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本书是一部关于生死、亲情与生命韧性的自传体回忆录。作者从福建海边小镇走出，历经知青岁月、恢复高考、赴日留学与大学执教。退休在即，一场突如其来的重病，却击碎了与家人团聚、安享晚年的美好憧憬。此后，肝脏移植、术后并发症、肿瘤复发以及先后九次手术的折磨，连同原生家庭留下的伤痕、夫妻间的隔阂与异国生活的孤独，将他一步步推入重度抑郁的绝望深渊。然而，他始终没有放弃自己。在医学救治、亲友扶持与自身不懈努力下，他逐渐走出阴霾，从写作与平凡生活中重新找到精神寄托，也终于与妻子化解隔阂，重拾久违的温暖与平静。
Oulu is a fictional city on China’s southeastern coast. All places, institutions, and characters in this novel are fictional. Plaques and Laurels follows Oulu Medical College as it fights for the right to grant doctoral degrees, pushes for promotion to full university status, and watches its senior figures pursue one of Chinese academia’s most coveted distinctions: election as an Academician. At the center are Jia Qu, Xiaokun Li, and others maneuvering through research projects, institutional platforms, talent recruitment, affiliated hospitals, industry partnerships, and the intricate networks of academic influence. The institution seeks new “plaques”; individuals pursue their own “laurels,” and each lends strength to the other. In the process, research achievements are repackaged, resources redistributed, alliances formed and abandoned, and the boundaries between academic ambition, institutional development, personal interest, and public good become increasingly difficult to separate. Told in a restrained, satirical voice, the novel traces the rise of a provincial medical college while revealing the calculations, compromises, exchanges, and human choices hidden behind the grand language of academic progress.
本书以瓯鹿医学院争取博士点、升格大学和冲击院士为主线，描写曲迦、李笑坤等人在项目、平台、人才、医院、企业与学术关系之间不断周旋。学校追逐的是“牌子”，个人争夺的是“帽子”，两者彼此借力、相互推动，也使学术成果、公共资源、权力关系和人际网络在一次次整合中重新分配。小说以冷静而讽刺的笔触，呈现一所地方医学院不断向上攀升的过程，也揭示高校发展口号背后的权力运作、利益交换、人性选择，以及每个人为此付出的不同代价。
A professor meets Minhua Zhang, a Chinese scholar living in the United States, through their shared Christian faith. Believing her sincere and trustworthy, he helps bring her to Dongjia Medical University, build a research team, establish laboratories and research programs, write grant proposals, and secure institutional support. Minhua Zhang, however, turns faith, identity, academic titles, and personal relationships into instruments of personal gain. Research grants, subsidized housing for high-level recruits, special project funds, even a provincial key laboratory—nothing escapes her calculation. After being used, betrayed, and humiliated again and again, the professor gradually comes to see her for who she is. Her actions force him to reconsider not only faith and academic ethics, but also a university system in which personal interest so often takes precedence over principle.
某教授因共同的信仰结识旅美学者章冥花，并在将她引进东嘉医科大学，以及组建团队、建设研究平台、撰写项目申请书和争取资源等方面，给予了力所能及的帮助。然而，章冥花却将信仰、身份、学术头衔和人际关系一一变成谋取利益的工具，从科研经费、人才住房、专项资金，到省级重点实验室，无不精心算计。教授在一次次被利用、背叛和羞辱之后，逐渐看清她的真实面目，也由此开始反思信仰、学术伦理，以及高校资源分配背后一切以利益为先的现实。
Set against the recruitment of overseas-trained scholars by a regional medical university, this book follows the experiences of Zhu Jianhong, Lü Bin, Ding Zaokun, and others to reveal that academic credentials, professional ability, and moral character do not necessarily go hand in hand. Some treat the kindness of others as something they are simply entitled to, turn public resources into private gain, and exploit supervisory authority, research funding, and institutional loopholes for personal benefit. They may not always break the law, yet they constantly operate at the edge of the rules, harming others while preserving an appearance of respectability. The book ultimately asks: What must a university truly defend—the boundaries of its regulations, or the moral limits of human conduct?
本书以一所地方医科大学引进“海归”人才为背景，通过祝溅弘、吕濒、丁皂琨等人的经历，揭示学历、能力与品格之间并不存在必然联系。有人把他人的善意视为理所当然，把公共资源变成私人利益，把导师权力、科研经费和制度漏洞当作谋利工具。他们未必触犯法律，却始终贴着规则边缘行走，在维持体面的同时伤害他人。作品由此追问：一所大学真正需要守住的，究竟只是制度的边界，还是做人的底线。
This book tells the story of Ethan Walker, who leaves Red Creek behind and ventures into the wider world. With courage and desire, he gains wealth, fame, and women in the city, only to be outmaneuvered in a larger business deal and ultimately lose his career, his health, and any place to call home. In his later years, he returns to the old family house and faces once again the ancient oak tree in the backyard, the very tree he once mocked.A tree never travels far in its lifetime, yet it witnesses people come and go, flowers bloom and fall. A person may travel the world, yet still fail to learn when to stop. Under the tree, Ethan finally comes to understand: movement has its openness, stillness has its endurance; stillness has its strengths, and movement has its limits.
本书讲述伊森·沃克从红溪镇离家远行，凭着胆量和欲望在城市中获得财富、名声和女人，却在更大的生意中被人算计，最终失去事业、健康和归处。晚年的他回到老宅，重新面对后院那棵曾被自己嘲笑的老橡树。树一生不远行，却见证人来人去，花开花落；人能走遍世界，却未必懂得停下。伊森最后在树下觉悟：动有动的开阔，静有静的长久；静有所长，动亦有所短。
The Chosen Secretary of War opens with the president’s casual remark, “He likes war,” a line that reawakens Daniel Mercer’s buried trauma. Years earlier, as a pilot, Daniel helped bomb his wife’s homeland, drawing her sister’s family into death, separation, and lifelong grief. Decades later, Evan Hawk rises as a new Secretary of War, turning fear, power, and applause into a call for renewed conflict. Across Washington, Belgrade, and Beijing, broken pens, bread, photographs, and testimony reveal the human cost of fire—and ask whom war truly serves after the speeches end.
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