The Mediocre Collection
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Summary
Editor's review
In terms of content, the book covers a wide range, including in-depth interpretations of modern literary giants such as Lu Xun and Ba Jin, keen observations of contemporary cultural phenomena and educational issues, and warm records of the author's interactions with friends and students. Mr. Chen Sihe's writing continues his consistent style—plain, sincere, and thoughtful. There is no pileup of obscure terminology; instead, profound insights are conveyed in an easy, conversational manner. Readers can feel a senior scholar's reverence for scholarship, responsibility for culture, and love of life.
The reading value of this book lies in the window it provides for a close look at the intellectual world of a top humanistic scholar. It is not only a sharing of academic views, but also a demonstration of scholarly attitude and humanistic spirit. For readers in an era of information overload and plural values, this calm, focused, and humanistically caring thinking is especially precious. It reminds us that amid the "lulu" of daily life, maintaining independence of thought and spiritual richness is equally important.
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in modern literature, especially studies of Lu Xun and Ba Jin
- University students and young teachers in the humanities and social sciences seeking inspiration for scholarship and teaching
- General readers who enjoy thoughtful cultural essays and pursue deep reading
- Thinkers concerned with the role of intellectuals and the contemporary cultural ecology
Not a good fit for
- Strict researchers seeking systematic, specialized academic works
- Readers expecting light entertainment or novelistic storytelling
Reading tips
- It is not necessary to read straight through in order; choose pieces according to interest, for example starting from familiar writers or cultural topics of interest.
- When reading, you can combine it with Mr. Chen Sihe's other monographs (such as Fifteen Lectures on Masterpieces of Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature) to form a more three-dimensional understanding.
- Some pieces are transcripts of speeches; when reading, imagining the live context will help you better appreciate the appeal of the language and the targeted nature of the thought.
About the publisher
Fudan University Press is a comprehensive university press known for its strengths in the humanities and social sciences. Judging from the 208 titles in our catalog, its publishing focuses on Chinese culture, literary appreciation, historical reading, classic works, and Eastern philosophy. A representative series is the multivolume Summary of Famous Chinese Academic Works, including the Ming, Sui-Tang and Five Dynasties, Song-Liao-Jin-Yuan, and Qing volumes, which systematically survey important academic texts across dynasties. Its author resources include scholars such as Tan Qixiang, Guo Shaoyu, Zhou Xunchu, Nan Huaijin, Wang Shuizhao, and Wang Xinfu, whose works span historical geography, literary criticism, classical poetics, and traditional culture. Overall, the press emphasizes academic accumulation and the organization of classics while also offering cultural reading for general audiences, combining scholarly value with readability.
Contents
- 版权信息
- 学术是我安身立命的基本立场（代序）——答《中华读书报》记者问
- 第一辑 文史杂论
- 本辑小记
- 久别的未曾失去的笔——谈复出后的贾植芳先生
- 巴金晚年著述中的信仰初探
- 士的精神·先锋文化·百年“五四”
- 试谈《野草》的先锋意识
- 试论1950年代两岸文学中土改题材书写
- 都市文学中人性探索的两个维度
- 儿童文学：尽可能地接近儿童本然的状态
- 好的科幻文学具有真正的先锋精神
- 第二辑 艺文随谈
- 本辑小记
- 论《山本》中的决绝与茫然、自我救赎和破碎意象
- 孤独和寻找，逃亡和呼救
- 海派文学的另一种叙事记忆
- 读李勇的诗画集《花开见佛》
- 医艺承扬，生命至上——读“景在平生命然象画展”有感
- 试论表演艺术的经典形象创造
- 命运·尾声
- 豪放舞台婉约声
- 秦腔《易俗社》观后
- 同声相应，同气相求——致毛时安的一封信
- 序《选本编纂与八十年代文学生产》
- 序《自然灾害与当代文学书写研究》
- 序《来自二次元的网络小说及其类型分析》
- 《复旦大学中文系“高山流水”文丛》总序
- 第三辑 激情回忆
- 本辑小记
- 贾府师门范居长
- 陈映真先生
- 夜对星空思富仁
- 读王富仁的《樊骏论》
- 怀念丁景唐先生
- 为父辈立传——《播种者的足迹——丁景唐传》序
- 怀念沈善增
- 忆钟扬
- 第四辑 文学课堂
- 本辑小记
- 《中国文学课》序言
- 文学为什么要从生命开始讲起——讲徐志摩的散文诗《婴儿》
- 生命刚到尘世间，就面临考验——讲冰心的短篇小说《分》
- 他做了一个金色的梦——讲莫言的中篇小说《透明的红萝卜》
- 谁能代表中国的未来？——讲食指的诗歌《相信未来》
- 论周朴园的三个女人——讲曹禺的剧本《雷雨》
- 扶桑：她像土地那样卑贱与丰饶——讲严歌苓的长篇小说《扶桑》
- 冯婉喻：等待的力量——讲严歌苓的长篇小说《陆犯焉识》
- 爱的缺失比钱的缺失更可怕——讲张爱玲的中篇小说《金锁记》
- 第五辑 语文别解
- 本辑小记
- 与中学语文教师谈文本细读（代前言）
- 《土地的誓言》：誓言的仪式与战斗的渴望
- 《台阶》：在高一级与低一级之间
- 《白杨礼赞》的经典意义在哪里？
- 《壶口瀑布》：“瞬间”的“力”与“美”
- 《孤独之旅》：在自然的教养中丰富心灵世界
- 《蒲柳人家》：“自由”是民间文化最核心的要义
- 《天下第一楼》：卢孟实为什么会失败？
- 《初中语文现代文选讲》后记
- 【附录】 略谈语文课的文学性
- 第六辑 邺架故事
- 本辑小记
- 《复旦大学图书馆百年纪事（1918—2018）》序言
- 高校图书馆传统功能外延的三个拓展方向
- 试论高校图书馆特藏建设的意义
- 人文学科需有新的评价标准
- 《2018复旦·木版水印版画艺术展作品集》前言
- 《复旦大学藏王朝宾书法作品集》序
- 《新时期文学第一潮》展览前言
- 《泛在知识环境下图书馆知识发现技术及应用研究》序
- 【附录】 我与图书馆是很有些缘分的
- 编后记
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About the author
Chen Sihe was born in Shanghai in 1954, with his ancestral home in Panyu, Guangdong. He is a professor and doctoral supervisor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Fudan University, and a distinguished professor under the Ministry of Education's "Changjiang Scholars" program. He has long engaged in research on twentieth-century Chinese literature, literary relations between China and other countries, and contemporary literary criticism. He is the author of A Holistic View of New Chinese Literature and The Development of Personality: A Biography of Ba Jin, and editor-in-chief of A Course in the History of Contemporary Chinese Literature; he has received the Lu Xun Literary Prize. Among the four works held in the catalog, he interprets masterpieces of modern and contemporary Chinese fiction with a connoisseur's eye, while in Slight Traces of Things Past and The Busy Collection he writes in an essayistic vein about personal memory and everyday reflections, combining scholarly rigor with the warmth of the familiar essay.
