Source of this article: Yan Dayuanzhao
In 2021, Yanda Yuanzhao published a lot of good books, and among these good books, there must be one that you can't let go of.
Therefore, we have included the vote for the most beautiful books in the New Year's Eve plan, and invited the planning and editing teachers to talk to us about the birth of each book and make a gorgeous ending for 2021!
Peking University Press's Top Ten Best Books of 2021
Legal History of the United States
[United States] Friedman / by Zhou Dawei / Translation
Professor Lawrence Friedman's classic American Legal History was first published in the early 1970s and has undergone several additions and revisions. This book is a Chinese translation of the third edition of the original book.
In the cover binding, the book is consistent with the original book, with a simple red and white two-color stitching to form a basemap, the atmosphere is stable. The red and white two-color stitching is a color pattern that can symbolize the United States, and the "stripe" in the "Star-Spangled Banner" of the American flag is composed of red and white colors (seven reds and six whites, a total of thirteen). This book uses this distinctly "American element" in the binding to highlight the themes of the book.
This book is available in standard A5 folio, hardcover, easy to place, and easy to collect. A red ribbon is attached to the spine lock line that can be used as a bookmark.
——Ke Heng, Planning Editor
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A brief history of the company
John Mickelswaite [English] Adrian Wooldridge/
Zhu Yuanqing/Translation
This book is a general knowledge masterpiece jointly presented by two well-known Oxford-born financial journalists, and the main content is as the title indicates, which tells the development of the "company" from its origin to the twenty-first century.
The book is a relatively small folio, delicate and portable, echoing the "Jane" in the title. Several images of the British East India Company were selected during the binding design. The main image on the cover is of a general meeting of shareholders at the headquarters of the East India Company in the early nineteenth century; the picture on the back cover is stitched together to show the exterior view of the East India Company headquarters building and the east India Company merchant ship setting sail. This arrangement not only takes into account the British elements of the book's original work (British author + British original), but also highlights the sense of history and storytelling - after all, when telling the development of the company, the East India Company is an important role that cannot be bypassed, and its history, although not very glorious, is absolutely colorful.
The significance of this book to Chinese civil law is equivalent to the contribution of Professor Floumé's "Theory of Legal Behavior" to German civil law. ——Wang Zejian
Theory of Legal Conduct
Yang Daixiong/Author
"Theory of Legal Behavior" is an important system book after the promulgation of the Civil Code of China, and the author has accumulated ten years of efforts to complete it, and the heaviness and expectations it carries can be imagined. To reflect the thickness, we chose the dark color system. We picked this color from a variety of traditional color cards. Apart from the addition of a classical-style balance as decoration, there are no more embellishments, only for the academic and solemn purposes of the book.
——Liu Wenke, Planning Editor
A book to trust!
Civil, commercial, procedural laws and regulations, and judicial interpretations are included in categories
Yuanzhao Civil and Commercial Law Manual
Zhu Xiaozhe/Editor
Radbruch said in his Philosophy of Law that, like all cultural phenomena, law requires the expression of images—language, expressions, clothing, symbols, architecture, etc. Books that carry legal knowledge also need to have their own beauty to express.
Today we're just going to talk about binding design. Binding design, not only cover design, but also folio.
Aristotle said in the Negmarco Ethics that justice is clearly the moderation between doing injustice and being treated unjustly: the former gets too much, the latter gets too little.
Folio is the size, but also the proportions. It goes hand in hand with the cover to achieve a harmonious beauty. Reference books, small and portable is also very important. Moreover, in addition to the convenience of folio, practical factors such as firmness, wear resistance, lightness, and easy inspection should be integrated into the design.
"O Perthus, obey justice, do not breed excesses."
So why is it 130mm× 185mm, less than 18mm? Because this size is exactly half the size of the usual textbook. As an auxiliary reference book, it is designed to be of such a size for easy organization and storage.
"To find a judge is to find a middleman, and it is true that people sometimes call judges middlemen.
Because if you find the middle, you find justice. So justice is also a kind of middle, because the judge is a middleman. "In general, we look at the folio, the layout, the cover design as a whole, and the law book has acquired a more beautiful form.
A high-level professional reading of criminal law theory
A popular law work full of legal meaning and reasonableness
Extreme Justice: The Way of Criminal Justice
Gao Yandong/Author
The cover of the book continues with a hanging square overlay as the main visual image. A square is a simple, angular geometry. However, multiple squares of different sizes overlap together, and although they form a certain perspective, they are disorderly, expressing regularity and complex states. These squares are not clearly defined, it may be a door, a window; it may be a mirror; or more likely it is a tangible and intangible rule.
The cover has small silhouettes of characters, who are people who pursue "extreme" and "justice", shuttling between each different square, exploring the "way of criminal law", and every ordinary person like you and me who lives in order and rules.
The four words of the title of the book, "Extreme Justice", have been designed with fonts, and the strokes are divided and deformed, and the edges and angles are clear, showing that each case may encounter different resistance and difficulties, but it will eventually come to light.
The waist seal contained eye-catching words: Those who are not crazy for justice are not worthy of holding up the penal code. Echoing the title of the book "Extreme Justice", it points out the theme and reaches the hearts of the people.
The book also features a bold contrast design, with a highly saturated orange and blue contrasting, and pantone printing that is pure and translucent. The hard-shell hardcover inner seal is printed with calm dark blue Pantone ink, which reflects the inherent calmness and solemnity of the criminal law.
——Yang Yujie, Planning Editor
Rather than exploring how traditional courts can be improved with new technologies, this book depicts a radical change. There are judges but no courts, and there is justice but no lawyers. Are you ready before this earth-shaking change arrives?
Online courts and future justice
Richard Saskander / by He Guangyue / Translation
Combined with the yellow design of the original cover in foreign languages, this book uses a large area of bright yellow and the black on the waist seal to form a sharp contrast, uses strong color contrast to attract the attention of readers, and also echoes the bold vision and subversive assertion of the book for future judicial reform. The hard-shell hardcover inner seal is printed in Pantone silver, and the title of the book is hollowed out, full of futuristic and technological sense.
The future court depicted in this book is not a new type of court that is simply transformed by new technologies such as information networks in the usual sense, so it does not use common images such as computers and cloud computing in the design, but only connects through the elements of shape and line, and uses a more abstract and advanced way of expression. The Chinese title is linked to the English title through a circular element. The circular wrapped in a linear line implies that the author has spent decades constantly exploring how science and technology can help legal practice, improve judicial access, and introduce technology to deeply empower the aspirations of every member of society, leading readers to explore major changes in the judicial landscape through reading and thinking, and exploring how justice can be within reach.
Every crime is a dark passage to social life
A criminal code of hundreds of crimes outlines the evil bottom line of dark human nature
Che Hao's criminal law question
Analysis of "Criminal Law Theory" Examination Questions of Peking University Law School (2nd Edition)
Che Hao/Author
The five sets of large-scale case topics in this book have been named "Divine Examination Questions" by netizens, and have been positioned as "the most coincidental", "the most tragic", "the most palace fight", "the most epic" and "the most traversal". The title design is not only a plot twist, covering a large number of knowledge points, but also full of concern for human nature and thinking about legal education.
The cover is laid out in classic Klein blue, and the high-saturation yellow resembles a window lit up in the dark of night. The title of the book is irregularly arranged in the square, implying that this is not a collection of exam questions that follow the rules, but here are the bold innovations of the author and the deep affection of the author. The design highlight of the book is the five comic strips in the box below the title, drawn by two designers, each of which echoes a set of exam questions in the book, metaphorically depicting traffic accidents, deliberate murder, erotic seduction, power and money trading, and traversing farce.
The back cover uses the author's message to the students, and the sentences are deeply meaningful. At the bottom, the dubbing works of Peking University Yanyu Dubbing Club are put in, and you can scan and listen to the dubbing version of the exam questions, which is very interesting. After the book, I put in the reader's most sincere feedback on the exam questions, which has a certain spoiler effect - "To find out everyone's relationship, I will swear, and finally I will ask for criminal responsibility!" All I can tell you is that none of them are good people! ”。 Open the inner cover, covered with comic elements theme image, increase reading fun, the overall design is more in line with the taste of young readers, giving people an illusion that "reading comic books can also increase legal knowledge".
An authoritative reading of the article-by-article and comprehensive interpretation of the provisions of the Criminal Law
Explanations of the provisions of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China, legislative reasons and relevant provisions
Wang Aili/Editor-in-Chief
The author of this book explains the provisions of the criminal law article by article. The author continuously draws on the previous theoretical research, the history of article revision and writing experience, and adds the main hot spots and difficult issues in judicial practice to some of the provisions of the new version of the Criminal Law, and these hot and difficult issues are the rules and conclusions extracted by the legislative work body based on the experience and views discussed by the legislative work body in combination with the previous legislation and amendments, and based on typical cases of judicial practice. It is an excellent annotated book that interprets the provisions of our criminal law.
No one will look at this book from beginning to end in one sitting. As a reference book, its main function is to search and query. Therefore, the text of the book is in a small five font, so that the whole book can hold up to 2 million words of literature. Book cover material selection of Nanjing Amity company's latest PU soft hardcover materials, the texture is superior, spine binding uses hollow lock line method, query information, spread out and place the desktop, comfortable and natural, easy to flip through the book with the paper using imported 50 grams of yellow glue dictionary paper, the material is ultra-thin and avoid ink through the back of the paper, such a large tool book, the thickness is only 50 cm, the hand feel good, easy to carry.
——Jiang Hao, Planning Editor
The final chapter of "Establishing this Record" and the final chapter of the 15-year application for unjust cases
"Establishing this deposit: A Side Note on the Case of Noble Misappropriation of Funds" (Supplement)
Chen Xingliang/Editor
From the basic courts to the intermediate courts, to the high courts and the Supreme People's Court, with the consent of the local high courts for retrial, Gao Shang's case has completed all the procedures for first-instance, second-instance, appeal, and retrial stipulated by China's laws. The long litigation process, the huge and complicated judicial documents, and the various data of inconsistencies are put together, which is confusing and dazzling. As the author of this book puts it: "The probability of obtaining a retrial from the appeal and overturning the original judgment is extremely low." The existence of the program is just to let people see a glimmer of light through the crack in the door. Even such a glimmer of light makes the parties like moths to the fire, tending to the light."
Readers will experience the current situation of China's judiciary and the conscience, helplessness and yearning of a legal scholar from the absurd judicial case experienced by Gao Shang, a small person who is a multitude of sentient beings.
Van Gogh's works are rich in color and full of alternative imaginations. Painters use light and color to express strong ideals and hopes. The book uses parts of Van Gogh's "Hard Camp", and the painter depicts the sunlight from outside the wall in warm colors on the upper part of the prison patio wall, which seems to express the hope and yearning for the restoration of freedom and the feeling of the sun's heat.
Professor Chen Xingliang's other collections of essays in the same series, "Extra-legal Sayings", "Storytelling Outside the Book", "Daowai Sayings", we boldly adopted parts of Van Gogh's works, through the painter's themes and ideas, to fit the book author's similar experience and feelings.
Won the China Publishers Association
"2013 Introduction Edition Of Excellent Book Award in Social Science Category"
Yuanzhao Anglo-American Dictionary (Hardcover Edition, Leather Collector's Edition)
Xue Bo/Editor-in-Chief Pan Handian/General Reviewer
In order to reflect the fusion of Eastern and Western cultures and present beautiful things to the society as much as possible, we have designed a leather collection to commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of the founding of Yanda Yuanzhao, the "Yuanzhao Anglo-American-French Dictionary".
Finished product size: 170mm*240mm.
Binding method: hard hardcover, plus letter sleeve.
Envelope: 157 grams of coated paper five-sided and four-color printing, covered with a tactile film (enhance the feel and toughness). The cover depicts the branches and fluffy green leaves of the Taean oak tree, and the dark green background is integrated with the dark green leather spine presented at the opening. The cover of the letter Chinese the inscription "Genuine Leather Collector's Edition" under the title of the book, which means that the edition is unusual and limited in number. The commemorative label "The 15th Anniversary of the Founding of Yan Dayuanzhao" under the English title of the letter cover is marked with four words full of profound meaning of "Qiwu Oriental".
Cover: Dark green leather material, face cover and spine compared to the ordinary version of the dictionary, added an "acorn" commemorative label. Oak trees, both in the East and the West, symbolize beauty.
Plug cloth and ribbon: The transition color between the cover and the body text was selected - silver gray.
Thumb Index: The incision is equipped with a 12-hole thumb index, gold on a green background, elegant and practical.
Front ring lining: Under the "Acorn" commemorative sign on the right, the note "I would like to dedicate our long thoughts and remembrance, and to express sincere praise and endless gratitude for the philosophies and all kinds of goodness of the common law predecessors." Heaven gives food, and it is not easy to get.
Gift Page: Here you can record the beautiful and unforgettable moments between teachers and students, friends.
Body paper: 70 grams of beige pure offset paper, crystal clear under the light, can make the eyes more comfortable when consulting.
Leonardo da Vinci said: "The work of art has never been completed. "So we're just trying to present something more comfortable and better to society as much as possible." May this dictionary lead you into the rocky, ever-growing world of common law.
——Lu Jianhua, Planning Editor