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以一句“他喜欢战争”为引子，退役飞行员丹尼尔被旧日战争重新击中。二十多年前，他奉命飞越妻子的故土；妻姐卡塔琳娜死在买面包回家的路上，米兰一家从此被半条面包、灰围巾和未寄出的信困住。多年后，迷恋战争的霍克走上权力舞台，新的火焰逼迫旧伤重新开口。周宁带着父亲留下的烧黑钢笔来到贝尔格莱德，也把记忆带进听证会。小说在家庭、士兵、政客、军工与普通人的命运之间，追问战争究竟服务谁，又由谁承受它漫长的余生。
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以一句“他喜欢战争”为引子，退役飞行员丹尼尔被旧日战争重新击中。二十多年前，他奉命飞越妻子的故土；妻姐卡塔琳娜死在买面包回家的路上，米兰一家从此被半条面包、灰围巾和未寄出的信困住。多年后，迷恋战争的霍克走上权力舞台，新的火焰逼迫旧伤重新开口。周宁带着父亲留下的烧黑钢笔来到贝尔格莱德，也把记忆带进听证会。小说在家庭、士兵、政客、军工与普通人的命运之间，追问战争究竟服务谁，又由谁承受它漫长的余生。
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?
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.
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。
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.