A pair of rabbits - The Hushi couple's letters from two places

Author: Chen Shuyu
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: Hu Shi once summarized his experience of being married to Jiang Dongxiu for over forty years and finally not giving up, with the perspective of a "wiser person" in his later years. He said, "I believe love is a flowing liquid, with full malleability. It depends on whether a person has the ability to build and construct. Some people take their love to a very thorough extent before getting married, but if it's too thorough, it becomes obvious, leaving no room for development. It's very likely to break down due to monotony. I, on the other hand, started dating after getting married. Both my wife and I are always in the process of trying to love. That's why we maintained a harmonious family." Clearly, this is Hu Shi's final summary of his married life. This book selects 242 letters exchanged between Hu Shi and his wife, Jiang Dongxiu. Unlike Lu Xun's Letters from Two Lovers, the correspondence between Hu Shi and his wife lacks extensive civil and social criticism. Most of the topics are daily household matters, but they reflect important aspects of Hu Shi's life and greatly supplement the primary sources for writing his biography and chronology.