Journey to the East
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A good fit for
- 喜欢《荒原狼》《悉达多》、想深入黑塞中后期思想的读者
- 对德语文学、象征主义寓言小说有兴趣的读者
- 正在思考个人与集体、理想与现实关系的读者
- 希望用短篇篇幅进入黑塞作品世界的入门读者
- 写作与艺术创作者，对“创作与牺牲”主题有共鸣的人
Not a good fit for
- 期待完整冒险故事、明确情节走向的读者，会感到晦涩
- 偏好现实主义、线性叙事小说的读者
- 只想要轻松消遣阅读的读者
- 需要拼音或青少年简化版的低龄读者
Reading tips
- 先通读一遍故事，再带着“盟会究竟代表什么”的问题重读前半部
- 读前可先看附录中的黑塞年谱，了解1930年代的欧洲与黑塞处境
- 对照书中《内与外》《渡船夫》两篇短文，理解黑塞对“内外”与“渡”的隐喻
- 读完后可接着读《玻璃珠游戏》，对照两者对“服务”与精神秩序的处理
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Shanghai Joint Publishing Company focuses on humanities and social science publishing and has developed a distinctive profile in the collation and translation of classical literature and world classics. Its 258 titles in the database cover classical literature, world classics, foreign literature, literary appreciation, general biography, and modern poetry. Representative publications include the Annotated Dream of the Red Chamber by Zhiyanzhai series, as well as collected and selected works by classic authors such as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Shakespeare. Its authors and translators include Cao Xueqin, Zhiyanzhai, Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Zang Zhonglun, Zeng Siyi, Xu Zhenya, and Cao Ying. The press emphasizes the annotated collation of classic texts and the publication of authoritative translations, forming a publishing profile that spans both Chinese classical literature and world literary classics. Because public information on some details of its publishing history is limited, they are not discussed here.
Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1: The Era Covered by This Book
- What Are the "Facts" of Antiquity?
- The "Clear" Era and the "Unclear" Era
- The Emergence of a Chinese Character Sphere Spanning Multiple Cultural Regions
- The Particularity of the Post-Han Perspective
- Chapter 2: The Historical Facts of the Zhou Dynasty
- From Attacking Yin to Conquering Yin—the Yi Zhou Shu and the Records of the Grand Historian
- Legends About the Origin and Fall of the Western Zhou Dynasty
- The Duke of Zhou and the Gonghe Regency
- The Western Zhou Era in Bronze Inscriptions
- Chapter 3: The Origins of "Huaxia" and the Three Dynasties of Xia, Shang and Zhou
- The Myth of Han
- Han Xuanzi and the Xia and Shang Dynasties
- The Inheritance of the Shang Homeland
- Chapter 4: The Three Dynasties as Told by the Warring States
- Qin and Qi's Territorial Claims and the Three Dynasties
- Wei's Bamboo Annals and the Three Dynasties
- Chu's Ancestral Myths and the Three Dynasties
- Zhongshan's Claim to Legitimacy and the Three Dynasties
- The Han Dynasty's "Form" of Inheriting the Three Dynasties
- Chapter 5: The Historical Facts of the Xia and Shang Dynasties
- The Legend of Yu
- The Genealogy of the Xia Dynasty
- The Shang Dynasty
- Chapter 6: The Historical Facts of the Spring and Autumn Period
- The Emergence of a Broad Chinese Character Sphere
- The Age of Confucius
- Searching for the Historical Confucius
- The Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period
- The Hegemons Who Quelled the Chaos After Duke Huan's Death
- Chapter 7: The Historical Facts of the Warring States Period
- The Vertical and Horizontal Alliances
- Another Contributor to the "Vertical Alliance"—Lord Mengchang
- Qu Yuan
- Lord Chunshen, Lord Pingyuan, Lord Xinling
- Chapter 8: Scholarship in the Warring States Period
- The Reality and Illusion of the Hundred Schools
- The Cosmology of the Warring States Period
- The Writing That Sustained Warring States Scholarship
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About the author
Hermann Hesse (1877–1962) was a German-language novelist and poet, born in Calw, Germany. He became a Swiss citizen in 1923 and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946. His major works include Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, Demian, and The Glass Bead Game. His writing centers on individual spiritual self-examination and the fusion of Eastern and Western thought. Lonely seekers on inner journeys often drive his narratives, which blend storytelling, symbolism, and philosophical reflection in clear, lyrical prose. He explored self-knowledge, spiritual growth, and the meaning of life, drawing on Eastern philosophy to expand the expressive range of German literature, and he continues to influence readers worldwide.
