也许我们在这个“术语时代”里,理论的压缩饼干吃得太多了,当第一次读到曹锦清先生著的《黄河边的中国——一个学者对乡村社会的观察与思考》一书时,我顿时耳目一新,如饮清泉。这是一本以今天极为少见的文体写就的社会调查报告,纯白描式的写作,给人的感觉是像泥土一样朴实。 这是一掊黄河岸边的沙土,散发着作者的赤子情怀,凝聚着这个时代的真实。作者两次私下中原,走走停停,以一个学者的眼光做了这样一种记录。他朴实无华的陈述少有精美的术语包装,却为我们留下了一段信史,告诉了我们二十世纪末中原农民的真实生存状态。六 Perhaps we in this “age of terminology”, the theory of biscuits eat too much, when the first reading of Mr. Cao Jinqing “China by the Yellow River - a scholar on the rural community observation and thinking,” a book , I suddenly refreshing, such as drinking spring. This is a social survey written in a very rare style today. Writing in pure white style gives the impression of being as earthy as the soil. This is a sandy shoal of the Yellow River, exudes the author’s feelings of innocence, embodies the realities of this era. The author privately Central Plains twice, stop and go, with a scholar’s vision made such a record. His unpretentious presentation of rare and delicate terminology packaging left us with a history of letters and told us the true living conditions of the Central Plains peasants at the end of the 20th century. six