined
You just mentioned the historical value of this book. I believe that people who have read this book will have a sense of scene because of a large number of informative details in the book, but some people will suspect that Zhang Yizhen and lady can do ten What is the remember of the year ago? How is its authenticity?
Xu Yilin: From the professional perspective of historians, the more specific, the lower the credibility, which is the basic standard for our historical status. From this point of view, we can doubt whether this scene is a real scene, why you can put a double quotation number to the characters, do you have a record? There is a historical view behind this view. But I may hold another historical view, history is imagined, need to be refactored, of course, this imagination and reconstruction, is not like Harden Historic Histori Handden. White, treat history as a text, you can Construct it. I said this imagination is that it may be based on history. It has such a foundation that this imagination meets existing historical materials, which is in line with our general understanding of history. This is the tradition of Sima Qian and is the tradition of "Historical Record".
Straight entanglement of Shiliang and Luolongji
The protagonists in "Past" are mostly the senior intellectuals of the democratic parties. In the beginning of the founding, many people still ranked high, but in the 1957 anti-right movement, Duo, how do you evaluate the history hanging on the body? ?
Xu Yilin: The biggest value of this book is to provide some details. In the past, we have a conceptual understanding of historical figures. Now we have found that these people are living, their human nature is complicated, their bright points, in the dark, you are hard to say something good, what is bad people. I especially want to mention Shi Liang, Zhang Wei and the Pen's Su Liang. It is such a complex person. She is a political home, a woman, as a female politician, her and another male politician. Rong Ji's resentment can be seen how human nature is distorted in an unmanned era, and this distortion is just a helpless. In this sense, some people have actually act as persecution, or the help of persecutors, but what is our feelings when Straight, when Shi Liang goes home from the criminal site,? This is a public anger or private enmity, it is really hard to say, this is wonderful than novels. China's novel episodes often can't afford to scrutinize, history is very rich, but in the past, according to a set "big narrative model", "the past", the history is very meticulously out of the past. The image of the Sangping Ping is very thin.
Among these characters, you are more familiar with Zhang Bo, Luolongji and Sang Dianping. After reading the "past" to several memories, do you have some touch, or what new view?
Xu Yilin: To tell the truth, the storage of Sangfa failed. Zhang Wei and the Self-contained communication are very shallow, so that the image of the Sang'an is very thin in the book. We just saw that her father Zhang Shi and Sang Dianping have some contacts. Rolongji is different, there are many interactions between them, communicate. This book is a history of political, but it is a history of a living male or female. It inside, has humanity, love, so we will find that a reverse right movement, the scene behind it is very complicated, no one-way factor can explain, oh, this is because political reasons . Behind it is doped with a variety of grace grievances, what we see is how private grievances are touched in a public name, while the public's so-called "liquidation" has a secret discourse of private life. We can see that the most sad thing is that in that era, there is no dividing line between public and private.
Beyond personal grievances and politics
What is the meaning of "past" publishing in the beginning of 2004?
Xu Yilin: That history has been far away from us. For today's young people, it is more like prehistoric history, like a very distant legend, whether it is a comedy or tragedy. The meaning of this book is to remind us that everything happened in China is not accidental, and it is continued from some grace complaints in history. To understand the future of China, we must understand China's past; to understand humanity, you should read history. Today's humanity is basically no bigger than that of the human nature.
