从“复杂中国”视角看中国,有这么几个方法论问题。一是一定要求实,这是知识分子基本的职责。求真比寻求道德批判要难得多。专门拿一个道德杠杆衡量别人,这挺容易的,但它不解决问题。只有求真才解决问题。二是知识界的人还得加强专业学习,但又不要被理论的东西给绑架了。我觉得相当多一批中国知识分子就是被上世纪80年代的启蒙概念绑架了,今天还没有跳出来。三是要防止 Looking at China from the perspective of “complex China”, there are so many methodological issues. First, we must seek truth from facts. This is the basic responsibility of intellectuals. Truth is much harder than seeking moral criticism. It’s easy to take a moral lever to measure others, but it does not solve the problem. Only truth can solve the problem. Second, the intellectuals have to strengthen professional learning, but not to be abducted by the theory of things. I think quite a number of Chinese intellectuals were abducted by the concept of enlightenment in the 1980s and have not jumped out today. The third is to prevent