History and Red Studies
by Tang Degang
About This Novel
On the Qin and Han roots of the backwardness of mainland China, the three major mainstreams of contemporary Chinese historiography, reading Cao Xueqin's "Culture Conflict" overseas, it is easy to kill a civilization and difficult to build another... "History and Red Studies" contains a total of 17 notes by historian Tang Degang on historical theory, research methods and red studies, discussing the relationship between history and literature, the relationship between novels and history, the locality of overseas Chinese writers, the Latinization of Chinese characters and other issues. The author believes that "no distinction between literature and history" is the difference between traditional Eastern and Western historiography. Excellent historical works are often excellent literary works. He advocates the transmission of history through literature, avoids rigid and stubborn governance of history, and emphasizes the importance of social sciences. The chapter in the book details the writing process of Li Zongren's memoirs, which shows his profound study in oral history. The author's concentrated discussion of taboo issues in "A Dream of Red Mansions" and the article "Reading the Scriptures" analyzing Cao Xueqin's "cultural conflict" are also quite original. "Historical Studies and Red Studies" talks about major historical events. Because Mr. Tang's writing style has a literary background and is written flexibly, readers cannot bear to stop. This is the credit of literary style. Mr. Xia Zhiqing, who later had a writing battle with historian Tang Degang, valued "Tang style prose" very much and called him "a unique essayist in contemporary China."
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