Fu Lei, Zhu Meifu, Fu Cong, Fu Min, ed. Fu Lei's Family Letter (Yilin Publishing House): The hardcover edition of the fortieth anniversary of the publication of the "Fu Lei Family Book", which has become a contemporary literary classic, in addition to retaining the main content of Mr. Fu Lei's family letter, which has become the public edition, also supplements many correspondence between Fu Lei's lover Zhu Meifu, Fu Lei's son Fu Cong, and Fu Min, making this version the most complete text of the communication record between Fu Lei and his family. Through this book, we can not only see the wonderful exchanges between the two generations of well-known cultural people around literature, music, art, daily life, etc., but also fully understand Fu Lei's educational outlook, outlook on life, and values as a great intellectual, as well as the tortuous growth process of the two children under the cultivation of him and his lover, and the current political situation, social changes and cultural atmosphere changes in China and the West during the communication period of more than ten years are also clearly visible in these family letters. Reading this good book, you can know how to be a person, you can know literature and art, you can also observe the changes in the rise and fall and the historical mirror, it is indeed a well-deserved classic work.
He Guimei, "The Overprinting of Time" (Sanlian Bookstore): Professor He Guimei of the Department of Chinese of Peking University focused on the revision and republishment of the wonderful research treatises of Xiao Qian, Shen Congwen, Feng Zhi, Ding Ling, and Zhao Shuli in the creative transformation, ideological evolution and life transition process in the 1940s and 1950s. There are three main personal reading experiences - one is that good research pays attention to the selection of research periods and research objects, from the 1940s to the 1950s, the great changes in these five writers in terms of personal growth experience, educational background, political tendencies, etc., and the huge tension formed between the era of great changes, all of which give such research great significance and good influence. Second, the author pays attention to getting rid of the binary paradigm and the "ideal type" of scholarship, and deeply and meticulously examines the undercurrents under the official historical materials, the hidden words in the routine text, and the academic consciousness and academic ability behind the hesitation, tearing and contradiction behind the big words or no words, which are very worth learning. The third is to compare the first edition of this book with this revised edition, the academic history of a scholar, and the close interaction and origin between his complete life history and the great history of his time, which is clearly visible.
García Márquez's Back to the Seeds (New Classics & South Seas Publishing Company): García Márquez, a top writer in the Latin American literary scene, is a selection of essays from his forty-year career, which includes news features, social commentary, and story materials. The press features included in this book are full of vivid details and picture sense; social commentary is playful and sharp, with both the critical power of needlework and the irony of laughter and anger; and the story material clearly depicts the story prototype and initial state of the author's masterpieces such as "One Hundred Years of Solitude". The combination of these different forms and types of articles, the author's non-fiction and fictional through the opening, realistic themes and magical interpretation of the perfect interweaving of the writing style, affectionate narrative and spicy criticism, vividly displayed, is an important collection of essays that cannot be ignored in Márquez's work system, which is worthy of attention and careful reading.
(Japanese) Anthology of Li Shangyin's Poems (Phoenix Publishing House): Anthology of poems by the famous late Tang Dynasty poet Li Shangyin produced by the Japanese scholar Yasuzo Kawawai, with excellent translation, annotation, commentary, and interpretation. As far as translation is concerned, its vernacular translation is exquisite in words, expressing poetry, and at the same time perfectly presenting the ancient rhyme of the original poem, it integrates the meaning of Western modern poetry and Japanese poetry literature, and many translations can be called beautiful prose poems, which are worth savoring. As far as the annotations are concerned, it has truly made extensive reference to ancient texts and should be annotated, which fully demonstrates the profound ability of Japanese scholars to be good at "elementary school". As far as the review is concerned, his comments fully combine Li Shangyin's personal experience, mental journey and the background of the times when he created his works, and there are many creative ideas that cannot be said by others. As far as the solution is concerned, the long explanation in the appendix combines the main life of Li Shangyin and the characteristics of the work, and the study is in-depth and the interpretation is clear. Coupled with the carefully crafted details such as the description of the rhyme of each poem, the carefully configured flower and wood illustrations, the Li Shangyin chronology in the appendix, and the editor's in-depth interview published in the top domestic academic journals, it is really a superb work in the collection of ancient poetry published in China, which is worth reading and cherishing.
(Japanese) Yoji Asami, Bunji Takahashi, and Takashi Taniguchi, "The Literary History of Emperors" (Phoenix Press): A collection of monographs on the history of ancient Chinese literature completed by three Japanese scholars, which roughly revolves around the awareness of core issues in three aspects: first, to adopt Foucaeus-like discourse-power analysis paradigm to examine the profound influence of the power mechanism centered on imperial power on the literary writing of ancient Chinese literati; second, in ancient Chinese literary works, as a public sense of the state, The interaction and tension between the consciousness of entering the world and the consciousness of imperial loyalty, and the consciousness of freedom as an individuality, the consciousness of birth and the consciousness of inner transcendence; the third is the balance and mutual transformation between the ancient Chinese literary writing in fact-based realism, imaginary fictional processing, and magic-based myth and legend evolution. Based on these chinese and Western perspectives, which are quite innovative, this collection of essays of an overview nature is still quite valuable for perusal and reference.
Liu Zongdi's "The World" (Movable Type Culture & Sichuan People's Publishing House): One of the works in the newly launched "New Readings of Chinese Culture" series of movable type culture, the author Liu Zongdi is a well-known folklore researcher in China, who has long been engaged in the study of the Classic of Mountains and Seas. In this short and wonderful popular science book, the author breaks the inherent impression of ordinary readers who regard the Classic of Mountains and Seas as a mythical anecdote and mythological work, fully combines archaeological findings and related important historical materials, and deeply excavates the scientific attributes and values of the geography, biology, fangzhi and folklore of the Classic of Mountains and Seas. The author's independent thinking of academic innovation awareness, comprehensive analysis of academic research horizons and in-depth and simple academic science popularization ability are all impressive. Would recommend for sure.
Zhou Huacheng,"Sit with the Flowers for a While" (Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House): The latest collection of essays by Zhou Huacheng, a young writer from Zhejiang, about his idyllic life in his hometown, Changshan, Zhejiang. The author's text, tracing the natural meaning, classical taste, cultural connotation and moving details in rural life, integrates farming, reading, writing and daily life, and truly achieves poetry and life. Whether it is its natural and sincere writing, or this way and concept of actively pursuing and practicing slow life in the noisy era of high-speed operation, it is very touching and worth recommending.
Kuan Kuan's "Like a Flower in the Wild" (Lefu Culture & Beijing United Publishing Company): The writer Kuan Kuan, who lives in Dali, records his latest collection of essays on his daily life in Dali, divided into two parts - the first half records his reading experience and literary and artistic feelings, rich in ancient rhyme, quiet and transparent; the second half records the life of the people around him and his own life moments, calmly and directly, frank and open-minded. The text of the whole book is clean and pure, conveying the dual aesthetic concept of spiritual and cultural abundance and material life returning to the basics, which is fascinating and worth reading carefully.
Zong Wan et al., Yang Binbin collated "Five Kinds of Modern Women's Diaries (One Outer)" (Phoenix Publishing House): The brand series of Phoenix Publishing House - the latest documentary works in the series of rare historical materials in modern and modern China, including five kinds of women's diaries in modern China and one kind of women's poetry collection. These are first-hand documents from ordinary intellectual women in modern China, or simple memories, or perceptual lyricism, or in-depth recording of reading experiences, or systematic exposition of daily life and the perception of the times, which are precious historical texts that can peek into and study the daily life, emotional outlook, ethics, world outlook, and social and cultural life of modern Chinese intellectual women in modern China. The preface of this book written by the editor, Mr. Yang Binbin, not only details the main content and selection process of these documents, but also explains the good historical value and academic research value of these documents from multiple angles and in three dimensions with an extremely broad academic vision and excellent academic insights. Both ordinary readers and research readers can benefit greatly from the guidance of this preface to carry out a deep reading of these literatures with a clear problem awareness.
Chen Miaoling's "Your Pain Is Related to Me" (Guangxi Normal University Publishing House, Xinmin said): As a general general practitioner in Nanjing, Chen Miaoling's collection of doctor-patient case stories based on her own personal experience, although her writing is quite plain and simple, and there is little technical training in narrative and literary expression, such a vivid detail and true sense of written record, in addition to the author's so-called narrative medicine, at least has the good value of literature, history and sociology. As far as literature is concerned, it meticulously shows the life dilemma of itself and all patients centered on illness and healing, is full of humanistic warmth, and intuitively presents the ultimate meaning of "literature is anthropology"; as far as history is concerned, the stories of ordinary people's life, old age, illness and death are rare and precious social life history texts in Nanjing and contemporary China, and the historical materials are of rich value; as far as sociology is concerned, it vividly presents the grass-roots hospitals with the academic consciousness of "work and life is the field investigation site". The position and role of grassroots doctors and ordinary patients in the context of contemporary Chinese society, as well as the source of the dilemma of doctor-patient tension. In summary, it is very worthy of attention and reference.
Liu Dawei Editor-in-Chief "Memories of a Generation of Secondary Teachers" (Nanjing Publishing House): The top ten theme books selected by Nanjing Publishing House in 2021, the works that individuals are most concerned about, in the form of oral history, show the development process of Xiaozhuang Normal School founded by Mr. Tao Xingzhi, and the main content has three characteristics - First, the interview subjects cover alumni and faculty of all ages of Xiaozhuang Normal School, and their life stories are combined together, which is enough to grasp the complete development history of basic education in New China in the form of traditional jichuan historiography Second, the editor-in-chief has a clear problem awareness of the design of the oral interview, that is, he pays attention to the investigation of Mr. Tao Xingzhi's educational thought and the school spirit of Xiaozhuang Normal, immersed in the alumni and teaching staff, and then spread to generations of children through them, which makes people move; third, in the context of the country's increasing emphasis on educational equality, the advent of this book, together with The yellow lamp teacher's much-concerned work "My Second Student", etc., Together, they form a system of works from a de-elitist perspective of observation, guiding the readers to pay attention to the fate of the "silent majority" that forms the basis of Chinese society, and also allowing readers to pay tribute to these "gardeners" who have dedicated their lives to the cause of civilian education. In summary, it is highly recommendable.
(The bibliography of this book is all from the literature, humanities and arts books that He Weng has read in December, published in the past three months, and has a personal rating of four stars or more, and is original by Gong Weng, which only represents his personal views and is for the reference of book lovers.) ）
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