Weizhou was born in 77. Graduated from the Department of Journalism and Communication of Xiamen University. Good reading doesn't require much understanding. He dabbled in miscellaneous things, indulged in classical literature and history when he was young, and extended to sociology and anthropology. He started blogging in 2004.

Weizhou

After 70, a well-known book reviewer. I have been engaged in 13 years of work that has nothing to do with my interests. I started writing articles in 2 0 0 4. My interests are complicated, so I study hard and don't want to know too much.

Wei Zhou's home is in a community near the Shanghai World Expo Park, and his study is in the attic, with plenty of light and elegant style. The white bookcases with two walls are tailor-made, with one left and one right. There are about 4,000 books in the study, which are classified as follows: a row of history, from ancient times to modern times, including ethnic minorities, Chinese-foreign relations, environmental history and urban history; A row of stories about literature, politics, sociology and mythology, including the Bible, Sakyamuni, Zhang Chengzhi and Annie Baby.

Unexpectedly, Weizhou entered the advertising industry. Because I didn't do well in the math test in the college entrance examination, I was transferred to the advertising major of Xiamen University. "I was depressed in the first few years. I am a person who turns on the TV and channels when I see advertisements, but now I want to be an advertiser. "

Working during the day and reading and writing at night, Wei Zhou never mentioned his online "Wei Zhou" identity to his colleagues: "I'm afraid they think I'm a monster. People in the advertising circle are more fashionable, reading more magazines and fewer books. Including myself, I didn't want to read books for the first five years of work. Later, I began to form this habit slowly. Reading can calm my heart, just like a sedative. "

In 2004, out of personal interest, he published a textual research and annotation article on his blog "Weizhou tries to see the old country", which began to attract people's attention. "Later, Dai Xinwei, editor of Southern Metropolis Daily, first came to me and asked me if I would like to write a column. I wrote some book reviews and comments. " Since then, he has entered the cultural circle as a book critic.

Reading likes to follow the track.

Wei Zhou's enlightenment books are classical literature he repeatedly read in Chongming rural area when he was young, especially Tang poetry and Song poetry. Later, I became interested in history and began to read various historical works. "Looking at ancient history in the early days, I was particularly interested in Chinese and foreign traffic history. In the process of reading, I found that some ideas mentioned in this book are also worth reading in another book, so I went to look for that book. So follow the trail to find the past. Douban has done a good job in this respect, and books I am interested in can often be found on it. Basically, I read books on traditional social sciences and humanities. "

Wei Zhou said that reading different types of books is based on one's own interests, and on the other hand, if we cut into it from a certain angle, our views will be biased. "For example, if you only look at a topic from a historical perspective, the result will be a bit biased, but if you grasp it from other angles, you may get some different views."

Writing Culture-Poetics and Politics of Ethnography inspired him: "Some new ideas are put forward in the book, which has great influence on anthropology. For example, one of the important viewpoints is to regard anthropological papers as writing. In the past, anthropologists thought that what they wrote was not a composition, but a realistic and objective description. The author of the book subverts this view,' because everything is written by people, you think you are objective, and it is impossible not to mix some subjective things.' After the publication of this book, it had a subversive influence on the whole academic community at that time. "

Weizhou has been paying attention to sociological issues such as rural environmental protection and has written many book reviews in this regard. On the bookshelf is a book entitled Contemporary Social and Cultural Changes in Rural Areas in Northern Zhejiang written by Cao Jinqing, who is famous for his early work China by the Yellow River. "He wrote a lot of experience in rural investigation in northern Zhejiang, and he wrote everything in detail. He drew many conclusions that inspired me. For example, a person's grandfather used to be a landlord and was overthrown after 1949, but the cultural values or values contained in this family have continued. 1978, his descendants developed again. Of course, this phenomenon is still very common in many parts of China. Only in Zhejiang, it may be more prominent. Because northern Zhejiang was originally a region with quite developed culture and education. "

Books are collected purely for reading.

There are many Japanese books on the shelf. Weizhou said he could read Japanese books with the help of a dictionary. One of them, Map of Japan, published in the 13th year of Showa (1938), is the oldest book in Weizhou. It is beautifully bound and printed with the words "Xu Yifei Collection". It is estimated that after the death of bibliophile Xu Yifei, his collection was put into circulation by later generations. In 2007, I bought it in 50 yuan, Wisconsin. The book mainly introduces the world situation at that time in the form of statistical charts, including various information about China ("North zhina" and "South zhina"). "This book is quite interesting. To some extent, we can see the views of the Japanese at that time. First of all, talk about world events and arrange the countries in the world separately. Now it is not in the order of countries, but in the order of empires. It ranks Britain as the largest country in the world. Because at that time, the British colonies and population were the first in the world. The editor's thinking is completely different from ours, and it is different from our thinking and thinking in studying modern history. "

"I collect books purely for reading, not for collecting rare books. On the one hand, collecting rare books requires money, on the other hand, it is not my interest. So I won't spend a lot of money on thread-bound books. " Wei Zhou said. But he also missed some books. On one occasion, he visited the antique market near the Confucian Temple, and someone sold a geography textbook published by three Japanese provinces in 1933, which described Japan's historical records and views on the world at that time, in which Taiwan Province Province and South Korea were both included in the Japanese territory. "The man's asking price is more than 100 yuan, so I can't bargain. I didn't discuss it in the end. I went to see it for the second time and couldn't find it. "

According to statistics from Weizhou, his work takes up at least nine hours every day, and he can read at most three or four hundred books a year. "The more books you read, the more you dare not comment casually. Every enterprise is like this. The deeper you go, the more you will find that there are too many awesome people in this industry. For example, Jonathan, a book reviewer, is really good at reading and knows many languages. He is a genius. " Wei Zhou said, "Some time ago, I was told that your knowledge defect is that you don't understand economics. If you want to observe

Politics, understanding economy is very important. I said yes, I admit it. "

Small attic, limited capacity, Wei Zhou is very restrained in buying books these years and will not buy enough books to read once. So he often uses the library to borrow books: "Pudong library has a good environment, and Shanghai library has more complete materials than it." I often go to these two libraries. "