On the afternoon of February 21, the "Century Good Books" January 2022 List Press Conference was held in century publishing park. This is the first time that Shanghai Century Publishing Group has conducted a monthly list selection activity after selecting the annual "Century Good Book" at the end of 2021. After a series of reviews, including a miniature version of Cihai (Seventh Edition), The World as Intention and Appearance (Volume 2), The Reform of Song Dynasty China: Wang Anshi and His New Deal, and What Will Happen to Mankind's Tomorrow? ——Toynbee's Remembrances", "Tidal Chart", "Mars Club", "Interview with Kazuo Ishiguro", "Discover the Brain - Who Started Our Mental Journey" and other 17 books were selected for the January 2022 "Good Books of the Century" list.
The scene of the press conference
The surging news reporter learned that the selection scope of the January list is the new books published by century publishing group publishing houses in December 2021 and January 2022, a total of 44 kinds of books participated in the evaluation, through the internal review, first produced 28 shortlisted varieties in the two categories of professional academics and public humanities, and then after expert review, the final list was formed.
After the advice of the expert judges, the miniature version of Cihai (Seventh Edition) won the "Special Award", with a total of nearly 130,000 entries and a total word count of about 23 million words. The entire book's lexicon strives to be precise, the interpretation strives to be precise, adheres to the ideological, intellectual, scientific, stable and concise nature, strictly controls the political, scientific and literary barriers, inherits the characteristics of the previous edition of "Cihai" with comprehensive words and accurate interpretation, and has a distinct characteristics of the times. It is the only popular large-scale comprehensive dictionary on the mainland that integrates dictionaries, language dictionaries and encyclopedia dictionaries with words and words.
In terms of professional scholarship, the listed book "The World as Intention and Appearance (Volume 2)" is Schopenhauer's main philosophical work, and the Chinese edition is published for the first time; "Chinese Yiming Studies" is the first comprehensive summary of the history of Yin Zhou Jinwen research for more than 2,000 years, which is the first work to fill the gap in Jinwen research at home and abroad; "One River and One River: Shanghai Urban Waterfront Space and Architecture" records the great changes in Shanghai's urban space in the later Bo era in Chinese and English, practicing the urban spirit of "people's city for the people"; "New Interpretation" Based on the 1880 Li Literature Bureau's "Examination of Botanical Names and Facts", a total of 940 genera and 1750 species of plants were examined, including more than 900 kinds of newly recorded ethnic folk medicines, which laid an important plant taxonomy foundation for the scientific inheritance of ancient Materia Medica and the development of mainland ethnic folk medicines; "Goodbye To Strange Beasts: Ming and Qing Animal Culture and Sino-Foreign Exchanges" in the context of global history, in the coordinates of China, East Asia and the world, sorted out the grand and magnificent historical picture of the history of animal cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries for readers; The Chinese Seal Engraving Masterpieces (24 volumes) are collected and extracted from the original seal notation, each seal is marked with explanatory texts, and the characters and poetic allusions involved in the explanatory texts are annotated, some of which are equipped with high-definition pictures of rough stones, and the collection of famous artists of the past is attached to each volume, thus showing the brilliant artistic panorama of the history of Chinese seal engraving.
In terms of popular humanities, young writer Lin Zhao's novel "Tidal Map" tells a magical story rooted in the terroir of Lingnan, from the Pearl River Water People's Home to the Thirteen Lines of Guangzhou, making a brief stop at the Macao Rare Garden, and exploring the rivers and oceans of the animism. Where East and West meet, where large and small utopias collide, it is a fascinating feast through the modern world; "What will happen to the tomorrow of mankind?" —Toynbee's Memoirs" is a memoir written by the famous historian Arnold Toynbee when he was in his eighties. As a witness, participant, bystander, and commentator of many major events in the 20th century, Toynbee showed compassion for the heavens and people, tried to analyze the nature of various changes and gave his own solutions; Liu Zijian, a leading figure in overseas Song history, famously wrote "The Reform of Song Dynasty China -- Wang Anshi and His New Deal" to completely describe the evolution of the overall political situation of scholars in the late Northern Song Dynasty and expose the root cause of Wang Anshi's bureaucratic idealism; Liu Bo's new work "Knowing a Few Words of the Three Character Classic" explains the "Three Character Classic" in detail. Allusions, counting the pros and cons of Mongolian reading books, revealing the correct way to open the traditional cultural enlightenment; "Bright Red Party Flag - The Story of Party Founding Written to Teenagers" by Liu Tong, a well-known expert in party history and military history, tells the vivid details of the magnificent revolutionary process, so that readers know the historical inevitability of the great victory of the Chinese nation; "Interview with Kazuo Ishiguro" records the evolution of Kazuo Ishiguro's self-knowledge and his artistic and ideological concerns; "Mars Club" opens up a corner of the United States that is ignored under the shell of brilliance and brilliance: in " The Neglected and the Covered Scars in the Context of the Industrialization of Prisons"; Sambe: A Painterly Musician is a collection of cartoonist Sambe's large number of unpublished works on musical themes, accompanied by a 30,000-word interview; "Teaching Notes of the Piano Master" is a work by the famous pianist and educator Boris Bellman on piano playing methods, a "listenable and readable" teaching note and a must-learn book for piano players; "Discovering the Brain – Who Started Our Mental Journey" It is Gu Fan, the author of the 2017 "Good Book of China", and his latest masterpiece, which skillfully integrates the difficult process of human understanding of the mind with the struggle stories of great scientists in history in a unique way, which not only vividly popularizes scientific knowledge, but also truly presents the path of exploration and the way of learning of brain scientists.
Century Publishing Group said that at the end of 2021, after online voting, expert review and other links, the group selected 50 kinds of annual "Century Good Books" in four categories for the first time, held a release ceremony on January 24, 2022, and held a "Spring Festival Group Exhibition" in combination with the self-evaluation of good books by various publishing units, which gained a wide range of social influences. The monthly list selection activity indicates that the selection and release of the "Century Good Books" list will enter a systematic and normalized track in the future.
Critic Huang Dehai, one of the judges of the first issue of the monthly list, said that after experiencing the production process of the books on the monthly list, he had the opportunity to have a more comprehensive understanding of the professionalism and market-oriented standards of Century Publishing, and witnessed the voyage that belonged to Century Publishing from one side. In his view, the selection of the "Good Books of the Century" list is pioneering in all aspects. Internally, each publishing house can determine the marketing direction of the book in advance, optimize the allocation of resources, and increase the cohesion within century publishing. Externally, century's high-quality good books can effectively reach the readership, produce good social effects, and increase the influence of century publishing.