He's certainly not unknown, it's just that we didn't know much about him before, but he doesn't seem to be as famous as his sister, who is the Nobel Prize miss out in 2023.
He's also a heavyweight. Yi Zhongtian was his senior, but he regarded him as a teacher, and once wanted to apply for his doctoral program. even said publicly in a certain program: "Deng Xiaomang is the only philosopher in China today, not one of them!."”
He has written prolifically. At present, he has published 44 monographs and translated 23 .....
What is even more admirable is that his road to success is full of "inspirational".
After graduating from junior high school in 1964, he went to the mountains and went to the countryside to become an educated youth, and he worked for 10 years. After returning to the city, he worked as a migrant worker and a water and electricity installation porter
The first philosophy book he read was "The Infantile Disease of the 'Leftists' in the Communist Movement", and how could there be a famous teacher in the village to guide him?He adopted the stupid method of primary and secondary school Chinese classes, reading and analyzing the main idea and central idea of the article word by word, which was boring and eventually became lively
In 1979, he applied for the graduate school of Wuhan University, and he had to take an additional foreign language test, so he taught himself German without any foundation, and finally scored 51 points in this subject, 10 points above the admission line!
What is even more fascinating about this story is that his mentor, Mr. Liu Daoyu, the 21st president of Wuhan University, personally summed up his success as "God rewards hard work", and gave him a very loud and down-to-earth name: "peasant scholar".