Chinese official media praised Han Han's turnaround: he transcended "left" and "right"

Chinese official media praised Han Han's turnaround: he transcended "left" and "right" The Chinese Communist Party's official media "Global Times" published an article by a Peking University professor evaluating Han Han on the 27th, saying...

The Chinese Communist Party's official media "Global Times" published an article on Han Han on the 27th by a professor from Peking University, saying that Han Han's latest blog post shows that Han Han has begun to try to go beyond listing phenomena and think more deeply to find new ways to "explain China." This is an effort to go beyond the "left" and "right" frameworks, and it is also the beginning of seeking a truly powerful response to reality.

In the three days from December 23 to 26, Han Han published three blog posts in succession on his blog, namely "Talk about Revolution", "Talk about Democracy", and "Want Freedom", which attracted widespread attention in Chinese society and also triggered new thinking and discussion.

After the "Global Times" published an editorial on the 26th affirming Han Han's statement that "the party organization is so large that it is the people themselves, and the people are the system itself", it published an article on the 27th entitled "Han Han turns into a butterfly, transcending the "left" and "right"" and praised Han Han greatly.

Chinese young writer Han Hanjing is the first prize winner of the New Concept Essay Contest. He dropped out of high school and is a best-selling author. He is now a famous racing driver and the owner of the most visited blog in China. In 2010, Han Han, together with Obama and Bill Gates, entered the shortlist of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine. Many people attach great importance to Han Han as a "citizen" who expresses his views on major social issues, and regard him as a new figure who goes far beyond the original thinking of intellectuals on Chinese issues.

The article said that these three latest blog posts can be regarded as part of this young opinion leader’s systematic thinking on China issues. From "playing the role of a critic of many social issues" before, Han Han has now elaborated on his understanding of China's major issues, such as "revolution", "democracy" and "freedom". It is a critical journey starting from intuition and sublimating to rational thinking.

How to understand China? How to understand China’s current situation and its development over the past thirty years? This has been the focus of the “left” and “right” differences among intellectuals since the 1980s, and it is also an issue that has been constantly debated among intellectuals. But from today's perspective, China's development over the past 30 years has clearly gone beyond the binary opposition of "modernity" of "left" and "right". China has not developed according to the model and structure envisioned by "left" and "right" intellectuals.

Often "left" and "right" intellectuals are overly limited to their own ideological positions, lack the ability to interpret China's new developments, and are unable to respond specifically to the challenges and problems China faces. Since the 1990s, many Chinese intellectuals have been in a state of "anxiety about interpreting China" and have lost their grasp of reality. The binary opposition of "left" and "right" not only limits the perspective from which intellectuals view the world and China, but also limits their ability to think truly objectively and rationally about reality. Many intellectuals strive to transcend "left" and "right", break away from the original fixed values, and seek to understand China more deeply and concretely.

Therefore, the article believes that Han Han’s choice is not accidental. It is also a link in the difficult and serious thinking chain of many intellectuals since the 1990s.

The article believes that the significance of Han Han's important blog posts is that he began to try to think more deeply beyond the list of phenomena and find a new path to "explain China." This is an effort to go beyond the "left" and "right" frameworks, and it is also the beginning of seeking a truly powerful response to reality. This actually gives more inspiration to current intellectuals. We all need to face the reality of China more, rather than sticking to established frameworks and models; we all need to provide a powerful interpretation of reality, rather than abandoning reality to satisfy our own wishful thinking.

The article concluded that Han Han has turned into a chrysalis and turned into a butterfly. A young man dared to face the reality he faced and tried to give a new interpretation. He had the courage to surpass himself. So how should we respond?