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The View from the Bridge | China Heritage Quarterly

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In 1996, Pierre Ryckmans (Simon Leys) presented the ABC Boyer Lectures. Subsequently published under the title The View from the Bridge the lectures are now being serialised in China Heritage Quarterly with the permission of the author. Herewith we present the second essay, Reading. For the Introduction and the first essay, Learning, see here. Links to articles on reading and libraries published in previous issues of China Heritage Quarterly can be found at the end of this essay.—The Editor In the memoirs of a contemporary Chinese writer, I found an intriguing anecdote. During the war, the author had fled the Japanese invasion and taken refuge in the countryside. For a man who only knew modern city life, the sudden discovery of a traditional peasant world that had hardly changed in two thousand years proved full of surprises. One day, as he had to write an article for a magazine, he went out in the fields, in search of inspiration. He sat under a tree, scribbled a couple of pages, but,

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