Resistance to being completely eaten up

Author: Zheng Yefu
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Publish Date: 2007-03-01
Features: Yefu is a dreamer, though his concerns may not always bear fruit, and his reflections may not always be wise. Yefu is a doer, though his actions often hit walls, and his journeys often yield no success. Yefu is a brave one, though the labyrinth of thought is, and the walls of reality are solid, he thinks and acts, speaks candidly and directly, does not worry about immediate gains, but pursues the future—this is the great courage of a dreamer. — Shi Tiesheng
The text in this book was written during the years of the Monkey and the Rooster. I still remember those two Spring Festivals in the age of media, when auspicious greetings were everywhere, repeated endlessly. It’s hard to find auspicious sayings related to the Monkey, but the Chinese are incredibly resourceful. The most common one is a plain: "Golden Monkey brings good fortune." The most grand is: "Promote to high rank as soon as possible." The most fierce is: "Kill a chicken to honor the Monkey"—not to mention that it replaces the original meaning of the idiom "to warn," just to please the Monkey, why kill a chicken? Truly, "the world will be shocked"—using the leader’s poem again. In this collection, these commentary articles with a sense of debate are categorized, such as traffic, park swimming, sports, and so on.
Besides, this collection also includes two other parts. The first is about reading—my own writings, the books I edited, and others’ books, or as prefaces, postscripts, or book reviews. The second is speeches, which include six of my talks from the years of the Monkey and Rooster. Speaking is after all less constrained than writing, more relaxed, less restrained, and happier.