100 Cool Facts About Southwest Associated University
by Chen Ke
About This Novel
This book is based on the anecdotes of teachers and students of Southwest United during the Anti-Japanese War, and unearths 100 little-known "hard-core cold knowledge". From using U. S. Military gas masks to transform phosphorescent costumes and using bullet casings to cast sonic Go, to Feng Youlan using pigeons to grab food quickly to assess test scores, Qian Zhongshu using monsters from "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" to pose English questions, to using oilcloth umbrellas to draw contour maps during migration, to Miao silver ornaments hiding astrological codes, every story comes from real archives and the memories of those who have experienced it. These survival wisdom and academic innovations that burst out in the flames of war not only show the black humor of intellectuals writing love letters in oracle bones, but also record the absurd experiments of scientific madmen using sour plum soup to develop chemical answers. Through special carriers such as steel helmet loudspeakers, leggings plant specimens, and batik test papers, it is reproduced how civilizations rebuilt order in the ruins with the resilience of ferns during the gap between bombings and migrations. Open this book and you will see side B of the United Nations General Assembly that is not recorded in textbooks - there are professors wearing military maps as cheongsam, students using abacus to calculate the whirlpools of the Red River, and the weight of history is hidden between the lines of poetry on half a piece of yellowed cigarette paper.
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