World Book Day ｜ Book list recommended by publishing agency, buy it!
Today is World Book Day. Major publishing houses have selected their latest and most recommended 3-5 books for everyone to enrich their spiritual world.
Shanghai People Publishing House
Miracle: The Experience of Early Development in Pudong (1990-2000).
Author: Edited by Party History Research Office of Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China
Publication date: April 2020
Content Description: Miracle: The Experience of Early Development in Pudong (1990-2000) contains precious oral materials of more than 40 pioneers of Pudong’s development and opening up, which are divided into four parts: Lujiazui, Jinqiao, Waigaoqiao and Zhangjiang. It records important events in the development of Pudong from various fields and perspectives, which are related to the important decision-making process of Pudong’s reform, opening up, construction and development, as well as the important details of witnessing the changes in the industry field, and vividly reproduces Pudong. The narrators of this book are all participants, promoters, builders and witnesses in the process of Pudong’s development and opening up. They have dedicated the best time and flying youth in their lives to the hard start and hard work of Pudong’s development and opening up in the first decade. With a responsible attitude towards history, they told the vivid history of struggle in the early development and construction of four state-level development zones in Pudong with passion and seeking truth from facts.
Appendices and Addenda, Volume 2
Author: [Germany] arthur schopenhauer
Translator: Wei Qichang
Publication date: April 2020
Content abstract: The second volume of Appendices and Addenda is an addendum, which consists of 31 chapters, 400 sections and 15 poems, including 15 newly translated chapters and 8 fully translated chapters. Schopenhauer’s poems in his youth were translated for the first time. There are more than 600,000 words in the book. The first 15 chapters are supplements to Schopenhauer’s main philosophical works, including philosophy and its methods, things and phenomena in themselves, ethics, philosophy and natural science, nothingness and pain of existence, suicide and religion. The last 16 chapters expound his views on real life and life issues from the perspective of will philosophy. "Addendum" embodies his profound reading and profound thinking, and is a symphony of analysis and comments on various representations of philosophy of will in the objective world. He has special consideration for ending with poetry.
The second volume is a collection of famous articles. Apart from The Wisdom of Life, Schopenhauer also has some famous articles with brilliant literary talent, profound thoughts, eloquent style and short and pithy style, all of which are in the second volume. For example, On Judgment, Criticism, Praise and Fame, On Reading and Books, On Scholars and erudition, On Writing and Style, On Thinking by Yourself, On Religion, etc., and of course, on Women.
Nowhere to Run: Cross-border Prosecution of Insider Trading and Market Manipulation
Author: [plus] Janet Austin
Translator: Dou Pengjuan
Publication date: March 2020
Content abstract: The globalization of the securities market has profoundly affected cross-border market manipulation and insider trading. This book deeply discusses the reaction of securities regulators, discusses the new laws and regulations aimed at preventing such misconduct, and how the detection procedures, investigation and prosecution techniques can adapt to insider trading and cross-border market manipulation.
Grand Fantasy: The Dream of Liberalism and International Reality
Author: [America] Wendell Harrison
Translator: Li Ze
Publication date: December 2019
Content abstract: It is generally believed in the west that the United States should spread freedom and democracy around the world, foster an open international economy, and establish an international system to reshape the world according to the image of the United States, so that the world will be safer. But this is not the case. On the contrary, because the United States pursues a liberal hegemonic policy, it eventually becomes a highly militarized country, and constantly carries out foreign wars that undermine peace, damage human rights and threaten domestic freedom values, which has brought many troubles to world peace.
Mearsheimer, the author of this book, believes that liberal hegemony-the foreign policy pursued by the United States after the end of the Cold War-is doomed to failure. He pointed out that nationalism and realism will constrain America’s liberal hegemonic policy overseas, and it is more meaningful for the United States to adopt a more restrained foreign policy.
A General History of China in Idioms
Authors: Guo Zhikun, Chen Xueliang
Publication date: July 2019
Content abstract: China idioms, as the essence of language, the accumulation of civilization, the epitome of history and the crystallization of wisdom, have become an important link to inherit Chinese civilization. Linking idioms together, it is a rich and detailed general history of China with a sense of scene.
The author is familiar with history. In the vast world of idioms, he has collected nearly 1,000 idioms that can represent various historical periods. Each idiom is written in about 800 words, expounding the essence of history and integrating a unique general history of China with idioms. They created a new style of writing history, that is, they described the vast historical picture from the origin of Chinese civilization to the Qing Dynasty with idioms as clues, comprehensively described the occurrence and development process of ancient history in China, and revealed the historical development trend and laws.
Shanghai literature and art publishing house
Empty Nest: I’m too lonely in this world
Author: Yizhou
Publication date: April 2020
Content abstract: This is a nonfiction work completed by writer Yizhou in 2014. Through more than a year’s field investigation, the author interviewed dozens of lonely old people living in the countryside and cities, recorded their living conditions of living alone, and finally formed an interview manuscript of more than 100 thousand words. The book "Empty Nest" presents the rapid changes of the times, the texture of the years, the sadness of empty nesters and the present situation of their children in other places, and has a strong sense of the times and the confusion of life. There is not only a spiritual quality that reaches directly to the soul and humanistic care, but also a poetic style and vivid reproduction of rural discourse. Several types of empty nesters are lonely in life or spiritually. For Chinese, who has the traditional ethics of fatherly kindness and filial piety and the humanistic ideal of "caring for the elderly and caring for the elderly", it is not a social problem but a heart-wrenching pain about the cultural and spiritual lifeline.
Mumbai: The Jungle of Desire
Author: Sukhotu Mehta
Translator: Jin Tian
Publication date: April 2020
Content abstract: Following Berlin: A Portrait of a City, Istanbul: A City with Seven Hills under the Veil, and Venice: A Market of an Island at Dawn, the new works of Reading the City Series. It was written by Sukhotu Mehta, the most famous writer in modern and contemporary India, and was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize final in 2005. Mehta is both a Mumbai native and educated in the United States, which brings him a unique and favorable perspective to interpret the city. The two-and-a-half-year investigation records depict a city where money and desire, poverty and dreams are intertwined. After watching all kinds of strange things in the operation of the state machine and the cheers and sighs of human nature in the clouds and the soil, we will find that we are no strangers to this city.
Reflections on Sociology (3rd Edition)
Authors: [English] zygmunt bauman, Tim May.
Translator: Li Kang
Publication date: April 2020
Content abstract: This book doesn’t sort out linearly according to time, and doesn’t count by famous artists bit by bit. Instead, it explores the potential assumptions and implicit expectations of building our world outlook around some core concepts that not only permeate our daily life but also shape the character of the discipline. It can be called the first choice. The third edition of this revision fully responds to the major changes that have taken place in the world since the publication of the second edition: how the trends such as climate change, the worsening inequality and the increasingly important role of social media have affected our life world in terms of intimacy, community, consumption concept, ethics and social identity.
A little talk on a journey to the west
Author: Liu Bo
Publication date: March 2020
Content abstract: This is the first book in the series "Liu Bo Storytelling". It was from this book that Liu Bo began his historical and humanistic writing. He seems to have inadvertently read the novel The Journey to the West (including some TV series The Journey to the West), and when he is in the mood, he casually picks up historical allusions and modern jokes, which are skillfully interspersed in the text, history and the present world, just like Sun Walker’s spiritual possession. This is the legacy of the flourishing age of BBS. With a little put in order, it really belongs to his readers in a way that suits him.
People in Pudong
Author: Tao Lingfen
Publication date: April 2020
Content abstract: This is a novel with great flavor of life and depicting the development of Pudong. The Pudong family, who once looked forward to the city life of "Greater Shanghai" in Puxi, experienced different fate changes in the face of the times: they struggled with their fate all the way from their 70-year identities as farmers, embroiderers, farmers, pigs and steel mill workers, and experienced tests in different development stages of Pudong, especially during the period of reform and opening up and Pudong’s development and opening up. Decades of joys and sorrows have made Pudong, joined hands with the integration of Pudong people and Puxi people, and achieved the prosperity of a truly "Greater Shanghai" international metropolis. The novel is a rare masterpiece with realistic themes, which describes local customs, human feelings, and the real Shanghainese’s rooted life and indomitable spirit.
Shanghai Translation Publishing House
The complete diary of Yasujirō Ozu
Author: [Japan] by Yasujirō Ozu.
Tanaka Makoto
Translator: Zhou Yiliang
Publication date: March 2020
Content abstract: The Complete Diary of Yasujirō Ozu is a masterpiece of Japanese world-class movie master Yasujirō Ozu’s existing personal diaries, with more than 400,000 words. There are as many as 32 volumes of Ozu’s diaries with a time span of nearly complete from 1933 to 1963. In the faint daily records, his career and works overlap and become a unique life drama. From the age of 30 to the end of his life at the age of 60, Yasujirō Ozu’s diary recorded the true profile of his life and art. Under the great historical changes, how did a sincere and individual artist go deeper and deeper on the road of art and finally achieve Yasujirō Ozu as a world-class film artist? This "Full Diary" revealed the secrets to all readers.
Hundred Scenes of Tokyo
Author: [Japan] Naoki Matayoshi
Translator: Mao Danqing
Publication date: March 2020
Content abstract: Hundred Scenes of Tokyo is composed of 100 short essays in series. In the essay, Naoki Matayoshi recorded his 10-year experience from Osaka to Tokyo at the age of 18 to fight for the artist’s dream. During the ten years, he walked through all corners of Tokyo, and his related memories and moods were dotted among them. Naoki Matayoshi’s brushwork is simple, sincere and quite delicate. These short essays have initially demonstrated his extraordinary talents in comedy and reading and writing. However, the days before he became famous were always cruel, and the experience of leaving his hometown alone was also true and illusory in Youji’s works. His sensitive and slender character was undoubtedly revealed in the book, which was touching, sad and funny to read and resonated.
Crying of the Century: The Story of AIDS
Author: [America] Randy Hilts
Translator: Fu Jieying
Publication date: January 2020
Content abstract: This is an extensive and comprehensive news survey, which tells the story of the discovery and spread of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune syndrome (AIDS) in the United States in detail, and shows the events and figures that affect AIDS, especially the individuals in government departments, medical and research institutions, gay organizations and the media. While depicting human cowardice, despair, selfishness and greed with a large number of facts, it also presents human courage, enterprising, selflessness and compassion in the crisis of death with wonderful details.
Updike’s Short Stories: Early 1953-1975 (Part I and Part II)
Author: [America] john updike
Translator: Li Kangqin, Wang Yun, Yang Xiangrong, etc.
Publication date: January 2020
Content abstract: This book contains most of the short stories of John Updike’s writing career, edited and arranged by the author himself, mainly from 1953 (when Updike’s writing career began) to 1975, most of which were originally published in The New Yorker.
The collection of novels is divided into eight parts by theme-ohlinger Story, Breaking into the World, Married Life, Family Life, Two Isoldes, Tabax Past, Out of Reach and Single Life. There are 103 short stories, among which there are many excellent ones, such as A&P and Pigeon Feather.
On love and death
Author: [Germany] Patrick Sü Skind
Translator: Cai Hongjun, Zhang Jianguo and Chen Xiaochun
Publication date: January 2020
Content abstract: In this short work, Sueskind, the author of Perfume, discusses the relationship between love and its eternal rival-death, citing philosophy, literature, religious stories, myths and legends, and three examples in modern life, showing readers the relationship between the two, which makes readers think about how the world views love and death, and what they look like in literary and philosophical works.
Yilin Press
The Rainbow of Gravitation (fully translated and revised)
Author: [America] Thomas Pynchon
Translator: Zhang Wenyu
Publication date: April 2020
Content Abstract: This is a classic work by American postmodern writer Thomas Pynchon, which occupies a supreme position in the 20th century literary history and has caused great controversy. The background of the novel is World War II, when German V-2 rockets frequently attacked London. The British and American spy agencies found that the place where an American intelligence officer had sex was often the landing point of the rocket, so they studied this phenomenon, which attracted and implicated many people and things.
In harold bloom’s view, Pynchon is the most dynamic American novelist, and his achievements are the least in doubt. The Rainbow of Gravitation, with its profound prophecies and strong sense of the future, defines our complicated and ever-changing world. Therefore, Liu Cixin included the Rainbow of Gravitation in the hardcore sci-fi classics.
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Updated Edition)
Author: [America] william shirer
Translator: Leshan Dong, etc.
Publication date: May 2020
Content abstract: American journalist William Schiller began to observe Nazi activities in 1925, and described the history of Hitler’s Germany in a panoramic way with his personal experience and interview notes, combined with a large number of secret documents, military orders, personal diaries, confessions and testimonies from the Nuremberg trial.
Record of numerous wastes in Jiangnan
Author: Xu Feng
Publication date: March 2020
Content Description: In the latest masterpiece of prose "The Record of the Numerous Wastes in the South of the Yangtze River", Xu Feng sorts out the context and origin of the humanities in the south of the Yangtze River by stripping the cocoons. Capture people and events at critical moments in history, and tell about persistence and famine in evolution. The trilogy of "Jade Case", "Slow Voice" and "Full of Wind" is progressing step by step, which carefully examines the cultural phenomena in the south of the Yangtze River, and deeply describes the traditional spirits hidden in the people, such as customs, feelings, chivalry, courage, generosity and kindness. Finally, it leaves the lost people in reality and the future returnees with an indelible spiritual map of the south of the Yangtze River.
The voyage of beagle
Author: [England] Charles Darwin
Translator: Chen Hong
Publication date: April 2020
Content abstract: In December 1831, Charles Darwin boarded the British Navy ship Beagle as a "captain’s companion" and began a five-year scientific investigation tour. In five years, Darwin crossed the Atlantic Ocean four times, visited the South American continent and surrounding islands, went deep into the South Pacific Ocean and went to the Indian Ocean, and made detailed observations and records on various creatures, geological phenomena, folk customs and local political systems along the way, and brought back a large number of precious specimens. In a sense, The Adventure of the Beagle can be regarded as the preparation and foundation of On the Origin of Species. No wonder Darwin called it his "first academic child".
Traditional invention
Author: [English] Eric hobsbawm, [English] Terrence Langer Translator: Gu Hang, Pang Guanqun.
Publication date: February 2020
Content abstract: Many traditions that we think have a long history are actually quite recent inventions. This book explores and analyzes many cases of this invention process, including the formation of "national culture" in Scotland and Wales, the evolution of British royal ceremonies in the 19th and 20th centuries, the origin of India and Africa’s participation in imperial ceremonies during the colonial period, and the anti-traditional efforts of the European continent to develop people themselves.
People’s Literature Publishing House
The complete book of earthly wonders
Author: Feng Jicai
Publication date: January 2020
Content abstract: Since 1990s, Feng Jicai has created 54 short stories of "earthly wonder" series. Its style is unified, legendary, full of life flavor and vivid characters, which describes Tianjin Wei’s regional style, customs and lifestyle in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, and also shows the exquisite skills of Chinese folk culture and the wisdom contained therein. The Complete Book of Earthly Wonders contains 18 new works by Feng Jicai in 2019, including 54 series of Earthly Wonders.
Beauty of Antiquities in the Forbidden City 3
Author: Zhu Yong
Publication date: March 2020
Content abstract: The Beauty of Antiquities in the Forbidden City 3 is another "Beautiful Works of the Forbidden City" published by Zhu Yong after The Beauty of Antiquities in the Forbidden City, The Hidden Corner of the Forbidden City and Looking for Su Dongpo in the Forbidden City. In 2020, the 95th anniversary of the establishment of the Palace Museum and the 600th anniversary of the establishment of the Forbidden City. Zhu Yong, director of the Film and Television Research Institute of the Palace Museum, led the readers into a "Forbidden City on paper", listened to the stories behind the antiquities of the Forbidden City and experienced the deep charm of the 600-year-old Forbidden City and the 95-year-old Palace Museum together.
River Melody-Selected Works of Wang Dingjun
Author: Wang Dingjun
Publication date: February 2020
Content abstract: This is the latest anthology of "The Eyes of a Generation of Chinese" and Wang Dingjun, a master of Chinese prose, and selects three categories (essays, beautiful essays and variations) of Ding Gong’s life works. After more than 90 years of various experiences, I have collected many articles, but I have delivered them to my bosom friends in the world with the words of nature and spirit. It is precisely that life is like a river, and sorrow and joy are overtures; Even if the world is disqualified, love and beauty are still wisdom.
My Yuan Ye Feast
Author: Zhang Wei
Publication date: January 2020
Content abstract: Green Lin Mang, rich Yuan Ye, full of interest … Energy from land and nature fills every story, which makes people emotional. Reading this book is like inhaling oxygen. Readers can not only get fresh nourishment, but also gain a profound understanding and insight of nature, society and life from it.
Beauty and longevity
Author: Mao Jianjun
Publication date: January 2020
Content abstract: The novel began to be written in the late 1990s, with Meishun, a rural girl married to Beijing as the core. Through the stories of three generations of people in this small family, as well as the surrounding relatives and friends, it tells the daily life, worldly wisdom and warm and cold life of a group of ordinary citizens in the Beijing factory compound. Meishun and Longevity was first published as a novella Peking Man in the seventh issue of Beijing Literature in 2011. At that time, magazine editors were selected from many free contributions, and several people in the editorial department typed their manuscripts into the computer word by word. After the publication, many readers were "moved to tears".
Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House
"heart! 》
Author: Chen Xiwo
Publication date: March 2020
Content abstract: Lin Slim, president of Hasegawa Chamber of Commerce in Japan, died of a "broken heart" when he returned to China as a representative of Japanese Chinese. Therefore, the reporter began to explore and track the story of Lin Slim’s life. However, after the narration of different characters, Lin’s image of self-cultivation is becoming more and more difficult to recognize.
In the clouds
Author: Alai
Publication date: April 2019
Content abstract: After the Wenchuan earthquake, Yunzhong Village, which has a legend for thousands of years, immigrated to the plain. Year after year. Abba, the priest, felt that his strength was dissipating. He wanted to go back to the disappearing village and keep company with the dead. However, a miracle appeared and he created a paradise.
Parents
Author: Liu Qingbang
Publication date: December 2019
Content abstract: Wang Guohui, the heroine, dropped out of school halfway because of poverty in her family when she was a child, so she put all her ideals and hopes on her son He Xincheng. However, the son’s psychological, especially physical and emotional fluctuations after puberty have taken the wrong method of chasing and intercepting, which eventually led to the mental collapse of his son.
Foreign land
Author: Fu Xiuying
Publication date: August 2019
Content abstract: Zhai Xiaoli, a girl from Fangcun, keeps growing and moving forward with her talent and diligence. From the countryside to the provincial capital, and from the provincial capital to the capital, she went up and down in the torrent of life and stumbled in front of the barrier of fate. Finally, she completed her personal spiritual growth and gained inner peace.
Going north
Author: Xu Zechen
Publication date: December 2018
Brief introduction of content; In 1901, the year was ugly. This year, the situation was turbulent, and the whole land of China was tottering. In order to find his brother Marford who disappeared during Eight-Nation Alliance’s war of aggression against China, Italian travel adventurer Paolo Dimak came to China in the name of cultural inspection.
Huacheng publishing house
Four Elephants
Author: Liang Hong
Publication date: March 2020
Content abstract: This book is Liang Hong’s new novel. In Liangzhuang, a small village on the land of Central Plains, Han Xiaoxian, a returning college student, met three people on the highland of the river slope: Han Liting, a Christian elder with a white beard, Han Lige, a military attache studying abroad in Yingwu, and Han Lingzi, a girl who is familiar with nature. Three people have told him their experiences, but only filial piety can see and hear them-they turned out to be the undead of Liangzhuang. Lonely urban youth and three undead started from Okawabe and wandered in Liangzhuang, Zhen Wu, Rang County, provincial capital and Heilinzi, a forbidden place on the edge of the city. Four characters and four distinct fates connected in series to a village’s tortuous story and human changes for nearly a hundred years.
Hail!
Author: wu jun
Publication date: January 2020
Content abstract: Almost every aborigine in Shenzhen has relatives on the other side. In Shenzhen and Hong Kong, blood is thicker than water, lips and teeth are interdependent, and the deep feeling of interdependence is unstoppable. From Tuen Mun to Wanfu, the Pan Shouliang family walked for forty years.
Hong Kong and Shenzhen, a pair of flesh-and-blood twin cities, have never been formed by material supply and mutual assistance, but by spiritual support, as well as more concrete and real emotional snuggling and watching.
"Wanfu" tells the story of three generations of two families, A Hui and Chen Shuiying, in Wanfu Village, Shenzhen for forty years, and their return from spirit to body, reflecting the changes in Shenzhen and Hong Kong in different times.
Hello, Anna
Author: Jiang Yun
Publication date: August 2019
Content abstract: This is a work dedicated to mother by Jiang Yun, winner of Lu Xun Literature Prize.
A few young boys and girls in their prime, and a few strong and secret emotions, are all hidden in the whereabouts of a black sheepskin notebook. Sacrifice for love, hide for love, forgive for love, a story hidden in jealousy and redemption only belongs to the secret and passionate romance and sacrifice of that era, with classical aesthetic feeling. A completely different emotion from our time may awaken the deep feeling that has been sleeping for a long time in the fast-paced life.
Examination record
Author: Wang Anyi
Publication date: September 2018
Content Description: Kao Gong Ji is a handicraft technical document in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, which records the specifications and systems of various crafts. Wang Anyi wrote Kao Gong Ji, but with a historical focus, he described the process of a Shanghai foreign market opening up and gradually becoming an ordinary worker.
Chen Shuyu, who was born in a noble family, went back to the elegant and dilapidated old house in Shanghai after the war, and together with three close friends who are called "four small rooms in the west wing", looked forward to continuing his solid family business and starting a stable life. However, the tide of the times has come wave after wave, and they are weak and young, caught off guard, caught up in it, and rushed to deal with it, going their separate ways and hearing from each other suddenly. Chen Shuyu gradually became an involuntary artifact, and retired again and again. In the process of sharing with the old house, she underwent repeated repairs and transformations, inside and outside, and eventually became one person and house, which reflected each other.
More than half a century ago, the "four small openings in the west wing" each completed their own life path. They are the epitome of thousands of businessmen in Shanghai, and they are the footnotes of the vicissitudes of Shanghai, a bustling city.
Far away sunflower field
Author: Li Juan
Publication date: November 2017
Content abstract: The Far Sunflower Land is Li Juan’s latest nonfiction prose masterpiece. My mother, with poultry and livestock, moved her family to the Gobi on the banks of the Ulungu River, settled in the "winter nest" on the edge of sunflower fields, and began a farming life full of hardships and adventures. A hundred acres of sunflower fields in the desert have been gnawed by goose-throated antelope, replanted for three times, and suffered from drought and insect pests one after another until harvest, with faint hope and long waiting in the middle … In the records of these auspicious feathers, the author concentrated his thoughts on the subtle lives of his family members for the first time, and they formed a complete ecological sample with the boundless desert.
Zhejiang literature and art publishing house
Flag of desire
Author: Ge Fei
Publication date: January 2020
Content abstract: The Banner of Desire is the masterpiece of Ge Fei, the winner of both Mao Dun and Lu Xun Literature Awards. Together with his early avant-garde literary masterpiece "The Enemy" and "The Edge". In the philosophy department of a university in Shanghai, on the eve of an important academic conference, Professor Jia, the founder of the conference, committed suicide by jumping off a building without warning, and the conference had to be interrupted. The information of Professor Jia before his death was gradually collaged through the memories of others. At the core of the incident are Professor Jia’s disciples, novelists, Buddhist masters, economic fraudsters, and so on, all of whom are struggling with their own desires. In this way, the novel presents various interests and emotional entanglements in colleges and universities, as well as the spiritual dilemma of contemporary intellectuals.
The Flag of Desire is a masterpiece of Ge Fei’s creative transformation period, and it is a powerful attempt to get involved in reality after he went through the pioneer experiment stage. If life is an endless imprisonment, can philosophy and love bring salvation? When the banner of desire opens, some people fall, some are still struggling, and some have gone to another carnival …
The Tree of Man
Author: [Australia] patrick white
Translator: Hu Wenzhong, Li Yao
Publication date: January 2020
Content abstract: This year marks the 30th anniversary of White’s death, and his three masterpieces, The Tree of Man, The Eye of the Storm and The Leaf Skirt, reappear after many years out of print.
The Tree of Man is known as "the Genesis of Australia", which is a poetic long scroll rooted in the wilderness. At first, a man, Stan Parker, came in a jungle between heaven and earth that human footprints could not reach. He cut down trees to build a shed, cleared up a clearing, and went out to bring back a woman-Amy as his wife. They pioneer and start businesses, have children, love and alienate. The life of the Pakers-the stubborn and silent husband Stan, the imaginative wife Amy, the violent and unruly son Ray, and the enterprising and vain daughter Selma-is slowly unfolding in floods, fires, wars, alienation, betrayal, loneliness and death. The novel is exquisite and poetic, flowing freely between stream of consciousness and narrative, and also exploring and asking the ultimate questions about life and nature.
Sword coming
Author: bonfire drama princes
Publication date: April 2020
Content abstract: Sword Come is a long classic Xianxia novel created by the network god, the bonfire drama princes, and it is the author’s brand-new masterpiece after The Fierce Knife in the Snow. In the "fantastic but reasonable and interesting world of Xianxia" constructed by Sword Come, it is not only filled with the charm and spirit of China’s classical tradition, but also has a strong thought of joining the WTO to save the world, which vaguely echoes the philosophic thinking of China Confucians, especially modern and contemporary Neo-Confucians, in exploring the road of saving the country and strengthening themselves. Many people represented by Chen Ping-an portrayed by the author in the novel are endowed with "China personality", which implicitly inherits the excellent Chinese tradition and embodies the floating pulse of the present society.
Tea Man Trilogy (There are beautiful trees in the South, Waiting at Night, Building Grass for the City)
Author: Wang Xufeng
Publication date: March 2020
Content Abstract: This is the first novel series reflecting tea culture in China, which outlines the fate of China tea people in modern history. It won Mao Dun Literature Award and Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China’s "Five One Projects" Award. The fragrance of tea, the vapor of blood, the new collision and the entanglement of love are intertwined in the author Wang Xufeng’s beautiful, gentle and restrained pen, and the ups and downs of the century, Hang Cheng’s historical shadow and Chinese tea are fully shown in the book.
The adventures of millet
Author: Wang Yimei
Content Abstract: As a fairy tale writer, Wang Yimei is very good at combining the story, interest and thought of his works perfectly. Therefore, there is no empty preaching in her fairy tales, but she can convey some small principles of being human in an interesting and poetic atmosphere to help children gain the strength to go forward. At the same time, Wang Yimei didn’t stop at the simple level because he was facing children readers. The Adventures of Millet Rice also talked about loneliness, trust, meeting and parting, ownership and loss, eternity and brevity, which are abstract topics in life.
East China Normal University Press
Selected translations of Chen Dewen.
Author: Defu Luhua, Junichiro Tanizaki, Kafū Nagai, waiting.
Translator: Chen Dewen
Publication date: April 2020
Content abstract: "Selected Translations of Chen Dewen" is the first systematic publication of the famous Japanese literary translator Chen Dewen’s translation in China. Mr. Chen Dewen used to be a professor at Nanjing University and a professor at Aichi bunkyo university in Japan. During his 50-year translation career, he translated and introduced a large number of famous Japanese masterpieces, with beautiful language and vivid words, and was praised as "the first Japanese prose translator".
The series contains the representative works of seven Japanese classic writers, and the most important one is Pillow Grass, which was translated by Mr. Chen Dewen for more than ten years, and readers have been looking forward to it for many years. This is the first official publication. Matsuo Bashō’s prose collection "Aozhou Trail", translated by Chen Dewen, is the earliest and most complete version in China, and it was revised and republished after being out of print for many years. Junichiro Tanizaki’s prose masterpiece "Ode to Death" is widely circulated in Chen Dewen, and the beauty of death is deeply rooted in people’s hearts. Nature and Life, a collection of essays by De Fu Luhua, is the highest peak of Chen Dewen’s prose translation. Kafū Nagai’s prose collection "Clogs on a Sunny Day", Chen Dewen was one of the earliest pioneers in China to translate and introduce Dutch prose; Natsume Soseki’s youth novel "Sanshilang", Chen Dewen was also the first to translate and introduce Soseki’s novels; Shimazaki Tōson’s novel Breaking the Ring, which has influenced generations, is the only Chinese translation in China, Chen Dewen.
Historical manuscript of African literary criticism
Author: [Nigerian] Taiju Mora Aranyi Yang
[Ghana] Edited by Atto Robin Kwamina Quaison.
Translator: Yao Feng, Sun Xiaomeng, Irene Wang, etc.
Publication date: January 2020
Content abstract: This book provides China with a proper way to look at African literature. It is compiled by two African-American scholars who are active in western academic circles, and contains the key texts of African literary criticism and theory. This book not only has the in-depth thinking of African local intellectuals, but also allows readers to recognize the possibility of rebuilding the overall vision from the criticism of African scholars on the increasingly broken western theoretical discourse in the post-colonial and post-modern theories shrouded in African literature.
On film
Author: [France] Alan Badiou
Translator: Yang Li Zhen Xu
Publication date: January 2020
Content abstract: For Alain Badiou, film is an education, an art of life and an idea. Since the late 1950s, he has written more than 30 articles on movies, which provides a perspective and explanation for philosophers to watch movies. From directors with modernity, such as Mauna, antonioni, Tati and Ge Daer, to contemporary American films, such as The Matrix, Magnolia and Perfect World, this book covers various film styles, presenting readers with various paths of film development in the past 50 years.
History of Cambridge Renaissance Philosophy
Author: [America] Charles B. Schmidt [England] edited by Quentin Skinner
Translator: translated by Xu Weixiang
Publication date: April 2020
Content abstract: The History of Cambridge Renaissance Philosophy, co-edited by Quentin Skinner, a representative of Cambridge School, and Charles B Schmidt, a giant of Renaissance studies, is a comprehensive anthology that comprehensively discusses European Renaissance philosophy. Many writers are heavyweights in related academic fields. This book is an important work that can’t be bypassed in the in-depth understanding and study of Renaissance thought and culture, and it is also the first time for English scholars to comprehensively sort out the complicated research literature in order to provide readers with results. The translation and publication of the Chinese version has filled the gap of books related to Renaissance philosophy in China.
Awakening from the hypnotic world-the limits and possibilities of contemporary poetry
Author: Jiang Tao
Publication date: January 2020
Content abstract: How to read and write a poem? What is the ambition of contemporary poetry? Jiang Tao, a scholar, critic and poet of Peking University, pointed out: Although the so-called "personalized historical imagination" can penetrate into the texture of the life world, the way of feeling without structure and context will bring a writing tendency of "ignoring history". Whether the "individual" can be rearranged and strongly imagined in the linkage with the humanistic trend of thought may even determine whether the future of contemporary poetry can be long-term.
This book involves many modern and contemporary poets, including Guo Moruo, Zhou Zuoren, Mu Dan, Bai Hua, Xiao Kaiyu, Haizi, Zhang Zao, Chen Chao, Xichuan, Ouyang Jianghe, Cang Di, Zhu Zhu, Dumb Stone, Yu Yun, Ma Yan, etc. This book will also be helpful for the introduction and writing of modern and contemporary poems.
Guangxi Normal University Press
Walking in the book
Author: [Han] written/painted by Li Yinghao
Translator: Wang Zhigeng
Publication date: April 2019
Content abstract: This is a book-themed picture book, which shows the vast world that reading brings us. In addition to reading, books can also be the wings of airplanes, horizontal striped ceilings, colorful pools, a dream country, a paradise to explore, and a river pond to catch stars. It can become your sky, or just a quiet little corner; It helps the elderly realize their dream of rejuvenation and gives the little girl the courage to walk alone in the snow; It is also like a warm light, waiting for you to come home at night …
Scholars are separated from each other
Author: Yao Zhenghua
Publication date: July 2019
Content abstract: The Lost Scholars is the sixth book in Yao Zhenghua’s series of scholars. The book contains both historical materials and daily sketches, and is a literary feature for writers, translators and publishers. This book consists of two volumes. The series is divided into two parts: the first part is related to books and people, involving Yang Jiang, Zhang Ailing, Huang Shang, Zhi ‘an, Xie Qizhang, Zhang Xinxin, Dong Ningwen, etc. The second part sketches the "ordinary people" side of the elder brothers, teachers and friends that the author is familiar with from a certain side, involving Dai Dahong, Chen Danyan, Cao Yuanyong, Yuan Xiaoyi and so on. The second series focuses on past lives, The Series of Going to the World, Notes on Children’s Miscellaneous Poems, and Talking about Eating in Knowing the Hall compiled by Zhong Shuhe. When the author writes his own reading experience, he often digs the story behind the work, so as to go deep into the text and carry out intrusive reading; Writing familiar teachers and friends is a little more cordial, as if whispering and laughing, and the writing object has been vividly drawn on paper.
When Books Enter War: The Story of America Winning World War II with Books
Author: [America] Morigupitir Manning
Translator: You Jiazhong
Publication date: January 2017
Content abstract: During World War II, Nazi led by Hitler burned books in Europe. The outraged American librarians heard the news and organized the "Victory Book Movement", which collected 20 million hardcover books and sent them to military institutions at home and abroad. However, the number and variety of books are far from meeting the needs of soldiers, and heavy hardcover books are also difficult to carry on the battlefield.
To this end, the American Book Association and the US military launched an unusual "military-supplied books" project: to provide small and lightweight special paperbacks for the US military participating in the war. By the end of World War II, there were 1,200 different themes covering various reading fields, and a total of 120 million books provided by our army brought precious spiritual food and unique reading experience to soldiers. In the waiting process of landing in Normandy, in the hellish trenches of the Pacific, in hospitals, on flying bombers … Soldiers are reading books for the military, and sending writers a magnificent feeling of reading, and many writers will seriously reply to every letter. This book tells an exciting anecdote about World War II for history lovers and book lovers.
The temptation of books
Author: Huang Shizhong
Publication date: January 2020
Content abstract: The articles collected in this book relate to Professor Huang Shizhong’s feelings and thoughts on the academic road of studying and exploring, his recollection of junior scholars, his experience of searching for rare traditional Chinese opera literature at home and abroad, and the fact that Japanese scholars have collected and searched for literature in China since modern times. In the relaxed and lively words as a whole, his academic growth experience and rigorous and realistic academic sentiment can be seen everywhere, which can provide readers with a vivid understanding of Professor Huang Shizhong’s academic experience and academic thought development.
The book that changed the world
Author: [America] Scott christiansen
Colin salter [America]
Translator: Ali
Publication date: December 2019
Content abstract: This book begins with a 4,800-year-old divination book, The Book of Changes, and ends with another prophecy book in the 21st century, naomi klehin’s Change Everything. It carefully selects nearly 100 books from all ages, including various styles and themes, which have a great influence on the external world and the internal world of mankind. They either bring subversive new knowledge to scientific genius, or systematically explain the human condition, or change the attitudes of men to women and women to themselves, or expose the unknown cruelty of totalitarianism, or teach people how to take care of babies and win friendship.
Fudan university press
The Great Biography of Yangming: The Road to Redemption of Heart: Volume I, Volume II.
Author: Shu Jingnan
Publication date: February 2020
Content abstract: Wang Yangming’s greatness lies in transcending the traditional Confucianism, from worrying about the country and the people in a narrow way to worrying about others and caring about the Tao. This book abandons all kinds of "mysteries", "misunderstandings", "prejudices" and "preconceptions" in the past 500 years, speaks on the basis of historical materials and argues on the basis of facts. It took 50 years to write a great biography of Wang Yangming’s thoughts.
History of late Qing dynasty
Author: Dai Angang
Publication date: January 2020
Content abstract: The last century in the late Qing Dynasty was a "great change that has not happened in three thousand years". Internal change requires meeting with external forces, and the Chinese empire has experienced an unprecedented painful transformation and embarked on the road of modern nation-state with difficulty.
Professor Dai Angang, the author, has been engaged in the teaching and research of the history of the late Qing Dynasty for a long time, presenting this complicated history to us with the pen of historians, so that readers can have a basic understanding of the history of the late Qing Dynasty; This book absorbs the latest research results in academic circles and provides rich and vivid details for history.
China by the Red River: Thoughts on Post-employment in West Yunnan
Author: Cao Dongbo
Publication date: January 2020
Content abstract: This book is clear in structure, rigorous in logic, fluent in writing, and easy to understand. It outlines a local "battle" fragment on this vast "battlefield" of poverty alleviation from a rational observation and grass-roots perspective, but it can see the big from the small, so that people who pay attention to this issue have an immersive feeling and are also inspired and thinking. In particular, the words about education in poverty-stricken areas really make people more agree with "poverty alleviation first" and "education poverty alleviation is the fundamental policy to block the intergenerational transmission of poverty".
Zhongxin publishing group
The Penguin Classic: The Little Black Book, Series 4 and 5
Authors: [English] Virginia Woolf, [American] washington irving, [Russian] Pushkin, etc.
Publication date: April 2020
Content abstract: Penguin Classic: Little Black Book is a series of "literary booklets" launched by Penguin Publishing Group on the occasion of its 80th anniversary. It has magnificent and rich selections, transcending the constraints of time and space, and looking for masterpieces handed down from generation to generation. This bilingual edition, published in Chinese and English, has carefully selected 50 classic and contemporary works for China readers from the original English edition, and launched them in five series. In addition to short stories with high readability, there are also some poems and non-fiction works that have not been translated and introduced.
The fourth series consists of five novels and five non-fiction works, including the classic works of 10 literary masters, and most of them are out of print or have never been published in Chinese. Among them, there are Pushkin’s famous thriller The Queen of Spades, the scary and futuristic novel Sandman by the romantic writer E.T.A Hoffman, as well as the classic collection of Goethe’s aphorisms and Matsuo Bashō’s haiku, as well as the excerpts of Shakespeare’s works, as well as Plato’s extremely wonderful work The Apology of Socrates, and Mozart’s My Dear Father are also directly translated from German for the first time.
The fifth series is the final work of the little black book series. In this series, for the first time, a Chinese work, which is deeply loved by foreign readers and has the most books, is selected, that is, Pu Songling’s serial stories "Ghost Cry" in the Qing Dynasty. In addition to the contrast between classical Chinese and English, notes and vernacular translations are added. The fifth series includes as many as four female writers, including George Eliot, one of the most influential writers in the history of English literature, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a famous American feminist writer, Edith Wharton, winner of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Katherine Manthfield, the founder of New Zealand literature. They use literature to express their views and fight for equality, and Little Black earns all their pioneering works. The Pattern on the Carpet by Henry James and Nietzsche’s last work Why I’m So Smart are also rare classics, while edward lear’s Unreasonable Poetry and Darwin’s natural history travel notes Butterfly All over the Sky make this series more diverse in content and genre.
Record of dead things
Author: [Germany] You Dite Schalansky (Judith Schalansky)
Translator: Chen Zao
Publication date: April 2020
Content abstract: The Record of Lost Things records 12 things that have disappeared forever on the earth: Tuanaki, Lihai Tiger, Sachetti Villa, Sappho’s Poems of Love, Seven Classics of Mani, and Kenao’s Lunar Studies … These lost things span art, animals, architecture, religion, literature and movies, and run through ancient and modern times. You Dite Sharansky constructs fiction and fact’s poetry through the charming weaving of words and images, with delicate and in-depth exploration, vivid and wanton imagination and beautiful style, which makes people re-examine the gains and losses of human civilization and listen to the echoes left by "dead things".
"A Fool’s Dichotomy" —— Sally the Fool and Ramo the Fool
Author: Richard Russo
Publication date: April 2020
Content abstract: "Fool’s Dichotomy" is a series of works by the famous American writer Richard russo. The novel tells the decline of the rust belt in the United States and the bottom people struggling in despair. Through the daily description of the town, the writer has keenly captured the contemporary people’s life difficulties, family conflicts, emotional entanglements, and the fulfillment and evasion of moral obligations. The seemingly simple family love shows complicated emotional tension in Lasso’s works.
Seven years in the mountains
Author: Zhang Erdong
Publication date: April 2020
Content abstract: In 2014, Er Dong, a young poet and painter who lived on the internet because of borrowing mountains, lived poetically in the small courtyard of Zhongnanshan for seven years. Many people think that he lived for a year and a half and then fled back to the city. He said, however, that he wanted to move to deeper mountains if he had the chance. Why did Erdong turn seclusion into permanent residence in the seven years of living by mountain?
In the days of living in the mountains, Erdong lived a warm and rich ordinary and trivial life. Three meals a day, four seasons; Write books and draw pictures, study hard and sleep soundly; There are cats, dogs, geese, chickens and ducks, as well as poems, books, wine, tea, clouds, rain and snow.
In this book "Living in the Mountain for Seven Years", he captures the flash moment of everyday things in poetic language, shares the natural secret words of a vegetable and a fruit, fish, insects, birds and animals, and records the comfort and helplessness of living down the mountain, as well as his insight and thinking when writing poetry, painting and making friends. Every day is very satisfying, and every year is very rich.
Thinking of an intellectual woman
Author: [England] Rachel kask
Publication date: April 2020
Content Abstract: British female writer Rachel kask has completed three independent novellas, Border, Transit and Honor, in four years. The protagonist is a divorced middle-aged female writer, who tells the fragmented stories of three periods of life in the first person. The novel adopts a unique and groundbreaking style, connects all the story lines with dialogue, exposes every aspect of marriage, family and emotion with extremely calm and restrained language, and conveys profound thoughts on life.
Century Wenjing
The Fall of Gondolin
Author: [English] by J.R.R. Tolkien
Edited by Christopher Tolkien
Alan lee map
Translator: Du Yunci, Song of Deng Jiawan in Stone
Publication date: May 2020
Content abstract: On the battlefield of the Somme River in World War I, Tolkien wrote the first world myth of China. Following Belem and Lucien and Children of Hu Lin, The Fall of Gondolin, as the final chapter of the three legends in ancient China, witnessed the end of the first era. These three legends are not only the components of the grand background of The Lord of the Rings, but also the indispensable cornerstones of Poké mon Diamond.
The Fall of Gondolin tells the story of Tuo ‘o’s sojourn in Gondolin, his union with Ezeil Keller Blindall, the birth of Eyre Rendir, McGreen’s betrayal, the fall of the polis and the escape of the survivors. This story is at the core of Tolkien’s imagination of the first era. Unfortunately, Tolkien wrote only one complete version in his life, that is, the manuscript written in his youth. But Tolkien did set out to rewrite it, but he didn’t finish it. The Fall of Gondolyn is also the last Tolkien work edited by Christopher Tolkien.
brothers on the road
Author: [America] Jack Kerouac
Translator: Tao Yueqing He Xiaoli
Publication date: April 2020
Content abstract: The story is based on Kerouac’s real journey experience with his friends, and it is an autobiographical novel. The narrator Sal Paradise is a young writer who is full of interest and curiosity about literature, jazz and girls. He likes to make crazy friends who are passionate about life. Through a friend, Sal got to know Dean moriarty, who lived a wild life. Sal always wanted to go to the west, but the plan was always delayed. He was attracted by Dean’s free and unrestrained lifestyle, adventurous spirit and enthusiasm for exploring everything, and decided to follow Dean’s footsteps and complete his dream of traveling to the west, which really opened the door to experiencing life and infinite possibilities.
From "World" Country to Nation-State: Cognition and Practice of Historical China
Author: [Japan] Ke Wang
Publication date: March 2020
Content Description: Penetrating the deep history of the multi-ethnic unified national structure, and tracing back to the generation and evolution of the Chinese national community consciousness. Explore the ideological origin of "multi-heavy world", grasp the advantages and disadvantages of "multi-empire", and understand the predicament and achievements of nation-state construction.
Water Margin for Song Dynasty
Author: Yu Yunguo
Publication date: May 2020
Content abstract: Yu Yunguo, a famous Song historian, in the book "Water Margin for Song", relying on his decades-long research achievements in Song history, used profound and extensive knowledge to run through official history, notes and novels, and told the various social customs in Song Dynasty in an eloquent style, opening up the world that had not been fully viewed in Water Margin from a brand-new angle, restoring the novel to a three-dimensional and dynamic picture of the Riverside at Qingming Festival, and reappearing vivid colors and fragrance.
Calligraphy question and answer
Author: Tianshu Zhu
Publication date: May 2020
Content Abstract: This book is the crystallization of calligrapher Tianshu Zhu’s many years’ experience in calligraphy creation, research and teaching. By answering questions from beginners one by one, it deeply popularizes the historical origin of calligraphy art layer by layer, and guides readers to appreciate the cultural spirit contained in China’s art while learning calligraphy and appreciating masterpieces.
New classic
Silent cruise
Author: [Japan] Keigo Higashino
Translator: Bian Dayu
Publication date: February 2020
Content abstract: Silent Parade tells a murder case in full view, with gorgeous multiple reversals. Zuozhi is the most popular girl in the town. She is beautiful and sings well. But when she was about to debut as a singer, she suddenly disappeared. After a long wait, people only waited for the bad news that she was killed. "The murderer is obviously the shameless man, but the police are helpless. We decided to do it ourselves, but we stopped the operation unexpectedly. However, the man was actually killed. We have all become suspects. "
Life
Author: Lu Yao
Publication date: March 2020
Content abstract: Life is the representative work of Lu Yao, winner of Mao Dun Literature Prize, and it is a literary classic that inspires thousands of readers. Life takes the urban and rural life in the northern Shaanxi Plateau as the background, and describes the life change process of Gao Jialin, an intellectual youth, who returned to his hometown, left his hometown and then returned to his hometown. It tells the story of a young man’s difficult choice between love and career, ideal and reality, and has great empathy power, telling the plight, expectation and pursuit of everyone, especially young people.
Sea of life
Author: Mai Jia
Publication date: April 2019
Content abstract: The story background of The Sea of Life spans nearly a century. It skillfully uses children’s perspective to tell a person’s life through the struggle in the times around a mystery to be solved. The bizarre story contains a sigh of life. Life is like the sea, loaded with times, legends and people’s hearts, with both the cruelty of daily breeding and the kindness brought by time.
Son of the Star (all 6 volumes)
Author: [Japan] Taiyô Matsumoto
Translators: Gao Huaxin and Ye Yi
Publication date: January 2020
Content abstract: In the Star Son Academy, there are a group of children who can’t live with their parents for various reasons. In a corner of the academy, there is an abandoned Sunny1200 car, which is a secret base for exclusive children. With Sunny as the origin, a rainbow-like childhood began. There are fantasies about racing cars and the universe, feelings of young girls, thoughts that can’t be conveyed, and secret escape plans … ……Sunny carries every tear and laughter. Children believe that as long as Sunny is motivated by her mind, she can go anywhere she wants.
You should fly to your mountain like a bird
Author: [America] Tara Westerfer
Translator: Ren Aihong
Publication date: October 2019
Content Description: Tara Westerfer was born in the mountains of Idaho in 1986. She never went to school before she was 17 years old. She was admitted to Brigham Young University through self-study. In 2008, she received a bachelor’s degree in literature, a master’s degree in philosophy from Cambridge University in 2009, a scholarship to visit Harvard University in 2010, and a doctorate in history from Cambridge University in 2014.
"People only see that I am different: a mountain girl who never stepped into the classroom before she was 17 years old, but she wore a top hat with academic qualifications and shone brightly. Only I know who I really am: I come from a family that few people can imagine. My childhood was cast by the scrap metal in the garbage dump, where there was no sound of reading, only the roar of cranes. Not going to school or seeing a doctor is the loyalty and truth that my father wants us to adhere to. Father doesn’t allow us to have our own voice, our will is the devil in his eyes … "
This is Tara Westerfer’s debut novel "You Fly to Your Mountain Like a Bird" published in 2018. In 2019, she was named "Person of the Year" by Time Magazine for this book. Education, family of origin, Women’s Awakening and Growth … This book will bring all aspects of thinking.
Movable type culture
Eat enough for the poor
Author: [Japan] Shigeo Saito
Translator: Wang Xiaoxia
Publication date: January 2020
Content abstract: With the high development of economy, Japan has finally come out of the famine era in which it struggled for survival after the war. However, the improvement of living standards has not reduced people’s anxiety and insecurity, but only changed from "poverty in poverty" to "poverty in prosperity". In this new era when people are no longer worried about food and clothing, they are still trapped in the extreme state of poverty and debt, which is called "the people who are full of food and clothing". They are not only "enterprise warriors" who support Japan’s economic development, but also victims of this cruel competitive society.
This book records the story of such a group of "poor people who are full of food", including OL who joined psychological counseling groups for comfort because of their self-loss, financial practitioners in into thin air who can’t bear the overload of work rhythm, insurance sellers who are struggling in Tokyo with the expectation of poor families, and couples who are forced into a dilemma by loan consumption in order to keep up with their living standards … On the one hand, they are in a state of super-saturation, which makes people physically and mentally collapse. On the one hand, the over-purchase under the guidance of peer pressure and propaganda advocating consumption, the shadow of the Japanese behind the superficial economic prosperity, and the panic and insecurity of falling into the bottom for fear of competition failure are buried in the hearts of every "well-fed poor people", and also predict the crisis of the upcoming bubble economy collapse.
Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
Author: [England] karl polanyi
Translator: Liu Yang Feng Gang
Publication date: January 2020
Content abstract: The Great Transformation describes the great transformation of European civilization from the pre-industrial world to the industrialized era, and reveals the great changes in ideas, ideology, social policy, economic policy, domestic and international politics and economy that accompanied this process. Polanyi not only accurately pointed out the inherent defects of the self-adjusting free market, but also accurately predicted the serious damage of this "market economy" to people, nature and production organizations, its tragic social consequences and the necessity of state intervention, which is still very enlightening and reference for China and the world in the 21st century.
Poems for Children (Revised Edition)
Author: Selected Works of North Island
Publication date: March 2020
Content abstract: Poems for Children (Revised Edition) was edited by the poet Kitajima. In the world, 136 poems of 109 poets were selected, covering almost every corner of the world’s poetry territory. In the process of editing, Beidao first jumped out of the "geographical boundary" and broke the concept of "horizontal". Including Chinese poems from Hong Kong, Taiwan and overseas except the mainland, as well as poets from seven continents and different regions; Secondly, through the "vertical" concept of time, from the classical period to the contemporary, hundreds of years of poetry evolution, slowly unfolding in the book.
Compared with the original edition, the revised edition adds more than 40 new poems, and the content of the whole book is updated by nearly half. The book is a collection of classic translations of old and new famous artists, involving nearly 20 foreign languages. After textual research one by one, the translations are constantly revised and improved, and each capital can be handed down from generation to generation by edition. And add 37 pages of "The Poet’s Biography" and 32 pages of poems to explain the world of poetry.
The Battle of Russia Conquering Central Asia
Author: Li Shuo
Publication date: May 2020
Content abstract: Following the Three Hundred Years of the Civil War and The Great History of Confucius, Li Shuo has published a new work. This time, he turned his eyes back to his old war history, but the difference was that he turned the spotlight to the Central Asian world in the 19th century. He borrowed three volumes of Terentyev’s History of Conquering Central Asia, which had witnessed the Russian war of conquering Central Asia, to tell the story of Russia’s expansion in Central Asia in the 19th century for nearly 21 years.
The great feature of this book is that the author tries to reproduce the geographical environment and cultural features of the inland world of Central Asia through the supplement of various materials, giving readers an immersive feeling. The book covers nearly 200 pictures, some of which are documentary oil paintings created by army painters, some of which are color photos taken at that time. The author even found the topographic map of the Central Asian world in the 19th century, marked the marching route, and made detailed comments on the geographical environment of the battlefield to restore the battlefield.
In addition, the author also added a lot of background introduction to the development of weapons at that time. In the 19th century, guns and gunpowder developed rapidly with the demand of war. When the Russian regular army confronted the nomadic scattered troops in Central Asia, the advantages of weapons were greatly highlighted. War after war found the most suitable test site for the innovation of military technology.
Therefore, this book not only wants to write about Russia or the war, but also wants to show and restore the style of the ancient Silk Road from an angle. Princess jieyou, Ban Chao, Kumarajiva, Monk Xuanzang, Cen Can, Qiu Chuji, Lin Zexu and others saw all the way, which is roughly the same. In the 21st century, Chinese has to open his eyes to see the world, consider and explore the "Belt and Road", and learn more about the strange world west of Pamirs.
The First Class: Teaching Art History at Harvard and Chicago University
Author: Wu Hong
Publication date: May 2020
Content abstract: The first classes of Harvard and Chicago University are both taught by professors to introduce what this course is about for students’ reference. This book is a collection of Wu Hong’s first lectures in these two universities in the past 30 years. The book tells the characteristics, importance and influence of China’s art from easy to difficult, and how to enter the colorful world of China’s art for specific discussion and research. It not only provides "educated young people" with the most basic knowledge of China’s art, but also leads interested young people to gradually get started and embark on the road of professional discussion and independent research, which can be said to fill the gap of "general education" reading materials in China’s art history research.
younger generation
Folk Song 40: Sing Another Thought: 1975-2015
Author: Tao Xiaoqing as coordinator
Editor yang Jia
Publication date: April 2020
Content abstract: A large number of outstanding musicians emerged in the folk song era in Taiwan Province: Yang Xian, Hu Defu, Li Jianfu, Li Taixiang, Chyi Yu, Cai Qin, Jonathan Lee, Tai Zhaomei and Huang Dacheng … leaving behind many classic folk songs: Folk Songs, Hurriedly, Descendants of the Dragon, Olive Tree and Grandma’s Penghu Bay …
Over the past 40 years, many musicians in that era have long been old or even dead, and the stories behind many songs have gradually become little known and become history. This encyclopedic graphic historical file of folk songs traces the origin of the folk song era and presents the grand scene of the folk song era: the stories behind nearly 100 classic records have started and ended, more than 100 singers, songwriters and behind-the-scenes workers in the folk song era have shared their folk song memories, and there are 69 full records of important folk song concerts.
Biography of the assassin
Author: Chen Uen compiled and painted.
Publication date: April 2020
Content abstract: Chen Uen, a well-deserved master of the country, who shocked Japan with his ink and wash skills and was praised as "the treasure of Asia" by the Japanese cartoon industry, introduced and published his famous work "Biography of the Assassin" in simplified Chinese for the first time.
The story of the comic book Biography of Assassins was born out of Sima Qian’s Historical Records. Chen Uen assembled five assassins from Cao Mo, Yu Rang, Zhuan Zhu, Nie Zheng and Jing Ke during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and adapted their heroic epics into cartoons. 1,500 hours, more than 500 paintings, large and small, Chen Uen devoted his most intense efforts. He bluntly said: "If I used’ endurance’ to finish my previous works, then Biography of the Assassin is my work with’ heart’."
Talking in Western Languages: Rediscovering China in Language
Author: Zheng Zining
Publication date: May 2020
Content abstract: A Talk in the East and a Talk in the West is a book that challenges readers’ intellectual boundaries by breaking the personal thinking mode, pursuing the history of national loss and exploring the logic of family and country consciousness. Taking the contemporary modern Chinese dialects as the classics, Zheng Zining looked at the realistic panorama of Chinese dialects and the inheritance of national culture, and divergently expounded the cultural prejudice condensed in them. Taking the historical evolution of ancient Chinese as the latitude, this paper surveys the historical features of China’s language and tradition, and systematically reveals the cultural memory hidden under it.
Therefore, in a simple way, Zheng Zining turned the threshold and dialectology and historical linguistics, which are extremely difficult and have always been regarded as "unique studies", into nearly 50 wonderful stories, and integrated almost all the core issues of language and culture, such as Mandarin Chinese, Pinyin, Dialect, Ancient Chinese, Names, Appellations and Foreign Language Acquisition, and found a brand-new China for us in the language with coherent logic with internal unity.
The best school district is your study.
Author: [Japan] Sato Liangzi
Publication date: March 2020
Content abstract: Although all four children have been sent to the Faculty of Medicine of Tokyo University, which ranks first among the most popular majors in famous Japanese schools, Liangzi Sato admits that each of her children had short legs and weaknesses, and she couldn’t understand the math or physics problems of the college entrance examination at all. She was also worried about her son’s remedial classes and junior high school, and even lost her emotional control because her daughter was too late to learn the unit conversion.
With regard to many practical problems in the critical period of learning and growth from early childhood to primary school, junior high school and senior high school, the author has written his own trial and error and conclusions in this book. She summed up a series of practical methods and suggestions, and pointed out that many parents often misunderstand education.
Grandpa Mammoth: A Brief History of Humanity for Children
Author: [Germany] Dieter Borgwan
[Germany] Boulder Molck-Tasertu
Publication date: March 2020
Content abstract: This book tells a brief history of human beings for 20,000 years in an interesting, relaxed and easy-to-understand way, with the tone of grandfather Mammoth, the ancestor of human beings. It focuses on the small events in ordinary people’s daily life, writes the grand history into an approachable family history, and conveys the delicate life experience and philosophical thinking through the subtle observation of each era.
The two authors of this book were nominated for the German Youth Literature Award in 2009. With warm humor, highly literary language and fresh and elegant hand-painted illustrations, they created this "Life Philosophy History Reader", which is suitable for readers of all ages.
Jiujiu scholar
Ye Jiaying’s works
Author: Ye Jiaying
Publication date: January 2020
Content Description: This collection is a selection of works by Ye Jiaying, a master of ancient poetry, which pays equal attention to professionalism and popularity. It contains four ancient poems by Ye Jiaying, namely, Talking about Poetry in Jialing, Two Sets of Talking about Poetry in Jialing, Selected Lectures on Qing Poetry and Appreciating Good Poems: Notes on Three Poems by Tao Yuanming, Du Fu and Li Shangyin.
Talking about Poetry in Jialing is a collection of Ye Jiaying’s achievements in studying China’s classical poems for many years, which contains 12 articles. These articles have not only a macro review of the development of China’s poems, but also an internal study of specific poets’ poems. The second episode of Jia Ling Tan Shi continues Jia Ling Tan Shi, focusing on classical poetry criticism. Selected Lectures on Ci Poetry in Qing Dynasty is a lecture by Ye Jiaying who taught Ci poetry in Qing Dynasty at the Chinese University of Singapore. Appreciation of Good Poems: Notes on Three Poems by Tao Yuanming, Du Fu and Li Shangyin is a collection of lectures on ancient poetry for ordinary readers, which consists of four lectures: Introduction, Brief Talk on Tao Yuanming’s Poems, Brief Talk on Du Fu’s Poems and Brief Talk on Li Shangyin’s Poems.
Selected Works of Mizusawa Suixin: Calculation, Feast of Lambs and Full Wish
Author: [Japan] Mizusawa Suixin
Publication date: January 2020
Content abstract: The famous Japanese mystery writer Mizusawa Suixin wrote the case mystery novel Calculation in 2007, which won three awards, namely, BEST10 of Wenchun’s best mystery novel, BEST10 of this mystery novel and BEST10 of this mystery novel. Seven days of experiments with unknown contents, twelve people with different ages, identities and purposes, 24-hour all-weather surveillance, suspicion, suspicion and fear … What is the purpose of this experiment? In the book, Mize does not hesitate to describe the psychology of the characters on the scene, which makes the characters with different personalities jump to the page.
If you want to use a word to describe the book "The Feast of the Lambs", it is undoubtedly "black belly". There are big black ladies, maids, cooks and housekeepers in the book. Mize’s rare five articles are all narrated from the perspective of female roles. It was a foreshadowing at the beginning, and it was not until the end that the mystery was revealed in an unexpected way.
After the publication of Manyuan, it won three first prizes in the Japanese literary world: the first prize of the most authoritative mystery novel "This mystery novel is really amazing"; The most influential weekly magazine "Weekly Wenchun" won the first place in the best mystery novel; Readers personally voted for the first place in "I want to read this mystery novel most". This book vividly conveys the darkness and diversity of human beings to readers. What is the real motive of the creditor who chased the door and was killed by her gentle hostess? Timid traffic police, beautiful and intelligent sisters, overseas business elites and professional writers … six wonderful stories constitute a collection of short stories.
Southern express
Author: [Chile] Luis Sepú lveda
Publication date: March 2020
Content abstract: This book is a travel note of Chilean writer Luis Sepú lveda about going to nothingness. With his unique perspective, the author took us on an "unplanned trip". He started from his grandfather’s birthplace in Martos, Spain, and went all the way to Patagonia, collecting stories along the way, and finally returned to Spain. During the long journey, he spent three years in Temuco prison in Chile, worked as a poor professor in Ecuador, and took the bizarre job of writing memoirs for rich manor owners. The most interesting thing about his experience in Patagonia was his meeting with Bruce Chatwin.
Love in the dark ages
Author: [Irish] colm tobin
Translator: Quercus variabilis
Publication date: January 2020
Content abstract: In the book Love in the Dark Ages, colm tobin reviews the life and work of some of the greatest and most influential artists in the 19th and 20th centuries. His research subjects ranged from Oscar Wilde, born in the 1950s, to Pedro Almodovar, born nearly a hundred years later. Tobin studied how a changing world affects people’s lives. These people generally hide their homosexuality and reveal that the law of desire has changed everything for them, both in their private lives and in their work spirit. Honesty, excitement and keenness … Tobin treats his theme with confidence and authority, and these two qualities can only be strengthened through his gentle tone and deep sympathy. He writes with rare tenderness, such as elizabeth bishop and Francis Bacon, thomas mann and Roger Kemente, Tom Gunn and Pedro Almodovar.
Utopia
The story of reading
Author: Tang Nuo
Publication date: April 2020
Content abstract: The Story of Reading is a classic prose work by Tang Nuo, a professional scholar, and a sincere and practical reading dictionary. Start each chapter with the fragments of Marquez’s General in the Labyrinth, and discuss the essential dilemma and myths of books and reading. Fourteen articles cover all aspects of reading-reading time, beginning, cost, way, memory, limitation, meaning, confusion, and so on. Tang Nuo honestly faced up to it, described it, provided his own thoughts and solutions to readers, helped readers solve all kinds of problems encountered in reading, and shared with Borges, Calvino, Benjamin, graham greene and others the joy and confusion of reading and the thousands of feelings that reading can evoke. With the in-depth experience of professional scholars, broad vision of scholars and poetic and dense thinking path, Tang Nuo opened an extremely broad and profound world, a sea full of possibilities and significance, which has never been seen before in ordinary behavior.
Life in the Sea-Autobiography of Tadanori Yokoo
Author: [Japan] Tadanori Yokoo
Translator: Zheng Yanwei
Publication date: December 2019
Content abstract: Tadanori Yokoo represents another vein of Japanese design. He is gorgeous and colorful, standing on the back of the traditional Japanese minimalist style, but he deeply influences Japanese design. This unique style not only comes from the aesthetics of Japanese common people class, but also comes from the absorption of western art. In this book, Hengwei records the gradual formation of self-style. It is full of madness, accidents and surprises.
To be or not to be
Author: [South Africa] David Benata
Translator: Zhang Xiaochuan
Publication date: April 2020
Content abstract: David Benata is a professor and head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, director of the Bioethics Center, and a vegan. This book clarifies the secret feelings of you and me-birth and death, joys and sorrows, hardship and bitterness, boredom, hard work to earn money, spending money to save lives, day after day, children and grandchildren … Why did all this come about? Today, many people have some hidden answers in their hearts, but they don’t know how or dare to express them clearly. Let this book help you express it.