Dragon and Insect Carving Studio Notes

Author: Wang Li
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Publish Date: 2002-12-01
Features: Last year today, the Life Guide was published. At that time, I had noticed it. However, although I noticed it, I didn’t feel it was worth paying two yuan for a copy to see. Especially when someone made various malicious criticisms of it, it made me reluctant to spend two yuan to buy a copy, guessing it was just a lowbrow publication. Later, when I saw that my respected friends, such as Pan Guangdan and Fei Xiaotong, often published articles in the Life Guide, I corrected my wrong perception: if their works still had lowbrow elements, who else’s works could be considered highbrow?
The content of this book includes Preface, Remnants from a Small Window, Names, Bookworms, Westerners’ Stories about China, Books during War, Prices during War, Rural People’s Chili, Superstition, Riding Horses, Strange Foods, Curses, Encouraging Others to Eat, Chao and Zhuo’s Studio Notes, Hongqiao’s Ideology, Maids, Reading Newspapers, Conversations Between Spouses, Hardship, Busyness, Hosting Guests, Poverty, Children, Wealth, Fame, Foreigners, Bones of the Starving on the Road, Getting Paid, Writing Articles, Selling Articles, Criticizing and Being Criticized, Chao and Zhuo’s Studio Musings, Taking Photos, Avoiding and Circumventing, Buses, Dancing, Watching Plays, Abbreviations, Slogans, Writing Letters and Attending Meetings, Scarcity and Inequality, Dispersing Materials, Zongluan’s Studio Remarks, Leisure, Lights, Lice, Clothing, Food, Housing, Transportation, Evacuation, Canes, Western Meals, Insomnia, Stinginess, Cleanliness and Urban Appearance, Aging, Marriage, Qingyi Collection, Sweetness After Hardship, Five Powers and Five Hegemons, Far Away from Heaven and the Emperor, Coping with the Environment and Changing Oneself, Supplements and Corrections, On Classical Chinese in Recent Newspapers, Minor Misfortunes in Tianjin, On Beards, How to Read Books, My Thoughts on Writing Articles, My Academic Experiences, On Writing Letters, On Transforming Prose, On Language, A Few Things I Know About Mr. Wen Yiduo, Remembering Mr. Zhao Yuanren, Remembering Mr. Zhu Ziqing, and more.