Thought and literature

Author: Wang Xiaoming
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Publish Date: 2004-02-01
Features: Jiming Series. To review the achievements of our center's research work and further promote the study of modern and contemporary Chinese literature, we have begun compiling and publishing the "Nanjing University Chinese Modern Literature Research Center Library" Jiming Series this year. The series is named "Jiming," which naturally brings to mind its local characteristics (Nanjing has Jiming Mountain and Jiming Temple), but also implies the meaning of praising diligence and conscience (as the saying goes, "Jiming at dawn and striving for goodness"). It also carries the connotation of calling for freedom and light (as the saying goes, "In times of darkness and turmoil, Jiming continues"). However, for our research center, it primarily stems from a "ambition" to establish an academic highland.
Secondly, we chose the name "Jiming" because there is a Jiming Temple on Jiming Mountain, and within the Jiming Temple, there is a Huomeng Pavilion. Huomeng is now called Enlightenment.
Furthermore, the character "ming" in "Jiming" still holds an inexplicable allure for scholars and students to this day. Our "Jiming Series" naturally faces the challenges of speaking in the contemporary world. Even within the field of modern and contemporary Chinese literature, since the 1930s, a series of concepts and norms have been formed around the questions of "What to say? How to say? To whom to say? And to whom to listen?" These concepts and norms have firmly ruled our thinking. Now, it is necessary to systematically review and distinguish them, some of which should be questioned, replaced, and overturned. Otherwise, our research will not be able to progress. This is undoubtedly difficult, but we will rise to a new level amidst the difficulties, and in doing so, gradually build an academic highland.