夏晓虹先生的《晚清文人妇女观》,拜读一个多月了。不是一遍,而是两遍,还不算重复检阅的章节,片断。这是一本诚实、清明而令人百感交集的书。 人们常说,事实总不如字面来得漂亮。这是痛感我们中国人太擅长词令的呻吟,而且,再难堪的事实,还有“春秋笔法”。因此,但凡古人所谓“秉笔直书”,今人所说“有真意,去粉饰,少做作,勿卖弄”的文字,总令人敬重,而且亲和。夏先生的《觉世与传世》是这样,现在这一本也是这样。 Xia Xiahong’s “Late Qing Literati Women”, read more than a month. Not again, but twice, not counting repeated chapters, fragments. This is an honest, clear and very touching book. People often say that the truth is not always as beautiful as it is literally. This is a pain we feel the Chinese people are too good at the moaning groans, and then embarrassed the facts, as well as “spring and autumn strokes.” Therefore, whenever the ancients called the “upright straight book,” what people today call “genuine, whitewashing, less contrived, do not show off” is always respected and pro-friendly. Mr. Xia’s “world and handed down” is the case, and now this one is the same.