Since 1985, she has published a large number of essays and novel reviews in Taiwan's "China Times" and other newspapers. a book.Taiwanese media commented on the book as follows: "Her sharp rhetoric, clever words, and meticulous thinking have exposed all kinds of diseases in our society brazenly and fearlessly, and let the bloody facts force us to open our eyes. Think about it. Maybe her opinion hurt our nation’s self-esteem, smashed many myths, and pointed out the mottled and dilapidated places on the golden facade, but the "Wildfire Collection" is trying to burn away all decay, all ugliness, and all unsightly things. Injustice and injustice have been tempered to create a clear world. "

After 1996, Long Yingtai continued to publish works in European newspapers and periodicals, which attracted much attention.Since 1995, Long Yingtai has written "Long Yingtai Column" in the "PEN" supplement of Shanghai "Wen Wei Po".He is the author of "People in Europe", "Letter to Taiwan", "Beautiful Rights", "Look at the End of the Century Coming to You", "Cheers, Thomas Mann", "My Uneasiness". In Taiwan, I probably only give one speech a year.The reason why I am willing to talk about the need for humanistic literacy with law school students today is mainly because I have seen that Taiwan has become such a society where politics covers everything since the lifting of martial law. A fairly high percentage of eleventh-century politicians came from this law school.Whether it is a presidential candidate or a representative of the central public opinion, I don’t know how many of them are from the Department of Political Science, Law, or Agricultural Economics of National Taiwan University (Lee Teng-hui is from the Department of Agricultural Economics, right? (Laughter)

But today's topic is not "political figures" - but "political people" - what kind of humanistic qualities should be.Why not "politician"?Because it is too late to ask people who are over 40 years old today to have humanistic qualities. You are about 20 years old today; after 25 years, among you who are sitting here today, there may be Four people are going to become presidential candidates.Well, the reason for my coming is clear: you are likely to influence society in the future.But yesterday I heard another argument.A good friend of mine said, "You really should go to the National Taiwan University to teach humanistic literacy, because this place produces the most people who endanger society." (Laughter) Twenty-five years later, when the gentlemen among you become I was only seventy-two years old when I became the leader of the society, and I still have to be led and influenced by you.Therefore, "strike first is the best", and I will influence you first today. (laughter)

Why should we care about today's politicians, tomorrow's politicians?Because they hold power, he will determine the direction of a society, so those of us who may be determined by him for most of our fate, the most ardent hope is that you who have power, please, please develop the ability to judge values.You must know what "value" is, and you must know how to make "judgments". I don't want to get into any realpolitik at all today, let's stay away from politics for a day.What I want to think about with you today is: how do we form a judgment on a phenomenon, especially in an era where there are divergent opinions and no distinction between true and false.Twenty-five years from now, one of you may have to decide whether you should force a master of Chinese studies like Qian Mu to move out of the Sushu Building where he lived for a long time; On the anniversary day, what kind of conversation do you have to look back on history?Twenty-five years later, you may have to decide how to look at the relationship between Japan, China and Taiwan, the guilt of the war and the contradictions of modernization?Today, twenty-five years later, maybe you also have to decide what kind of relationship between Taiwan and China should be?What is the status of Chinese culture in the historical development of the world?What's more, where should the new intersection point be between the civilizations of the West and the East?Twenty-five years from now, you will face these old problems that we have not solved, plus new problems that we may not be able to imagine now, and you will take this society in a new direction.I hope our collective thinking today is a small preparation for the future.

What is humanities?We can accept a very rough classification for the time being, that is, "literature", "history" and "philosophy", three general directions.Let’s talk about literature first, which refers to literature in the broadest sense, including literature, art, aesthetics, and aesthetics in a broad sense.