A Third Eye View of Jiangxi

Author: Hu Ping (Compiler)
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Publish Date: April 1, 2004
Features: Analyzing cultural codes, focusing on cultural shifts, inspiring cultural awareness, and enhancing cultural character, this work strives to place Jiangxi within a higher cultural context. It exists in the media discourse of Jiangxi over the past three years in a unique way—through cultural criticism. Let us direct more attention to the lower strata of society, for here lie the essential realities of contemporary China, the heavy yet heroic spirit of this era of birth and death. For a long time, the people's morale has been, but now, like the firework displays that have repeatedly erupted and flowed in the old Red Valley in recent years, it has expressed joy in progress. Yet, it must not give rise to arrogance. If we could travel back to the Ming Dynasty, we would understand how the official-centric system emerged so naturally and became a captivating yet destructive poppy flower that guided the winds of the era. Today, the diligence and pursuit of the 40 million people of Jiangxi are all aimed at ending the tragic questioning of the "Lament," allowing the ancestors of Jiangxi to stand above the heavens and watch this land that has finally stirred, with a smile of relief on their faces.
This is the third selected collection from Jiangxi Urban New Perspectives. It consists of four essays. The first, "Boundless Sky, Dragon-Horse Rushing," is a dialogue record between Hu Ping and Wang Yuqi, Li Jiande, Shao Hong, and Chen Dongyou on the development and changes in Jiangxi in recent years, especially those of 2003. The second, "Born of Suffering, Died of Comfort," is a recording of Hu Ping's interview with cultural figures such as Zhao Xinsan and Xia Zhengnong. The third, "Sparks Ignite, Ice Hardens," is a dialogue record between Hu Ping and historians Fang Zhiyuan and Liang Hongsheng. The fourth, "Colorful and Varied, Winding and Rising," is a collection of essays by Hu Ping on some historical and cultural figures in the modern history of Jiangxi.