Flag and Song: 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 group of important scholars, writers, and critics from contemporary China (including Wang Hui, Yu Hua, Zhang Xudong, Han Deqiang, Nan Fan, Huang Jisu, Xue Yi, etc.), while the other party is mainly current postgraduate students at Peking University. This dialogue format not only constructs a high-level training ground for those who are catching up in Chinese academia but also provides them with the opportunity to engage directly with cutting-edge issues in Chinese academia, granting them the rare chance to compete on the same stage with top minds in the field. Here, naivety and sharpness coexist, misunderstandings and empathy intertwine, but we more often see moving scenes of figures of varying heights walking hand in hand on the long journey of pursuing truth. These experiences once again reveal that a long-forgotten mystery in the process of knowledge transmission and intellectual inheritance remains effective today, which is the dialogue left for us by Confucius and Plato.