On April 23, World Book Day is approaching, and major publishing houses and bookstores in Shanghai have launched a series of online activities to recommend good books for readers. From April 23, Century Duoyun will also launch a "Cloud Reading Good Book" online activity every day on the official B station account. Century Duoyun has always advocated pluralistic reading, so that reading is not alone in "reading". The event featured a selection of four books recommended by authors from different fields, covering four fields: photography, fiction, documentary literature, and economics.
On April 23, the online sharing session of "Rest: China 1981-1984" will invite the author of this book, italian photographer Lao An, to share with readers his first photo album in 40 years in China. 190 photos, recording the daily life of ordinary Chinese at the beginning of reform and opening up. The China in Lao An's photo has just come out of the turbulent years and has not yet had time to embrace tools such as fax mobile phone networks. It was a rare, brief moment of silence, and people were taking a breath, ready to leap into the impending frenzy. Lao An's photography focuses on the daily life of ordinary Chinese, capturing endless details. They have no intention of reporting or explaining, but they retain the atmosphere of the next era. Readers will also witness their own memories in these photographs and rediscover life to be examined.
On April 24th, the online sharing meeting of "Five-Minute Economics: Economic Logic in the Internet Age" will invite the author of this book, Kou Zong, a professor of economics, to share with readers the short economic essays based on the hot spots of the times, explain the economic thinking of the unity of knowledge and action for readers in easy-to-understand and realistic language, and use fragmented time to learn the economic logic of the Internet era.
On April 25th, the online sharing meeting of "Deliberate Thoughts" will invite peng Guiju, the translator of this book, to share this classic novel with readers, leading readers to embark on this literary journey together. This is the masterpiece of the Scottish writer Muriel Sparker, and a meta-novel about the art of fiction, in which Freire Talbot, who aspires to become a writer, has been wandering on the edge of the bizarre London literary circle, and in order to make a living, she mistakenly bumps into the secretary of the eccentric "Autobiographical Society". The convener of the Society was Sir Quentin, eager to manipulate people's hearts, and the members under his control were the down-and-out but self-righteous British nobles. Quentin encouraged members to write "frankly" about their "brilliant lives", but the biographical material, which was already mixed, was also "artistically processed" by Freir and Sir Quentin. Art and reality are entangled from the beginning. Later, the manuscript of the first novel written by Freir is stolen by Quentin, the fiction is further illuminated into life, and a real, cold death ensues...
On April 26th, the "Mariupol Trilogy" "She is from Mariupol" and "The Man in the Shadows" online sharing will be led by senior editor Bai Huazhao to work with the book to save lost lives and memories with words.
In addition, Century Duoyun also cooperated with Xima Storytelling to launch the "New Book Is Coming" podcast program to read through the good books and new books with readers. The first issue of the podcast recommended the non-fiction collection "Mulan Marries". The dilemma encountered by women in today's society, whether it is marriage and love in the workplace or childcare, has always been a topic that has been discussed a lot in the field of public opinion. Mulan's Marriage contains 15 non-fiction stories, all of which are women, that are both everyday and distant, common and unexpected. Their stories are not ours; their hearts are broken, and we have avoided them by accident.
The second issue of the podcast is about the book "The Beauty of Chinese Makeup", and you will often see some shocking pictures on TV, such as an ancient person 2000 years ago, painting a Korean-style flat eyebrow, or decapitating the lips of a man. When everyone is "thundered" again and again, they will also think, what was the makeup of the ancients? "The Beauty of Chinese Makeup" from prehistoric examination to the end of the Qing Dynasty, a more complete review of the evolution history of Chinese makeup. But to reveal to you, some makeup is even more thunderous than you think. For example, in the famous "Yuan and Shishi Makeup" of the Middle and Tang Dynasties, Bai Juyi has a poem describing this makeup: "The cheeks do not apply Vermilion without powder, and the black paste fills the lips like mud." The double eyebrow painting is low, and Yan Yan is black and white, and the makeup seems to contain a sad cry. "What is said is that this makeup face requires women to shave off their eyebrows and draw figure eight eyebrows; no red powder, no white makeup, no smudging red, but ochre red; lips are also painted as mud-like black. You can see the modern restoration in "The Beauty of Chinese Makeup" and feel the aesthetics of the ancients that are very different from ours.
"The new book is coming" also recommended "Fan Shadow" for listeners interested in film, "Fan Shadow" was written by Antoine DeBac, the former editor-in-chief of the "Film Handbook", bringing together a large number of first-hand documents, private archives, and parties' conversations, setting up monuments for the various factions of people in the history of French fan film, reconstructing the spiritual context and social background of a generation of fan film culture; it is a leading work in the field of French film culture research, which has been republished several times, telling a paragraph about how to discover movies, watch movies, screen movies, collect movies, Protecting films, commenting on them and defending the cultural history of films. This podcast featured veteran film critic LOOK to talk about the era of "crazy ambition and crazy sincerity".
The latest update of the podcast invited Gu Chunfang, a professor at the School of Arts of Peking University, to share with the audience the creative process of "Chekhov's Rose". Chekhov was one of the greatest novelists and dramatists of the 19th century, but few people know that he was also a brilliant horticulturist. He designed and built his own garden with his own hands, grasping the interaction and balance of water, soil and sunlight as if he were deliberating on words. During Chekhov's 44 years of life, he spent half of his time in illness and half in writing, gardening, and traveling. "Chekhov's Rose", written by Gu Chunfang, is not only a spiritual biography of this literary giant, but also a spiritual journey to find roses. It shows Chekhov's immortal life in the forest of literature and the garden of nature, restoring his spiritual background.
Since the end of March, Century Cloud has also launched various activities to add weight to reading. These include three series of online activities, namely "Cloud Reading Picture Book" cooperated by Century Duoyun and Ink Light Dot Reading, "Cloud Appreciation Drama" cooperated with "Good Drama", and "Cloud Reading Good Book" cooperated with various publishing houses. The "Century Duoyun" WeChat public account also launched a new recommendation column "Station Club" during the epidemic period, recommending fresh, fun books that let you see the stations by car.