Reporter Qu Peng
list From the latest literature, art, history, biography, thought and social science books published that month, it uses humanity, thoughtfulness and fun as the standards, and screens out a key recommended book and nine good books. I hope that one of them can enter your heart.
[Key Recommendation]
"Xu Zhuoyun's Ten-day Talk:
The Pattern and the Future of Humanity in the Current World"
Xu Zhuoyun Teaching
Feng Junwen Organize
Guangdong People's Publishing House
In July 2020, Mr. Xu Zhuoyun, a historian who just celebrated his 90th birthday, decided to give an online lecture. He taught at Gaoshan Academy for more than two months. Dozens of scholars, scientists and entrepreneurs participated in the discussion on plague, war, globalization, game of great powers, science and humanities, and the future of mankind. Later, it was compiled into a book by Feng Junwen, a visiting scholar and publisher of the University of Pittsburgh, which was this book "Xu Zhuoyun's Ten Days Talk".
Mr. Xu said in the preface: "My speech today is in my ward. This is the ward set up by the hospital at home. He helped me open a sling in front, so that I can lift from the chair to the bed and from the bed to the chair. I can't move myself, I have to rely on the machine to help. Under such conditions, I will not work together with you for too long." Although he often has to fight with his body, he is still persistent in finding solutions in a turbulent world.
post-epidemic era, how do we get along with the world? In this new book, Mr. Xu Zhuoyun focuses on a series of themes such as the characteristics of the times, changes in ideas and culture, the integration of multicultural culture, the progress and transformation of scientific and technological intelligence, and the comparative interaction between Chinese and foreign civilizations. He selects the key nodes of each era in politics, economy, society and culture, and uses dialogue to restore the historical background and historical origins of vivid cases, vividly displays Mr. As a historian, as a master of historians, his historical concepts based in China and looking at the world and pays attention to the current humanistic care.
This book can be regarded as a summary of Mr. Xu's 90 years of life thoughts, and can also be regarded as his overall response to the problems and ways out of this era. "I hope to go through this journey here and now. I have the opportunity to say these words to everyone, so that everyone can feel a little more excited. A ripples can arise in my originally calm heart. Small waves can create a big trend and promote everyone to make continuous progress. 'Heaven moves forward, and a gentleman strives for self-improvement'. Only continuous self-improvement can be truly healthy and sound." Xu Zhuoyun said.
[Excellent Book]
"Four Thousands of Customers"
[US] Carl Crow wrote
Xu Yang translated
Houlang | Jiuzhou Publishing House
1911 American Carl Crow came to Shanghai as a journalist and founded Crow Advertising Company in Shanghai in 1918, which provided a vision for China to build its own advertising industry earlier. In the streets of Shanghai in the first half of the 20th century, Crowe's billboards were everywhere. Carl Crow regarded all 40 million Chinese as potential customers and studied all aspects related to them. A pack of twelve sewing needles of different specifications has no market even as gifts in China. The money paid to buy Qiantang River fish may not include the cost of tying fish ropes. The "Chinese national cuisine" in the minds of foreigners does not exist in China... Behind a series of anecdotes reflects Chinese culture and the way of thinking of doing business in China, we can get a glimpse of the culture that is common and the human nature that is connected to today. After the full outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War in 1937, Crow was forced to leave Shanghai and died in New York in 1945. When the Anti-Japanese War was victorious in 1945, American Allied soldiers who came to Shanghai handed a small book "Four Thousand Customers" as a guide to understanding this strange city.
"Mirror: Women's Literary Reading Class"
Zhang Li wrote
Huacheng Publishing House
Professor and doctoral supervisor of the School of Literature of Beijing Normal University started from the three dimensions of "self, dilemma, and relationship" that are related to women, and selected more than 20 typical literary images from the works of many famous artists such as Lu Xun, Ding Ling, Xiao Hong, Zhang Ailing, Zhang Jie, Feng Jicai, Tie Ning, Wang Anyi, Su Tong, Bi Feiyu, Chi Zijian, and the East, reflecting the survival status of women in today's society. What is the real respect for women? Who defines the beauty of women? What is the decency of a woman? How to understand female friendship and mutual jealousy? Can money really measure love? Is divorce a abandoned? Will mothers also be kidnapped by their children’s expectations? …Using literature as a mirror, it can transcend gender, connect history, and explain the present. Today’s women’s confusion can be found in this book.
"Mo Yan's Strange Story Collection"
Mo Yan wrote
Douke Culture | Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House
This is a collection of short and medium stories that Mo Yan personally participated in the editing and selection, which contains the 18 most strange stories in his writing. Mo Yan said that he grew up listening to his grandmother's story since he was a child: a fox turns into a beautiful woman and gets married with a poor man, a big tree turns into an old man and walks on the street, an old turtle in the river turns into a strong man and go to the market to drink and eat meat, and a rooster will also turn into a handsome guy in love with his master's daughter. It would be a waste not to write such a wonderful story. Therefore, the stories written by Mo Yan are full of imagination. When you read them, it seems that you are listening to grandparents telling strange stories from the folk. The strange stories show the complexity of human nature. Mo Yan hopes that the fear caused by ghost stories and fairy tales will not be eliminated, because it is "full of people's awe of the unknown world and their yearning for a better life, and also of the seeds of literature and art."
"The Man in the Shadow"
[German] Natasha Voding wrote
Zhao Piao translated
New Star Publishing House
Following the great success of "She is from Mariupol", Natasha Voding started a journey to track her father, telling the story of her mother's suicide in 1956. Natasha Vodin's father was born in Russia and married in Ukraine. He lived in Germany after the war. With the advent of the Cold War, countless civilians like him who were caught in the gaps in the two major camps became victims of the great era. Natasha longs to live a normal life and tries to get rid of her displaced background, integrate into German society, and escape from Russian descent, but her father imprisons her, forbids her from wearing red shoes, hit her, and tries her best to keep her away from the German world. This father who fears her all the time has always been a mystery to his daughter. Through all silence, somewhere in the shadows is a displaced and appalling history.
"The Great Bee: Buzzing and 1/3 of the Human Food"
[US] Saul Hansen by
Huang Lili Xu Xinjian Translated
Nautilus | CITIC Publishing Group
As early as 3000 BC, the Egyptians mastered bee breeding technology, and people regarded it as an important source of energy for a long time. Entering modern times, bees, as an important part of the ecological cycle, directly or indirectly provide one-third of the food for humans, affect people's production activities, and embellish people's lives in places where no one cares. As human activities continue to expand, the living environment of bees is facing constant challenges. The swarm collapse syndrome, discovered more than a decade ago, sounded a wake-up call for humans. Although similar swarms suddenly disappear over time, how to deal with relationships with bees has become a problem that humans must solve.
"Dostoevsky: The Peak of Literature, 1871-1881"
[US] Joseph Frank wrote
Dai Dahong translated
Shanghai Bebet | Guangxi Normal University Press
This book is the fifth and last volume of the literary and cultural biography of Joseph Frank's famous Dostoevsky. It describes the last decade of the writer's life with rare talent and elegance.During these ten years, Dostoevsky wrote "Youth" and "The Writer's Diary" and its pinnacle masterpiece "The Brothers Karamazov". Dostoevsky finally won the general recognition he had longed for in the last few years of his life. Less than a year before his death, the appearance at Pushkin commemoration marked the culmination of Dostoevsky's literary career—and his life as a spokesperson for the Russian spirit. His famous speech about Pushkin at this event made the audience excited: "We are not relying on swords and weapons to be universal, but relying on the power of fraternity, and relying on our concerted efforts to reunify mankind into a big family."
"Money Illusion"
[US] Owen Fisher
Cao Qian Translated
Xinmin Say | Guangxi Normal University Press
How much money can people earn and can they achieve financial freedom? Such arguments are often seen on Douban teams. Some say it is one million, and some say it is five million or even ten million. "Money Illusion" tells us that this kind of financial freedom has a premise, that is, currency stability. The author of the book, Irving Fisher, is recognized as the first mathematical economist in the United States. He has turned economics into a more sophisticated science and improved modern understanding of the relationship between the quantity of money and the overall price level. Fisher listed a large number of vivid examples of the existence of currency illusions in his book, and believed that this illusion stems from the instability of currency units - that is, fluctuations in the purchasing power of currency. He then analyzed the causes of the fluctuations and the harm to different industries and classes, and proposed remedies from the perspectives of individuals, banks and governments. For example, use indexes to measure the purchasing power of money and adjust wages based on the index, etc.; or use indexes to directly create commodity standards to replace the gold standard at that time. This book can deepen people's understanding of money, and more importantly, it can help individuals less influenced by monetary illusions when making decisions in life and investment.
"Being Neighbored to Butcher Knife:
Survivors, Executioners and the Memories of the Rwandan Massacre"
[France] Jean Hartsfield by
Long Yun Sun Xuan Translation
Ideal Country | Beijing Daily Press
The massacre that took place in the Rwandan town of Niamata began at 11 am on April 11, 1994 and lasted until 2 pm on May 14. Every day during this period, from 9:30 am to 4:00 pm, Hutu militias and civilians massacred Tusi on the hills of Niamata. There were about 60,000 Tussi people in the area, and nearly 50,000 died under the butcher's knife. What exactly happened during the Rwandan Holocaust? Why did the Hutu people massacre the Tuxi people like this? How should they continue to live after the massacre? With these questions in mind, Hartsfield came to Rwanda and lived with locals. After fourteen years of visits and investigations, he interviewed many survivors and massacres, trying to restore the truth of the Holocaust from multiple angles and understand the human catastrophe that happened in our time.
"To friends who are getting farther away"
[Japan] TBS radio station "RHYMESTER Yudamaru's Weekend Shuffle" "After 6 Junction"
Yuan Shu Translated
New Star Publishing House
Love will end, but friendship will not. But is this really the case? People will change, and the relationship between people will change from time to time. Many friends who were once close gradually became less and less likely to interact after several years, and many friends can only accompany their lives for a long time. "Friends Away Away" is a popular listener contribution column for two programs hosted by RHYMESTER Utamaru, Japan. This book contains 60 stories about "friends who are gradually drifting away" from ordinary people. Contributors include teenagers who talk about friends in elementary school, and middle-aged people in their forties and fifties who recall their colleagues working. Changes in interpersonal relationships are also a process of growth and making life choices. These gradually distant experiences may be the proof of our colorful life.
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