The Sorrow of Leaving the Country·a Cross-section of the Northwest
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"The Sorrow of Leaving the Country" was written between 1923 and 1928. It tells the story of how, after graduating from the Geology Department of Peking University in 1923, he went to the University of Munich in Germany to study paleontology and geology under the guidance of the paleontologist Schlosser, funded by his family. In this book, he recorded his experience of starting from Huaxian County, passing through Beijing, Shanghai, and then taking a boat from Shanghai to Munich (which he called Mingxing in the book); he also recorded his experiences while studying abroad, when he and his teachers and classmates conducted geological surveys in Sweden and other cities in Germany. At that time, domestic warlords were fighting, and diplomacy was at a disadvantage. Yang Lao walked along the way and saw that the countryside was on the verge of bankruptcy, urban construction was hopeless, and the people were living in misery, and he felt very sad. When I see things abroad that are on the rise, especially when I visit museums and exhibition halls and see others thriving, I can't help but think of the backwardness of my own country's political and economic situation, let alone the development of science and technology and culture. In short, Mr. Yang's contradictory and complex emotions were revealed all the time during his journey. We follow Mr. Yang's footsteps and travel abroad in the 1920s, and we can also feel his mood. "Cross Sections of the Northwest" was first published in 1932. The author traveled and surveyed for three months in western Shanxi and northern Shaanxi, and then went to the three northeastern provinces for less than a month. Then he participated in the Sino-US inspection team to the eastern part of Erenhot, Inner Mongolia, and finally participated in the Sino-French scientific inspection team, starting from Zhangjiakou and heading west to Turpan and Urumqi, and then returned to Peking via Siberia. Mr. Yang recorded the experiences and feelings of these four trips and compiled them into a volume called "Cross Sections of the Northwest", with a preface by Weng Wenhao.
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