"The Legend of the White Snake"
Edited by the Editorial Board of "The Legend of the White Snake, Love Is Not Over", Guangdong People's Publishing House, December 2021 edition, 98.00 yuan.
This book is a film book about last year's critically acclaimed Cantonese opera film "The Legend of the White Snake", which decodes the entire process of film production from development planning, script creation, aesthetic style, musical sound effects, and post-production. It tells the behind-the-scenes creation through the dialogue of film directors, lead actors, screenwriters, arrangers and other film creators, and uses 5 expert film critics to analyze the past and present lives of the White Snake legend in multiple dimensions, the coming and going of Cantonese opera films, and then explore the road to breaking the circle of Cantonese opera films. Dozens of cross-page stills, original conceptual designs, and selected scripts present readers with a film on paper. We can feel how "The Legend of the White Snake" breaks the dimensional wall of opera and film, spanning tradition and modernity, classic and popularity, and making the cultural beauty of Cantonese opera "out of the circle".
Modern Cantonese Dictionary
Dictionary Compilation Group, Research Center for Chinese Dialects, Jinan University, Guangdong People's Publishing House, September 2021 edition, 138.00 yuan.
This is a large-scale Cantonese reference book that reflects contemporary life, integrates words and words, and has multimedia and mobile products. The dictionary is divided into single-word entries and word entries. The total number of entries in the single word range is 9220. The scope of word entries includes different words and some colloquialisms in Cantonese and Mandarin, common cantonese words and common new words and transliterations, totaling more than 17,000 terms. This book is mainly developed for the general public, covering the daily use of Cantonese. A Cantonese dictionary with standardized pronunciation for real people, so that readers can hear and learn. This Cantonese reference book is also a new crystallization of Lingnan culture.
"Mr. Smith goes to China"
(American) Han Jiexi, translated by Shi Kejian, Guangdong People's Publishing House, October 2021 edition, 78.00 yuan.
In the second half of the 18th century, prompted by Adam Smith's "free trade" economic ideas, three Scottish merchants of the same name "George Smith", lured by high profits, bypassed the monopoly trade of the East India Company and set off a commercial storm in the waters of the Indian Ocean, which eventually caused a financial crisis... The book "Mr. Smith to China" shows the internal operation of the British Empire's global expansion and the formation of a global trade network through the three Mr. Smiths and the "scattered merchants" group they represent. The book proposes a new interpretation for Macartney's visit to China and even the origin of the Sino-British Opium War, which organically combines global history and micro history with new ideas.
"The Great Confucian Who Opened the New Academic Trend of the Ming Dynasty- Chen Xianzhang Reader"
Edited by Li Yeming, Guangzhou Publishing House, April 2021 edition, 62.00 yuan.
Chen Xianzhang, the Ming Dynasty's great Confucian Chen Baisha, was a pioneer in enlightened Confucianism and had a far-reaching influence. This book is one of the popular books of the "Guangzhou Canon" series of celebrity readers in Guangfu. It is divided into two parts: introduction and selected reading of works. The selected reading part of the works systematically sorts out and collects and publishes Chen Xianzhang's biographical treatises, which are convenient for the public to read through selected articles, necessary annotations, and simple background explanations, which is a useful attempt to further revitalize traditional classics. The "Guangzhou Dadian" popular book series introduces the ancient cultural celebrities of Guangdong to the majority of readers in an easy way, with remarkable achievements and worthy of attention.
"New Theories of Current Affairs"
(English) by Timothy Lee, Wang Yu's Proofreading, Southern Daily Press, August 2021 edition, 58.00 yuan.
Timothy Richard (1845-1919) was a heavyweight in political, cultural and social exchanges between China and the West in the late Qing Dynasty. Timothy Lee's thought, as reflected in the New Treatise on Current Events, is complex and diverse. When Timothy Lee offered suggestions for the cause of change in the late Qing Dynasty, he also paid attention to the changes in Western society. This book is a type of "Late Qing Dynasty Western Studies Series" (second series). The "Late Qing Dynasty Western Studies Series" collects and organizes representative late Qing Dynasty Western Studies translations and writings, which are of extremely high value and are a fine series published by Guangdong Culture in recent years.
"Private Record of the Mother of "Ten Thousand Children"--Wu Jufang's Diary"
Wu Jufang, Huacheng Publishing House, October 2021 edition, 138.90 yuan.
Wu Jufang (1911-1999) was the wife of General Li Hanling, a patriotic general during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and former chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Government of the Kuomintang, who founded the Guangdong Children's Correctional Institution and organized the rescue and adoption of more than 30,000 refugee children who escaped from the iron hooves of the Japanese Kou. This is a very precious historical material of the Guangdong War of Resistance. Wu Jufang is an overseas Chinese who has always loved the motherland incomparably in the turbulent life of immigrants, and her overseas entrepreneurial history is a representative of the diligence and bravery of overseas Chinese. The book is a rare manuscript of a Chinese woman's diary spanning more than sixty years, and its content is a direct record of history. This diary condenses the legendary life of Wu Jufang and tells the story of a new immigrant who struggled and improved himself on American soil. It has precious historical value for the study of the history of overseas Chinese and the history of Chinese women.
The Art of Yu Bai
(Han) Li Yuhuan, Huacheng Publishing House, May 2021 edition, 98.00 yuan.
The book is a collection of artistic essays by Li Yuhuan, a painter, sculptor, writer, philosopher, and leader of the Japanese avant-garde movement, the "Monophytes". Most of the content is to explain Li Yuhuan's artistic philosophy, but also to the Asian Bada Shanren, Wakabayashi Fen, Paik Nam Jun, as well as European and American artists such as Cézanne, Matisse, Mondrian, Buren, Stella and other Artists, as well as Japanese writers such as Yukichi Furui and Kenji Nakagami. The book covers a wide range of contents, from classical art to modern and contemporary art, exploring the relationship between space, field, matter and language in art, showing the author's profound artistic theory and oriental philosophical insights.
"Running Collection"
Li Jingze, Huacheng Publishing House, September 2021 edition, 68.00 yuan.
"Running Collection" is a collection of commentaries by the famous literary critic Li Jingze, which includes various comments, prefaces, essays and dialogues on literature and art by the author in the past two years, which not only discuss the frontier issues of Chinese literature and art, but also the comments of important Chinese and contemporary writers, as well as the meticulous analysis of literary phenomena in recent years. The writer or reader, if he can "go to me" like a runner, run out of the "me" in the limited, stubborn flesh, he will enter a transcendent state. Li Jingze's criticism angle is light, proposing that literature is to connect all kinds of things scattered in the sky like stars to form a wonderful star map.
"If History Is a Group of Meows 8 · Prosperous Tang Dynasty"
Compiled and illustrated by Fei Zhi, Guangdong Tourism Publishing House, May 2021 edition, 59.80 yuan.
Mr. Jin Cheng, a famous cartoonist in Guangzhou, commented on the series of comics "If History is a Group of Meows": "Cat Anthropomorphism" is a new theme that Fat zhi has been brewing for a long time, and it is the result of his inspiration and hard work. Interpreting Chinese historical stories with a soft and cute cat image is not only vivid and interesting, but also rich in connotation, focusing on the professionalism of knowledge and the inheritance of culture, even discerning readers have to nod their heads and say yes. This widely recognized series has indeed blazed a new trail in the popularization of history. "If History Is a Bunch of Meows 8 Shengshi Tang Chapter" is the eighth volume of the comic book Chinese history series. The cats take the reader back to the prosperous era of a thousand years ago, and deduce the process of the Tang Dynasty from prosperity to decline. The comics are lively and interesting, suitable for all ages.
"Naturalist Lessons in Ancient Poetry"
Jing Fang, New Century Publishing House, December 2021 edition, 42.00 yuan.
This is a popular science book on ancient poetry that is suitable for primary school students to read. Focusing on the Three Gorges, Dongting Lake, Yellow Crane Tower, Chibi, Lushan and Jinling on the Yangtze River, the book selects 20 representative ancient poems and 2 ancient famous paintings closely related to these places, and deeply analyzes the natural knowledge hidden in ancient poems and ancient paintings from the perspective of "natural objects". In this book, classic poetry and traditional culture are intertwined, and elegant culture and geographical folklore full of pyrotechnics are intertwined, providing young readers with a new knowledge system to interpret familiar ancient poems. (Liu Zheng)