Lee's main research fields includecontemporary literatureAnd cultural studies, modern novels and Chinese films. Their essays and comments are common in《Asia week》《Newsletter》Ming Pao Monthly and Aim.
Li Oufan's father, Li Yonggang, and mother, Zhou Yuan, are music educators who graduated from the music department of Central University.In his book《My music past》"Music is the love of my life after all, and I can't live or write without it", "My daily life is also filled with music: the first thing in the morning is to open itjukeboxListen to music ".
Once worked with famous writersNie HualingHis daughter, dancer Lan Lan Wang, got married, but ended up in divorce.In September 2000, she married Li Yuying, Deng Wenzheng's ex-wife,Bai XianyongHe wrote the article "Love between Li Oufan and Li Yuying" to describe their strange acquaintance and combination experience.Li Oufan and his wife wrote their love story together into a book called《Lead a normal life》。Li Oufan called his wife "Yingniang" in his book.[12-13]
Modern Shanghai: A New Urban Culture in China is a book published by the People's Literature Publishing House on March 1, 2010. The author is Li Oufan.This book is a novel about "decadence and debauchery" in Shanghai, a prose written in the style of "mandarin duck and butterfly", a time and space scattered, full of gorgeous cultural topographic map of sound, light, phantom and shadow.In addition, it is an extremely serious literary criticism monograph.
My Harvard Years is a book published by the People's Literature Publishing House in 2010. The author is Li Oufan.This book is not an academic work, but an intellectual memoir, which outlines the face and taste of Harvard life from personal experience.
This book is a collection of articles about Chinese and Western literature written by the author during his nearly 40 years of studying and teaching abroad. It is not only a emotional record of "I was really young at that time", but also it is not difficult to see the author's strong interest in modern South America and Eastern Europe, especially Czech literature, showing a personalized historical memory of "looking straight ahead".He took a "travel scholarship" from an American university to hang out in Europe, but the only purpose of going to Cambridge was for Xu Zhimo.In the major cities of Europe, he is everywhere
Living a Normal Life is a book published by Liaoning Education Press in 2005. The authors are Li Oufan and Li Yuying.This book introduces the most warm and moving light, which is always hidden in the most simple and plain bottom of life. In the changing ordinary years, they are intertwined with extraordinary life marks.
Shouting in the Iron House: A Study of Lu Xun, 1995.Taipei: Fengyun Times Publishing Co., Ltd.ISBN：9576456002，Hong Kong: SanlianBook editionISBN: 9620408810
Reading is like taking the subway. You need to pass by station by station before you reach the destination.Leo Owen is also a website for me.Once infatuated with Li Oufan, an old friend I never metGreen TeaSend a novel《Fan Liuyuan's Confession Record》。In the study of my hometownhardwoodOn the sofa, I was fascinated by the text of this little book.Now, when I think about the years when I could study quietly in my apartment thousands of miles away, it seems like a world away.Although that was only in 2001.
Later, whenever I saw Li Oufan's books, I would buy them without any reason, including "Cry in the Iron House"《Fox Cave Balderdash》《Oriental Hunter》Modern Shanghai, academic papersCultural essayNovels are all inclusive.I also bought several more copies of the Fox Cave Balderdash for free.One of them was sent to a girl in Hangzhou whom she had never met before. She left a message on the Internet looking for the book and asked for an address to send it to her.She returned a setHuang LeiGenuine CD of.Pass back and forth several timesE-mail, and then they mixed up in the vast "Internet Sea".
This is also a paragraph with Mr. Leo VanBookmarginRight.Now I want to come, but I am a little puzzled.What do you like about this old man?In fact, the first book he bought was《The pursuit of modernity》, which represents himA proper careercontemporary literatureResearch.Maybe it's becauseZhang Ailing"Love in a Fallen City"《Fan Liuyuan's Confession Record》This sequel?Find out the reading notes at that time, but only one comment: TMD, more literature means more literature!Fan Liuyuan's Confession Record is so well written that I laughed at him forBox office poisonLike his second novel, The Oriental Hunter, they are just his "playthings".It can be seen that from the very beginning, I didn't know about Leo.
I think many people do the same.Lioufan was able to establish his academic position andIn collegeUnless professionals, many readers are not interested in the study of modern literature.His bookLu XunHow many people have read his masterpiece "Shout in the Iron House" carefully?However, his cultural essays have become popular in the mainland, and have been published one after another.He himself doesn't have the style of a senior professor of Harvard University at all. He will publish a book later（《Lead a normal life》）Heavy exposureprivacy, talk to Wulitou movie star laterStephen ChowAnd even known as "petty bourgeoisie idol" and "fashionable professor".Even this new book《My Harvard years》As soon as the chapter is opened, we will set out to learn《Harvard girl Liu Yiting》The posture of writing a best seller makes people laugh bitterly.
The reason why so many words have been spent to describe Li Oufan as the "other" is that he has been "simplified" to some extent.Now, through the autobiography My Harvard Years, his dazzling works can be found in a clear context, and then he should have a relatively complete understanding of his academic life and personal interests.
Professor Fox
MyHarvardThe book is divided into two parts, one is about his eight years of learning experience at Harvard, and the other is about his ten years of teaching experience at Harvard.In addition, there are also "appendices", which are touted as having, but you don't need to read them.In particular, his wife's recollections are full of emotion and can not be read.
Leo Owen and Beidao (early 1990s)
As a scholar, the research achievements are the flowers of life, which are brilliant, while the life experience is likeSlow flowThe surface of the river is calm, the direction is clear, and there are occasional undercurrents diving to the bottom.The same is true for most of Lee's life from studying in the United States to retiring at Harvard (2004).He was born in 1939 and graduated in 1961National Taiwan UniversityDepartment of Foreign Languages, then went to the United States, first inUniversity of ChicagoStudied for a yearInternational RelationsAnd then transferred to Harvard, specializing in the history of modern Chinese thought and modern Chinese literature. In 1970, he received a doctor's degree.Since 1969, Li Oufan has taught at Dartmouth CollegeThe Chinese University of Hong Kong、Princeton University 、Indiana University、University of Chicago、UCLA, the last stop isHarvard UniversityIt lasted more than 30 years.It seems ordinary, but it is very wonderful.
Or character decides fate, which is more appropriate for Li Oufan.Leo Owen is very obedient to British thinkersIsaiah Berlin The hedgehog and the fox.According to the original work of Isaiah Berlin, it means:
"People on the other side of the world attribute everything to a single central vision, a more or less coherent and coherent system, which is more or less coherent and coherent, and they understand, think, and feel this way; they attribute everything to a single, universal principle that has the role of governing organizations. Their people and their words must be based on this principle, which is meaningful.People on the other side pursue many goals, which are often unrelated to each other or even contradictory to each other. Even if they are related, they also belong to the "fact" connection made by some psychological or physiological reason, not related to moral or aesthetic principles;Their life, actions and ideas are centrifugal rather than centripetal;Their thoughts are scattered or diffuse, moving on many levels, capturing hundreds of different experiences and objectsthe ultimate essence of thingsAnd essence, but not intentionally or unintentionally integrate or exclude these realities and essence into a monistic internal insight that is always unchanged, all inclusive, sometimes contradictory and incomplete, sometimes fanatical.The former ideological personality and artistic personality belong tohedgehogThe latter belongs to the fox. "(Isaiah Berlin《Russian Thinkers 》P26，Yilin Translation Publishing House2001）
The fox is cunning and changeable, and the hedgehog is single-minded and profound.Li Oufan often refers to himself as a "fox", so he often "likes the new and hates the old" and "touches the east and the west" in academic circles.
Li Oufan
In fact, it should be that the "fox" style of Li Oufan's character was changeable before his academic "fox" style research.Li Oufan's experience and scholarship for most of his life are closely related to this.As can be seen from the "prelude" section of this book, when Lee Aufan graduated from the University, the reason why he decided to study in the United States was not a clear purpose, but "it was a custom to study in the United States at that time", so that he was confused about what to learn after he came to the United States.Therefore, I first went to Chicago to study international relations, then moved to Harvard University to study history with a "muddle along" mentality, and then followed Professor Swartz to study the history of modern Chinese thought. The final doctoral dissertation ("The Romantic Generation of Modern Chinese Writers") also considered such a series of "variables" in history and literature.
Grasping this key, we can have a clear understanding of a series of problems such as Li Oufan's study, teaching and scholarship.Even when he was a student, he could see why he went to one library in the morning, another library in the afternoon, and another library in the evening.It is not difficult to understand why he has taught more than seven universities before and after.
In a word, Li Oufan's Harvard career can be usedFei ZhengqingThe professor called him "freespirit".This refers to his free attitude towards learning.Therefore, during the oral examination for doctor's qualification, Fei Zhengqing gave him a tough challenge to test the specific date of his history for the first time. It is said that this has never happened before.He lost his armour and morale.However, Fei Zhengqing still let him pass the oral exam, and in turn comforted him that "men take the PhD oral exam just like womengive birth to a childThe same ", there was pain before death, and after the pain, it would be better to be born.
Li Oufan
What makes people envious is that Li Oufan is accompanied by one master and another famous person in his whole career.From a famous scholar of British and American literature when he was studying at Taiwan UniversityXia Jian, Fei ZhengqingSwartz、Yang LianshengAnd even Professor Pushik, who had a substantial impact on him (there is a special article in the appendix of the book), etc., are mostly academic giants of a generation.In the eyes of ordinary people, I am afraid it is unimaginable.However, it seems that Li Oufan did not follow the footsteps of the above masters, but turned to another road.
As for Li Oufan's teaching career, the book also has a detailed introduction.When he was engaged in the research and teaching of modern Chinese literature, there were few American experts in this field.But generally speaking, in terms of specific teaching, Li Oufan is not very good.In particular, I admit that I failed in teaching undergraduate classes.Only in a small class of five or six people, he was able to teach students in accordance with their aptitude (also a "fox" teaching method), so he was known as "Professor Fox".
《My Harvard years》This is the correct explanation of the book.However, it seems that Li Oufan wants to write a best-selling book, so he spends some chapters in the book to introduce the ceremony of Harvard, the strength of the faculty and the ten "secrets" of applying for Harvard.Interested parties can directly turn to the second half of the book.Li Oufan, who has been a student and teacher in Harvard for nearly 20 years, certainly has more authority than the "Harvard girl" in doing such things, and can also be regarded as a meritorious deed for the mainland children who are eager to make progress.
Second rate scholars and first-class writers
scholarWang DeweiLi Oufan was praised for his "pioneering spirit and not being a teacher" and "working hard everywhere without caring".This statement is really appropriate, and echoes Li Oufan's self professed "fox type" scholar from afar.In academic research, Li Oufan attacked in many ways and won repeatedly.Li Oufan's works are even more numerous and complicated, and he has done his best to the best of "fox".
It is needless to say that his old line of modern literature research, "Shout in the Iron House", put Lu Xun back in the "human form".stayCultural StudiesAbove, a collection of Modern Shanghai -- A New Urban Culture in ChinaUrban literature, newspapers and periodicals, etcCultural elementsThe integration of research has established her position as a pioneer in mainland cultural research - although some people say that Ms. Mao Jian's translation is not good, and she has found no fewer than 50 defects.But at least when I read it, I still felt very excited and enlightened.In particular, it is refreshing to "expose" the petty bourgeoisie in Midnight and position Zhang Ailing as the terminator of urban literature in the history of modern literature.
Professor Li Oufan
In addition, Lee Aufan was lonely when he went to the United States to study, so he passed the time by watching movies and listening to music, which also broke a new path, so that he had a unique research on the film industry, especially Hong Kong popular films.Besides, he is right up toQiong YaoDown toWang Wenhuaetc.Popular novelThere are also great ideas.Even the Japanese animation "Valley of Wind", he used it as a "prop" for Professor Kafka.It can be said that both refined and popular tastes are great.For all this, see his new book《The conjecture by Qingshui Bay》。
In a sense, Li Oufan is not willing to stick to the tradition of the study collegeintellectual, he acts more like apublic intellectual 。The theory of modernity is his“Scalpel”(Of course, this is not the only one. One of the characteristics of "fox type" scholars is that the "knives" of theory are numerous and fast.),Modern Chinese LiteratureIt's hisOld baseCultural research is his new love,Popular cultureIt's his "hobby".As an old "fox", he certainly knows it well.
If you want to reflect on Li Oufan for most of his life, please refer to《My Harvard years》“epilogue”Section.I almost agree with this section, except that some people say that he is a "second-class scholar", but he has different views on becoming a "second-class scholar and a third class writer".I mean, I only agree with the first half of the sentence, not the second half.If Li Oufan is compared with his practitioners, he will become a "second rate scholar" (which is the loss of "fox").However, as far as the writing level and quantity are concerned, Li Oufan can be regarded as a first-class writer, including his love letters.
