19 Letters: A Professor from Peking University's Letters to His Students

Author: Zhu Qingsheng
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Publish Date: 2001-05-01
Features: This book focuses on four aspects: 1. The nature of the university: a guarantee of reason; 2. The foundation of the university: the scientific method; 3. The characteristics of the university: non-empirical academic nature, non-utilitarian purity; 4. The goal of the university: a person whose reason is developed. It also covers topics such as scientific reading, thinking reading, foreign languages, research notes, full-text databases of ancient documents, scientific language, undergraduate thesis norms and graduate requirements, academic translation, annotations, terminology, indexes, exams, teachers, experts and scholars, the limitations of science, and self-examination.