Encountering Lu Xun

Author: Qian Liqun
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Publication Date: 2003-08-01
Features: Our generation mostly experienced through the "Cultural Revolution." Before that, we couldn't understand. After going through that disaster and entering a state of despair, we finally found and met him. But myrecent encounter with was during this serious illness, when I too had an experience of despair. In a sense, this course is a life record of this encounter. This may just be the experience of our generation. I don't know how your generation will meet, at what moment, or in what instant.
In the past two decades, Qian Liqun's " studies" has been a popular elective course at Peking University, a cherished sight for students who have entered and left the university campus, one after another. Unlike academic research, which seeks emotional detachment, he chooses full-hearted passion. When he feels the struggles of life and the burdens of reality, he always turns to for answers. As a result, his interpretation of goes beyond the realm of knowledge and academia: his classroom is a place of comfort between lives, a dialogue between souls, and a collision of ideas.
This book is the transcript of Qian Liqun's "Last Lecture" before leaving the Peking University lecture platform. Qian Liqun attempts to place back in the historical scene and era, conducting a close reading of his life's journey, intellectual development, and literary works. The faint echo of Qian Liqun's aged and hoarse voice, lingering between these pages and words, connects the no longer mythical to the young students in the classroom under the long spring sunlight. It was in 2001, the year of Qian Liqun's "Swan's Final Song."