内容简介

“人的一生不知要遇到多少人与事，到了我这个岁数，经历过军阀混战、抗日战争、解放战争，以及新中国成立之后发生的种种，我虽是个平凡的人，却也有许许多多的人可念，许许多多的事想说。”

本书是五四运动同龄人、西南联大进步学子、翻译名家、百岁老人杨苡的唯一口述自传。从1919年走向今天，杨苡的人生百年，正是中国栉风沐雨、沧桑巨变的百年。时代与人生的淬炼，凝结为一代知识女性的天真与浪漫之歌。

世纪回眸中，相比于传奇与成就，杨苡更看重她的“日子”，及其承载的亲情、友情、爱情和世情：童年深宅里，祖辈的煊赫、北洋政商两界的风云变幻她不大闹得清，念念不忘者，是一个个普通人的境遇；同窗情谊、少女心事、诗歌与话剧，“中西”十年乘着歌声的翅膀，无忧无虑；民族危亡之际，自天津、上海、香港到昆明，西迁途中高唱《松花江上》，文明之火光焰不熄；从西南联大到中央大学，记忆里依旧是年轻的身影——初见“文学偶像”巴金，大轰炸后满头灰土的闻一多，手杖点在石板路上嘀嘀笃笃的吴宓，“夸我们是勇敢少女”的恩师沈从文，还有滇水之边的月下谈心，嘉陵江畔的重逢与告别……

学者余斌历时十年，用倾听抵抗遗忘，以细节通向历史的真实。家族旧事、翡翠年华、求学之路、山河故人，一个世纪的人与事在叙述中缓缓展开。“我有意无意间充当了杨先生和读者的中间人。有一事至此也就明确了，它应该是一部可以面向一般读者的口述史。”

作者简介

杨苡，原名杨静如，一九一九年出生于天津，先后就读于天津中西女校、西南联大外文系、国立中央大学外文系。曾任职南京国立编译馆翻译委员会、南京师范学院外语系。著有《青青者忆》（散文集）、《雪泥集》（巴金致杨苡书简，编注）、儿童文学《自己的事自己做》等，译有《呼啸山庄》、《天真与经验之歌》、《兄妹译诗》（与杨宪益合集）等书。所译《呼啸山庄》系蕞流行的中译本之一。二〇一九年获第七届南京文学艺术奖终身成就奖。

余斌，六〇后，南京人，任教于南京大学文学院。著有《张爱玲传》《事迹与心迹》《周作人》《提前怀旧》《译林世界名著讲义》等书。

Content introduction

"I don't know how many people and things I have to meet in my life. At my age, I have experienced warlords fighting, the War of Resistance against Japan, the War of liberation, and all kinds of things that happened after the founding of New China. Although I am an ordinary person, I also have many people to remember and many things to say."

This book is the only oral autobiography of Yang Bi, a peer of the May Fourth Movement, a progressive student of Southwest United University, a famous translator and a centenarian. From 1919 to today, Yang's life has been a century of great changes in China. The temper of The Times and life has condensed into the naive and romantic song of a generation of knowledgeable women.

Looking back in the century, compared with legends and achievements, Yang attaches more importance to her "day", and its bearing of family affection, friendship, love and the world: in her childhood, the greatness of her ancestors, the changes in the political and business circles in Beiyang, she is not so clear, and she is obsessed with the circumstances of ordinary people; Schoolmate friendship, girlhood, poetry and drama, "East and West" ten years riding on the wings of song, carefree; At a time of national peril, from Tianjin, Shanghai and Hong Kong to Kunming, we sang "On the Songhua River" on our westward journey, and the flame of civilization never died out. From the Southwest United University to the Central University, the memory is still a young figure - Ba Jin, the "literary idol", Wen Yiduo, who was full of ash after the big bombing, Wu Mi, who walked on the SLATE road, Shen Congwen, the teacher of "praising us as brave girls", and the moon talk on the edge of the water in Yunnan, the reunion and farewell on the bank of the Jialing River...

Scholar Yu Bin spent ten years to resist forgetting with listening and lead to the truth of history with details. Family history, jade years, the road to study, mountains and rivers, a century of people and things slowly unfold in the narrative. "I acted, intentionally or not, as an intermediary between Mr. Yang and the readers. One thing is clear: it should be an oral history for a general audience."

About the author

Yang, whose real name was Yang Jingru, was born in Tianjin in 1919. She studied in Tianjin Chinese and Western Girls' School, Southwest Associated University, and National Central University. He worked in the Translation Committee of Nanjing National Compilation and Translation Museum and the Foreign Language Department of Nanjing Normal University. She is the author of "Qingqing's Memory" (essay collection), "Slush Collection" (Ba Jin's Letter to Yang Yi, edited and noted), children's literature "Do your own Thing", etc., and has translated "Wuthering Heights", "Songs of Innocence and Experience", "Translated Poems of Brother and Sister" (collected with Yang Xianyi) and other books. Wuthering Heights is one of the most popular Chinese translations. In 2019, he won the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Seventh Nanjing Literature and Art Award.

Yu Bin, born in Nanjing after 60 years, taught at the School of Literature of Nanjing University. He is the author of the Biography of Eileen Chang, Deeds and Thoughts, Zhou Zuoren, Nostalgia in Advance, and Notes on the Famous Works of the Yilin World.