Kuding Literature Series - No More Surprises When You Clap the Table

Author: Xu Huaiqian
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Publish Date: 2002-02-01
Features: For a long time, I have been puzzled and confused, wondering why some intellectuals, despite reading thousands of books, remain shallow, crude, muddled, and even less kind than illiterates. Why, during the Cultural Revolution, did many intellectuals, when fighting, turn out to be more treacherous and cruel than the "working people"? This is not only because they read too many bad books and absorbed too much negative nourishment from the books, but there is also a very important factor: these people never developed their own thoughts from good books. — From "Reading Is Only Fun When You Have Something to Say"