2004 Humanities China

Author: Lin Xianzhi
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: This book includes representative works on law and the spirit of law, nationalism, reading classics and traditional culture, "Lang's Craze," the Ma Jiaju incident, mining accidents, and humanistic figures such as Gao Yaojie and Zhang Sizhi. Examples include Yi Zhongtian's "A Constitution and a Nation," Qin Hui's "On 'Lang's Craze'," Wang Binbing's "The Mass Nationalism of Today's China," Qiufeng's "Why Can't We Read Classics?", Yuan Weishi's "Review of the 'Jiazhong Cultural Manifesto'," Zhu Dake and Chen Li's "Do People Need Such Actors?", Wang Lingyi and He Zhuoni's "The Great Doctor Gao Yaojie," and more. At the end of the book, appendices include "A Review of 2004 Humanistic Events" and "Humanistic Database." Humanistic China is a comprehensive collection that attempts to approach the humanities, selecting published texts in China related to the humanities within a year, including narrative and discursive works. It covers genres such as commentary, investigative reports, news features, interviews, essays, diaries, memoirs, and biographies, aiming to reflect China's humanistic conditions in politics, economy, science, culture, law, education, religion, art, and environmental protection. It focuses on major humanistic events of the year, showcases significant humanistic trends, and promotes representative figures of the year. To help readers understand related humanistic issues, it also selects classic statements from renowned domestic and international humanistic scholars and thinkers. As a book that records the annual humanistic conditions of China and compiles important humanistic texts of the year, Humanistic China has its own unique positioning. Here, "humanities" does not equate to the humanities disciplines; it represents an idea, a stance, and a perspective, with a broader scope. It primarily focuses on the living conditions of the people at the moment, advocating for facing life directly and opposing detachment from reality. In this context, "Party jargon," "foreign jargon," and "old jargon" are all rejected. The selected articles are sincere, authentic, and rich in realism. All papers that are obscure, tedious, indifferent, stagnant, or overly academic and empty are also rejected.