With colorful and good books, we pay tribute to the centenary of the founding of the party and dedicate ourselves to the readers and the public
——The birth of the "Good Book of China Publishing Group" in 2021
Guangming Daily reporter Ji Yanan
2021 is a year in which China's publishing industry pays tribute to the centenary of the founding of the Party and dedicates itself to the readers and the public with colorful and good books.
"Good Books of China Publishing Group" is an excellent work of more than 20 publishing institutions under the China Publishing Group, such as the People's Literature Publishing House, the Commercial Press, the Zhonghua Bookstore, and the Sanlian Bookstore. In the hearts of readers at home and abroad, these publications have always enjoyed a high reputation, representing the peak of mainland culture and academic creation, and playing the role of a bellwether in the publishing industry.
Recently, 53 kinds of publications, such as "Patron Mountain", "The Earliest China", "Ten Thousand Miles to Ride Alone", "Diary of Studying at Southwest United University", "Huang Binhong's Long Genealogy", "Xu Yuanchong's Hundred-Year Self-Description", "The Complete Works of Su Dongpo", "The History of the World Hidden in Architecture (all 12 volumes)", "Seeing the World from Antarctica", "Tile Cat", "A Knife, a Thousand Words" and other 53 publications, won the reputation of "Good Book of China Publishing Group" in 2021.
Hao Zhensheng, president of the China Editorial Society, talked about his feelings: "2021 is really a big year in the publishing industry, the big society is rich and thick, the small club is full of momentum, and the good books are like a cloud, which is dizzying. ”
"Judging from the 'China Good Books Monthly List' and 'Book Screening Centennial Great Cause, Good Book Recommendation' selected by China Publishing Group, the number of selected books in 2021 ranks first in the country, which is the best year for our group." Li Yan, general manager of China Publishing and Media Co., Ltd., said happily.
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"Relieved for the rescue interview"
"Patron" is a long-form reportage created by the writer Tie Liu and published by the People's Literature Publishing House, which condenses the history of the heroic support of ordinary people across the country from 1921 to 1949.
What makes Tie Liu quite troubled is that "Backer" reflects the past history, which is distant and strange to young readers, how to make this work accepted by today's readers? "When creating, I am based on the principle of writing well and grounded, avoiding tall and empty preaching. Strive to start from human nature and the inner world of the characters, focus on the details, and strive to use the language of literature to tell the true story. ”
There is a short story in "Backing Mountain" that tells that when Simonov (1915-1979), a famous war correspondent, former Soviet novelist, poet and playwright during World War II, visited China in October 1949, he was surprised by the Huaihai Campaign with fewer victories and more, and specially proposed to go to the main battlefield Xuzhou for field investigation. When he heard that 5.43 million migrant workers had built a powerful supply line for the People's Liberation Army at that time, he sighed: "This is a great miracle in the history of human war, a real people's war!"
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Marshal Chen Yi also said: "Even if I lie in the coffin, I can't forget the Yimeng mountain people." They fed the revolution with millet and pushed the revolution across the Yangtze River with a cart. ”
Over the years, Tieliu has been following the example of the famous writer Liu Qing. In his view, fiction is far less exciting than real life, and it is not as shocking as the real events that have happened and are happening.
"The details of a work are measured with both feet. Life is the nourishment of the writer's creation, and going deep into life and taking root in the people is like digging a well, and how deep the well is, how sweet the water is. The creation of "Backing Mountain" made Tie Liu more deeply understand: "Most of the witnesses of the Beacon Era I interviewed are no longer alive. Some of the old men, when I went to see him or her shortly after my interview, had turned into a grave in the field. While being sad, I was also relieved by my rescue interview. ”
In order to create "Patron", Tieliu began to collect information in March 2007, up to 13 years, footprints throughout Shandong, Hebei, Jiangsu, Anhui, Hunan, Jiangxi and northern Shaanxi and other places, visiting thousands of witnesses, witnesses and their descendants in the war years, accumulating hundreds of millions of words of information, interview notes of tens of millions of words, many historical materials, plots and scenes are disclosed for the first time. Li Hongqiang, editor-in-chief of the People's Literature Publishing House, commented, "This is a reportage with rescue historical value."
In the 2021 "Good Books of China Publishing Group", there are also "The Complete Works of Su Dongpo" by Zhonghua Bookstore, "Xu Yuanchong's Hundred-year-old Self-Description" by Chinese Publishing House, "Ten Thousand Miles to Walk Alone" by China Encyclopedia Publishing House, "Diary of Southwest United University Study" by China Translation Publishing House, and "Huang Binhong's Long Compilation of Diaries" by Rongbaozhai Publishing House, which are also excellent works for rescuing historical materials.
Among them, "The Study Diary of Southwest United University" is a collection of diary of Mr. Xu Yuanchong from 1938 to 1943, which records the trajectory of his early years of learning from teachers, reading and making friends, and even his ideological growth, as well as his contacts with Zhu Ziqing, Wen Yiduo, Feng Youlan, Qian Zhongshu, Wu Mi, Yang Zhenning and other division leaders, and is also the only published diary of Southwest United University students, which has valuable historical value.
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Published by Dabaipu Publishing House, "Ten Thousand Miles to Walk a Single Ride" is also a collection of diaries, which is Mr. Shan Jixiang's observations and caprice thoughts in 9 provinces and 12 cultural heritage sites, and he tells the story of generations of Chinese searching for and watching over the roots of Chinese culture.
Jiang Shengxin, a senior reporter at Wen Wei Po, described the collection of historical materials as "salvage": "Such a salvage more reflects the feelings of the publisher. We should pay more attention to such good books, which is not only an affirmation of the author, but also a kind of responsibility for the present generation to the future. ”
"From Archaeological Excavations to Public Writing"
Academic books have always been an important publishing direction for China Publishing Group. The transformation of academic monographs into works that the public likes to hear is a major outstanding feature of the "Good Books of China Publishing Group" in 2021.
Xu Hong, a researcher at the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, served as the leader of the archaeological team of the Erlitou Site of Yanshi in Henan From 1999 to 2019, the main research direction is Xia Shang Zhou archaeology and ancient Chinese urban archaeology, engaged in the archaeological research of the formation of Chinese civilization and the early state.
He is an advocate and practitioner of public archaeology, and has devoted himself to the writing of popular knowledge books for many years, popularizing the results of archaeological excavations, and has published many works such as "Why China: The Picture of the Central Plains in 2000 BC", "Dadu No City: A Dynamic Interpretation of China's Ancient Capital", "East Asian Bronze Tide: Millennium Changes in the Pre-Oracle Era", "The Earliest China: The Rise of Erlitou Civilization" and many other works. These works are all published by Sanlian Bookstore, and they also belong to the "Interpretation of Early China" series, which perfectly presents the history of the development of China's ancient capital.
Xu Hong has a profound understanding of the value of his creation: "Erlitou was originally the name of an ordinary village in the Luoyang Plain, the hinterland of the Central Plains. Like the names of thousands of villages in China, it cannot be more simple. But just behind it, under the green wheat field, there is a glorious history of the Chinese nation more than 3,000 years ago, which has been forgotten by its descendants for more than 3,000 years, until it entered the field of archaeologists more than 60 years ago, and has since entered the hall of Chinese civilization history and even the history of world civilization. We also know from this that on the basis of thousands of years of Chinese prehistoric cultural accumulation, the earliest 'China' was born here. ”
"Among the many archaeology books at present, the publication process of the series 'Interpreting Early China' is the joint effort of Xu Hong and Sanlian Bookstore from archaeological excavations to public writing, and we have witnessed him from a professional archaeologist to an archaeologist facing the public." Yin Tao, editor-in-chief of Sanlian Bookstore, introduced.
In the 2021 "China Publishing Group Good Book", "My Archaeological Site - Ten Lectures on the Archaeology of the Silk Road" written by Qi Dongfang, professor of the School of Archaeology and Archaeology of Peking University, is also a popular book that readers like, the author will be the intersection of the Eastern and Western civilizations of the Silk Road, from Xi'an, Shanye, Samarkand, Bukhara, Istanbul, leading everyone to re-walk the Silk Road, feel the scene of ancient civilization, string together various cultural relics and stories, there are pictures and texts, very flexible.
Yang Ping, vice president of the China Book Society, said: "The quality of this kind of archaeological popularization book is very good, which is a highlight of the China Publishing Group and can become an important guide for future books. ”
"Conveying a scientific way of thinking and humanistic spirit"
In the "Good Books of China Publishing Group", original works account for more than 80%. Among them, "History of the World Hidden in Architecture" by Modern Education Publishing House and "Seeing the World from Antarctica" by Tiantian Publishing House are imported editions of popular science books, which are equally fascinating to read.
"The History of the World Hidden in Architecture", with architecture as the core clue, shows the process of civilization history from many aspects such as art, science and technology, literature, geography, and religion. The authors include well-known historians, naturalists, linguists, as well as museum curators, railway company executives, teachers, writers and painters, who worked together to study and create, and it took more than 20 years to compile this series of books. "From 3000 BC to the 19th century, spanning three continents in Asia, Africa and Europe, it comprehensively shows the historical changes of human civilization, which can be called a small but concise encyclopedia of world history and architectural history." Wang Chunxia, deputy editor-in-chief of Modern Education Publishing House, introduced.
The more than 1,000 detailed enlarged diagrams and more than 100 large-scale cross-sectional drawings in the book can help readers intuitively feel the panorama of the process of civilization in multiple dimensions. When we turn to the page on the Renaissance, what unfolds is a sculptural workshop in Florence, where the sculptor Donatello and his assistants are working. The exquisite map also shows several voyages in history, including the well-known Route of Columbus across the Atlantic Ocean and da Gama's ship to India.
"The World from antarctica" won Germany's highest level german youth literature award in 2020, and the jury's evaluation of "Seeing the World from Antarctica" was: "This is an extraordinary popular science book, which perfectly combines scientific knowledge and humanistic spirit, especially paying more attention to conveying scientific thinking and humanistic spirit to children." ”
Somewhat surprisingly, the author of this popular science book, David Böhm, is not a scientist or writer, but a modern Czech artist. In 2017, he took his two sons and friends on a trip to Antarctica and has been fascinated by Antarctica ever since. For the next two years, he was completely immersed in the Antarctic world, absorbing all kinds of information about Antarctica like a sponge, and finally created "Seeing the World from Antarctica".
Zhang Yuntao, editor-in-chief of Tiantian Publishing House, said, "When we were doing "Looking at the World from Antarctica", we found that the author consciously integrated philosophy, history and science in the book." For example, at the beginning of the book, the author asks a philosophical question: "Which side is the following?"? In response to the habit of saying that the South Pole is "below" the Earth, the author inspires children: "Down and up, near and far — always relative, depending on where we stand and look at things." ”
The introduction of excellent foreign books not only enriches and supplements the domestic book market, but also has a positive reference effect. Through the introduction of "Seeing the World from Antarctica", Zhang Yuntao has a new reflection: "Why do we lack such good books? Is it because our author has never been to the South Pole? No. Not many of our scientists and writers have been to Antarctica, but it is regrettable that no one has created such a multidisciplinary science book, and the publishing industry needs to work hard in this regard. ”
(The pictures in this article are provided by China Publishing Group)
Guangming Daily ( 2022-03-04 09 edition)
Source: Guangming Network - Guangming Daily