新书：余英时《从中国乡村到常春藤盟校：中国近代历史变迁的回忆录》

From Rural China to the Ivy League: Reminiscences of Transformations in Modern Chinese History    

作者：余英时

译者: Michael S. Duke, Josephine Chiu-Duke    

出版商    Cambria Press

出版时间：2021年12月  

本书简介

Professor Ying-shih Yü is a leading authority in the field of Chinese Studies. He received the John W. Kluge Prize for achievement in the Study of Humanity in 2006 and the first Tang Prize international award in Sinology in 2014. These awards represent a recognition of his more-than-sixty-year contribution to the fields of Chinese history, thought, politics and culture during which time he published over thirty books, forty-one monographs, and hundreds of articles. The awards also serve to highlight his efforts in redefining Chinese intellectual and cultural traditions, imbuing them with new life. These awards honor the way in which Professor Yü has put his intellectual convictions into practice through his criticism of the violent suppression of the Tiananmen democracy movement of 1989, and his decades-long commentaries on Radio Free Asia. Over the years his works have had great influence throughout the Chinese-language world where he has been hailed as a paradigm of Chinese humanism.

Professor Yü’s book, originally published in Chinese, covers the period from his childhood in rural Anhui Province China to his professorship at Harvard University, and it has been read extensively in Chinese, both in serial form in the Mingbao Monthly and in book form. The book sold more than 10,000 copies in the first month after its publication by Yunchen Publishing Company in Taibei, Taiwan, in late 2018. The book was awarded the twelfth Hong Kong Book Prize in June 2019.

This book, expertly translated by Professors Michael S. Duke and Josephine Chiu-Duke (University of British Columbia), is much more than the memoir of the scholar who has been hailed as the most important living Chinese historian of our times—it is also an invaluable record of a history of our times, witnessing the cultural, political, and social transformations of what Professor Yü notes as the period of most violent turmoil and social upheaval in modern Chinese history. This complex period is now made accessible to English-language readers, who will also benefit from the helpful notes by the translators.

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作者、译者简介

YÜ YING-SHIH (Professor Emeritus, Princeton University) is arguably the premiere living historian of Chinese social and intellectual history of the classical period. Awarded the John W. Kluge Prize for achievement in the Study of Humanity and the inaugural Tang Prize International Award in Sinology, he has published more than thirty books and five hundred articles and essays on Chinese history, thought, politics and culture. His most recent works include Lun tian ren zhi ji [Between Heaven and the Human: An Exploration of the Origin of Ancient Chinese Thought; 2014], Zhu Xi de lishi shijie [The Historical World of Zhu Xi: A Study of the Political Culture of Song Intellectuals; 2003, 2011], Shi yu Zhongguo wenhua [Chinese Intellectuals and Chinese Culture; 2003, 2010, and 2013), and thirty-three of his English language essays are published in Chinese History and Culture Volume 1: Sixth Century B.C.E. to Seventeenth Century C.E., and Volume 2: Seventeenth Through Twentieth Century (Columbia University Press, 2016), with the editorial assistance of Josephine Chiu-Duke and Michael S. Duke.

About the Translators

Josephine Chiu-Duke is Professor of Chinese Intellectual History in the Asian Studies Department at the University of British Columbia.

Michael S. Duke is Professor Emeritus of Chinese and Comparative Literature from the Asian Studies Department at the University of British Columbia.

目录

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Translators’ Note

Preface: From “Interviews” to “Memoir”

Chapter 1. Rural Life in Qianshan County Anhui Province

—Part One: Nine Years in Qianshan

—Part Two: A Literary Disaster

—Part Three: the Nature of the May Fourth Movement

Chapter 2. Communism and the Anti-Japanese War of Resistance

—Part One: How I Learned to Understand Communism

—Part Two: Background of the Anti-Japanese War of Resistance

Chapter 3. Northeast Zhongzheng University and Yanjing University

—Part One: Studying in Northeast Zhongzheng University

—Part Two: Living at Leisure in Beiping

—Part Three: In Shanghai 1948 to 1949

—Part Four: Things Seen and Heard at Yanjing University

—Part Five: Scholars of Yanjing University

—Part Six: Experiences with the New Democracy Youth Corps

Chapter 4. Hong Kong and the New Asia College

—Part One: Transferring to the New Asia College

—On First Becoming Qian Mu’s Disciple

—Tang Junyi and the Rise of New Confucianism

—Part Two: Seeking Knowledge Off Campus

—Part Three: Political and Cultural Development of a Liberal Intellectual

—Part Four: Hong Kong Popular Anti-Communist Publications

—Humanity and Freedom Front Weekly

—The Youlian Publishing Group and its Founders

—The Scope and Influence of the Youlian Publishing Group

—The Unique Impact of the Motherland Weekly

—Epilogue

Chapter Five. Harvard University Years

—Part One: On First Visiting Harvard

—Reception by Harvard-Yenching Institute

—Xing Muhuan: Like An Old Friend at First Meeting

—Looking Back on a Year of “Visiting Scholar” Work

—Seeking Advice from Professor Yang Liansheng

—Auditing Three Classes

—Talcott Parsons’ “Social Systems”

—Crane Brinton’s “Recent European Intellectual History”

—Myron P. Gilmore’s “Renaissance and Reformation”

—Part Two: Studying for the Doctorate

—Ronald Syme’s “History of Rome”

—Morton White’s Philosophy of History

—Carl Friedrich’s “History of Ancient Western Political Thought”

—John King Fairbank’s Research Seminar

—Studying Japanese

—Following Gilmore and Reading the Renaissance

—Ph.D. Dissertation

Part Three: Historical Development of Chinese Humanities Scholars at Harvard

—The First Period: Beginning of Modern Chinese Humanities Research

—The Second Period: Discussing Traditional Learning to Cultivate New Knowledge

—The Third Period: A Completely New Turn

—Gao Yougong Studies to “Improve Himself”

—Zhang Guangzhi: Friendship and Reflections on Learning

—The Distinctive Features of the New Period

—Harvard Only Part of a General Trend

Notes

Index

评论

“An immense contribution to scholarship, this book is much more than the memoir of someone considered by many to be the most important living Chinese historian. In addition to tracing Professor Yü’s intellectual pursuits and providing a window into his lifelong effort of understanding, revitalizing, and redefining the Chinese cultural and intellectual tradition, this book is an essential record of the history of our times, bearing witness to the cultural, political, and social transformations of modern China. This book will have strong appeal to a wide audience—ranging from scholars to the general public. It is a must read for all those who would like to learn about the most tumultuous period in modern Chinese history and would be a great first book to read especially for students new to this period. This unique work is both a memoir as well as a rigorous historical account that provides profound analysis and insight. Its strength as a first-hand documentation of a difficult-to-understand period of Chinese history is unparalleled.” —Professor Chin-shing Huang, Academia Sinica

"This is a commendable contribution to the field. Readers of English would have access to the mature reflections of the major Chinese historian and humanities scholar who was the first Asian to be awarded the Kluge Prize by the Library of Congress and the first Humanities scholar ever chosen for the Tang Prize by Academia Sinica. These reflections from his personal perspective tells us much about the history of the twentieth century in China and the lives of ordinary people and especially the views and experiences of many of the major Chinese scholars of the last hundred years. The organization is brilliant. For example, after a chapter about his own family and background, he sets forth perspectives on the May Fourth Movement and how it’s been viewed in relation to the European Renaissance and the Enlightenment; in the process he shows how such projections of equivalence were flawed, so he provides his own perspective. The other end of the book is book-ended by tracing and analyzing three generations of Chinese scholars who came to study at Harvard in three periods of time over the twentieth century. In the process he shows how diverse personal and international factors interacted in such cases that determined who came, as well as when, or if, they returned to China. Readers are able to follow the course of Chinese wrestling with such personal issues and the national and international ramifications. In addition to its importance for scholars in the field, the book would also provide readers a rare opportunity to observe Chinese in America and abroad wrestling with practical matters and cultural issues, insights that should help readers understand Chinese in North America much better." —Professor Hoyt Tillman, Yuelu Academy (Hunan University) and Arizona State University