Qilu Evening News Qilu one-point reporter Qu Peng
This list selects a key recommended book and nine excellent books from the latest literary and artistic, historical biography, and ideological social science books published in the month, based on the criteria of humanity, ideology and interest, and looks forward to one of them being able to enter your heart.
Highly recommended
"The Bottom of Fracking"
By Eliza Grieswold
Translated by Zeng Xiaochu
New Classic Amber | Wenhui Publishing House
As a veteran contributor to The New Yorker, Eliza Grieswold cares deeply about the fate of the world's underprivileged people, having been stationed in impoverished areas of Asia and Africa, such as war-torn Afghanistan. She translated the collection of Afghan folk poetry, I Am the World's Beggar: Contemporary Afghan Short Snake Poems, which won PEN America's Poetry Translation Award. This time, she shifted her focus to poor families above the Marcellus shale in the Appalachian region of the southern United States.
Single mother Stacy Henny works hard to raise two children. In order to live a better life, Stacey leased the farm land to the gas company. Soon, a large number of trucks drove past her small farm, a fenced drilling ground appeared on the top of a neighboring hill, domestic animals and pets began to die, and mysterious diseases afflicted her children. She turned to the gas company for help, but the company's representative insisted that everything was normal.
Stacey hired lawyers, the Smiths, to investigate whether there was contamination in the water and air. The Smiths crawled through a multitude of documents, stripped away the cocoon, and finally found hidden evidence. Despite the objections of vested interests, Stacey and Smith stubbornly sued in court and exposed the destruction of the land on which they had lived for centuries.
The seven-year-long immersive report shows the eternal contradiction between energy development and environmental protection, while revealing the plight of the bottom americans in the gap between capital and government.
In order to write "The Bottom of Fracking", the author traces the case for seven years, showing the eternal contradiction between energy development and environmental protection, while revealing the plight of the American people at the bottom of the country in the gap between capital and government.
Historian Luo Xin believes that the most valuable part of this book is how to treat the hurt few, "We have to hear everyone's voice, no matter how weak, how low, how difficult to hear... As people who have read a little bit of books, as people with better conditions, we need to realize the amplification and release of those sounds, no matter how high the other voice is, how low this sound is, we also want people to know that this voice exists."
Excellent books
The Choice to Be a Mother
Written by Ona Donat
Translated by Lin Yourou
Lucida Mingmu | Beijing United Publishing Company
"You'll regret not having children!" In 2008, when Israeli sociologist Ona Donat began conducting a social survey called "Regret Being a Mom," the warning echoed through her mind. Is motherhood innate? Is motherhood a woman's vocation? Donat interviewed 23 mothers who regretted childbearing and completed the book "The Choice to Be a Mother." In the course of 5 years of follow-up interviews with mothers spanning three generations, she traced the journey of these women to become mothers, analyzed their emotional world before and after the birth of their children, investigated how they recognized and resolved the contradictions and conflicts in the process of birth and maintenance, pulled the identity of "mothers" into the public domain, analyzed the complex interpersonal relationships behind "mothers", and faced the social pressures faced by "mothers". "We women need to take the world into our hands and not go with the flow. We women need to dominate our bodies and lives; we also need to dominate our thoughts, feelings, and imaginations. ”
"New Motherhood"
By Ann Oakley
Translated by Wang Yingchen
Watchmen Human | Nanjing University Press
What does it mean for women to be a new mother? What does it mean to be a woman and a mother in our social culture? Fertility is not only a natural event, but also defined by our culture. British sociologist Ann Oakley discussed the issue of fertility with a sharp eye and questioning. She will return to women the interpretation of "procreation" as defined by patriarchal politics and professionals. In the 1970s, she interviewed 66 women, using their oral accounts to document the true feelings of a new mother. Based on the true stories of these women, Oakley explores: the mental journey of pregnancy, real childbirth experience, postpartum depression, parenting routine, division of labor in the family, lessons learned, etc. In her dialogue with these women, she opened a popularization class on fertility, traced the history of fertility, observed the scene of fertility at close range, and talked about parent-child relationship, work, sex, family politics and other topics.
The Rhyming Family:
The Multiple Faces of China's Peasant Family Order in the Transition Period
Li Yongping
Xinmin said| Guangxi Normal University Press
As modernization and marketization forces continue to infiltrate villages, farmers are increasingly embedded in the market and interact deeply with them. Through the investigation and investigation in the village, the author excavates the life logic and family mechanism hidden in the daily life of the countryside, and uses a large number of first-hand materials as the basis to sort out the transformation of the family order of Chinese peasants in the transition period. This book focuses on specific phenomena in the family field, such as marriage patterns, intergenerational relations, pension problems, etc., and extends to villages, markets and other fields, analyzing the rich and subtle linkage relationship between each other. There is no shortage of interesting daily topics in the book, such as why honest people are more likely to become single sticks, how the local marriage market boosts high dowries, why they do not accept gifts at banquets, etc., most of which are rooted in the lives of rural people, and trace the source from the superficial phenomena to analyze the root of the problem.
Animal Communities: A Political Theory of Animal Rights
By Hugh Donaldson, Will Kinderica
Translated by Wang Po
In recent years, the relationship between humans and animals has continued to deteriorate, and the traditional theory of animal rights is facing a double dilemma in theory and practice, which is not enough to respond to the current problems. "Animal Communities: A Political Theory of Animal Rights" aims to put forward a new way of thinking, starting from the concept of "community", applying the human identity framework to animal rights issues, in order to construct an expansive animal rights theory, and thus thinking about the different types of obligations derived from the diversity of human-animal relations, in order to make up for the shortcomings of existing animal theories, re-establish the relationship between humans and animals, and promote the development of animal rights.
Park: Tong Kyung-byung's Oral Autobiography
Tong Qingbing dictated
Luo Ronghai finished
Folio | Guangxi Normal University Press
Tong Qingbing, a scholar of Chinese literary and art theory, is a mentor to several famous contemporary Chinese novelists and a teacher to most students of the Chinese Department. This book is an oral autobiography of Tong Qingbing before his death, and it is also a spiritual history of intellectuals. The "park" in the title of the book is the "simple" of "simple". Mr. Tong believes that the reason why he can still study at ease in the 20th century when the political movement is surging is precisely because of his simplicity, so that he is not wrapped up in politics, has the opportunity to avoid the whirlpool of the movement, and continues to study through "stolen" books. In addition to recounting his life experience and academic growth, Mr. Tong also fondly recalled his wife and teachers (such as Huang Yaomian, Qi Gong, etc.), vividly recounting his interactions with friends (such as Ji Xianlin, Wang Meng, Wang Zengqi, etc.) and students (such as Mo Yan, etc.).
Gluttony: The History of Gluttony
[France] florent Kelliere
Translation of Huang Xun
Yilin Publishing House
Medieval religions gained control over the secular world by including gluttony in the Seven Deadly Sins, and then due to power struggles, they explained that gluttony only occurred among the poor, and the rich were extremely careful about diet, so the saying that "gluttony = lack of education" endured. Is gluttony really a sin? This book is a history of gastronomic culture that explores the infinite charm of human beings and eating, eating and culture for thousands of years. From the Elysium of Greek mythology, which is constructed of good food and wine, to the alcoholic overeating of the devil in the Middle Ages, from the emergence of "exquisite dishes" in the 17th and 18th centuries, to today's feverish pursuit of dietary health and fashion slimming... This book takes us on a culinary journey through the ages, exploring the history of gluttony.
"A Land of Frost White"
Chen Nianxi
Shandong Literature and Art Publishing House
This collection of non-fiction essays includes a number of non-fiction stories and essays created by Chen Nianxi in recent years, looking back at the customs and dust of his hometown and the wind and dust of a foreign land, outlining the footprints of a long journey of fate, and recording the life and death of fellow travelers. The book depicts more than 20 kinds of wind objects and more than 50 characters. In addition to writing about mine life and urban wandering, the author looks back at the spring and autumn of the old garden in this book, returns to himself before the miners, tells the cruelty and warmth of the bitter cold childhood, tells the touching between the relatives and loved ones, and takes witness photos for the village life. The rough and poetic text shows how people who struggle in the storm of fate struggle to take a solid road in the human wilderness. It is a book of suffering and a book of warmth that will touch the softest corners of our hearts and give us the strength to find hope in despair. "May the frost be as bright as ever, illuminating all kinds of people in a hurry."
"Construction Industry China:
1914-1935 Henry Mao Fei in China for twenty years
[United States] by Guo Weijie
Lu Wei Cold Weather translation
Cultural Development Press
Henry Mao Fei is not the greatest architect in American history, but he is the one with the deepest ties to China. He first came to China in 1914 to design a campus for the Yale-China Association, but when he arrived in Beijing, he spent hours wandering through the courtyards of the Forbidden City. Since then, he has been completely fascinated by China, and continues to influence his practice for the next twenty years: the auditorium, library, science museum and gymnasium in Tsinghua Garden, Boya Tower and Bei GongLou in Yanyuan, the National Revolutionary Army Fallen Cemetery in Nanjing and Jinling Women's University... How to protect China's rich architectural tradition, while using the latest Western technology to design new buildings has also become his lifelong pursuit, he suggested that "Chinese architecture should enjoy the same status as Western architecture, Chinese architects should draw inspiration from their own cultural traditions to replace those who seek Western architectural prototypes and paradigms."
From Surprise: The First Lesson in Teen philosophy
Liu Qing waited
The Republic of China | Beijing Daily Publishing House
The self-consciousness of adolescents begins to awaken, they begin to cast doubtful and curious eyes on the world, and they begin to ask "who I am", "what is the difference in my existence", "what is the meaning of life"... This book invites eight teachers of the philosophy department of colleges and universities to serve as lecturers, focusing on classic philosophical issues such as self, life, happiness, love, mind, science, etc., in a contextual way, combined with examples in daily life, the abstract philosophical concepts are turned into vivid stories, to respond to the confusion of young people, to start their journey of inquiry and questioning, and then to help them jump out of their habitual thinking, form their own independent thinking and judgment, and make their hearts rich and profound. At the same time, for all adults who have had this kind of life question as a teenager or started thinking about it again at some point in their adulthood, this book is also an opportunity for you to embark on a journey of self-reflection again. In the introduction to the lecture, Liu Qing said: "At an age of ignorance and curiosity, I met several teachers who were very enthusiastic to talk to me about strange 'esoteric' questions. They inspired my whimsy, opened my later learning and exploration, and eventually made me who I am now. This is a precious gift I received as a teenager, and today, I am willing to give this gift back to you. ”