Nineteen Letters from a Peking University Professor to His Students

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Publish Date: 2001-05-01
Features: This book focuses on four aspects: 1. The nature of the university: a guarantee of rationality; 2. The foundation of the university: scientific methods; 3. The characteristics of the university: non-emotional academic nature, non-utilitarian purity; 4. The goals of the university: individuals whose rationality is developed. It also covers topics such as scientific reading, thinking reading, foreign languages, reference cards, full-text databases of ancient documents, scientific language, undergraduate thesis norms and master's requirements, academic translation, annotations, terminology, indexes, exams, teachers, experts and scholars, the limitations of science, and self-examination.