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snowynight-The complete collection of Han Yu
Han Yu was a Tang Dynsty profound prose writer and poet known for his almost violent passion of Confucianism and his revolutionary belief in the literature. When I read the collection of his poems and prose, I'm drawn to his fluent and strong prose and poetic style, and the person behind it. He loved his country, ws surprisingly open-minded sometimes, generous to his friends and did the right thing despite his fervent pursuit of stable life. I find it approchable.
- Hoshin Engi 封神演義, a Japanese manga series by Ryu Fujisaki
Hoshin Engi's an adaptation of a Chinese classical novel Fengshen Bang, which detailed a battle between the Immortals in mythologized history context. How great the manga series it is. It's comedic and tragic and epic and philosophical and entertaining. I love the extensive plot and the characters and everything.
- Angel Sanctuary written and illustrated by Kaori Yuki.
I grow up with anime and manga but Angel Sanctuary is special. I was mesmerized by its extensive world building, the colourful loads and loads of cast, and its epicness and just couldn't put it down after reading it. Looking back it's really a choose not to warn experience, but I don't care much. I may not introduce and recommend it to people casually, because it can be very triggering t time, but I love it.
- Zizhi Tongjian (translated by Bo Yang)
Zizhi Tongjian is a pioneering reference work in Chinese historiography covering 16 dynasties and spanning across 1363 years, mainly contributed by Sima Guang and intended as a text book for the Chinese rulers. Judging from the history thereafter, it fails in this aspect, but it's a very important work chronicling Chinese history. Because of the now old Chinese text, and its bad printing style, the set is seldomly read by people nowadays.
Then a Taiwan writer Bo Yang translated the book series into Modern Chinese and added his commentary about the thousands years of Chinese history, which showed his compassion and pro-democracy view. He wsn't preaching to the choir. Taiwan at that time was ruled with an iron fist, and Bo Yang himself had been a political prisoner. The publisher withstood political pressure just to publish it.
I found the full collection in my school library when I was in junior high, and once I read it, I couldn't stop. I liked the prose. I like the commentary. I like that it gave me a chance to read Chinese history in whole, and it was a history full of terror and tears, heroism and cowardice, monsters and hope.
If I need to point out a time that I become aware of my Chinese cultural identity, it's when I discover the collection. I'm still grateful for it.
- The complete collection of Lu Xun
Lu Xun was an influential intellectual living in early 20th century China. After his death, he was used as a weapon in China's political struggle, just like he had predicted in his will.
I found the collection in the same junior high school library (libraries 're awesome!) and I was fascinated by the complex faced he demonstrated in his work and letters. He was often the only sane man, generous thus often betrayed, pessimistic yet still tried to find and fight for hope in a hopeless time. His life was a tragedy, and he bravely endured it, leaving literary gem.
- The Periodic Kingdom by Peter Atkins
It was so much fun to read about the periodic table expressed in an imaginary world. nother book that ignited my interest in science.
- King Solomon's Ring by Konrad Lorenz
When I was even younger (in primary school?), I found it in the public library and the description of the animal behviours and the love of Lawrenz toward his animals were very touching to me and lit my interest toward science. This doesn't age very well but it has a very important role in my journey of science.
Han Yu was a Tang Dynsty profound prose writer and poet known for his almost violent passion of Confucianism and his revolutionary belief in the literature. When I read the collection of his poems and prose, I'm drawn to his fluent and strong prose and poetic style, and the person behind it. He loved his country, ws surprisingly open-minded sometimes, generous to his friends and did the right thing despite his fervent pursuit of stable life. I find it approchable.
- Hoshin Engi 封神演義, a Japanese manga series by Ryu Fujisaki
Hoshin Engi's an adaptation of a Chinese classical novel Fengshen Bang, which detailed a battle between the Immortals in mythologized history context. How great the manga series it is. It's comedic and tragic and epic and philosophical and entertaining. I love the extensive plot and the characters and everything.
- Angel Sanctuary written and illustrated by Kaori Yuki.
I grow up with anime and manga but Angel Sanctuary is special. I was mesmerized by its extensive world building, the colourful loads and loads of cast, and its epicness and just couldn't put it down after reading it. Looking back it's really a choose not to warn experience, but I don't care much. I may not introduce and recommend it to people casually, because it can be very triggering t time, but I love it.
- Zizhi Tongjian (translated by Bo Yang)
Zizhi Tongjian is a pioneering reference work in Chinese historiography covering 16 dynasties and spanning across 1363 years, mainly contributed by Sima Guang and intended as a text book for the Chinese rulers. Judging from the history thereafter, it fails in this aspect, but it's a very important work chronicling Chinese history. Because of the now old Chinese text, and its bad printing style, the set is seldomly read by people nowadays.
Then a Taiwan writer Bo Yang translated the book series into Modern Chinese and added his commentary about the thousands years of Chinese history, which showed his compassion and pro-democracy view. He wsn't preaching to the choir. Taiwan at that time was ruled with an iron fist, and Bo Yang himself had been a political prisoner. The publisher withstood political pressure just to publish it.
I found the full collection in my school library when I was in junior high, and once I read it, I couldn't stop. I liked the prose. I like the commentary. I like that it gave me a chance to read Chinese history in whole, and it was a history full of terror and tears, heroism and cowardice, monsters and hope.
If I need to point out a time that I become aware of my Chinese cultural identity, it's when I discover the collection. I'm still grateful for it.
- The complete collection of Lu Xun
Lu Xun was an influential intellectual living in early 20th century China. After his death, he was used as a weapon in China's political struggle, just like he had predicted in his will.
I found the collection in the same junior high school library (libraries 're awesome!) and I was fascinated by the complex faced he demonstrated in his work and letters. He was often the only sane man, generous thus often betrayed, pessimistic yet still tried to find and fight for hope in a hopeless time. His life was a tragedy, and he bravely endured it, leaving literary gem.
- The Periodic Kingdom by Peter Atkins
It was so much fun to read about the periodic table expressed in an imaginary world. nother book that ignited my interest in science.
- King Solomon's Ring by Konrad Lorenz
When I was even younger (in primary school?), I found it in the public library and the description of the animal behviours and the love of Lawrenz toward his animals were very touching to me and lit my interest toward science. This doesn't age very well but it has a very important role in my journey of science.
