On the afternoon of February 21, the "Good Books of the Century" List in January 2022 was released at the Century Publishing Park, and 17 century editions of books were selected. This is the first time that Shanghai Century Publishing Group has selected the annual "Century Good Books" at the end of last year, and in the future, the selection and release of the "Century Good Books" list will enter a systematic and normalized track.
In 2022, Shanghai Century Publishing Group will continue to adhere to the publishing concept of "building the best with the most professionalism" and further enhance its publishing strength and core competitiveness. The selection scope of the "Century Good Books" January List is the new books published by century publishing houses in December 2021 and January 2022, a total of 44 kinds of books participated in the evaluation, through the group's internal review, resulting in professional academics, public humanities and humanities two categories of 28 shortlisted varieties; after expert review, 17 kinds of books were selected into the 2022 "Century Good Books" January list.
Among them, the abbreviated edition of "Cihai" (Seventh Edition) won the "Special Award", the book has a total of nearly 130,000 entries, a total word count of about 23 million words, as the only popular word with words, a collection of dictionaries, language dictionaries and encyclopedia dictionaries in one of the large-scale comprehensive dictionary, the whole book glossary strives to be precise, the interpretation strives to be precise, and has a distinct era.
Professional academic aspects: "New Interpretation" (Shanghai Science and Technology Press) is a modern plant taxonomic interpretation of ancient Materia Medica masterpieces. The book is based on the 1880 Li Literature Bureau's "Botanical Names and Facts Tu Kao", which examines a total of 940 genera and 1750 species of plants, including more than 900 kinds of newly recorded ethnic folk medicines, laying a plant taxonomy foundation for the scientific inheritance of ancient Materia Medica and the development of mainland ethnic folk medicines. "Goodbye To the Beast: Animal Culture and Sino-Foreign Exchanges in the Ming and Qing Dynasties" (Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House) sorts out the grand and magnificent historical picture of the history of animal cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries for readers in the context of global history. "Chinese Yiming Studies" (Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House) for the first time comprehensively summarized the history of Yin Zhou Jinwen research for more than 2,000 years, pushing Yi Mingxue from the ancient study of the book to the latest academic system, and is the first work to fill the gap in gold literature research at home and abroad. "Famous Works of Chinese Seal Carving" (24 volumes) (Shanghai Calligraphy and Painting Publishing House) shows the brilliant artistic panorama of the history of Chinese seal carving, each print is marked with interpretations, and the characters and poetry allusions involved in the interpretation are annotated, and the collection of commentaries by famous artists of the past is attached to each volume. The World as Intentions and Representations (Volume 2) (Shanghai People's Publishing House) is Schopenhauer's major philosophical work, first published Chinese edition. "One River, One River: Shanghai Urban Waterfront Space and Architecture" (Shanghai Culture Publishing House) uses Chinese and English bilingual language to record the great changes in Shanghai's urban space in the later Bo era, and practices the important concept of "People's City".
In terms of mass humanities: Liu Tong, an expert in party history and military history, wrote a set of three touching books for young people describing the "wayfinding" of the Chinese Communist Party for the Chinese nation by means of the intersection of big history and small details. What will happen to humanity tomorrow? — Toynbee's Memoirs (Shanghai People's Publishing House) is a memoir written by historian Arnold Toynbee in his eighties. Liu Zijian, a leading figure in overseas Song history, famously wrote "Reform in Song Dynasty China - Wang Anshi and His New Deal" (Century Wenjing), which completely described the evolution of the overall political situation of scholars in the late Northern Song Dynasty and exposed the root cause of the failure of Wang Anshi's bureaucratic idealism. Liu Bo's new work "Knowing a Few Words of the Three Character Classic" (Century Wenjing) explains in detail the allusions of the "Three Character Classic", and repeated the pros and cons of the Mongolian reading book. "Tidal Chart" (Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House) tells a magical story rooted in the terroir of Lingnan, and is a fascinating feast through the modern world. "Interview with Kazuo Ishiguro" (Shanghai Translation Publishing House) records the evolution of Kazuo Ishiguro's self-perception and his artistic and ideological concerns, and the editors collect 18 selected interviews with very different styles to guide readers to understand the literary world of Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro. The Mars Club (Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House) opens up a neglected corner of the United States under a glamorous and glossy shell: neglected people and covered scars in the context of "prison industrialization." Gu Fan, author of the 2017 "Good Book of China", and his latest masterpiece "Discovering the Brain - Who Started Our Mental Journey" (Shanghai Science and Technology Education Publishing House) skillfully integrate 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 governance of brain scientists. "Sambe: A Pictorial Musician" (Shanghai Translation Publishing House) includes a large number of unpublished musical theme works by cartoonist Sambe, accompanied by a 30,000-word interview, which can be said to be a music lesson by the French national treasure illustrator Sambet. Teaching Notes for Piano Masters (Shanghai Music Publishing House) is a work by pianist and educator Paulis Bellman on piano playing methods, which is a "listenable and readable" teaching note and a learning treasure book for piano players.
"Only when a good book is delivered to the reader, the content effect will be generated." Peng Weiguo, vice president of Century Publishing Group, said that Century Publishing Group has relative advantages in the fields of theme publishing, professional publishing, and academic publishing, and there are still shortcomings in the marketing and promotion of professional books and the planning and publication of popular books; the selection and release of "Century Good Books" is intended to promote the precision marketing of high-quality works and the innovation of mass publishing. "Let high-quality books effectively reach the readership and enhance the competitiveness of the good books of the century." Huang Dehai, a critic who was one of the judges of the first monthly list, said.
In October last year, Shanghai Century Publishing Group completed the relocation project of Century Publishing Park, realizing the strategic convergence of its publishing institutions. Huang Qiang, secretary of the party committee and chairman of the board of directors of century publishing group, believes that to maintain strategic determination and promote value transformation, it is necessary to use a high-quality publishing "century hongqiao" to connect authors and readers, groups and industries, from century hongqiao to the whole country and to the world; it is necessary to transform planning advantages, quality advantages, professional advantages, and content advantages into product advantages, competitive advantages, comprehensive advantages, and market advantages.