▲ 17 kinds of books were selected into the "Good Books of the Century" monthly list, showing the publishing results of Shanghai at the beginning of the new year.
The founding story of the party for young people, "Bright Red Party Flag", "One River and One River: Shanghai Urban Waterfront Space and Architecture", which highlights "architecture can be read", and the first work "Chinese Yiming Studies" to fill the gap in gold literature research at home and abroad... "The Good Book of the Century" released the monthly list for the first time yesterday, 17 kinds of books were selected, and many of them were "first launches" and "firsts", of which the "Cihai" (seventh edition) miniature edition won the "Special Award". This is the first time that Shanghai Century Publishing Group has conducted the monthly list selection after the release of the annual "Century Good Book", and it is also a vivid footnote to the continuous deepening of the Shanghai publishing industry at the beginning of the new year, covering red culture, Shanghai culture and Jiangnan culture, from which readers can understand the urban spirit and urban character of Shanghai, the birthplace of the party.
As the only popular large-scale comprehensive dictionary in the mainland that integrates dictionaries, language dictionaries and encyclopedia dictionaries, the centennial "Cihai" keeps pace with the times, and the latest miniature edition condenses 8 volumes into 1 volume, which is consistent with the color picture book in content, 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, and the interpretation strives to be precise, with a distinct era.
▲ A miniature version of Ci Hai (Seventh Edition).
The 17 kinds of books released yesterday in January are divided into two categories: professional academic and public humanities, based on the profound academic publishing background, and strive to form a series of heavyweight topics with complete coverage, rich content and heavy value, and build a new advantage of cultural highland that is compatible with Shanghai's cultural brand. Among them, many of the works are the foundation works of the subdivision field or fill the gap in the book market.
For example, the "New Interpretation of the Botanical Names and Facts" is a modern plant taxonomy interpretation of the ancient Materia Medica masterpiece, based on the 1880 Li Literature Bureau's "Botanical Names and Facts Tu Kao", a total of 940 genera and 1750 species of plants, including more than 900 kinds of newly recorded ethnic folk medicines, laying an important plant taxonomy foundation for the scientific inheritance of ancient Materia Medica and the development of mainland ethnic folk medicines. For the first time, "Chinese YiMing studies" comprehensively summarizes the history of Yin Zhou's Jinwen research for more than two thousand years, pushes Yimingxue from the ancient study of inscriptions to the latest academic system, and points out that "Yimingxue" will stand shoulder to shoulder with "oracle bone" in the field of Chinese history and early Chinese characters, and is the first work to fill the gap in gold literature research at home and abroad. The 24 volumes of "Famous Works of Chinese Seal Engraving" are collected and extracted from the original seal notation, each print is marked with interpretations, and the characters and poetry allusions involved in the interpretations are annotated, and the collection of famous artists of past dynasties is attached to each volume, showing the brilliant artistic panorama of the history of Chinese seal carving. "One River, One River: Shanghai Urban Waterfront Space and Architecture" uses Chinese and English bilingual language to record the great changes in Shanghai's urban space in the later Bo era, and practices the urban spirit of "people's city for the people".
In terms of popular humanities, Liu Tong, an expert in party history and military history, used the method of combining big history and small details to write a set of touching reading books for young people that the Communist Party of China "founded the way" for the Chinese nation. Gu Fan, author of the annual "Good Book of China", and his new work "Discovering the Brain - Who Started Our Mental Journey" integrates the difficult process of human understanding of the mind with the struggle stories of great scientists in history, vividly popularizes scientific knowledge, and presents the path of exploration and governance of brain scientists.
It is reported that the selection and release of the "Century Good Books" list will enter the systematic, normalized, standardized and branded track in the future, and continue to create a matrix of good books. Peng Weiguo, vice president of Shanghai Century Publishing Group, said that Century Publishing Group has relative advantages in the fields of theme publishing, professional publishing, academic publishing, etc., and has published a large number of high-quality masterpieces covering various fields, but there are still shortcomings in the marketing and promotion of professional books and the planning and publication of popular books. In the future, "Century Good Books" will release monthly, semi-annual and annual lists.
Author: Xu Yang
Editor: Sun Xinqi
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