Human worth lies in self-knowledge.

Author: Qian Gechuan
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Publish Date: 2004-02-01
Features: During my study in Japan, since the schools I attended were different and I was also a person who didn't enjoy socializing, I never met Yu Dafu. He studied economics in Japan, with the given name Yu Wen. The fields are so diverse that it's like being on different planets, making it even harder for me to see his figure. Among the early key figures of the Creation Society, I only knew Cheng Fangwu. He studied weaponry, with the given name Cheng Hao. I didn't belong to his field either, but how did I get to know him? Because he was a close friend of my second older brother and also a native of Hunan. They were both engineering students with similar interests and got along well. Cheng often came to chat with my second older brother, and since I shared a room with him, I couldn't avoid joining in. Of course, I could only listen respectfully.
This book includes:
Recollections of Yu Dafu,
Notes on Qi Baishi,
Reminiscences of Teacher Jing,
Reminiscences of Xu Jie,
Reminiscences of Two Friends of the Same Age—Jiang Yi and Wang Yunhuai,
Dreaming of Sixty Years Ago,
Chats,
Talks about Water,
Talks about Jade,
Talks about Bamboo,
Talks about Qi,
Talks about Privacy,
On Dreams,
On Poverty,
Talks about Good People,
Talks about Fashion,
Talks about Socializing,
Talks about Helping Others,
Talks about Apologies,
Talks about Interests,
Talks about Lying,
Talks about Self-Cultivation,
Talks about Stamp Collecting,
Talks about Business Cards,
Talks about Gift-Giving,
Talks about Quitting Smoking,
Talks about Overindulgence,
Talks about Stress,
Talks about Taking Out Anger,
Talks about Admiring Foreign Things,
Talks about Indifference,
Random Talks about Address Forms,
Talks about Causality,
Talks about Loneliness,
Talks about the Nine Classes and Three Teachings,
Imperial Relics,
The City of Acting,
The Bamboo of Sichuan,
The Mood of Winter,
Three Days of Wind and Rain in Huangshan, etc.