Thoughts and Words on the Path

Author: Deng Zhenglai
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: This book is a collection of interview transcripts given by the author after entering the academic system via Jilin University in 2003. These ten interview texts express a commitment to a personal and independent mode of thinking, as well as a choice of a "small path" filled with solitude and joy. The establishment of this mode is a decisive critique of a "big road" constructed by various mainstream forms. The fundamental characteristic of this "big road" lies not only in the mainstream nature of the diverse ideological orientations it carries but also in how its various ideological stances are expressed in a "collective" manner—regardless of whether the stances are anti-traditional or anti-modern, left-wing or right-wing, Westernized or Chinese traditional.