"Silk Road Storm" and "Voltaire's Collected Writings" were selected as the top ten good books of the Year in the Commercial Press in 2021

2021 Commercial Press "Top Ten Good Books Selection" activities of the academic and popular top ten good book covers, as well as special tribute book covers Courtesy of the Commercial Press

Beijing, November 9 (China News Network) (Reporter Ying Ni) The 2021 Commercial Press "Top Ten Good Books Selection" was held in Beijing on the 9th and the final results were announced. "Translation Series of Classic Works from Three Sources of Marxism" and other annual academic top ten good books, "Silk Road Storm" and other years of the annual popular top ten good books.

As an "important town of academic publishing", the Commercial Press will launch a number of academic classics in 2021. At present, the only set of classic translation series in China that systematically introduces the sources of Marxism, the "Translation Series of Classic Works from Three Sources of Marxism", is the first systematic collation of works from the three major sources of Marxism, and provides a systematic, authoritative and convenient classic translation for Marxist research. The series includes 12 classics of German classical philosophy that reflect the teachings of Kant, Hegel, Fichte and others, 20 utopian socialist classics showing the teachings of Saint-Simon, Fourier, Owen and others, and 13 classics of classical political economy that embody the teachings of Ppiti, Quesnay, Adam Smith, Ricardo and others, for a total of 45 kinds and 55 volumes.

The "Master's Anthology", which brings together the achievements of Chinese and foreign scholars, has once again attracted the attention of readers. The ten-volume Voltetia anthology is a grand picture of the Enlightenment era and a vivid portrait of the modern spirit, comprehensively including Voltaire's masterpieces and classic works in philosophy, history and literature, such as the Dictionary of Philosophy, The Theory of Customs, and the Honest Man, in addition to works such as "On Tolerance" and "The Disaster of Yong lisbon", which have rarely seen or never been published in Chinese translations.

A number of books with hot historical themes, such as "Cambridge Early History of Inner Asia", "History of the Rise and Fall of the Golden Horde", "History of Central Asia", "Walking Through the Hindu Kush Mountains: Deep into the Interior of Afghanistan" (Faraway Translation Series) and a number of hot books on related historical themes have entered the selection.

At the same time, the Commercial Press also published a variety of popular education books in 2021. "Xinhua Dictionary (Chinese and English Bilingual Edition)", "Six Essentials of Composition", "Language Special Topic Learning and Reading ten lectures of the whole book", "Drama of School Education", "Ainong Translation of Children's Books", etc. aim at the learning life after the "double reduction", providing new references for teachers, students and parents inside and outside the classroom. The "Morning Dawn Collection (Revised Edition)" (edited by Yang Zhenning and Weng Fan) and the "Complete Collection of Classics translated by Xu Yuanchong" related to the annual hot people have also aroused strong resonance among readers with their rich and solid content.

In addition, on the occasion of the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, the Commercial Press regards theme publishing as an important part of the construction of China's national knowledge system, focuses on the construction of theme publishing content and form innovation, combines party history study and education, vigorously carries forward the spirit of poverty alleviation, and uses publishing to condense and summarize the party's historical experience and enlighten wisdom. "The Right Way in the World is Vicissitudes - A Century of Red Imprint Hand-painted Books (Volume I)" and "Deng Xiaoping and the Centennial Course of the Communist Party of China" were rated as "Special Tribute Books for Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China".

The top ten good books in the academic category in 2021 are: "Voltaire's Collected Works", "Translation Series of Classic Works from three sources of Marxism", "The Origin of the First World War", "Cambridge Early History of Inner Asia", "Tianjin of All Nations", "History of the Weimar Republic", "The Meaning in Visual Arts", "The Birth of Purgatory", "The Formation of revolution", and "The Historical Geography of Europe".

The top ten good books in the popular category in 2021 are: "Concrete", "Silk Road Storm", "Li Jieren's Past", "Gilgamesh Epic", "What is Philosophy (11th Edition)", "Distant Translation Series", "Nine Chapters", "The Age of No Chance to See", "Drama Education Series", and "There is a Tree in the North".

As a judge of this event, Zhu Yongxin, the initiator of the new education experiment and professor of the New Education Research Institute of Soochow University, spoke highly of the publications of the Commercial Press this year, and summarized the selection into five characteristics: "classic, revolutionary, practical, novel and distinctive". These good books respond to the needs of the times, lead the new trend of reading for the whole people, and help to create a reading atmosphere for the whole people who love to read, read good books, and are good at reading, and help the construction of a book society. (End)

Source: China News Network