The book "The Spirit of the Women's Volleyball Team" fully presents the inheritance and development of the Chinese women's volleyball team in the past 70 years
RedNet Moment News Reporter Wang Yan Guo Weican reported from Changsha
On November 16, 1981, the Chinese women's volleyball team won the world championship for the first time, and since then it has gradually become a youth idol in the hearts of hundreds of millions of Chinese. On New Year's Day 2022, a documentary book showing the history of the Chinese women's volleyball team's hard work, spiritual forging and faith inheritance history met with readers.
This book is the "Spirit of women's volleyball" published by Hunan People's Publishing House! On the cover of this book, the 7 big characters of "Shouting out the Strongest Voice of the Times" are particularly eye-catching. Open the reading, 30 legendary stories, 130 collection photos, lang ping, Chen Zhonghe, Zhu Ting, Song Shixiong interview transcripts, leading readers to approach the women's volleyball girls, understand the power of the women's volleyball spirit through time and space.
It is reported that since the listing of "Women's Volleyball Spirit", sales in many physical bookstores and online platforms across the country have been hot, and it has quickly broken into the forefront of the list of humanities and social science books such as Dangdang and Jingdong, and has been warmly sought after by readers, and has been printed 4 times in a row. Undoubtedly, this is the people's heart of the "women's volleyball spirit", and it is also the reward for the hard work of the publisher.
Why can the book "Women's Volleyball Spirit" quickly become popular? Recently, the reporter walked into the Hunan People's Publishing House, interviewed the editorial team of the Social Science Literature and History Division with an average age of only 28 years old, and decoded a group of stories that Hunan publishers created and carried forward the spirit of the women's volleyball team.
To create a classic masterpiece
On the editorial manuscript of each "Women's Volleyball Spirit", there are careful revisions and annotations by the editorial team
The Chinese women's volleyball team came from the bamboo shed in Chenzhou, crossed the long river of time, and forged a legend and glory in the world sports arena, and has also become an important part of the spiritual genealogy of Chinese communists.
2021 coincides with the 40th anniversary of the Chinese women's volleyball team winning the world championship for the first time, how to vividly show the arduous and glorious moment of the Chinese women's volleyball team winning the championship, and create a book of the times that carries forward the "spirit of the women's volleyball team" and pulls the heartstrings of readers?
The reporter learned that this publication topic was personally planned by the leaders of Hunan Province, from personally determining the title of the book to scheduling the specific matters of publishing many times, such a high-level promotion made the editorial team greatly encouraged and pressured.
In early September 2021, the topic selection was launched, and the editorial team jumped out of the usual composition mode, chose a more historical thickness and temperature presentation method, and interpreted the spiritual core of the women's volleyball team with the editorial concept of telling a good story. At the end of September, with the "spirit of the women's volleyball team" being included in the spiritual genealogy of the Chinese communists, the publishing direction of the book "The Spirit of the Women's Volleyball Team" also underwent a major adjustment, from "telling the story of the women's volleyball team Chenzhou" to "carrying forward the spirit of the women's volleyball team in the new era".
"It is very significant to publish such a book at such a special moment. We expect this book to truly become a masterpiece that records the times and is remembered by the times. Li Xiaohui, vice president of Hunan People's Publishing House, said. She hopes that readers and friends will be a good story no matter when and which page they turn. The experiences and feelings of the Chinese women's volleyball team that dare to challenge and surpass themselves can emerge.
After adjusting the direction, the speed of the auxiliary running is significantly accelerated. All of a sudden, it was the beginning of November. At this time, less than half a month before the 40th anniversary of the Chinese women's volleyball team winning the championship on November 16, how to reorganize the content framework, adjust the order of manuscripts, and optimize and enrich the graphics in about 10 days is a challenge and test for the editorial team.
Fu Qinwei, editor-in-charge of Hunan People's Publishing House, recalled that in order to better understand the details of the story and restore historical facts, the editorial team and the author visited Chenzhou, the take-off place of the Chinese women's volleyball team, many times in a short period of time. They conducted extensive and in-depth exchanges with Chenzhou municipal government departments and relevant units, staff of the Chinese women's volleyball training base, retired employees, teachers of Shonan College, etc., and walked into the bamboo shed training hall of the Chenzhou base of the Chinese women's volleyball team that was displaying and arranging the exhibition again and again, and felt the sweat and hard work of the women's volleyball team.
The young women's volleyball players were pierced with small wooden thorns in their palms, bruised and bruised and bruised on the thighs and shoulders and elbows... The scenes and images touch the hearts of every editor, and it is also more determined that everyone should do a good job in this book, and pass on the light of the faith of the women's volleyball girls to the readers with texture, determined to pay tribute to the Chinese women's volleyball team with classic masterpieces.
Camp beds were set up in the office
A race against time. The Beijing interview team overcame the impact of the epidemic and, with the strong support of the sports media brother team, quickly completed the oral transcripts of key figures such as Gao Ping and Chen Zhonghe with high quality, which greatly enhanced the sense of history of this book.
"We have set up a three-shift editing work system to build a publishing efficiency system based on the rapid response mechanism of daily scheduling, daily discussion and daily feedback for topic selection, content and aesthetics." Chen Shi, the book coordinator of the "Spirit of the Women's Volleyball Team" and director of the Social Science Literature and History Division of Hunan People's Publishing House, recalled that the deepest impression was that after the first edition of the sample book came out, the direction of the book was temporarily adjusted, and the entire editorial team did not sleep, taking the office as home, and began to rotate continuously.
"For the week of early November last year, everyone would work late every day." Pan Kai, the editor in charge of "Women's Volleyball Spirit", recalled that during that time, our team divided labor and cooperated, collectively tackled key problems, and fought day and night. Everyone divides labor to find materials, supplement materials, contact authors to rewrite content, and look for cover design ideas...
In that half a month, whether it was editors, marketers, designers, everyone took the initiative to give up the weekend and set up a camp bed in the office, which also became a unique scenery in the book editing process of "Women's Volleyball Spirit". In order to seize the time as much as possible, optimize the overall structure of the book, and make overall plans, Chen Shi slept in the office for 4 consecutive days and nights.
The editorial team discusses the cover design of "The Spirit of the Women's Volleyball Team"
The book "The Spirit of the Women's Volleyball Team" not only strives for excellence in content, but also pursues the ultimate aesthetic in design, and 8 responsible editors put forward 5 editions of the cover and interior design. Chen Shi introduced that in order to ensure the texture of the book cover, on a Sunday in November last year, the editorial team and the leaders of the company discussed it from 9 a.m. until dark.
After careful selection, in the end, everyone chose the Chinese women's volleyball signature volleyball with scratches and wear as the cover idea of the "Spirit of the Women's Volleyball Team", and the 16-character women's volleyball spirit core of "motherland first, unity and cooperation, tenacious struggle, and never say defeat" was clearly presented, which not only rendered the hardships and bumps of the Chinese women's volleyball team along the way, but also made the meaning of the spirit of the women's volleyball team passed down from generation to generation well.
In order to ensure the quality of the pictures entered into the book, the editorial team browsed more than 60,000 photos related to the Chinese women's volleyball team on the whole network in 5 days, and finally selected more than 130 pictures
On November 15, 2021, the sample book of "Women's Volleyball Spirit" was finally completed as scheduled, and the whole book told the 70-year struggle of the Chinese women's volleyball team in five parts: "Gathering the call of the country", "Quenching and fighting years", "taking off and brilliant cause", "Inheritance and unquenchable", and "Stirring up the strong sound of the times".
The spirit of the women's volleyball team also inspired young publishers
After a series of editing processes such as book manuscript optimization, picture optimization, and design optimization, on December 27, 2021, the book "Women's Volleyball Spirit" finally held a new book launch in Chenzhou. On that day, 500 sample books surprised the launch ceremony scene, and enthusiastic people snatched up the new books.
"Women's Volleyball Spirit" Chenzhou new book launch ceremony scene
Freshly baked and emitting ink fragrance, "The Spirit of women's volleyball" vividly tells the 40 years and 30 legendary stories of the Chinese women's volleyball team, evoking the memory of the times, highlighting the sense of topic, highlighting documentary, and really easy to read. More than 130 shocking collection photos recreate the historical moments that make the blood of hundreds of millions of Chinese sons and daughters boil.
Li Shan, the former Member of the Chinese Women's Volleyball Team, the 2003 Women's Volleyball World Cup Champion, and the 2004 Athens Olympic Champion, as a witness to the story of the women's volleyball team, participated in the first launch of the new book "The Spirit of the Women's Volleyball Team", and after reading the book, she could not help but evaluate: "This book truly reflects the history of the struggle of the Chinese women's volleyball team, a vivid character and a true story, making me feel as if I have returned to that period of glory." ”
In the view of many industry experts, the book "The Spirit of the Women's Volleyball Team" can be liked by readers across the country, not only the special significance of the Chinese women's volleyball team to the Chinese people, but more importantly, the touching and profound struggle stories and memories of the times expounded in the book, which deeply attracts every reader to approach the Chinese women's volleyball team.
The spirit of the women's volleyball team of "motherland first, unity and cooperation, tenacious struggle, and never say defeat" has inspired and influenced generations of Chinese to work hard. The editorial team of "Women's Volleyball Spirit" also naturally takes the spirit of the women's volleyball team as its own spiritual totem, and with the enterprising attitude of "life can have several beats", it has created a good book structure for the first independent book of the 46 great spirits of the Chinese Communist spiritual genealogy.
In the book, the spirit of the women's volleyball team came from the bamboo shed in Chenzhou, crossed the long river of time, and became a towering lighthouse. Outside the book, the young editors of the Social Science Literature and History Division of Hunan People's Publishing House have a heart of reverence for the profession, bury their heads in the sea of books, work silently, and dedicate new books, big books, and good books to the times with ingenuity.
The editorial team of "The Spirit of the Women's Volleyball Team" is just a bright microcosm of Hunan publishers. Before the end of the interview, Li Xiaohui revealed a good news, published by the Hunan People's Publishing House, such as "This Decade", "Our Hunan Decade", "Record the Well-off Project Hunan Volume Series", "Running to Common Prosperity", "Pingyu Great Conspiracy", "Interpreting Loyalty" and a number of other high-quality masterpieces, which will also be successively met with the vast number of readers.
Source: Rednet