Borderland China

Author: Book Review Week of Guangming Daily
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: Reading, appreciating, and compiling books is also a process of spiritual exploration. Through this intellectual journey, book compilers and authors continuously sift through the sands on the "frontiers" to harvest insights. We believe readers, with their own reason and intuition, will grasp the spiritual and cultural significance behind these images and texts, as well as the dazzling sense of life they convey. Culture is diverse and omnipresent. As a "sub-academic" cultural series, there are many topics to explore. This book adopts the concept of the "frontiers" as its perspective, observing the "thousand knots" in the hearts of contemporary Chinese people—specifically, the issues of the predicament and of Chinese culture—within the dual context of "China's frontiers" and "China on the frontiers." Here, there are scholars' profound reflections, legendary stories from the ancient towns of western Yunnan, and anthropologists' expressions of frontier sentiments. As readers engage with various "texts" and "discourses," they will discover that they have unintentionally embarked on an intellectual journey.