1948年11月的北平,萧瑟而落寞。刚刚结束辽沈战役的东北解放军挥师入关,迅速包围了平津,国民党华北“剿总”辖下的50万大军犹如瓮中之鳖。千年古都正以它天朝的气度,无声地目睹着这场改朝换代的嬗变。北平城内的教授们面对着的不仅是一次生存的选择,更是一次政治环境与文化环境 Peking in November 1948, bleak and lonely. The Northeast Liberation Army just after the end of the Liao-Shen Campaign waved into the border and quickly surrounded Pingjin. The 500,000 troops under the KMT’s “suppression” in North China are like ungraded turtles. The ancient capital of the millennium is witnessing the evolution of this dynasty through its heavenly grace. Peking city professors face not only a choice of survival, but also a political environment and cultural environment