What are the "Good Books of the Century"? Yesterday, the 2021 "Century Good Books" were released at the Century Publishing Park, and 50 kinds of books selected for the 2021 "Century Good Books" were given to visitors to take a look. Reading is a personalized experience that enriches life; a good book is a two-way rush between the publishing house and the reader. According to reports, the 2021 Century Good Book Selection Activity Comprehensive Publishing House self-evaluation, experts and media recommendations, from the publications of century publishing group selected 96 candidate books, covering the theme publishing, humanities and social sciences, literature and art, popular science children's four major areas, after online voting and readability, book circulation and other multi-dimensional assessment, finally including "Tinder: Looking for China's Road to Rejuvenation", "Forty Degrees North Latitude", "Inside: The Chinese Government and Economic Development", "Clara and the Sun", "What is the Vaccine" , "Little Traveler" original human geography picture book (first series), etc.
Photo: The 2021 "Good Book of the Century" was released
In 2021, Century Publishing Group won the "Five Firsts" in a series of national important awards, important planning and important grants: won 19 awards of various awards at the Fifth China Publishing Government Awards, including 12 positive awards and 7 nomination awards, all of which set a new high in the past, among which "Cihai" (Seventh Edition) won the highest award honor award, "Tinder: Looking for the Road to China's Rejuvenation", "Full-color Illustrated Chinese Customs and General History Series", "Chinese Paleontological Research Series", "Examination of Workers" Famous Objects Collection Certificate" won the book award, ranking first in the national publishing group "Tinder: Looking for the Road to China's Rejuvenation", "A Century of Party History in the Literature", "Revolutionaries", "Civil Code and Daily Life", "Deep Sea And Shallow Sayings" 5 kinds of fine books were selected as "China's Good Books" in 2020, the number of selected books hit a new high in the past year, and ranked first with the China Publishing Group; in the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the first batch of 118 items were selected for the national key book, audio-visual, and electronic publications publishing special plan, and the total number of selected books continued to remain the first in the national publishing group, and the project categories achieved full coverage. It is the only publishing group in China that has projects selected in 11 categories; 15 projects have been funded by the National Publishing Fund in 2021, and 16 projects have been funded by the 2021 National Ancient Books Collation and Publication Special Fund, ranking first in the national publishing group.
In 2021, coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, Tinder: Finding the Road to China's Rejuvenation won the Book Award of the Fifth China Publishing Government Awards and was selected as the "2020 Good Book of China". Xiong Yuezhi, historian and vice president of the Chinese Historical Society, "The First Lesson of Party History for Young People": "The Cradle of Light" was selected for the 2021 "China Good Books" monthly list. "Half-Hour Comic Party History (1921-1949)", a serious and lively party history book, paints a colorful "drawing" focus for the majority of young readers to study party history. "Red Road: A Centennial Journey of the Communist Party of China" leads readers to re-walk the red holy places walked by 41 general secretaries (groups) and vividly interprets the spiritual genealogy of the Communist Party of China. "Hymns of a Hundred Years: An Excellent Song Collection celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China" is a collection of songs from history, singing history, and all media supporting new era audio music classics.
Literature and art, popular science children's works are also wonderful, Chen Fumin's "Forty Degrees North Latitude" takes the history of China as the longitude and the geographical belt of the north latitude of forty degrees as the latitude, decrypts the historical clouds that have been circling for thousands of years, and draws a majestic map of the ancient rivers and mountains. "Clara and the Sun" is the latest novel of Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro, published simultaneously around the world, intuitive human nature, reflection on love and growth. "What is a Vaccine" is an authoritative, practical and readable original vaccine general science book.
Various stores organized a series of cultural reading activities, such as "Creation or Compilation: How Sima Qian Wrote the "History" of Shanghai Ancient Books Bookstore" and "Benji, Table and Book: Three Ways to Reproduce Historical Scenes" two "Weekend Reading Classics" theme lectures; "Chinese Prehistoric Pottery Art Wave" theme lectures of Art Bookstore; "Cultural China Series Book Exhibition" of Foreign Language Bookstore; Century Duoyun's New Year with "Tiger", The World of meta-universe, 2022 Tiger Tiger Shengwei Book Ticket New Year Exhibition, Chen Bochui International Children's Literature Award Original Illustration Exhibition; Shanghai-Hong Kong Sanlian Bookstore's "About HuiHu Year Hong Kong and Taiwan Scholars" Hong Kong and Taiwan Edition Of Fine Books Joint Exhibition, Famous Store Manager He New Year Group Visit, New Year Greeting New Year - New Year Characteristic Cultural and Creative Products Exhibition and Sales, etc. Let the century of literature and ink and books enable readers to spend a peaceful and auspicious year of the tiger in an atmosphere full of cultural atmosphere. (Xinmin Evening News reporter Xu Yisheng)