The Compilation of the Tube Cone
is a rare multi-volume academic work that is bound to be handed down from generation to generation. There are nearly 1.3 million words in the 4 volumes of Sanlian Bookstore Edition (5 volumes of Zhonghua Book Company Edition), which are compiled by him after studying the Book of Changes Justice, Mao Shi Justice, Zuo Zhuan Justice, Notes on Historical Records, Notes on Lao Zi Wang Bi, Notes on Liezi Zhan Zhang, Jiao Shi Yi Lin, Notes on Chu Ci Hong Xingzu, Taiping Guangji, Notes on Three Ancient Dynasties, Qin and Han Dynasties.
This book examines the lyrics and principles, and breaks through the barriers of time, space, language, culture and discipline. There are many new ideas in it, all of which are repeated by predecessors, which can quite broaden the mind of the ages and overthrow the heroes of the moment. The book quotes tens of thousands of documentary evidence from tens of thousands of works by 4, writers, covering almost all social sciences and humanities besides literature.
In the unpublished part of this book, there are notes on ten books such as The Book of Rites, Zhuangzi, Quantang Wen, Du Shaoling's Poems, Notes on Poems Born in Yuxi, Changli Collection and Jianzhai Collection. Obviously, this high-grade book is the crystallization of Mr. Qian's decades of painstaking efforts.
after the publication of this book, it caused great repercussions in academic circles at home and abroad. Although the publisher Zhonghua Book Company did not declare the "National Book Award" for the book at first, the knowledgeable judges fairly included it in the first prize list.
Tan Yi Lu
is China's last book, which is a masterpiece of traditional poetry. Tan Yi Lu is also the first book to comment on China's classical poetics by adopting new western humanities and social sciences. There are 45, words in the book, and the works of ancient poets are often commented, especially some representative poets after the Tang Dynasty.
This book quotes or comments on nearly 13 kinds of poetry talks since the Song Dynasty, and almost all the important works in the history of China's poetry talks are involved. All the authors' minds and talents, the evolution of works, the ups and downs of criticism, etc., are all inclusive. Each section is detailed and creative, and the writing is comprehensive, coherent, critical or monographic, and the length is free and eclectic. Taking two western ideas and opposing three corners, more than 5 kinds of western theories are quoted, including Buddhism, psychoanalysis, structuralism, cultural anthropology, new criticism and relatively new schools such as surrealism, reception aesthetics and deconstruction.
This book is a must-read for studying China's classical poems.
Qipeiji
is a collection of literary theories. This book is basically a co-editor of "Four Articles of Old Literature" and "Also Collection". What is included in this book are seven research articles that Mr. Qian dubbed as "half-Chinese but not western and half-foreign and not ancient". This book should be read in conjunction with "Pipe Cone Compilation". Concentrate on each article is a section in the "Pipe Cone Compilation". The notes in each section of the "Pipe Cone Compilation" are like the abbreviated outlines of each article in this book.
Fortress Besieged
is Mr. Qian's only novel, and Fortress Besieged is a well-known modern literary classic. Some critics think it is one of the greatest novels in modern China. Fortress Besieged is a song poem in the novel, which is full of connotation and is better than emotion with reason. The so-called "besieged city", as the characters in the book say, is born out of two European idioms. The Englishman said, "Marriage is like a golden painted birdcage. The birds outside the cage want to live in it, and the birds inside the cage want to fly out, so the knot is separated and separated, and there is no game." The French say that marriage is like "a besieged castle, people outside the city want to rush in and people in the city want to escape." Fang Hung-chien, the hero of this book, didn't know that there was a "besieged city". However, when he heard people talk about "besieged city" and went through the later ups and downs, he thought about "everything in life has this idea." "Besieged city" is an image generalization of a life situation and a clever grasp of a psychological attitude. What "besieged city" depicts is the eternal cycle of human idealism and disillusionment. Throughout the ages, many people have started from thinking that God helps them, and ended from realizing that nature has helped people. The ups and downs in Fortress Besieged, and what is said everywhere, are the constant rise and repeated disillusionment of ideals. It is often the case that things will be destroyed when they are finished, and the waves will only throw their efforts. Many people have been in the situation of "besieged city" all their lives without paying attention to it. Therefore, "besieged city" can be regarded as a symbol of human being's predicament and repeated setbacks. Mr. Qian Zhongshu watched the floating life and thought about diving; Pointing out the world, expressing profound feelings, and showing metaphysics by the physical, make readers suddenly know something about life. The style of this book is humorous and wonderful, and you can appreciate the richness and beauty of Chinese characters when you read it.
The artistic features of Fortress Besieged:
(1) It adopts a large-span horizontal movable structural frame, and the layout is arranged by the three-point double line of the characters' whereabouts.
(2) A distinctive art of satire-a clever satire composed of anti-imitation, irony and anti-theory.
(3) Use the inner expression of the mind to promote the development of the whole story, which is higher in technical content.