The recurrence of the epidemic has suspended the Chinese that has been in the "suspended state" mentioned by Xiang Biao, and the optimism about the future has begun to fade, and in the face of the uncertain future, everyone's heart is more anxious. Reading, perhaps, is a way of fighting anxiety in an unchanging way.
Course presentations
Liu Yu finally published a new book "The Art of Possibility" after ten years, but it is the course lecture draft, many friends have already listened to the class, I think that reading the paper book again is conducive to understanding and memory. Moreover, it seems that I heard that I want to publish an academic monograph, so why not have a new book?
Also looking at the ideal course lecture manuscripts is Also Liao Weitang's "The Absurdity of My Preference for Reading Poetry", the title of the book seems to come from Cimborska, the course has been heard, it is very interesting. Liu Suli's lecture on "Famous Masters" which is also a course speech seems to be published this year.
Jin Guantao's previous major works are "out of print", many book friends have sold three or five hundred copies, buying books is really cost-effective, discounts do not say, encounter out-of-print, one can top ten, before there are book friends in my three-fold more than three fold to buy books, but also many out-of-print become high prices. The good news is that Jin Guantao has published a new book, "The Real Thing That Disappeared", buy it early and be at ease, it is said that this is only the last book, and there is hope again.
War-related
Recently because of the war in Ukraine, last year's Douban annual high-scoring book "She is from Mariupol" is on fire again, and the publishing house has also stepped up the launch of the second part of the Mariupol trilogy, "The Man in the Shadows", by the way, look forward to the third part.
Speaking of war, russia is similar to the Third Reich, evans's "Third Reich trilogy" is very well received, and this year he will launch Hitler in Conspiracy Theories: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination. Of course, most people's knowledge of the Third Reich comes from Cheyle's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, and Yilin is about to release his "The Collapse of the Third Reich".
Epidemic related
The impact of the war is still far away, everyone is more troubled by the epidemic, recently read a very appropriate book "Body, Space and Postmodernity", using Foucault's biopolitics and micro-power theory, to analyze the present is more thorough, Foucault is like a prophet, in fact, it is just that our history rarely makes real progress. Last year, I read his "Modernity" very well combed, and he is about to launch a new book "On Love".
For the popularization of virus-related science in China, Wang Liming is doing a good job, and his column "50 Lectures on Evolution" has also been compiled into a book "Wang Liming's Lecture Notes on Evolution". I think evolution as a way of thinking might be better than as a kind of knowledge, and the emphasis on spontaneous order has something in common with Hayek's Austrian thought, complex systems theory, and even postmodern thought.
Chinese history is relevant
During the epidemic period, I was also closed, turning out a lot of books related to Chinese history, of which Chen Suzhen's "Spring and Autumn and Han Dao" is one of the best, and it is also about the fate of Confucianism in the Qin and Han Dynasties, "Xiangrui" is much worse. Chen Suzhen will soon publish a new book, "From Never Yang Palace to Luoyang Palace: An Examination of the Prohibition System of the Two Han Dynasties and the Wei and Jin Dynasties.".
In addition, there are several high-scoring books related to Chinese history reprinted, including Qu Tongzu's "Local Government in the Qing Dynasty", Song Jie's "Geographical Hub of Ancient Chinese War", and Ge Zhaoguang's "Re-updated Edition of the History of Zen Thought", in addition, Ge Zhaoguang will also launch a new book "Lecture Notes on Academic History: Seven Lessons for Master's Students", hoping to have the same wonderful lectures on the history of ideas as before.
Because the epidemic can not go abroad, it is planned to walk in china in the second half of the year, mainly in the northwest, with a focus on Xi'an and Dunhuang, so it is necessary to do some theoretical preparations for art history and archaeology. Watching Wu Hong's "First Lesson" this year, I found that his perspective on Chinese art history is very novel, and he intends to systematically read some of his basic masterpieces, and it just so happens that he will also launch new books this year, "Dunhuang of Space: Approaching the Mogao Grottoes" and "Chinese Painting: Ancient to Tang Dynasty".
Philosophically related
Both pandemics and wars have made us more focused on the present, but we should always focus on transcendent things, such as philosophy, in order to obtain detachment from badness or escape. The philosophical divine book "A Thousand Plateaus" is finally about to be republished this year, and I plan to try it, and if I can't read it, I can use some second-hand literature. In addition, Jiang Xulin's anthology "The Thickness of Life" can also be regarded as a second-hand document of philosophical classics, from Plato's to Rawls. When Jiang Xulin died, there were many discussions and commemorations, and reading his works may be the best memorial to him.