"Record of Qigong Lectures"

Author: Qi Gong
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: Professor Qi Gong had many titles, but he said his primary role was a teacher. Since entering Fu Ren High School in 1933, he has been teaching for 71 years. This year, at the age of 92, he still insisted on personally guiding over a dozen doctoral students despite his frail health. In terms of the effort and workload he has dedicated, he truly lives up to this title. However, things are often complex. After joining the Department of Chinese Literature at Fu Ren University in 1938, his main teaching focus was on first-year Chinese literature, primarily teaching ancient literary works. Even after the liberation and the reorganization of departments, he still mainly taught selected works. This was because there were clear regulations stating that people with a poor family background, like him, who were not "leftists," could not teach literary history or theoretical courses. These courses involved major ideological disputes related to materialist and idealist history, and only politically reliable individuals were allowed to teach them. As everyone knows, Professor Qi was a polymath, proficient in calligraphy and painting, their theory, appraisal, poetry composition, poetry theory, classics, philology, linguistics, and bibliography. Even if he had been permitted to teach literary history, it might not have fully allowed him to demonstrate his abilities, let alone limiting him to teaching only a few ancient texts. Therefore, although he had a long teaching career, his first two decades did not offer many opportunities to truly showcase his talents. After the "Anti-Rightist Campaign," he was even stripped of the right to teach, and during the "Cultural Revolution," his dignity was trampled, with many others stripped of their rights besides him. Thus, the middle two decades were largely wasted, leaving no chance to demonstrate his abilities. The only time he could truly showcase his talents in this role was during the two decades of rectifying chaos and reform and opening up. During these years, he successively admitted multiple batches of master's and doctoral students, offering them a large number of courses. Not only did he regain the right to teach, but he was also no longer bound by rigid rules, allowing him to independently choose courses that suited him and in which he excelled. As a result, he successively offered literary history courses focused on Tang Dynasty literature and Ming and Qing Dynasty essays; historical academic thought courses covering the Han, Song, and Qing dynasties; basic courses on ancient texts and cultural and bibliographic knowledge; as well as other courses. The main content of this book includes: discussions on literature, academic thought, and the of ancient texts.