Interview with Jia Pingwa and Xie Youshun

Author: Xie Youshun
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Publish Date: 2003-07-01
Features: This series of "New Humanistic Dialogues" edited by Wang Yao and Lin Jianfa expresses the thoughts and reflections of people in the era of "dialogue," commemorating the joys and sorrows brought by thinking and contemplation. The selected participants for the dialogues are all renowned writers and scholars, including Feng Jicai, Zhou Limin, Han Shaogong, Wang Meng, Li Oufan, and Su Tong. The "intellectual status" of the series can largely reveal the contours of the intellectual and cultural circles since the 1990s. These "humanistic intellectuals" offer various interpretations of intellectual and cultural issues, radiating the warmth of their own lives. In a certain sense, this series of dialogues is also a spiritual self-narrative of the participants. This book is a conversation between Xie Youshun and Jia Pingwa, elaborating on views and content such as: it is not frightening to be misunderstood by the era, literature is not free, illness is also a philosophy, living with reverence, and essays are the writing of the heart.