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1 Park: Tong Kyung-byung's Oral Autobiography
Tong Qingbing
Folio Guangxi Normal University Press, 2022-01
Tong Qingbing has many identities: he is a scholar of Chinese literary and art theory, a mentor to a famous chinese contemporary digital novelist, and a teacher for most students of Chinese departments—the literary and art theory textbooks written by Tong Qingbing have been used by Chinese departments in more than 500 colleges and universities. At the time of his death, netizens who had studied "Literary Theory Textbook" uploaded photos of the textbook and lit candles to commemorate it. Tong Qingbing, who has been engaged in literary criticism all his life, has also always insisted on novel writing, and after suffering from stomach cancer, he talked about his old age plan, planning to write a cross-novel about pictures and mirrors.
"Park" is Tong Qingbing's oral autobiography and a history of the intellectual's mind. He recalled the poor life in the fujian countryside when he was a teenager, and his ideal from childhood was to let the family of seven have rice under the pot every day; in the twists and turns he experienced in the twentieth century, he luckily bypassed the political whirlpool to win the opportunity to study in secret; he also mentioned the stories of interaction with writers and scholars, such as restoring the postgraduate training system of literature and art with his teacher Huang Yaomian, the interesting things about his drunken friend Wang Zengqi, and the memories of students Mo Yan and Yu Hua. Through "Park", we can see tong Qingbing's life of doubt, happiness and sorrow, and can also connect important scenes and historical events in contemporary literary history through his perspective.
"Inseparable"
[French] Simone de Beauvoir by Cao Dongxue translated
Zhejiang Education Press 2022-02
In the understanding of many people, Beauvoir was a woman who was influenced by Sartre all her life, but from beauvoir's novel "Inseparable", the person who influenced her most in her youth was not Sartre, but her female friend Zaza. This relationship was crucial to Beauvoir's life, and it is also mentioned in the biography of Beauvoir that two losses affected her deeply, one was the loss of faith in God, and the other was the death of her best friend Zaza.
Five years after the publication of The Second Sex, De Beauvoir began writing the novel Inseparable, which is based on the relationship between her teenage years and Zaza, and writes about the growth experience of two girls who understand and support each other. Like the friendship between Lennon and Lila in the "Neapolitan Quadrilogy", Sylvie, who incarnates Beauvoir, in the novel, is a well-behaved "good student", while Zaza's avatar André is bold and rebellious, intelligent and crazy, as if with the imprint of fire, allowing Sylvie to see another possibility of life.
Interestingly, Sartre, after reading The Invisible, argued that the work "has no need for publication and the reader will not be interested." In his memoirs, Beauvoir agreed with Sartre's assessment, and the work was shelved, and Beauvoir did not even name it until after 2020, when the novel was first published in China.
Deleuze Thesis
[American] by Ronald Borg, translated by Stone Painting
Aspire Nanjing University Publishing 2022-02
Foucault once said, "The twentieth century will be the century of Gil deleuze." As an important philosopher of postmodernism, Deleuze's concept of desire is the reason many people know him. For Lacan and Freud, desire is a state of mind arising from lack, a state of deprivation and negation. Deleuze sees desire as productive, creative, and should be fully exploited. Less well known is that Deleuze, known as a philosopher, has always maintained a strong interest in literature, with passages quoting novels, poems, and plays everywhere in his writings, and writers such as Borges, Mallarmé, and Kafka are frequent visitors to his philosophical thoughts. Despite this, Deleuze never proposed a systematic theory of literature.
Deleuze's Thesis fills in the gaps in Dreuze's literary thought, and the American Deleuze scholar Ronald Borg examines Deleuze's works on literature, language, and writing, trying to show the threads that run through these texts. The book introduces the concept of the "cultural doctor" proposed by Deleuze's early work Nietzsche and Philosophy, and how Deleuze evaluates the symbols in Proust's works, Kafka's literary machine, and the idea of "secondary literature". For Deleuze, the function of literature far outweighs its meaning, language is a mode of action, and it is in the broad field of practice and power relations that writers both follow and produce escape lines.
"Room N Tracking"
[Han] Tracking the Spark of the Regiment by Ye Leilei translated
Boji Tianjuan, Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House, 2022-01
In 2020, South Korea's "Room N incident" caused a world uproar, and the perpetrators posted information, photos, videos, etc. that threatened women in telegram chat rooms, including female pornography, sexual abuse and even child pornography videos. After the incident, 5 million people in South Korea petitioned for a thorough investigation, and the concept of "digital sex crimes" entered the public eye and attracted attention to such crimes worldwide. There are hundreds of types of digital sexual exploitation crimes, including digital sexual exploitation, acquaintance abuse, illegal filming, online harassment, online deception, etc., and these appalling crimes often occur simultaneously.
The room N chat room was discovered by two female journalism students who inadvertently entered the group in order to collect "illegally filmed" news material, thus implicating this huge criminal industry. The duo wrote about their experiences as "Room N Tracker", which recorded their discovery of anger and helplessness in the chat room, assisting the police in handling cases, helping victims, and revealing the truth to the media over and over again. They see that in South Korea, a woman who really complains about the crime of digital sexual exploitation must sacrifice her daily life, "In countries that use sexual exploitation of women as a means of entertainment and money, from the moment of birth as a woman, if you do not want to encounter illegal filming and digital sexual exploitation, or to pursue the perpetrators, it takes great efforts." ”
The Choice to Be a Mother
[in] Ona Donat by Lin Yourou translated
Lucida Beijing United Publishing Company 2022-02
At the end of October 2020, People launched a call for "Do You Regret Being a Mother," and 427 women answered regret in 1,019 responses. Inspired by a similar survey more than a decade ago, israeli sociologist Orna Donat asked many mothers this question in 2008, and in The Choice to Be a Mother, she chronicled the details of the "Regret Being a Mother" survey that conducted long-term follow-up interviews with 23 Israeli women, tracing how they made fertility choices step by step.
Contrary to the admonition that "a woman who does not have children is incomplete", in the author's interview with mothers, most mothers feel that their self-integrity is violated after childbirth, and the parenting process is filled with painful struggles, consuming labor, and repressed moods, and the regret of becoming a mother is not non-existent, but difficult to describe. In reality, mothers are portrayed as virgins of devotion and love, and those who say, "I love my children, but regret being a mother," and "I hate my children," are nailed to a pillar of shame, as Ona Donat says in the book, "Regretting having a child is not a sin, the real sin is not to confess to oneself or to the children." It is a crime to die leaving a dark secret that cannot be said, written down, or revealed. ”
Women, the Family, and the Practice of Law: A Social History of Law since the Qing Dynasty
Written by Zhao Liuyang
University Q. Guangxi Normal University Press 2022-02
Legal scholars represented by Luo Xiang recently called for an increase in the punishment for bribing abducted and trafficked women, so as to realize the same crime as the crime of formal buying and selling. This proposal has aroused a great deal of attention and reminds us of the importance of thinking about this issue at the legal level. The book "Women, Family and Legal Practice" focuses on the issue of law and women's rights, And Zhao Liuyang, a lecturer at Fudan University, starts from the two specific topics of women's suicide and divorce since the Qing Dynasty, digs deep into the litigation archives of different historical periods such as the Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China, and after 1949 and after the reform and opening up, and perspectives on the legal status of women in family life in events such as "divorce", "divorced women", "divorce litigation" and "division of real estate". Attempts have been made to answer questions about what laws and practices related to women's rights in China have been like since the Qing Dynasty, how they should be counted as protecting or harming women's rights, and how the complex tension between laws and practices manifests themselves.
In the book, Zhao Liuyang engages in dialogue with several important academic contexts. He criticized Marx Weber's prejudice against Chinese law, viewing Chinese law as a relative type of Western "formal rational" law, but did not evaluate the Chinese legal system only from the perspective of tradition or benevolent governance. The author also adopts the emphasis of his mentor Huang Zongzhi on historical and social jurisprudence, and writes about the contradictions and tensions between the provisions of the law and social customs, moral concepts, and the chain of interests. From the historical litigation cases, we can see that women's plight cannot be solved by legal provisions, and even though the rights of women protected by the law are constantly expanding, legal practice has always been hindered.
The Iron Robe: Destruction and Rebirth in Art History
By Zheng Yan
Life, Reading, New Knowledge Triptych Bookstore 2022-02
The iron robe is part of a Tang Dynasty statue of Vajrapani at the Lingyan Temple in Changqing, Shandong, which was broken during the late Tang Dynasty's campaign to destroy Buddhism, leaving only an iron robe of Kongo. Similar to the iron robes, there are also the broken arms of Venus in the Louvre Museum in Paris, the rubble that fell from the landslide in Dengfeng, Henan, and the opening pieces of "hundreds of broken" pieces on the kiln porcelain, which are all broken things in art history, and researchers who are deeply influenced by the concept of "fine art" in modern times mostly ignore them and miss the rich meaning of the fragments.
In "Iron Robes: Destruction and Rebirth in Art History", Zheng Yan, a professor at Peking University's School of Art, refocused on the form of fragments, arguing that art history research began with "fragments". The fragmentation allows us to see the internal space of the utensils, the carcass exposed after the break, the sharp walls and stubble; the fragments can also be complete symbols and symbols, such as the broken boulders that landslides and fallen into the future become people's monuments; the gaps between the fragments are more meaningful, the cracks on the oracle bones of the Yin Shang, the curium nails that are patched after the broken porcelain, and the opening pieces of the "hundred broken" porcelain on the Kiln porcelain, which together constitute our cultural history; the fragmentation of the artwork is not only about the material, but also an event, covering the regret at the time of the break. Pleasure and pain. Zheng Yan proposed with the imagination of art history that fragmentation does not mean that an object is a fragment that lacks research value, and the fragment disintegrates the integrity and visual boundaries of the artwork and stimulates a new space for interpretation.
"Red Mountain Zoo is My Home"
Shen Zhijun Zhu Yingchun Editor-in-Chief
Pu Rui Culture, Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House, 2022-01
What is the significance of the existence of zoos? What does the ideal zoo look like? Shen Zhijun, director of the Nanjing Hongshan Forest Zoo, who calls himself the "King of the Hundred Beasts," has sparked a wave of attention to the zoo in his speech. Shen Zhijun refused animal performances after becoming the director of the park, and developed the old cage-type zoo into an ecological display, and also simulated the original ecological wild habitat environment where wild animals are livable. In his speech, he mentioned that the function of modern zoos is not simply to meet the needs of human viewing, but to preserve the genes of wild animals "Noah's Ark", in addition to deep conservation education (conservation education), so that tourists realize what different people can do in the relationship between humans, animals and nature.
"Red Mountain Zoo is My Home" is Shen Zhijun from the perspective of keepers to tell readers the interesting story of the same animals, in the modern zoo, keepers and animals should not be control and subordinate, spoiled and dependent, but equal cooperative relations. For example, in order to monitor the health of animals, keepers need to measure various indicators such as blood collection and B ultrasound in non-anesthesia, which requires a good and harmonious relationship of trust between humans and animals. Keepers should also respect the nature of animals and protect the wild. Another book in Pu Rui's Red Mountain Zoo series is Shen Zhijun's "Are the Bears There", which shows readers the interesting daily life of bears and also reveals more details of the zoo's bear breeding, as the author said, "The zoo is a place where life and life are in dialogue, and when animals come to you very freely and cleanly, they are themselves, not what people imagine." ”