Un

Author: Xu Jialu
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2002-02-01
Features: Every time I read the collected papers of my predecessors, I can't help but marvel: the generation they lived in was turbulent, with many of them coming from poor families, struggling for basic necessities, yet they produced so many master scholars and wrote so many excellent articles. The predecessors I refer to are mostly from the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. By the 1920s and 1930s of this century, giants who still command the respect of scholars today had emerged in almost every field of academia.