外电：于丹火爆 源在读者内心焦虑和空虚(图)

　　时下的书市，于丹无疑是最耀眼的明星。自《<论语>心得》上市以来，北师大教授于丹遭遇了两个极端，很多读者对她无比推崇，但也有不少人从未停止对她的批评和抵制。看外电这段有关“于丹现象”的评论——于丹之所以火爆，原因在于现代社会民众内心的焦虑和空虚。不管认同与否，不妨一阅。　　Yu Dan (L), a professor from Beijing Normal University, signsanautograph for readers at a book store in Xian, northwestChinasShaanxi province, in this January 24, 2007 filephoto.newsphoto

　　Pop culture offerings in China these days run the gamutfromHollywood blockbusters to domestic versions of American Idol,butit is a book about the ancient sage Confucius that is causingallthe buzz in the streets.

　　Notes on reading the Analects, by Beijing NormalUniversityprofessor Yu Dan, has become Chinas best-selling book inrecentmemory, defying critics who say it turns Confucian thoughtintoself-help pulp for the modern age.

　　It is good to have these teachings from old times becausepeopleare too selfish now, 60-year-old accountant Qu Juan said ofthebook that has sold over 3 million copies in four months.Everybodycares only about making money after the economicreforms, shesaid, flipping through the softback at a bookshop.

　　Yu first shot to fame in October when she went on state TVtolecture on the Analects, a canon of Confucianismrecordingdiscussions between the ancient Chinese sage Confucius(551-479 BC)and his disciples. She wrote the book based on the TVtrants.

　　Her mass following tells of deep anxiety about moralityandbeliefs in a society that has gone through adisorientingtransformation in recent decades, analysts said.

　　We were taught Marxism and Leninism in schools, said Tian Na,a25-year-old teacher who bought the book on the Internet.

　　But when I became independent and went to college, Isawprofessors take bribes and I felt the old slogans like servethepeople were no longer relevant, she said.

　　Yus book appeals across generations, despite the vastlydifferentexperiences of growing up as Tian did, in the relativelyprosperousand stable reform era of the 1980s and 90s, or as theoldergeneration did, during the time of Mao Zedong.

　　（实习编辑：顾萍）