老鬼，1947年生于河北省阜平县，4岁时来到北京父母身边； 小学— 华北小学、育才小学； 初中— 北京师大一附中； 高中— 北京47中； 1968年冬，去内蒙古锡林郭勒盟西乌旗插队； 1976年冬，离开草原去大同矿山机械厂当工人； 1977年底，考入北京大学中文系新闻专业； 毕业后曾在文化艺术出版社任编辑，后调到《法制日报》； 1990年，应美国布朗大学之邀，在该校英语系写作中心做访问学者； 1995年12月回国。 主要著作： 《血色黄昏》 《血与铁》 《母亲杨沫》 《放“下河东”》（待出版） 《河北的彭德怀—胡开明》（待出版） 《不屈的老囚徒》翻译作品（待出版）等

In a startlingly vivid, strangely objective, personal narrative, Ma Bo, who was denounced as an "active counterrevolutionary" in 1968, opens a window on the Chinese psyche that no work of history can provide, telling a passionate tale of a humanity that survives against all odds--a tale of ideology and disillusionment that will speak to all readers.

季羡林（1911-2009），山东临清人。1934年毕业于清华大学外语系,翌年作为清华大学与德国的交换研究生赴德国哥廷根大学学习梵文、巴利文、吐火罗文,获哲学博士学位。1946年回国在北京大学东方语言系任教授，曾任北大副校长、南亚研究所所长、中国史学会常务理事等职。对印度古代语言、印度古典文学、印度佛教史以及中印文化关系等方面有精深研究，著作颇丰,有《中印文化关系史论丛》、《罗摩衍那安探》、《今译》（合著），译有《沙恭达罗》、《五卷书》、《罗摩衍那》等。

季羡林（1911-2009），山东临清人。1934年毕业于清华大学外语系,翌年作为清华大学与德国的交换研究生赴德国哥廷根大学学习梵文、巴利文、吐火罗文,获哲学博士学位。1946年回国在北京大学东方语言系任教授，曾任北大副校长、南亚研究所所长、中国史学会常务理事等职。对印度古代语言、印度古典文学、印度佛教史以及中印文化关系等方面有精深研究，著作颇丰,有《中印文化关系史论丛》、《罗摩衍那安探》、《今译》（合著），译有《沙恭达罗》、《五卷书》、《罗摩衍那》等。

梁晓声，1949年生，山东荣城人，当过知青，1977年毕业于复旦大学。中国作家协会会员。1979年开始发表作品，曾多次荣获国家级大将。其代表作品有：《雪城》、《今夜有暴风雪》、《这是一片神奇的土地》、《浮城》、《年轮》《父亲》、《中国社会各阶层分析》等。现为中国语言大学教授。

Novelist Guanlong Cao's autobiographical account of growing up in urban Shanghai affords a rare glimpse into daily life during the forty turbulent years following the Communist Revolution. Forced to the bottom of Chinese society as "class enemies," Cao's family eked out a meager existence in a cramped attic. The details of their day-to-day existence - the endless quest for enou...(展开全部)

Historian Roger Chartier, part of a school now at work refashioning the Annales tradition, analyzes the causes of the French Revolution not simply by investigating its "cultural origins", but by pinpointing the conditions that "made it possible because conceivable". Chartier has set himself two important tasks. First, while acknowledging the seminal contribution of Daniel Morne...(展开全部)

Historian Roger Chartier, part of a school now at work refashioning the Annales tradition, analyzes the causes of the French Revolution not simply by investigating its "cultural origins", but by pinpointing the conditions that "made it possible because conceivable". Chartier has set himself two important tasks. First, while acknowledging the seminal contribution of Daniel Morne...(展开全部)

What does it mean to write in a socialist revolution? What defines labor in a communist society? In revolutionary China, writers were regularly dispatched to the countryside or factories with the expectation that, through immersion in the life of workers and peasants, they would be remade as “culture workers” whose writing could serve the communist project. Their cultural labor...(展开全部)

What does it mean to write in a socialist revolution? What defines labor in a communist society? In revolutionary China, writers were regularly dispatched to the countryside or factories with the expectation that, through immersion in the life of workers and peasants, they would be remade as “culture workers” whose writing could serve the communist project. Their cultural labor...(展开全部)