Unreliable History: Second Episode of Miscellaneous Books
by Xie Yong
About This Novel
Miscellaneous books have passed by and gone out of history, so there are new questions in the pile of paper. The author uses a consistent plain and gentle writing style to carefully read the first-hand compiled and lost materials of recent China, and the doubtful points of his thoughts emerge one by one. A recollection of Chen Baozhen's implementation of the New Deal, an unknown article by Hu Shi, an American professor from Peking University, a short book called "History of Chinese Painting" by Chen Shizeng, Chu Anping's less-noticed "Letter to My Brothers", Yin Haiguang's early translation of logical positivism, "The Needham Problem" " early explanatory documents, rumors about the relationship between Mao Zedong and Xiamen University, Sun Yuesheng's posthumous work on bureaucratic politics, Qian Zhongshu's anecdote about avoiding the Zhou brothers, copies of Chen Yinke's poems circulated among professors at CUHK, Fan Wenlan's letter defending false accusations, several instructions that influenced Fei Xiaotong in the second half of his life...
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