The spirit of the Lianda in academic freedom, professorial rule, scientific democracy and a focus on practical work. The University has been struggling with the power of academia and education, but it has been able to set up a desk in the midst of the storm, a sort of "fortunate poet's house". Many of the themes are illuminating: discipline and freedom, the absence of Marxism at the Lianda, the tension between the right to equal opportunity education (public) and academic freedom (most of the time money = bottom line), the divide between art and politics, between groups... Every sentence is well reasoned, objective scrutiny and sympathetic love and care are not in conflict. "Every member of the intellectual community has the right to pursue the truth that the individual wants to discover" "We see no alternative to the twentieth century. For China, alongside all other systems, generalist education is probably the most deprived system of higher education."