Endless confusion

Author: Xu Jilin
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Publish Date: 1999-01-01
Features: All the inner secrets of this era, its entire suffering and joy, are deeply recorded in the life journey of intellectuals who lived in this era. Modern Chinese intellectuals bore the heavy burden of history and the arduous mission. In the years intertwined with fire, blood, and avalanches, they chose their own lives and also chose the destiny of the nation. Modern China is like a historical maze shrouded in mist. When intellectuals, full of fervent enthusiasm to save the world, stepped through its gates to explore the path to the light, they could not help but feel as if they were groping in the dark. Everywhere were traps, hidden walls, and dead ends. For these two historical figures with exceptionally rich experiences and achievements in various fields, the reason for listing their names together is not to provide a comprehensive review of their lives, but merely to hope to conduct an in-depth comparison from the perspective of intellectuals, thereby revealing the inner spiritual world and external behavioral choices of intellectuals under such an era.