Flag and Song: Six Dialogues at Peking University: Six Dialogues at Peking University

Author: Qi Ge
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: This is a book primarily presented in the form of dialogues. One party in the dialogue is a contemporary Chinese scholar, author, and critic, while the other party is mainly a postgraduate student from Peking University. This dialogue format not only provides a high-level training ground for those advancing in Chinese academia but also gives them the opportunity to engage directly with cutting-edge issues in Chinese scholarship, offering a rare chance to compete on equal footing with top minds in the field. Here, naivety and sharpness coexist, misunderstandings and empathy are intertwined, but we more often see moving scenes of figures of all heights and lengths walking hand in hand in the long journey of pursuing truth. These experiences once again reveal that a long-forgotten mystery in the process of knowledge transmission and intellectual heritage remains effective today—that which Confucius and Plato left us: dialogue.