Liu Zijian's "Reform of Song Dynasty China" (Shanghai People's Publishing House, Century Wenjing): A Chinese edition on the study of Wang Anshi's transformation method completed earlier by Mr. Liu Zijian, a top scholar of overseas Song history, was launched more than half a century later, and the main contents were five--first, it extensively referred to various relevant excellent research results up to the time of writing (1959), especially the relevant research of Chinese and Japanese scholars; the second was to carefully examine Wang Anshi's personal character, employment preferences, and administrative strategy. The relationship with the emperor had a profound impact on the success or failure of the new law and the entire historical process of the Song Dynasty; the third was to adopt a Marx-like perspective to carefully examine the different class origins, economic conditions and regional sources, and the influence on the different attitudes and positions of the Song Dynasty bureaucracy on the new law; the fourth was to adopt a Weber-like perspective to examine the different attitudes and different political ideological tendencies of Wang Anshi and other major bureaucrats, Confucianism, and the impact on the different roles they played in the implementation of the new law The fifth is to place Wang Anshi's transformation method in the entire imperial era and the great historical process of China, and explore its positive significance, limitations and the inevitability of failure. In less than 100,000 words, it can carry such rich and valuable content, reflecting the author's academic style. Even today, this is still an academic masterpiece that Wang Anshi's transformation method and the field of Song history research cannot be bypassed, and it is worth paying attention to and carefully reading.
Mattlock's Personal Experience of the Collapse of the Soviet Union (New Classic Amber Books & Shanghai Triptych Bookstore): Matlock,Magdalene, a scholar-type official who served as the U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union for many years, revised Chinese reprinted twenty-five years later on the history of the collapse of the Soviet Union, and has at least three important original content values— one is that through the author's personal experience and a large number of supplementary interviews, many first-hand historical details about the history of the collapse of the Soviet Union have been disclosed. As for the many important people and events in the process of this great historical change, they depict vivid images; second, as scholar-type officials who have worked and lived in the Soviet Union for a long time, on the one hand, they can deeply restore the inner political struggle and social life of the Soviet Union, on the other hand, they can also analyze the deep-seated reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union relatively objectively from the perspective of others who are "bystanders"; third, as the highest representative of AMERICAN diplomacy stationed in the Soviet Union at that time, although his account inevitably carries a preconceived ideological stance and the glorification of American politics. But between the lines, you can also glimpse the important role and influence played by the United States in the process of the collapse of the Soviet Union. On the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union, reading such a good book is enough to learn from the past.
Jin Guantao's "Axis Civilization and Modern Society" (Oriental Publishing House): A collection of works by Mr. Jin Guantao on the study of the great historical process of China and the world, based on his fruitful accumulation of achievements in the study of intellectual history and modernity, as well as the skillful application of science and engineering theories and methods such as cybernetics and systems theory, to explore the operation law and internal logic of its originality for thousands of years of historical changes in human society. The author's spirit of "gentleman not instrument" of both liberal arts and sciences, the grand vision based on the perspective of history, and the consistent traction of the ultimate problem consciousness are all impressive and worth referencing.
Wang Dingding's "Reason and Justice" (Shanghai People's Publishing House, Century Wenjing): The course transcript of ethics principles in the context of Chinese society in transition taught by Professor Wang Dingding of the National Development Research Institute of Peking University in the EMBA class, continuing his consistent pioneering and extremely informative teaching style in the classroom records such as "Lecture Notes on the History of Economic Thought" and "Lecture Notes on Behavioral Economics", integrating excerpts from important research literature, personal wonderful comments, and life examples. The information network series and personal academic essays are equal to one, focusing on cultivating and inspiring students' critical thinking and divergent thinking skills, the systematic concept of original academic problem awareness and academic history, and a complete and continuously extended knowledge network system. Very recommendable.
Liu Qing et al., "Starting with Surprise" (Republic & Beijing Daily Press): A revised republishment of the collection of philosophical open lessons for teenagers curated by Shanghai Monsoon Book Garden after a lapse of three years. The main speakers of these open classes are young and middle-aged philosophical scholars from major universities in Shanghai. In the process of teaching, they combine literary and artistic film and television works and a large number of rich cases derived from daily life, and calmly introduce the basic knowledge and ideological genealogy of important sub-disciplines of philosophy, including political philosophy, art philosophy (aesthetics), moral philosophy, and philosophy of science. It is a well-organized, well-defined philosophical book that focuses on inspiring and nurturing readers' awareness of problems, critical thinking skills and a complete knowledge network system. Would recommend for sure.
Zhou Xuanlong's Yi Dynasty (Guangxi Normal University Publishing House): A revised and reprinted of a moving masterpiece by Zhou Xuanlong, editor-in-chief of Zhonghua Bookstore, focusing on the life circumstances of the Jiading literati group centered on the Hou Qizeng family in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. This book takes the form of historical essays and reading notes, through careful reading and combing of first-hand historical materials including poems, diaries, Fang Zhi, notes, etc., and with the help of solid text perceptive reading ability and keen historical imagination, it restores for readers the life trajectory of Hou Qizeng and his relatives and friends in the period of great historical changes in the Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty, intertwined with waves, ups and downs, hardships and divisions. Behind the author's writing, restrained and stoic, sparse and plain words, it is full of moving warmth for the research object and infinite worry about the "big era" in which he is located. In another era of "great changes", reading such a text, inexplicably moved, inexplicably mourning.
Zhang Mingyang's "Abandoning Chang'an" (Tianxi Culture & Tiandi Publishing House): A wonderful and varied popular historiography work by the media-born writer Zhang Mingyang on the historical process and the fate of the main characters before and after the Anshi Rebellion, the main content is five - first, each chapter focuses on a core historical figure, with the narration of the character's life story and the comments on the historical merits of the characters, and the analysis of the context and occurrence mechanism of the great historical changes of the Anshi Rebellion The second is to extensively refer to the academic masterpieces at home and abroad on the historical research of this period, and transform them into easy-to-understand and rigorous and thick words, which are both academic and readable, but also do not have the ills of frivolity and excessive contemporaneity commonly expressed in some popular historical works; the third is the understanding of the judgment of historical figures and the historical process, which is quite in-depth and in place, reflecting the author's good historical knowledge and rich experience in knowing people and discussing the world; fourth, as far as possible to restrain the moralization and facial judgment impulse of historical figures. Put yourself in the shoes of each character to explore the multiple aspects and complex moods of each character, and maintain the warmth of a minimum understanding of them; the fifth is to pay attention to the fate of the core political figures who determine the direction of the historical process, and also to poetically narrate the fate of Li Bai, Du Fu, Wang Wei and other poets in this historical process, on the one hand, using their poems as historical materials to support and analyze historical changes, on the other hand, they also deeply explore the spiritual situation of the poets behind the poems. In summary, such a masterpiece that records the rise and fall of the Tang Dynasty is very worthy of attention and careful reading.
Wu Renshu's "Paradise" after the Disaster " ( Guangxi Normal University Publishing House): An academic masterpiece by Taiwanese scholar Wu Renshu on the history of urban life in Suzhou during the fall of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, centered on the "four pavilions" of teahouses, restaurants, hotels, and tobacco houses, showing the deformed urban life of the middle and upper classes of the city, such as night and night songs, drunken dreams and death, and the upheaval and displacement of the middle and lower classes, and the coexistence of the people. The author's discussion focuses on the analysis of the major impact of political background and the era environment on urban life; on the basis of using historical materials such as media reports, oral memories, and chamber of commerce archives, the research is carried out through the restoration of historical scenes from the perspective of social and cultural history and the analysis of industry and organizational analysis from the perspective of social and economic history; and the ecological analysis of urban operation on the surface is taken into account and the focus of major historical events and historical figures at the point. Although there are also relatively concentrated sources of media historical materials and chamber of commerce archives, the channels are not diverse enough, and in terms of the depth of the careful reading of historical texts and the meticulousness of the restoration of historical scenes, there are still certain gaps and other shortcomings compared with the urban history research of scholars such as Wang Di and Luo William, but on the whole, it is a concise, clear, fluent and careful reading and there is no lack of novelty in urban history research works, which is worthy of attention.
Ge Zhaoguang's "Backstage to See History and Remove Makeup" (Movable Type Culture & Sichuan People's Publishing House, Volume One): The mainland book edition of Mr. Ge Zhaoguang's collection of essays in "Vision", a series of special topics curated by "Today" magazine, is jointly launched by movable type culture and the academic publishing brand of Sichuan People's Publishing House, "One Volume". Compared with the author's academic research works, these essays included in the book are more wanton and sharp, and their core problem awareness is two - one is to tell the various reconstructions, distortions and alienations of history in later generations, as well as the political power mechanism and social and cultural atmosphere behind this transmission distortion; the other is to calmly record their own academic life. In contrast, several self-statements and interview texts in the appendix are more in line with the layout and selection requirements of the "Vision" series, and the overall reference value is also greater.
(The bibliography of this book is all from the ideological history and social science books that He Weng has read in December, published in the last three months, and has a personal rating of four stars or above, which are original by Gong Weng and represent only his personal views for the reference of book lovers.) ）
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