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In addition to releasing the editorial board at the end of each year and presenting the good books we read that year, Interface Culture (ID: booksandfun) will also provide readers and friends with a guide to the new books that are worth looking forward to this year in January. Of course, this year is no exception.
The following guide to the book of expectations, which is not short in length, presents new works worthy of attention in the fields of original literature, imported literature, biographical prose, social science, history, new knowledge, and art in 2022 in 7 sections. We have collected as comprehensively as possible information from major publishing houses, carefully organized by category type and thematic issues, hoping that this is both a list of books that are densely "planted" for bookworms and a publishing map for extended thinking, which may not be complete enough, but we can still use it to gain insight into and reflect on the hot spots of concern in the domestic publishing industry, as well as some of the social concerns and development trends reflected in these works.
01 Chinese Literature: Writing about this land with stories and fun
In terms of original literature, Sun Ganlu's "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" will be launched by the Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House, which writes about the life and death choices of Chinese intellectuals in the era of burning faith. Liu Liangcheng's other novel after "Carrying Words", "Bemba", which will be published by Yilin Publishing House, also has the style of a magical epic: "Jianger's Place of Bemba is a happy paradise on earth." The people there were all twenty-five years old, no aging and no death. Lu Nei's "Everything About Farewell" features Li Bai, a writer born in 1975, and tells the story of the sadness and joy of a writer, an unmarried, a young nostalgic romantic man and his father from 1985 to 2019. Lu Nei recited some chapters of the work on how writers deal with online criticism at the 2021 Shanghai Nanjing Twin Cities Literature Workshop. Tian Er's "Secret Essentials" is a long novel about the ups and downs of the black book market, with a strong martial arts feeling. "King Lear and 1979" is Xue Yihuan's forthcoming novel, which restores the family situation of Chinese intellectuals from the 1930s and 1970s to the late 1970s, and Ye Zhaoyan's novella "The Road to Father" also cares about the family life of generations of Chinese intellectuals in the twentieth century, or can be read in reverse.
"Bemba"
By Liu Liangcheng
Yilin Press 2022
Lu Min used "Golden River" to present the difficult progress of the Chinese-style wealth concept of this generation of people who started from scratch and became rich first in reform and opening up. "White-haired A'e and Others" is the latest collection of short stories by Hong Kong writer Sisi, born in the Xuantong years, living in an era that has disappeared, and now, she goes out to wipe the wind and oil essence, to the department store afraid of cold air, to the road afraid of the sun, to the friends' homes afraid of seeing people. "North Stream" is a new novel by Lin Bai for eight years, covering the matriarchal folk experience in the south, the memory of women's growth, and the spiritual flow history of intellectuals. Remnant Xue's collection of novels, The Goddess of Xishuangbanna, includes the writer's latest original short story. In 2018, Fan Yusu, a sister-in-law of Beijing's parenting sister-in-law, became famous overnight, and three years later, Fan Yusu completed the autobiographical novel "Long Farewell reunion".
"The Story Is Only Half Told" collects ten short stories created by novelist and director Wan Ma Tse-dan in recent years, showing the life group portraits of ordinary Tibetan people: village elderly people full of folk tales, young children who are certified as the reincarnation of living Buddhas, parents of newborns who exhausted their efforts to breastfeed, poets who committed arson and murder... "Persistence" is Liang Xiaosheng's latest realist novel, focusing on the values, friendship and love of contemporary college students. "The World of Man" is a new collection of works written by Han Dong's "return" of short stories. Yizhou will launch the fourth "Collection of Xin Ugly Stories" in the "Human Chronicle" series after "Bing Shen", "Ding You" and "Gengzi". "Night in Duck Town: Wang Kui Zhang Liang's Story Collection" and "Is This Matter Meaningful in the End" is a collection of short stories to be published by the novel author Cao Kou, of which "Night" features the young town of Wang Kui and Zhang Liang as the protagonists, and the story takes place in Baguazhou Town and downtown Nanjing. After "Wedding Night", Liaojing will launch its latest short story collection "Listening" this year to gain insight into the truth under the surface of urban life. In the new work "Shanghai Capsule", btr built 19 exhibition halls out of thin air with 19 "exhibition novels".
Shanghai Capsule, Republic of Beijing Daily Press / 2022
In terms of genre literature, CITIC Chunchao Will launch the latest work of "Nado Notes", "Returning to the Ruins of the Ruins", and the journalist Nado, who has many years of experience in the investigation of special events, went to Kai county in Chongqing City because of the ruins and experienced a vision in the ancient city at the bottom of the lake. Sun Yisheng launched the novella collection "Night Wandering God" last year, and this year will publish his first novel, "Must See the Vast Land", which takes place in a small city in Shandong, and the characters have the same "Wu Song". Guo Peiwen, the author of the socialistic mystery novel represented by "Quail", has his latest novel called "Moment", and the story is still set in Changsha. The science fiction collection "The Way Spring Comes" by female writers including Zhao Haihong, Xia Di and Shen Dacheng is one of the international cooperation projects of contemporary Chinese fantasy novels. In addition, Fan Ye, a professor of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Peking University and a friend of felines, will publish the first original fantasy literary work "Time Bear, Mirror Tiger and Invisible Kitten" by Gu Xiang.
After "Wild Boar Crossing the River" and "Monkey Cup", Houlang will introduce the representative work of MCA writer Cheung Kwai Hing, "Sharon Grandmother", which uses the technique of random needle embroidery to mix the novel interest of adventure and romance, conveying the thick atmosphere of desire, sex, slaughter and violence in the rainforest. In 2020, Zhang Guixing won the 8th Dream of the Red Chamber Award with "Wild Boar Crossing the River". This year, Houlang will also introduce the novel "Still Life" by Wang Congwei, editor-in-chief of Taiwan's "United Literature" magazine, which tells the topics of "living alone" and "dying without a chance" with a wife's outgoing heart and private monologue. Chan's collection of speculative short stories "Diogenes Variations" and the fairy tale mystery collection "The Magic Flute" will be launched at the same time. In addition, the new books of he Jingbin, Li Yiqiao, Qiu Changting and other new generation writers are also worth looking forward to.
02 Introduction of novels: there are both new translations of classics and new works by newcomers
The works of 2021 Nobel Prize winner Abdulazak Gerner will meet Chinese readers this year, including "The Afterlife", "The Last Gift", "Heaven", "The Seaside" and "Praise for Silence". Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk's latest novel, Night of the Plague, will be introduced by Century Wenjing, which tells the story of the third plague that broke out on an island in 1901, and the protagonists who are trying to save the fate of the empire and pursue the ideals of modern civilization shine in the battle against the plague.
Many novels by 2018 Nobel Laureate and Polish writer Tokarczuk will continue to be introduced into China by Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House Can Culture, of which "E.E." is her first novel, which depicts the story of fifteen-year-old Polish girl Erna Erznell treated by her mother and friends for mental illness, discussing philosophical issues such as "consciousness" and "unconscious", spirit and body. Also to be published is another of her novels, The Last Story, both of which are literally translated into Polish. The most noteworthy is Tokarczuk's thousand-page Book of Jacob, about a mysterious young Jew who came to a Polish village in the mid-18th century to charm and attract a growing cult following. After "Robot Master" and "Solaris Star", Polish science fiction writer Stanisław Lem's "Technical Encyclopedia" will also be introduced into the Chinese edition, which is highly respected by the scholar Jiang Xiaoyuan.
After The Oriental Tales, Shanghai Sanlian Bookstore will continue to introduce a series of works by French writer Margaret Yousenal, and we will read her "Yukio Mishima, or the Illusion of emptiness" written for Yukio Mishima and a biography of Yusenal. French writer Georges Perek's "Deep in the Courtyard, Which Little Bike with Chrome Handles" tells a vivid and interesting little story. Goncourt Prize winner Layla Slimani's "Land of the Other (Trilogy)" "War, War, War", translated by French translator Yuan Xiaoyi Chinese, tells the story of a French girl Mathilde who fell in love with the Moroccan Ami in the middle of the last century, married and had children with her, moved to Morocco, and a series of stories about family, country, love, and marriage. Michelle Villebec's Serotonin tells the story of "I" who tried to follow the middle-class guidelines in an era when everyone was depressed, but found that everything had become ridiculous, so "I" played "Disappear", quit the apartment, quit my job, and said goodbye to my girlfriend.
"Deep in the courtyard, which small bicycle with chrome handles" Nanjing University Press / 2022
In recent years, The Publishing Brand of Guangxi Normal University Publishing House, Xinmin Shu, has launched a series of Sebald's works, which will be updated in 2022 to "Residence in a Country House", and he has once again skillfully blurred the boundaries of biography, prose and travelogues, thinking and telling in a walk of rural scenery. Sebald's debut poem, After Nature: An Elemental Poem, will also meet Chinese readers. Also worth looking forward to are the Austrian novelist Hermann Bloch's series Sleepwalker, Enchanted, and The Innocent, as well as the German postwar writer Siegfried Renz's novel masterpiece "The Hometown Museum", a story that was destroyed in a fire in the hometown museum.
2020 Booker Prize winner and newcomer to Scottish literature Douglas Stuart's debut novel Shuggie Bain tells the story of an alcoholic single mother and three children, especially young children, in a poor family in Glasgow, Scotland, in the 1980s. American writer James Sauter's series of works such as "All This" will be introduced by the Republic. Irish writer Sally Rooney's new book, "A Wonderful World, Where Are You," is about to meet readers, and the novel writes about the different life trajectories of two good friends in their twenties, similar to Rooney's previous works, and the protagonist's friendship is mostly maintained by email. Irish writer William Trevor's collection of short stories, The Final Tales, will also be published. The works of the Mozambican Portuguese-speaking writer Mia Cotto will continue to be translated into the Chinese world, including The Elegant Terrorist and Other Stories. Most of the articles of the upcoming "Shiga Naoya Short Story Collection" by the publishing brand "Mingmuro Lucida" are the first translations, and the "Shiga Naoya Novella Collection" is also the first translation of the short form of the collection of novels. Born in 1999, Japanese writer Suzu Usami won the 164th Wasagawa Prize for her work on star-chasing girls, "Idol Disqualification", and will meet readers around the world Chinese this year. "Stories of the Epidemic Period" is collected from the "Ten Days" column of the New York Times, and includes the works of many famous novelists around the world during the period when the new crown swept the world, including Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell, Colm Tobin, Li Yiyun and so on.
"A Beautiful World, Where Are You" [Ireland] Sally Rooney 03 Biography, Interviews and Essays: Don't Forget Yesterday, Live in the Present
The paris review writer interviews are about to be published in its sixth series, which includes interviews with famous writers such as Arthur Miller, Louis-Ferdinand Celina, Chinua Achebe, Harold Bloom and others. In terms of literary biography, "The Genius of the Stars: 1922: The First Year of Modernism", which chronicles the first year of modernism, and M.H. Abrams' exploration of supernaturalism, Natural Supernaturalism, which reveals the little-known connections between several modernist celebrities, and the latter, presents us with issues shared by important poets of the era, such as Wordsworth, Colts, Keats, Shelley, and others. Booker Prize-winning American novelist George Sanders' "Wandering in a Pond in the Rain" is a literary perusal of classic masterpieces by Russian literary masters.
Jack Kerouac's classic biography, The Book of Jack, gives us a closer look at the lives of the Beat generation's spokespeople. Italo Calvino of French writer Jean-Paul Manganero's Italo Calvino: A Novelist, a Storyteller and an interview collection will also be released this year, including 101 interviews with Calvino between 1951 and 1985. Nobel Prize-winning literature winner Milosz's early autobiographical collection of essays, Homeland Europe, and essays from the University of California, Berkeley, in the 1960s, "Views of the San Francisco Bay," will also be translated and published. This year will also publish a two-volume biography of Milosz by Polish writer Andrei Vrenauček, which traces Milosz's personal Odyssey journey, based on extensive interviews and featuring a large number of Milosz's poems and prose works. The five-volume biography of Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky in the "Literary Monuments" series finally ushers in the fifth volume, focusing on Dostoevsky's life and creation in the last decade, and Torth's most important work, the Karamazov Brothers, will be interpreted chapter by chapter in this volume. Later writers can not recall Borges's work, jay Parrini's Borges and I: An Encounter is the story of how the elderly and blind Borges saw Scotland through Parini's eyes. The biography of The English literary critic Catherine Wren and the biography of The Life of John by the American scholar Walter Jackson Bate and two versions of The Biography of Kafka – the German Edition of Reiner Stacher and the German Edition of Peter Andrey Alter, and emily Dickinson's biography "I Live in the Infinite Possibility" are worth looking forward to.
"Oral History of Yang Yuan" shows the historical changes in the past hundred years with a personal history, Yang Wei is 103 years old this year, her brother Yang Xianyi is a famous translator, her sister Yang Minru is an expert in classical literature, and her husband Zhao Ruihong is a professor in the Department of Chinese of Nanjing University. Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House will soon launch the "Lü Simian Series", including "Lü Simian History Lesson", "Lü Simian Chinese Literature Lesson", "Lü Simian Self-Cultivation Class", etc. Lü Simian and Qian Mu, Chen Yuan, Chen Yinke and called "the four masters of the historiography of the predecessors" (Yan Gengwang). Wang Dingjun's "Primary School Composition Speech" is a guide book for primary school students, teaching children how to carefully observe the world, stretch stories and stimulate thinking in different ways. After "Ping ru MeiTang", Rao Pingru's posthumous manuscript and autobiography published "Pingsheng Ji", recording the changes in his life from childhood through a horse career, public-private partnerships, going to the countryside, and making wooden cattle and horses. Luo Xin, a professor of history at Peking University, collects essays on "Trekking the Mountains and The Sea for You" (tentative name), which brings together the insights and reflections accumulated over the years of travel and expeditions around the world, from the Amu Darya River to Samarkand, and the author finds the branches of history from many obliterated stories, subtle skills and forgotten character experiences. Ji Jin's "Journey of Texts" draws on the author's overseas study experience and revolves around the overseas dissemination of Chinese literature, discussing professors such as Yuwen Soan, Xia Zhiqing, Xia Ji'an, and Li Oufan, as well as classic academic works such as "History of Modern Chinese Novels" and "Shen Congwen Biography".
"The Far Away I Will Go To" is the second work in Guo Johnson's "Private Essays on Life" series, called "a love song dedicated to the single old man", and The fifty-year-old single Guo Johnson combed and reviewed the first half of his life in this work after experiencing the pain of bereavement. Sheng Wenqiang's "Biography of Fishing Gear" will be republished this year, including six series of boats, nets, hooks, ropes, cage pots, and rake thorns, which integrate local chronicles, family secrets, and interviews, and is a maritime secret history that can be traced back to the flood era. Author and translator Conyaré's Guide to Living in Bliss is his first collection of literary reviews, and Henyaré has translated Jeff Dyer's However, Beautiful: The Book of Jazz and James Souter's Lightyear. "Part-time Work" is a ten-year part-time work diary, the author Hu Anyan has been working in northern and southern China for nearly a decade, working as a courier, a night shift assembly line sorter and a bicycle shop clerk. After the launch of Shark Fin and Peppercorns, the translation documentary series also introduced Fu Xia's essay collection "Taste of Things", which vividly described the differences between Eastern and Western food cultures and various anecdotes about food with her usual humorous brushstrokes.
04 Literary Studies, Fairy Tales, Ghosts and Pop: From Reading to How to Read
Chen Pingyuan's "Aspects of Novel Historiography" is published by the Life, Reading and Xinzhi Triptych Bookstore, based on the lectures of Peking University in the spring and summer of 2020, and combines professional papers and academic essays, and selects a total of 12 companies such as Lu Xun, Hu Shi, Ah Ying, Pushik and Xia Zhiqing for comment, extension and play. "Du Fu: The Poet Beyond Sorrow" is the work of the Japanese scholar Xing Shanhong, who selects seventy-two poems from different periods of Du Fu and strings together Du Fu's life. "Whispering with Sound: The Emotional World and Social Life in the Diary of the Qing Dynasty" will be published by the Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House, and the manuscript will use the Qing Dynasty diary as the starting point to show readers the basic methods of reading the diary, involving major historical events such as the bombing of the five ministers in the late Qing Dynasty.
"Du Fu: The Poet Beyond Sorrow" [Day] Xing ShanHong
The first full-page "Bello Fairy Tales" in China is worth paying attention to. "Bello's Fairy Tales", also known as "The Story of Mother Goose", is the world's first collection of fairy tales, and the book is more than a century earlier than "Grimm's Fairy Tales", which has important literary and academic value. The "Princeton Classic Book Series" "The Cruel Truth of Grimm's Fairy Tales" is the foundational work of the study of Grimm's fairy tales, starting from the dark side of the classic themes of Grimm's fairy tales such as murder and incest. Ghost Fiction, Detective Fiction and Spiritualism is based on the popular Victorian ghost novels and detective novels, and the author selects the works of Scott, Dickens, and Lefanus. "The Incredible Story of Things" is a strange essay by Ryūhiko Shibusawa, in which he collects forty-nine stories and strange stories from ancient and modern China and abroad. The history of Japanese yokai artifacts by the yokai scholar Ema Wu of the former Yanagida Kunio period is based on a collection of documents collected from a large number of ancient books, outlining the true face of yokai and artifacts.
"The Meaning of Bob Dylan" is a book by Harvard University classics professor and Dylan research expert Richard Dylan. F. Thomas is based on a Dylan seminar taught by Professor Thomas for Harvard undergraduates. The book explores the themes of Dylan's songs, such as music and social justice, war and human response to war, love and death, faith and religion. In Fast Times, Slow Reading, David Mikkes, a professor of literature at the University of Houston, advocates the use of slow reading to resist the fragmentation and entertainment of fast, trying to re-establish the ancient connection between people and literature, concentration, and the joy of reading. "How to Read World Literature" summarizes the experience of teaching Harvard literature and tells people about the reading path in the vast world literature.
05 Nonfiction and Social Science: Thinking is a never-ending conversation
In 2022, our focus on women's rights continues and should continue. In the past few years, the Japanese scholar Chizuru Ueno, who also lives in East Asian society, has analyzed many gender issues and become one of the reference systems for us to reflect on Chinese society. After her "Misogyny: Female Disgust in Japan," "Patriarchy and Capitalism," and "Feminism from Scratch" attracted a lot of attention, "Akuro Lucida" plans to launch her "Thoughts for Survival" this year. This book is a summative work written by Chizuru Ueno from the 9/11 incident, focusing on issues such as state, violence, and gender. In "How Girls Should Live - Ueno Sensei Taught Me!" In (tentative name), Chizuru Ueno personally answers a series of questions about "gender equality issues" from the time she was a student to the time she entered society. Also discussing the phenomenon of "misogyny" is Miki Books' publication Of The Lower Daughter: The Logic of Misogyny, one of Miki's "Misogyny Books," which, unlike Chizuru Ueno's East Asian background, focuses on U.S. and Australian social cases, discussing how misogyny can cleverly disguise herself as "rational, neutral and objective" and lurk in collective consciousness. The Women's Book Series will also publish Cheap Life: The Cost of Global Surrogacy in India, where author Samira Rudpa analyzes how pregnancy and childbearing are commoditized, and what happens to women's bodies and minds along the way. In addition, there is one of the representative works of The British feminist pioneer Wollstonecraft, "Nordic Book Jane", which was also published for the first time in China.
This year, a number of domestic publishing houses will also launch a series of books focusing on the topic of sexual crimes. Sanhui's "Against Our Will" is a classic bibliography of rape issues, and The Fortress of Pride: Sexual Assault, Accountability and Reconciliation, the author of the former, Brown Miller, mainly follows the research methods of sociology and historical analysis, and in the later book, the American moral philosopher Martha Nassbaum responds to common social questions about sexual abuse and sexual harassment cases with an analytical philosophical approach. In addition, Shanghai Translation Publishing House will publish "Dangerous Acquaintances" that study the problem of hidden rape in the United States and "Deadly Lovers" that focuses on family homicides.
The Shanghai Translation Non-Fiction Series, which has introduced works such as "No Chance Society" and "Women's Poverty", will continue to launch new works that analyze and interpret the symptoms of Japanese society this year. For example, "Death by Overwork: Is This Job More Important Than Life?" which focuses on the rights and interests of workers. For example, "Vampire Enterprises: Monsters That Ate Japan" focuses on the acquisition of cheap labor through a large number of hiring, mass dismissals, overtime overtime, low-wage squeezing, informal employment, etc., and the social costs created by these enterprises are passed on to taxpayers to bear. There are also some works that focus on the struggles of people on the fringes of the city, "Thirty Not Standing: Young People Who Can't Ask for Help" writes about the life of Japanese young homeless people who slipped into the bottom of society when they were about thirty years old, and "Single Women" analyzed the plight of Japanese single women from four dimensions: "non-regular employees", "middle-aged women's blind dates", "hardships of life", and "old parents". Fangzhi, a sub-brand of Social Science Literature, has launched the "Sakura Shokan" series focusing on Japanese society, and this year will launch "Japanese Disease: The Impact of Long-term Decline" and "Japanese Social Rules: A History of Changes in Employment, Education, and Welfare".
"Death from Overwork" [Japanese] Makiuchi Serihei
Get to know our city and imagine a better city. American urban planning activist Jane Jacobs's Critical Little Plan, which will be published by Yilin Press, is a collection of nearly 40 of her key essays, including her first-honored Chinese-titled book, Downtown Exists for the People. In her classic book on urban studies, Life and Death in America's Great Cities, Jane Jacobs argues that the essence of the city is not architecture, but people, public spaces, streets, and interactions between people and people. Another book on urban space that Yilin will be launching may complement Jacobs' view, psychologist Helen Woolley's Urban Open Space, which shows the impact that different types of open space can have on society and the individual, and discusses the various forms of open space that can be used by individuals or communities on a daily basis. Cities need open spaces, and even more so, an open and inclusive culture. Stephen Sainstrom, a representative of the new social history of the 20th century, will be launched by Shanghai translation this year, and the author uses Boston as a case study to analyze the urbanization process in the United States in the 1880s and 1970s, and finds that immigrants from different ethnic groups and religious beliefs are the driving force behind the great development of the United States in the 20th century. Let's look a little more microscopic and look at the connection between people and people in the city: East China Normal University Publishing House "Peppermint Experiment" will publish "In Search of the Janitor: A Hidden Social World", written by Peter Birman, a scholar in the field of social network analysis. In small apartment buildings, the complex interactions between janitors and tenants are staged every day, and we have to glimpse a broader social network relationship.
In Search of the Doorman: A Hidden Social World by Peter Birman
The COVID-19 pandemic is still going on, do we already have a deeper understanding of death? Shanghai Translation Publishing House will launch the book "The Dying Dilemma", and Matthias Tenes, an author who has been practicing in the German medical industry for many years, found that hospitals face seriously ill patients, not how to alleviate the pain of patients, but often over-treat patients for profit-seeking purposes. He called for further strengthening palliative care, not allowing overtreatment to prolong the suffering of elderly patients and allowing patients to die peacefully and with dignity. The epidemic has also made people rethink technology, and East China Normal University Publishing House will publish "Digital Disconnection", which analyzes the relationship between capitalism, the Internet and the governance crisis in the United States, helping us understand the process and reasons for the Internet being shaped and domesticated by capitalism and creating a democratic crisis. Stuart Hall, an important scholar of cultural studies, will also publish "Managing crises", starting from a very common social security issue, showing the moral panic of British society in a specific historical period, and the social history of the crisis of cultural hegemony and political legitimacy of Western capitalism behind it and reconstruction.
Intellectuals' reflections may not provide detailed guidance for social practice, but the perspectives and clues contained in them have the potential to inspire. This year, Translation Lin Will Launch two revised editions of Isaiah Berlin's collected essays, Three Critics of the Enlightenment, and The Unfinished Dialogue. Berlin was one of the most prominent liberal intellectuals of the 20th century, famously distinguishing between negative and positive freedoms, and two anthologies discussed his long-pondered question: how to understand the relationship between anti-Enlightenment modern thought, pluralism, and liberalism. This year, Sanhui Books "Translation Series of Left-Wing Frontier Thought" will launch "Liberation" by Ernesto Laclau, a representative of Marxism, who explores the inherent contradictions of the concept of "liberation" in the mainstream vision, the relationship between universalism and particularism, the formation of political identity, and puts forward that we need a new hope for liberation. This year, the series will also launch a new edition of Forrest Gump's Divine Man: The Supreme Power and Naked Life. Ip's Revolution for Rights responds to a controversial question about rights: Do group rights jeopardize individual rights? What about responsibility when everyone asserts their rights? Can families survive and prosper when every member has rights? Does the language of rights weaken communities while empowering individuals? Considered one of webber's most important sociologists, Michael Mann's book Power in the 21st Century: A Conversation with John Hall focuses on the United States today and attempts to analyze what the so-called threats to The rise of China are, as well as the major crises posed by the irrepressible power of finance capital and environmental destruction.
Beyond political philosophy and ethics, the anthropological imagination always brings us different kinds of concern and empathy. The Peppermint experiment will publish anthropologist Deger Fassan's Handbook of The Use of Life: Fassan on the Anthropology of Life, which addresses the question of the value of human life, provides an overview and reflection on bioethics, and engages in critical dialogue with Wittgenstein, Benjamin, and Foucault.
06 History: Taking history as a mirror and thinking about the human condition
In terms of macro history, following the British intellectual historian Peter Watson's "The Age of Nothingness" and "History of Ideas in the 20th Century", Yilin Publishing House will launch Watson's "The Great Separation: The History of the Separation of the Old and New Worlds" this year to explore the history of the New and Old Worlds from geological separation to the Great Discovery of Columbus. Watson identified three major differences between the two worlds —climate, domesticable mammals, and hallucinogenic plants—combined to produce two very different civilization trajectories. Sanhui Books will continue to launch the historian Sun Longji's "New World History", inherit the content of the first two volumes previously published, and sort out the development of several major civilizations in the late Middle Ages with a global historical view and polycentrism.
There are also many good works in the field of Chinese history this year. The Formation of Modern China, a professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin, explores how China, as a multi-ethnic state composed of Han Chinese-dominated inland provinces and frontier provinces dominated by ethnic minorities, was formed and sustained before the 19th century. Yang Nianqun, a professor of history at Chinese Min University, is also concerned about the issue of state construction, and in "How the "Mandate of Heaven" Shifts: The Formation and Practice of the Qing Dynasty's Concept of "Great Unification"," which will be published this year, he pointed out that the Qing Dynasty created a new type of "orthodoxy". The "orthodoxy" before the Qing Dynasty basically relied on a single Confucian concept of moral indoctrination, while the Qing Dynasty established another complementary interpretation framework for the orthodoxy of the previous dynasty, which was coordinated with its "dualistic governance" governance model, and "great unification" was the first meaning of orthodoxy and the ideological and practical basis for the king to obtain "orthodoxy". Shifting attention from the court to the locality, "Little Mandate of Heaven: Ancestral Halls and The Politics of the Ming Dynasty" challenges the traditional view that the Feudal Despotism of the Ming Dynasty was strengthened and the commoners could only "absolutely submit" through the investigation of the Ancestral Temple, and excavated another set of political models in the soil of authoritarian centralization: local officials were appointed by the emperor, and the plebeians decided their values, and the commoners used it to achieve political participation.
"Little Mandate of Heaven: Ancestral Temples and the Politics of the Ming Dynasty" by Shi Shanshan
Despite the slowdown in global mobility caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, humanity has never given up its obsession with migration and migration, nor has it stopped culturally blending. In his forthcoming 3,000 Years of Human Migration History, immigration scholar Robin Cohen summarizes the global migration trajectory of human beings from the first migration out of the Great Rift Valley to the current mass flight of Syrians, accompanied by an intuitive migration map. Oracle will also publish Journey Upstream: The Great Migration and the Empire of Southern China (1570-1850), which examines the migration of Guangdong immigrants along the West River and its tributaries in the late sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, the relationship between the diaspora and the empire at the upstream border, and the role of immigrants in maintaining family and blood in their homeland.
The history of the Third Reich remains a hot topic for publication this year. The Republic "M" series, which published the Third Reich trilogy by British historian Richard Evans in 2020, will be released this year, "Broken Lives: The 20th Century Experienced by Ordinary Germans," which focuses on the daily lives of ordinary Germans in the 20th century, spanning historical stages from World War I to the Great Depression, from Nazis to World War II, from the Cold War to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Oracle will publish another of Evans's works, Hitler in Conspiracy Theories, which explores five conspiracy theories involving Hitler and the Nazi Party, dissecting the paranoid imagination associated with the Third Reich. Since the 1980s, there has been a historical boom in the Western academic circles of "memoryboom", the study of memory history in Germany and France began to expand significantly during this period, the "memory tide" gradually entered China after 2000, and this year we can also read several excellent works starting from cultural memory theory: Nanjing University Press republished "History in Memory" to explore the German memory of Nazi history, how German history is talked about, interpreted and described; The "Prisoner of History: Historical Narrative and Construction in World War II Memorabilia" will be launched by the author, who uses World War II memorabilia from around the world to show how people remember this history in different ways. Outside the Third Reich, the Guangdong People's Publishing House sub-brand "Gravity" project published "Sudden Courage: The French Youth Resistance Movement in World War II, 1940-1945", which described the various forms of anti-Nazi struggle of patriotic youth in the French resistance movement and the key role they played in the resistance to the Nazi movement during World War II.
Sudden Courage: The French Youth Resistance movement in World War II, 1940-1945, by Ronald M. C. Rose barton
In an era of increasingly prominent identity politics, works that reflect on the history of racism and colonization also deserve our attention. Oracle will publish The Fifth Solar Age: A New History of the Aztecs, and Rutgers History Professor Camilla Townsend has discarded the long-standing perspective of European colonizers to make a complex account of the history of the Aztecs in Mexico based entirely on the perspective of indigenous peoples—they did not simply succumb to Spanish culture and colonization, but instead readjusted their political stance, adapted to new obligations, and persevered. The Battle for Reconstruction: A History of Violence in America's Most Progressive Era examines the history of the reconstruction period over the end of the American Civil War and finds that American society has never been able to integrate blacks equally into the legal, political, economic, and social systems. Nanjing University Press will publish Africa, Asia, and the History of Philosophy: Racism in the Formation of Philosophical Standards, 1780-1830, exploring how the study of the history of philosophy shifted from Greece to Kant, and how this lineage gradually replaced civilizations that began in Egypt or West Asia, leaving the latter no longer in the category of philosophy and in the field of religious studies.
Africa, Asia, and the History of Philosophy: Racism in the Formation of Philosophical Standards, 1780-1830, by Peter M. K.J. Parker 07 New Knowledge and Art: Broaden Your Horizons and Feel Better
Reading is not always heavy and serious, and interesting new knowledge gives everyday life a wider depth of field and a richer view. The relationship between humans and nature has always been one of the motifs of our persistent exploration, and East China Normal University Press will launch the book "Canines: A History of Dogs and Humans", which analyzes the history of the relationship between dogs and humans by introducing the process of domestication of 12 kinds of dogs. Animal ethics and neurologist Aisha Akhta combines medicine, social history and individual experience to show how humans and animals are closely intertwined. Pu Rui Culture will soon publish "Red Mountain Zoo is My Home" and "Is the Bear Here" to bid farewell to the boring science teaching, and the staff of Red Mountain Zoo will start from their own experience to tell readers about the habits and breeding knowledge of animals.
Plants accompany us in their long history and day-to-day lives, but they are most easily ignored by us. Guangxi Normal University Publishing House's "Plants Passing On the Silk Road" selects various plants that were introduced to China through the Silk Road and to the West through China, telling the history, function and significance of their spread in their respective cultural genealogies. "Square Inch" will launch "What Plants Teach Us", the author believes that plants are not static or predictable as we have always thought, on the contrary, plants are full of vitality and creativity, and deepening the understanding of plants can help improve human society. The Oxford General Studies series will publish Climate by Mark Maslin, professor of geography at University College London, which describes the roots of the modern climate system, how climate affects human life and other life activities, climate change, and human action to that end.
New Knowledge Books also opens a window for us to know ourselves. Cancer Legend: King of Diseases will be released this year for its 10th anniversary. Following the "Naked Ape Trilogy", the Translation Agency will publish Desmond Morris's Naked Man, a natural history of human beings and a socio-anthropological investigation of male body culture, and Human Behavior Observation, the latter a study of human body language. The Department of Translation Psychology will launch works such as "I Can't Live in My Body For 13 People" and "Survive for 9 Years", focusing on psychological problems such as multiple personality disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and bipolar disorder.
In terms of art, Houlang Art's "Art and Ideas" series will launch four new books this year, focusing mainly on art north of the Alps. Century Wenjing's Forty Years of Contemporary Chinese Photography (1980-2020) focuses on the development of photographic genres such as Chinese documentary and portraiture.
If you're interested in music, you might expect Guangxi Normal University's "Music with Scores" book series, which includes biographies of musicians such as Symphony No. 9: Beethoven and the World of 1824 and Mozart: The Golden Age, as well as a series of instrumental tutorials and collections. "Soin" will also release two histories of rock and roll, a history of rock and roll: 1920–1963 and a history of rock and roll: 1964–1977, covering rock music from Chuck Berry to Jimmy Hendricks and the Rolling Stones.
"Art and Ideas" series after the wave
Tired of reading text? Check out the comics! Osamu Tezuka said, "The joy of manga lies in the joy that comes when you see that groundbreaking exaggeration, fiction, perverse, and absurdity." This year, Post-Romance will launch French experimental cartoonist Marc Antoine Matthew's "Rise" and manga artist Matsumoto Dayang's competitive manga masterpiece "Ping Pong". Guangxi Normal University will also publish a collection of comics by Republic of China cartoonists Feng Zikai and Wang Zimei. Nova Press will present Yokoyama's Glorious Romance of the Three Kingdoms Part II and Araki Hiruihiko's The Wonderful Adventures of Jojo Part IV: The Immortal Diamond. In the new year, may reading be happy and may good books be with us.
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