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"Talk More About Problems" Author: Wu Qi/ Lv Xiaoyu/ Bolin Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House
"Talk More About Problems" Author: Wu Qi/ Lv Xiaoyu/ Bolin Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House
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Introduction · · · · · ·
The 33rd issue of "Single Reading" consists of 9 long interviews. Focusing on diachronic issues, it invites authors such as Xu Zhiyuan, Guo Yujie, Bai Lin, Yang Xiao, Xiaoyu, and Ye San to ask questions to scholars and practitioners in different fields: Zhong Shuhe, Dai Jinhua, Jing Kaixuan, Luo Xin, Xiang Biao, Michael Sandel, Lu Zhi, Lao Dongyan, Cui Qinglong, and Zhang Qiaomu (Gravity of Intellectual History).
These questions are about the many crises we are facing today, such as psychological polarization on the Internet, the spiritual confusion of ordinary people, the abuse of historical narratives, the injustice of elite education, the deterioration of the ecological environment, etc. They are also about how individuals can rebuild from the smallest unit. In this "sinking age", I believe that "raising questions is a way to maintain basic dignity."
This issue of Single Reading adds a comics column for the first time, handing the paper over to young comic authors to express the "semi-free" life experience of the new generation.
About the Author
Zhong Shuhe was born in Pingjiang, Hunan in 1931 and settled in Changsha. He was an editor and reporter of the New Hunan Daily. In 1957, he was labeled a rightist and dismissed from his public office. After that, he worked to make a living, but he still studied. In 1970, he was arrested and imprisoned for his speech. After being rehabilitated and released from prison in 1979, he refused to return to the newspaper and worked for Hunan People's Publishing House. In 1982, he was rated as an editor. In 1984, he served as the editor-in-chief of Yuelu Publishing House. In 1988, he was transferred to the Hunan Provincial Press and Publication Bureau until his retirement. In 1994, he won the third Taofen Publishing Award. His works include "Going to the World", "From the East to the West", "Zhong Shuhe's Essays", "Learning Shortcomings from the Tower", "Learning Shortcomings", "Collection of Birds in a Cage", "Collection of Little Simon", "Collection of Talking with Him", "Children's Miscellaneous Poems and Notes", "The First Collection of Zhong Shuhe's Letters", etc. The works he edited and published include the "Towards the World" series, the "Phoenix" series, "The Complete Works of Zhou Zuoren's Essays", and "Zeng Guofan's Family Letters".
Xu Zhiyuan is a writer, founder of One Way Space, and creator of talk shows 13 Invitations and 13 Tours. His published books include Young Reformer: Liang Qichao (1873-1898), Wandering Collection, Those Sad Young People, etc. His works have been translated into English, French, Korean and other versions.
Dai Jinhua is the director, professor and doctoral supervisor of the Center for Film and Cultural Studies at Peking University. Her main research directions are Chinese film history, popular culture and women's literature. She participated in the establishment of China's first film history and theory major, and established China's first comparative culture research room at the Institute of Comparative Literature and Comparative Culture of Peking University. She has written "Breaking Out of the Mirror City - Women, Film and Literature", "Invisible Writing - Chinese Cultural Studies in the 1990s", "Landscape in the Mist - Chinese Film Culture 1978-1998", "Film Criticism" and so on.
Guo Yujie is a media person and columnist. She graduated from the Chinese Department of Peking University and has worked as a reporter and editor for Caijing. She is the editor-in-chief of Life and One Way Street (later renamed Single Reading). She is the chief writer of Lens. She is a columnist for Reuters Chinese, New York Times Chinese, and Bloomberg Businessweek. She is the co-founder of Interface·Noon and the chief writer of Noon Story. In 2011, she went to Donghua University in Taiwan to study for a degree in creative writing. She is the author of the collection of non-fiction works Voices of All.
Jing Kaixuan, PhD in Ancient Chinese Literature, is a professor at the School of Overseas Education, Nanjing University. His main research direction is Tang and Song literature, and he also pays attention to the translation and research of Eastern European literature. He has written "On Tang Dynasty Literature", "Between Experience and Transcendence", "Goodbye to the Shining Stars: Twenty Tang Poems", etc., and translated "For Farewell Party", "Living Elsewhere", "My Happy Morning", "Underground: Essays on Eastern European Samyaks", etc.
Berlin is an independent journalist and young writer. She is currently writing about the history and culture of the Balkan Peninsula. She is the author of Double Time: A Dialogue with Western Literature.
Luo Xin is a professor at the Center for Research on Ancient Chinese History and the Department of History at Peking University. His research interests are the history of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties and the history of ancient Chinese ethnic groups. His representative works include "A Study on the Names of Northern Ethnic Groups in the Middle Ages", "The Emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty on the Black Felt", "Royalism and Dangers in the Mountains: A Collection of Essays on Border Ethnic Groups in the Middle Ages", etc. He has also written "From Dadu to Shangdu: Rediscovering China on the Ancient Road", "Rebels Who Don't Do Something: Criticism, Doubt and Imagination", and "The Long Rest of Life: A Northern Wei Palace Maid and Her Times".
Yang Xiao is a journalist, writer and backpacker. He graduated from the Chinese Department of Nankai University in 2004 and worked for Xinhua News Agency, Southern People Weekly and Esquire. He was a Nieman Scholar at Harvard from 2013 to 2014. He has been traveling around the world since 2010, trying a narrative style that combines current affairs, history, intellectual discussion and human geography. His works have won the Southern Weekend Annual Media Tribute twice and the Tencent Chinese Media Annual Ceremony Individual Award three times. He has published a personal collection of works, "Children", and a long non-fiction work, "Revisiting: Finding Southwest Associated University on Highways, Rivers and Post Roads".
Xiang Biao was born in Wenzhou, Zhejiang in 1972. He completed his undergraduate studies in the Department of Sociology at Peking University in 1995, received his master's degree in 1998, and received his doctorate in social anthropology from the University of Oxford in 2003. He is currently the director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany. He has written books such as "Communities Across Borders: The Life History of Beijing's "Zhejiang Village"" and "Global "Body Hunting": The World Information Industry and Indian Technical Labor".
Michael J. Sandel is a famous philosopher, professor of political philosophy at Harvard University, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, visiting professor at Sorbonne University, and PhD at Oxford University. Sandel is a representative of communitarianism, who insists on criticizing the individual view of liberalism and reflecting on public life and citizen issues. His representative works "Justice" and "What Money Can't Buy" have been translated into 27 languages, selling well around the world and causing heated discussions. The American Political Science Association awarded him a special achievement award, and Foreign Policy selected him as one of the "outstanding global thinkers". Sandel is committed to the general concept of "citizen education". His legendary open course "Justice" is one of the courses with the most cumulative attendance in Harvard University's history, and it is also the first course at Harvard University to be open online for free.
Fan Xilin is a third-year student studying Philosophy and Political Economy (PPE) at the University of Oxford and vice-chair of the 2022 Oxford China Forum.
Lv Zhi is a professor at the School of Life Sciences of Peking University, executive director of the Center for Nature Conservation and Social Development, vice president of the Chinese Association of Women Scientists and Technologists, and founder of the Shanshui Nature Conservation Center. Professor Lv Zhi is committed to linking research and practice in nature conservation, and seeking evidence-based practical solutions for nature conservation and sustainable development. She has been conducting research on endangered species such as giant pandas and snow leopards in the mountains of southwest China and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau for a long time, observing the interaction between nature and human activities. In recent years, she has focused on exploring the mechanisms and conditions for the coexistence of humans and nature, and promoting biodiversity conservation and restoration led by rural communities, as well as citizen science practices through economic incentives, cultural values and policy improvements.
Wu Qi is the editor-in-chief of Single Reading and the host of the podcast The Turn of the Screw. He co-authored the conversation record Using Myself as a Method with Xiang Biao, and translated The Next Time Will Be a Blazing Fire and Shouting from the Mountaintop.
Lao Dongyan, PhD in Law, is a professor and doctoral supervisor at Tsinghua University Law School. His main research direction is criminal law. He has published more than 90 academic papers, including "Functionalist Interpretation of Criminal Law", "Criminal Law in Risk Society", "Law of Law Narrative of Localization of Statutory Principle of Crime and Penalty", "Study on Disputes and Problems of Schools in Criminal Law", and translated "Paradox of Legal Science".
Xiaoyu, born in 1991, is a native of Wuhan, Hubei. He is a young writer and scholar. He holds a PhD from Oxford University and is a researcher at the Australian National University. He has worked at the United Nations, engaged in conflict coordination and international development. He is currently an assistant professor at the School of International Relations of Peking University. He has been engaged in commentary and non-fiction writing for a long time. His works have appeared in "Dan Du", "Xiaoshuojie", Los Angeles Review of Books China Channel, "Sanlian Life Weekly", "The Paper", "The Guardian", "The Diplomat", etc. He has published "Dreaming of Lima: Xiaoyu's Latin American Notes".
Cui Qinglong, a second-level psychological counselor and a psychological blogger, often records his thoughts and insights in work and life on Weibo. He runs the public account "DeepMind Deep Thinking", which mainly involves the experience sharing of psychoanalysis clinical and life and some in-depth thinking on pan-psychology.
Luo Danni is a book editor. She graduated with a doctorate in history from Beijing Normal University. She has worked for Zhonghua Book Company and Ideal Country, and is currently the editorial director of One Way Space.
Zhang Qiaomu is the creator of the short video account "The Gravitation of Intellectual History". He has gained wide attention and recognition by popularizing the knowledge of intellectual history and philosophical theories in an easy-to-understand way.
Ye San is a writer, media person and former journalist. He has written "Replay", "We Sing", "Ninety Thousand Words" and "Beheading Nezha".