Shanghai Hyundai, China New City Culture 1930- 1945 (revised edition), 2006. Hong Kong: Oxford Press. ISBN: 0 1959649 18
At the end of the century, 200 1. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press. ISBN:0 195933656
Sophisticated and Naive (edited by Shu Fei), 2002. Hong Kong: Sanlian Bookstore (Hong Kong) Limited. ISBN:962042 17 1X
Memory of Music, 2002. Taipei: Fang Yi Publishing Company Limited ISBN:9868028493
Confessions of Fan Liuyuan, 1998. Taipei: Wheat Field Publishing Co., Ltd. ISBN:9577086063
Oriental hunter, 200 1. Taipei: Wheat Field Publishing House. ISBN: 957469767.
Shouting in the Iron House: A Study of Lu Xun, 1995. Taipei: Fengyun Times Publishing Co., Ltd. ISBN:9576456002, Hong Kong: Sanlian Bookstore ISBN:96204088 10.
Wandering between modernity and postmodernism, Leo Oufan Lee's oral interview, Chen Jianhua's interview, ISBN:95709 10380.
Live a Normal Life (Leo Oufan Lee and Li Ziyu), 2002. Hong Kong: Tiandi Books Limited ISBN:962993775 1.
Restoring Hong Kong Culture, 2002. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press. ISBN:0 195957 12 1
Symphony: Music Notes, 2006. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press. ISBN:9780 195488906 .
The Pursuit of Modernity: Selected Works of Leo Oufan Lee's Cultural Criticism, 1996. Taipei: Wheat Field Publishing Co., Ltd. ISBN:9577083692
Love in a Floating City (Leo Oufan Lee and Li Yuying), 2007. Hong Kong: Skylight Publishing House. ISBN:978988992938 1
Desolation and Secularity: Enlightenment from Zhang Ailing, 2006. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press. ISBN:9780 195964950
My Harvard years, 2005. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press. ISBN:0 195974999
Romance and prejudice: Selected Works of Leo Oufan Lee, 2005. Hong kong: Tiandi book co., ltd. ISBN: 988211153 x
Across the West Tide, 198 1 year (8th edition). Taipei: Time Culture Publishing Company.
Musical Fantasy, 2005. Xingjiapo: an all-round cultural workshop. (Performed by the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra)
Days of Watching the Sea Together (Leo Oufan Lee and Li Yuying), 2005. Shenyang: Liaoning Education Press. ISBN:9787538275735
Assumption of Clear Water Bay, 2004. Oxford University Press, ISBN:0 195974905.
Urban Roamer: Cultural Observation, 2002. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press. ISBN:0 195957 13X
Rhapsody for a Holiday Walk, 2006. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press. ISBN:9780 195483697
"Unfinished Modernity", Leo Oufan Lee; Ji Jin, 2005. Beijing: Peking University Publishing House. ISBN:730 108 157X
Lust, Caution-Literature, Film and History, 2008. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780 195498684
My own space: autobiography of watching movies, 2007. Ink Printing and Publishing Co., Ltd., ISBN:9866873285
Music Notes, 2008. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press. ISBN:9780 195499995 The Romantic Generation of Modern Writers in China. Cambridge, Massachusetts. : Harvard University Press, 1973. ISBN: 0674779304
Voice from the Iron House: A Study of Lu Xun. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987. ISBN:0253362636
Shanghai Modern: the Blooming of New City Culture in China,1930-1945.1999, Harvard University Press, ISBN:978-0 6748055 18.
Cities between the worlds: My Hong Kong. Cambridge, Massachusetts. : Harvard University Press. 2008 ISBN: 978-0-674-0270 1-5.
History of Modern China Thought, edited by Mel Goldman and Leo Oufan Lee, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN: 052 180 1206
China's impression of the United States from the mid-19th century to the present. Translated and edited by R. David Arkush and Leo O. Lee. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. ISBN: 0520052566
Lyrics and Epics: A Study of Modern Literature in China. Author: Jaroslav Prusek; Edited by Leo Oufan Lee. Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 1980. ISBN: 0253 102839
Misappropriation of Cultural Capital: China's May 4th Project. Edited by Milena Dolezlova-Velingerova, Audrey kral and Graham Sanders, Asia Center, Harvard University, 2002. ISBN: 9 78-0674007864 Leo Oufan Lee: Life as a Fox.
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Leo Oufan Lee as the "Other"
Reading is like taking the subway. You have to go through it station by station to get to your destination. Leo Oufan Lee is also a website for me. Green tea, an old friend who once had a crush on Leo Oufan Lee and had never met before, sent a novel Confessions of Fan Liuyuan. On the hardwood sofa in my hometown study, I was fascinated by the words of this little book. Nowadays, it seems like a lifetime ago to think about the years when you could study quietly in an apartment thousands of miles away. Although that was only at 200 1.
Later, whenever I saw Leo Oufan Lee's books, I would not hesitate to buy them, including Scream in the Iron House, Fox Cave, Oriental Hunter, Shanghai Modern and so on. Academic papers, cultural essays and novels are all-encompassing. I also bought several more copies of Fox Hole as gifts. One of them was given to a stranger in Hangzhou. She left a message online looking for the book, so she asked for the address and sent it to her. She returned a set of genuine CDs from Huang Lei. After several emails, I wandered in the vast "net sea".
This is also a book relationship with the old man in Leo Oufan Lee. Now that I think about it, it's a little puzzling. What do you like about this old man? In fact, the first book he bought was The Pursuit of Modernity, which represented his serious study of modern literature. Perhaps it was because of Zhang Ailing's Love in the Whole City that I saw Confessions by Fan Liuyuan, the sequel to Mink? Find out the reading notes at that time, but there is only one comment: TMD, more literature means more literature! Fan Liuyuan's Confessions, no matter how well written, was ridiculed by him as a box office poison, just like his second novel, The Oriental Hunter, but it was only his "plaything". Obviously, from the beginning, I didn't really understand Leo Oufan Lee.
I think a lot of people do the same. Leo Oufan Lee has always been able to establish his academic position in American universities. Unless he is a professional, many readers are not interested. How many people have read his masterpiece "Scream in the Iron House", which studies Lu Xun? But his cultural prose is very popular in mainland China, one book after another. He himself is not a senior professor at Harvard University at all. One minute he published a book (leading a normal life) to expose his personal privacy, and the next minute he had a heart-to-heart talk with the nonsense movie star Stephen Chow. He was even called a "petty bourgeoisie idol" and a "fashionable professor". Even this new book "My Harvard Years", as soon as it was opened, I started to write a bestseller like "Harvard Girl Liu Yiting", which made people smile bitterly.
The reason why we spend so much ink to describe Leo Oufan Lee as "the other" is to show that his writing has been "simplified" to some extent. Now with the autobiography My Harvard Years, his dazzling works have a clear context, and then we should have a relatively complete understanding of his academic life and personal interests.
"Professor Fox"
My Harvard years are divided into two parts, one is about his eight-year study experience at Harvard, and the other is about his ten-year teaching experience at Harvard. In addition, there is an "appendix" to make up the number, which is touted, but you don't have to read it. Especially his wife's memories, sentimental, can't read.
As a scholar's life, his research achievement is flower of life, which is brilliant, while his life experience is like a slowly flowing river, with a calm surface, clear direction and occasional undercurrent. Leo Oufan Lee spent most of his life from studying in the United States to retiring from Harvard in 2004. 1born in 939, 196 1 graduated from the Department of Foreign Languages of Taiwan Province Provincial University and went to the United States. He studied international relations at the University of Chicago for one year, then transferred to Harvard to specialize in the history of modern thoughts in China and modern literature in China, and received his doctorate at 1970. From 1969, Leo Oufan Lee taught at Dartmouth College, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Princeton University, Indiana University, University of Chicago, and UCLA, and the last stop was Harvard University, which lasted for more than 30 years. It seems inconspicuous, but it is very exciting.
Or character decides fate, which is more suitable for Leo Oufan Lee. Leo Oufan Lee is very convinced of isaiah berlin's hedgehog and fox theory. According to isaiah berlin's original work, it means:
"People on one side always belong to a single central knowledge, a more or less coherent and well-organized system, and understand, think and feel based on this knowledge or system; They sum up everything in a single universal principle with the function of controlling the organization, and their people and their remarks must be based on this principle to be meaningful. People on the other side pursue many purposes, which are often unrelated and even contradictory. Even if there is a connection, it belongs to the' fact' level connection caused by some psychological or physiological reasons, and has nothing to do with moral or aesthetic principles; Their life, actions and ideas are centrifugal, not centripetal; Their thoughts are scattered or dispersed, moving on many levels, capturing the reality and essence of hundreds of experiences and things, without intentionally or unintentionally integrating or excluding these realities and essence into a constant, all-encompassing, sometimes contradictory and incomplete, and sometimes fanatical internal knowledge. The former's ideological personality and artistic personality belong to the hedgehog, while the latter belongs to the fox. " (isaiah berlin, Russian thinker P26, Yilin Press 200 1)
The fox is cunning and changeable, and the hedgehog is single-minded and profound. Leo Oufan Lee often calls himself a "fox", so he always likes the new and hates the old academically, and "touches the west".
In fact, Leo Oufan Lee's academic research on "Fox" should be based on his changeable personality. Leo Oufan Lee's life experience and knowledge are closely related to this. From the "prelude" part of this book, we can see that when Leo Oufan Lee graduated from university, the reason why he decided to study in the United States was not a clear purpose, but "studying in the United States was an atmosphere at that time", so that he was at a loss about what to learn when he arrived in the United States. So I went to the University of Chicago to study international relations, then I went to Harvard University to study history with the attitude of "muddling along", and then I went to learn the history of modern China thought from Professor Schwartz. The final doctoral thesis (Romantic School of Modern Writers in China) takes into account such a series of "variables" as the history of thought and literature.
If we grasp this key, we can have a clear understanding of Leo Oufan Lee's study, teaching and scholarship. Even when he was a student, why he went to a library in the morning, another library in the afternoon and another library at night can be seen from this small detail. It's not hard to understand why he went to college because he taught 7 all the time.
In a word, Leo Oufan Lee's Harvard career can be described by what Professor Fei Zhengqing called him-the spirit of freedom. This refers to his free thinking in his study. So, at the time of the doctoral qualification oral examination, Fei Zhengqing gave him a "duel" and got the specific date in his history for the first time-it is said that this has never happened before. He was completely defeated in the exam and lost his fighting spirit. But Fei Zhengqing still let him pass the oral exam, and in turn comforted him that "a man takes a doctoral oral exam, just like a woman gives birth to a child". He had pain before his death, and it would be nice to be born after the pain.
It is enviable that Leo Oufan Lee has been accompanied by one master after another throughout his study career. From Ji Xia 'an, a famous scholar of British and American literature who studied at National Taiwan University, to Fei Zhengqing, Schwartz and Yang Liansheng who entered Harvard, and even Professor Pushk who had a substantial influence on him (there are special articles in the appendix of the book), most of them are academic giants of a generation. In the eyes of ordinary people, I'm afraid I can't even think about it. However, it seems that Leo Oufan Lee did not follow in the footsteps of the above-mentioned masters, but turned to another road.
As for Leo Oufan Lee's teaching career, the book also gives a detailed introduction. When he was engaged in modern literature research and teaching in China, there were only a handful of experts in this field in the United States. But on the whole, Leo Oufan Lee is not very prominent in specific teaching. Especially teaching undergraduate classes, I admit my failure. Only in a small class of five or six students can he teach students in accordance with their aptitude (which is also a "fox-style" teaching method), so he has the reputation of "Professor Fox".
The book My Harvard Years is correct as mentioned above. However, Leo Oufan Lee seems to want to write a bestseller, so the book also uses some chapters to introduce the ceremony of Harvard, the strength of the department and the top ten "secrets" of applying for Harvard. Those who are interested can turn to the second half of the book directly. Leo Oufan Lee has been wandering around Harvard for nearly 20 years. He is both a student and a teacher. Of course, he is much more authoritative than the "Harvard girl" in doing such a thing, and it can also be regarded as a kind of kindness to mainland children who are striving for progress.
Second-rate scholars and first-rate writers
Wang Dewei, a scholar, praised Leo Oufan Lee for "not being a teacher" and "working hard everywhere and taking care of nothing". This statement is indeed accurate. Leo Oufan Lee, a self-styled "fox-type" scholar, is exquisite and echoes from afar. On the research, Leo Oufan Lee attacked in many ways and won many battles. Leo Oufan Lee's works are complicated, and he tries his best as a "fox".
Needless to say, his old line of modern literature research, a "cry in the iron house", changed Lu Xun back to "human form" In terms of cultural research, a book "Modern Shanghai-China New City Culture" integrates many cultural elements such as modern urban literature, newspapers and magazines, and has established its position as a pioneer in mainland cultural research-although some people say that Ms. Mao Jian's translation is not good, there are no fewer than 50 faults found in it. But at least when I read it, it was exciting and enlightening. In particular, the exposure of the petty bourgeoisie in Midnight positioned Zhang Ailing as the terminator of urban literature in the history of modern literature, which is refreshing.
In addition, Leo Oufan Lee was lonely when he went to study in the United States, so he passed the time by watching movies and listening to music. As a result, he broke a new path and made a unique research on the film industry, especially the popular films in Hong Kong. Besides, he also has opinions on popular novels from Qiong Yao to Wang Wenhua. Even the Japanese anime "Valley of the Wind" was used as a "prop" by Professor Kafka. It can be described as vulgar and elegant, and elegant and vulgar are rewarded. All these can be seen in his new book "Assumptions by the Clear Water Bay".
In a sense, Leo Oufan Lee is not willing to stick to the traditional intellectuals in the research institute, but more like a public intellectual. Modernity theory is his "scalpel" (of course, there is more than one, and a major feature of "fox-type" scholars is that there are many knives in theory), China's modern literature is his old school, cultural research is his "new love" and popular culture is his "hobby". In this respect, he is already an old "fox", of course, this is self-evident.
If you reflect on Leo Oufan Lee's life, you can directly refer to the "conclusion" part of My Harvard Years. I agree with almost all of this paragraph, except that some people say that he is a "second-rate scholar", but he has intensified his self-mockery as a "second-rate scholar and third-rate writer". I mean, I only agree with the first half and disagree with the second half. At present, if Leo Oufan Lee is compared with his teachers, he will be regarded as a "second-rate scholar" (that is, he suffered from the "fox"). But in terms of writing level and quantity, Leo Oufan Lee can definitely be regarded as a first-class writer, including his love letters.