Li Zhuang Collection - Memoirs (Volumes 1 and 2)

Author: Li Zhuang
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Publishing Date: 2004-10-01
Features: Preface to Volume I / Wang Chen; Preface to Volume II / Fan Jingyi; Foreword / Li Dongdong; Three Major Events in Four Decades; From the Nameplate of People's Daily; A Single Suitcase and the Taihang Mountains; An Unforgettable Collective; Born Amid the Sound of Drums; Signing Names in the Newspaper to Apologize; The Strong Voice on the Taihang Mountains; A Basic Construction in the Journalism World; The Democratic League; Recalling the "Wild War Corps" and "People's Armed Forces"; Asking "Why" in Everything; Reaching the Central Leadership; From "Tofu Cubes" to Guiding Principles; Marching into Beijing Amid Mao Zedong's "Empty City"; "Letting Out a Sigh of Relief"; Speaking to the Hearts of Readers; Then Knowing More of Insufficiency; Throwing Off the Rope That Bound Us; Before and After "Upgrading"; When the New China Was Established; Meeting the People's Army in South Korea; "An Unprecedentedly Great" and "An Unprecedentedly Hard" War; Realism and One-sidedness; and Other Great Changes; Critiquing The Story of Wu Xun—The Beginning of a Political Criticism; The First Large-scale Anti-Corruption Campaign in the New China; Between Different Leadership Ideologies; Newspaper Criticism as a "Promoting Battlefield" Shifting to Geneva; A Brilliant and Well-crafted Article; Should We Move Faster? A Editorial That Caused a Reform to Be Interrupted; From "Newspaper Run by the Dead" to "Newspaper Run by Scholars"; The Stormy Rain of the Rectification Campaign; Walking on the "Political"; From Abroad, Looking at the "Great Leap Forward"; Investigation and Research in Difficult Times; Reality and; New Developments in Two-way Communication; The Positives and Struggles Before the "Cultural Revolution"; People's Daily and the "Cultural Revolution"; Struggling in Adversity; An Unforgettable Education; There Was Such a Work Group; The Key to Emancipating the Mind; "Special Commentator for This Newspaper"; "Lifting the Lid" vs. "Covering the Lid"; Not Trapping Ourselves; It's Not Easy to Be Completely "Pragmatic"; Half a Beat Ahead; "Act Within Your Means" Before and After; Why Can't We Persist? I "Rushed" to Write This Telegraph; Afterword: Journalism Frontline, 1995, Issue 7; A Masterpiece of Deep and Concise Writing—Learning from Comrade Deng Xiaoping; A Verbal News Report from Yan'an Liberation Daily, October 10, 1946; Jiang's Side Fabricating Rumors of "Wounded" and "Sacrificed"; General Liu Bocheng Laughed It Off; A "Lucky" Investigation That Negated the Public Kitchen; Remembering Ke Jian—Also Recalling That Reporting Collective Half a Century Ago; The "Helpful Style" During the "Cultural Revolution" Left Me a Bloody Memory; Six Decades of Right and Wrong; Remembering Old Friend Ke Gang; The Early Days of Taking Over—The Days of Taking Over the Beiping Branch of the Central News Agency; Covering the Opening Session of the Political Consultative Conference; Recalling Journalism Work—Learning from Comrade Fan Changjiang's Guidance to Me; A Chinese Journalist's Perspective on the Korean War
Appendix I: Preface to Forty Years at People's Daily
Appendix II: Preface to Forty Years of People's Daily
Appendix III: Always Stay Young—Remembering the Four Chinese War Correspondents in the Korean War
Appendix IV: Meeting and Knowing Each Other in the Taihang Mountains
Volume II
Preface to Volume I / Wang Chen
Preface to Volume II / Fan Jingyi
Foreword / Li Dongdong
Enlightenment (1–2); Exploration (3–12); Pursuit (13–15); Struggle (16–28); Ascent (29–39); Trial (40–58); Confusion (59–64); Reflection (65–72)
Appendix: A Rare Clarity
Preface
Postscript to Li Zhuang Collection
This volume includes the author's records and reflections on publicity and publicity work, such as A Basic Construction in the Journalism World, Speaking to the Hearts of Readers, and A Editorial That Caused.