How Should We Read China?

Although I have enough thought to face the disregard of many Chinese readers on the "reading China" series, but the fact goes farther than my speculation, this set of good Sinology has been launched since the end of 2001, and until recently the whole series of publishing work has been completed, which has not attracted the attention of scholars. On the contrary, the situation is rather light: in addition to the editor, the plator has been sighing before and after the series, and the collective critics in the book review group have not heard the same thing. The excellent academic achievements seem to have been ignored by us intentionally or unintentionally.

In the general order of this book, Liu Dong has stated the reader's mental suffering: "the more systematic introduction of a living external academic discourse, the more it will bring profound impact and fatal disorder to the original civilization foundation."

On the one hand, Mr. Liu is worried about our "rigid and aging mind. We must allow our hearts to open up to all academic research in China". On the one hand, we worry that "once we lose the initiative of reading and thinking, we will be unable to extricate ourselves from other people's discourse field, and we will be covered by other people's unique problem consciousness, and even from this time we can hardly describe our own experience, exposing the blindness of cultural analysis aphasia and academic insight."