The Rise of the Writers of the Republic of China

At the end of the lecture, Zhou Hexuan was surrounded by students. Everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves and continued to ask various questions.

A student suddenly said: "Mr. Zhou, I have read your new book, and I think the section on the reforms in the late Qing Dynasty is very reasonable. After reading your masterpiece, I realized that it is impossible to succeed in establishing a constitutional monarchy in China. However, My point of view is different from yours, I don’t think one-party dictatorship is needed, but a democratic constitutional government that imitates the United States and France.”

"It's normal to have different opinions. We each reserve our opinions." Zhou Hexuan laughed.

In "Guns, Germs, and Steel," Zhou Hexuan expounded the reforms of the late Qing from the perspective of geography and nationality. He concluded that countries with successful constitutional monarchies, such as Japan and the United Kingdom (never mind Ireland) are island countries with a single nation. Although Germany succeeded, it was a military unification with the Germanic people as the main body, which finally came to an end due to the war.

In landlocked countries with complex ethnic groups like France, Russia, and China, there is only one emperor, who mainly represents one ethnic group, and the distribution of benefits is seriously uneven during reforms. Therefore, the resistance to constitutional monarchy and reforms is even greater.

Of course, there are also factors such as culture, customs, traditions, etc., which need to be discussed in detail.

After the students left, Zhang Boling shook Zhou Hexuan's hand and said with a smile, "Mr. Zhou, your speech is so good that I am enlightened!"

"Where is it? It's just a personal opinion." Zhou Hexuan said modestly.

Zhang Boling said, "I'll take you to the Department of Literature and Department of Physics to select students, and we'll talk about the radio station cooperation by the way."

Nankai University is a co-educational school, and Zhou Hexuan recruited six announcers, three men and three women, very easily. Because they usually have to go to class, they take turns working as part-time anchors every day, and their monthly salary is only 15 yuan.

In addition, several radio talents were recruited. These students voluntarily asked not to be paid. Anyway, they borrowed radio equipment to practice their hands, and they became more active and active.

Immediately afterwards, Zhou Hexuan rented recording equipment, went to the comic dialogue garden to record cross talk, went to the theater to record Peking opera, and also bought a lot of Chinese and foreign records.

While Zhou Hexuan was busy preparing for the radio station, the book "Guns, Germs and Steel" was also continuing to ferment.

People talk about it, but many literati and scholars nowadays still attach great importance to this book.

Even Lu Xun, who scolded Zhou Hexuan the most ruthlessly, turned over the first 300,000 words and read it repeatedly. This book opened his eyes wide, and many problems that he had never thought about before suddenly appeared in front of him like a variety of products in a shop window.

Those who felt the greatest shock were those scholars of the Republic of China who studied anthropology and sociology.

Li Hanjing, a professor at Yenching University, just returned from a rural social survey in Ding County. After he finished reading "Guns, Germs and Steel", he didn't even bother to write his own social investigation paper, so he rushed to the principal Leighton Stuart: "Mr. Leighton Stuart, have you read this book?"

Leighton Stuart was taken aback for a moment, then smiled and said, "Ready to read."

"This is a masterpiece of human sociology. Once it is published in Europe and the United States, it will cause a sensation all over the world. The viewpoints presented in the book are unimagined, and it is enough to create a branch of anthropology." Li Hanjing said excitedly .

"Really that powerful?" Leighton Stuart asked in surprise.

"It's more than amazing," Li Hanjing highly praised Zhou Hexuan, "I have studied in Columbia and the University of California for many years, and I have never seen such an outstanding anthropological sociology work. It is enough to stand out from all similar works in the world."

"Oh, Maika," Leighton Stuart couldn't help speaking English and said with a smile, "After hearing what you said, I can't wait to read it."

Li Hanjing said: "Mr. President, I heard that Zhou Hexuan lives in Tianjin. Why don't you hire him to be the dean of the Department of Sociology at Yanjing University. With him in charge of the Department of Sociology at Yanjing University, the academic level of the Department of Sociology will definitely be greatly improved. "

Leighton Stuart shook his head with a smile and said, "Don't you know his identity?"

"What identity?" Li Hanjing was busy doing social investigations all day long, so he didn't know much about Zhou Hexuan's situation.

Leighton Stuart said: "He is the principal of Peking University, how could he come to Yanda to be the dean of the department?"

"Ah?" Li Hanjing said in surprise, "Isn't the principal of Peking University Cai Yuanpei, isn't the acting principal Jiang Menglin?"

Leighton Stuart was speechless for a moment, and said amusedly, "Professor Li, you should read more newspapers."

Li Hanjing scratched his head, and said: "Principal, I suggest that Yanda set up a special subject for "Guns, Germs, and Steel", at least as a minor subject. For teachers and students who study anthropology and sociology, this book All must-sees."

Leighton Stuart pondered for a moment, and finally expressed his opinion: "I'll talk about it after I finish reading this book."

"Okay, I'll go first." Li Hanjing was still busy writing social survey papers.

Leighton Stuart opened the book. There are not many technical terms in this book, and ordinary people can understand it. Leighton Stuart was shocked by Zhou Hexuan after only reading the first 100,000 words. He immediately called the dean of the Department of Social Sciences of Yanda University: "From the next semester, I decided to use "Guns, Germs and Steel" as a social theme. It is a compulsory course in the department. You go and arrange it!"

Zhou Hexuan was a college student who suffered a lot from the Republic of China. Not only Yanda University listed "Guns, Bacteria, and Steel" as a compulsory course, but also Tsinghua University, Northeastern University, Nanjing University, Sun Yat-sen University, Lingnan University... and other public and private schools in the north and south, In the next few years, this book will be listed as a compulsory subject in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology.

Although Peking University did not have a dedicated department of anthropology and sociology at this time, it did have related disciplines, and the new works of their presidents were also selected.

"Guns, Germs, and Steel" was sprayed bloody by democrats, but in the next few years, it gradually became a classic work of Chinese anthropology and sociology. Even after it was published in Europe and the United States, internationally renowned universities such as Oxford, Cambridge, Paris, and Harvard also listed this book as an elective or compulsory course.

In the 1930s, students majoring in anthropology and sociology at Oxford University had a joke: "You may not know the British Prime Minister, but you must know Mr. Zhou Hexuan."

While the European and American academic circles regarded this book as a classic, it also caused a lot of controversy. For example, the various data and materials given in the book were criticized by scholars as having no professional basis, but after many international academic exchanges, it was gradually discovered that many of them had archaeological evidence.

Of course, there are still more than a dozen places, and people today cannot distinguish the authenticity, so they have been researching for decades. Many scholars have devoted their lives to the research of "Guns, Bacteria, and Steel", and students of related majors in Europe and the United States often intercept some of the ideas in the book as graduation research papers.

After the joint efforts of countless scholars, "Guns, Germs, and Steel" actually derived a brand-new branch of discipline called "historical_anthropology" (historical_anthropology).

Later generations of scholars generally believe that the pioneering work of historical anthropology was "The Kings Who Worked Miracles" published by Mark Bullock in 1924, while the real foundational work was "Guns and Cannons" written by Zhou Hexuan in 1928. , Bacteria and Steel".

From the 1930s to the 1970s was a period of exploration for historical anthropology. In order to open up this subject, the French School of Annals History has conducted in-depth research in many aspects and gradually perfected the theoretical basis of the subject. Until Braudel published "Material Civilization and Capital Civilization" in 1967, this book became another masterpiece of historical anthropology, announcing the final formation of historical anthropology.

After the 1970s, historical anthropology developed rapidly in many countries in Europe, America and the Soviet Union, and Zhou Hexuan can be regarded as a generation of masters.

Zhou Hexuan's encyclopedic information in the 21st century also has a dazzling prefix title - the founder of historical anthropology.