With grandchildren, China has a long tradition of historiography. Since Confucius, Chinese historians have almost always attached great importance to the study and expression of contemporary history.
Whether it is Confucius's book "Spring and Autumn", or Sima Qian's "Historical Records", Ban Gu's "Book of Han", and Sima Guang's "Tongjian", although historians will recount the past and trace the source, the real excitement lies in the contemporary, in giving an account of the era that has just passed.
However, since then, Chinese historians have not been able to study, let alone depict, the era that has just passed. However, our history has always been "exported to domestic sales", and we must rely on the research of foreigners to position ourselves in history.
I'm not saying that foreigners can't study and write contemporary Chinese history, but when we read such a thick "** Era".In addition to admiring the author's foresight and fairness, he is somewhat ashamed or unjust for Chinese historians.
Why can't Chinese historians write the history of this great era by traveling thousands of miles, reading thousands of books, and reading countless people like Mr. Vogel?
As early as the Hong Kong edition of Vogel's "** Time" came out, I eagerly read the chapters that interested me the most. This time the mainland version came out, which made us feast our eyes even more. This is indeed a great work. We may not fully agree with the author, but we must admit that this great epoch that Mr. Vogel has sketched for us is credible.
In "** Era", the author traces the "past life" of the "** era" with a small amount of space, * the inevitability and logic of China's transition from the * * era to the * * era , and recounts the reason why *** swore to lead China to leave from the "** era", in addition to external pressure, the collapse of the Cold War, the disappearance of the communist camp, and the bankruptcy of China's economy, it is also related to the education and beliefs that *** personally received, and even has a very close causal relationship with his small family. These are all things that we should agree with and accept.
**The times have brought great changes to China, and our official discourse calls *** the "chief designer" of the era of reform and opening up, thinking that China's progress in the past 40 years is a huge contribution to the world, and it seems to be the "top-level design" of ***, which is the meditation on the "** trail" in Jiangxi from 1975 to 1977.
Reading "** Times", I found outVogel's positioning of *** is more accurate and reasonable than our original statement. Vogel believes that the greatness of the first is not how much theory, how much knowledge, how much China and the world he knows, but that he does not know how to know, and does not use the temperament of a poet to guide and lead China. ** Just tell the people the truth about China, tell the people the distance between China and the world, just tell the people that China must work hard, must give up internal strife, must decisively end the class struggle, and must devote all its energy to the cause of China's modernization. This is a great contribution and a triumph of the "practical rationality" of classical Chinese wisdom.
According to Vogel's research, there is no more "top-level design", and it can even be said that from the third time he re-emerged from the rivers and lakes to resume the college entrance examination, until the 1990s when he launched economic reform again to promote China's economic take-off, he did not rely on personal heroism to point fingers and give orders, but fully respected the people's creation and respected the experience from practice. The resumption of the college entrance examination is someone else's suggestion, and it is also a dozen peasant brothers who take the risk to take the lead. The greatness of ** lies in his ability to see at the first time what these attempts mean for the whole of China and for the whole of China.
What I want to recommend to you today is Mr. Vogel's posthumous work "** Times". This is Mr. Vogel's masterpiece of "sharpening a sword in ten years", mastering a large number of first-hand information and disclosing a large number of details. In his writing, he is neither demanding of historical figures nor for His Holiness.
This book is a biography of an era. The information is very out-of-the-ordinary, but it is written objectively and basically restores the truth of that era. This is a contemporary history that is a hundred times more vivid than a history textbook, showing us those thrilling and tumultuous historical details that are not mentioned in textbooks.
Zhang Weiying:Every Chinese should take a look at "** Era".
Shen Zhihua:Vogel can write "** Era", Chinese can't write like him.
Qin Hui:Through Mr. Vogel's superb narrative ability, he told us a very wonderful story about *** and contemporary China. Being able to tell a story to this extent is indeed something we should all learn.
The translator of Time is the famous scholar Mr. Feng Keli, whose translation is precise and unpretentious. The Douban score of this book is as high as 93. In addition to Mr. Vogel's detailed writing, Mr. Feng Keli's fluent and Chinese translation has contributed a lot.
This book has been read by many friends, but for many reasons who have not read it, there must be a lot of people, so it is worth recommending again.
This book has an excellent reputation, and it has been out of stock many times, and I am very happy to be on the shelves again today. I bought a copy of this book as early as 2013 when the Chinese version was first published, and the price at that time was 88 yuan. 10 years have passed, and now the price is still 88 yuan.
No one can ** when "Time" is likely to be removed from the shelves in the future, to say the least, the possibility of a reprint is already very small. After all, *** times ......It's another era. It is highly recommended that friends who do not have this book yet, click on the product card below to collect it with one click immediately!