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Listening to Ruijin is a bilingual scholarly volume that brings together one of the most extensive surviving collections of folk song manuscripts from Ruijin, the cultural center of the 1930s Central Soviet Area. Based on fieldwork materials preserved by my family for decades, the book offers rare primary sources that document everyday soundscapes, oral traditions, and the cultural imagination of a pivotal historical era. Developed during my research affiliation at Columbia University's Weatherhead East Asian Institute, this project situates Ruijin folk songs within broader conversations in cultural memory, ethnomusicology, and cross-cultural translation. Through historical analysis and manuscript-based interpretation, the book explores how folk songs functioned as emotional expression, community record, and political storytelling, revealing their role as living archives of local society. By integrating traditional archival compilation, translation-based analysis, and emerging AI-driven digital methodologies, Listening to Ruijin seeks to reconstruct a dialogue between the past and the present. This approach enables the cultural memory of Ruijin to enter the global scholarly discourse and offers new perspectives for the study of intangible cultural heritage and cross-cultural transmission. At the same time, from the standpoint of emotional valuation and cultural continuity, it proposes a new paradigm-and a new point of departure-for cultural research in the era of artificial intelligence. 《听见瑞金》是一部中英文对照的学术文献与研究著作，汇集了中央苏区核心区--瑞金--最重要的一批民歌手稿，是目前所存最完整的地方声音档案之一。本书基于20世纪80年代田野采录的一手材料，系统呈现了那个时代乡土社会的声音景观、民间叙事与文化想象。 本项目在我于哥伦比亚大学东亚研究所的研究期间得以深化，并置于文化记忆、民族音乐学与跨文化传播的学术框架之中。通过历史分析与原始手稿的文本解读，本书探讨了民歌如何在特定历史时期承担情感表达、社区记录与政治叙事的功能，呈现其作为""活态档案""的文化价值。 通过将传统档案整理、翻译研究与AI智能数字化研究方法相结合，《听见瑞金》尝试在过去与当下之间重建对话，使瑞金的文化记忆得以进入国际学术语境，并为非物质文化遗产与跨文化研究提供新的视野。同时，从情感价值判断与传承的角度，对未来人工智能时代下的文化研究提供了新的范式与启承。

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