World Book Day
Moments and sounds worth recording
It's another year of World Book Day, and Obelisk, together with its publishing partners, focuses on "moments and voices worth recording" and launches this issue of the joint book list.
Today, we need to read more than ever.
The Fractured Countryside
[West] by Sergio del Molino
Mirror Series 丨Zhejiang People's Publishing House
The great trauma of the 1950s caused the Spanish population to move to the cities and the countryside gradually hollowed out. In a very literary language, the author presents the face of the countryside from the construction of history and culture, and describes how it oscillates between heaven and hell, thus losing its true face. What is more meaningful is that the descendants of the generation that left the countryside in the first place, they jumped out of the long-standing prejudice against the countryside, created a new identity in the city, and through the transformation of narrative mode, rediscovered and reconstructed a traditional culture and a perception of the countryside.
Operation Barbarossa: 1941, Absolute War
Jean Lopez waited
Obelisk 丨Yilin Publishing House
Operation Barbarossa, which began on 22 June 1941, ushered in the bloodiest war in human history. Two of the most powerful armies in the world at the time engaged in a direct duel. In this book, the two authors take the course of the war as a clue, tell the magnificent history of the Second World War in detail, and vividly restore the people and events in the war.
Rather than confining himself to the war itself, the author looks to the older past, digging into the cultural traditions, political demands, economic conditions, and even leadership psychology of the warring parties in detail. The book includes a grand strategic analysis, a detailed tactical deduction, and a delicate presentation of the individual suffering process, which comprehensively describes this thrilling "absolute war".
1963: A Year of Change
Robin Morgan et al
Xinmin said 丨 Guangxi Normal University Press
An oral history co-authored by renowned British journalists Robin Morgan and Ariel Lev, the first of its kind to look back at the pivotal year when the world's youth ushered in a new era of pop culture: 1963. This year, the space race entered a tug-of-war, President Kennedy was assassinated, Martin Luther King Jr. issued the manifesto "I Have a Dream", the voices of the Beatles and Bob Dylan swept the world at the same time, Marvel Comics created "X-Men", the most expensive and criticized film in history "Cleopatra" finally premiered, the United Kingdom was subject to the Profumo incident, the Rolling Stones released their first single, and the new word "Beatles Fever" was produced.
This is the first year in history that young people have the power to shape society, business and culture, and has been called "the year of youth vibration" by Diana Freeland, editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine, which has influenced music, art, fashion, politics, film, literature, journalism and other industries, completely subverting contemporary society.
The Logic of Civilization: The Game of Humanity and Risk
Chen Zhiwu
CITIC Press
Superstition, marriage, family, clan, business, finance... Why doesn't productivity fully explain the logic of civilization evolution? How do you measure whether civilization is progressing or going backwards? How to correctly understand some of the social phenomena we are facing today? ......
Productivity and risk resilience are two key dimensions in judging human progress, with the former addressing life under normal circumstances and the latter determining survival under extraordinary conditions. In the book "The Logic of Civilization", the author takes the "game of human beings and risks" as the clue, uses quantitative data analysis and literature research and analysis, through the familiar phenomena and history of innovation, business, finance, etc., uses detailed data and data analysis to explore the internal logic behind the evolution of civilization, and innovatively proposes a new yardstick for measuring civilization - "risk response" (that is, the ability to cope with risks), so as to help us interpret the process of human civilization more completely. The development of human social civilization provides a unique perspective.
Silk Road Flower Rain: Birth
Chen Xiaobin
Readers' Publishers
The classic dance drama "Silk Road Flower Rain" is based on Dunhuang murals, telling the touching story of the kindness and simplicity of the Chinese father goddess Pen Zhang and Yingniang in order to rescue the foreign businessman Inus on the ancient Silk Road.
This book is a theme book about the creation process and value significance of "Silk Road Flower Rain", which comprehensively describes the difficult birth process of the dance drama "Silk Road Flower Rain". The author Chen Xiaobin uses words as a "torch" to trace the splendid culture of the ancient Silk Road along the Hexi Corridor, leading readers back to those little-known creative years, and reproducing how the flying sky flies from the stone wall to the stage and from the desert to the world, which can be described as the encyclopedia of "Silk Road Flower Rain".
Holy Roman Empire
By Joachim Whaley
Oxford General Reader 丨Yilin Publishing House
Voltaire once described the Holy Roman Empire as "neither holy nor Roman, nor imperial", which has largely misunderstood the history and significance of the empire. In this book, the author outlines the fascinating thousand-year history of the Holy Roman Empire. The Empire was founded in 800, based on Charlemagne's Frankish Kingdom, and around 1500 the title "Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation" officially appeared.
The course and history of the Empire has always been influenced by major developments in Europe, from the Reformation to the Thirty Years' War, to the French Revolution, until Napoleon destroyed the Empire in 1806. More than a thousand years of shared history and the legal traditions of the founding of empires have shaped the past picture of German-speaking Europe. Through this book, Whaley analyzes the important influence and role of empire in the history of power and politics in Europe, and points out that there has never been a more enduring political system in German history.
The Lost Book
By Stuart Kelly
Life, Reading, And New Knowledge Triptych Bookstore
From prehistory to Dante, from Shakespeare to Sylvia Plath, from Homer to Hemingway – great writers have written works that we can't see. It can be said that the entire history of literature is also the history of literary loss.
This book focuses on the classics we have not seen, or works that may become classics, which may be destroyed by fire and water, may be lost by people's indifference, madness, and prejudice, some lost, some unfinished, some have not begun, some have become illegible. We may have to reluctantly acknowledge the loss of literature, but it does not lose its connotation and meaning. "We desperately fight destruction, and the process of struggle is victory." This is the most essential meaning of this book.
Foot Binding: The Evolution of the Golden Lotus Cult
[Beauty] by Gao Yanyi
Siku 丨Jiangsu People's Publishing House
The history of foot binding is full of resistance and unexpected twists. Foot binding originated from the court dance of China in the Middle Ages, and gradually spread to gentry families, qinglou, maids and peasant families. Traditional views have always emphasized the characteristics of patriarchal oppression, while ignoring the complexity of history and the motives and inducements of foot-binding women themselves. This book writes a different thousand-year history of foot binding, and the author uses objective neutral and quiet analysis to refute many myths and misconceptions.
Masters in the Wilderness: A Century of Chinese Archaeology
Written by Zhang Quan
A page folio 丨 Guangxi Normal University Press
"Masters in the Wilderness" tells the story of the beginnings of Chinese archaeology in the 1920s. The author Zhang Quan takes the development of the four major institutions of the Geological Survey, the Tsinghua Institute of Chinese Studies, the Institute of History and Language of the Academia Sinica and the Construction Society as the main line, and depicts the birth of Chinese archaeology.
Zhang Quan, a well-known writer and former editor-in-chief of "Life", collected a large number of first-hand archival materials, extensively read various memoirs, papers and monographs, and excavated and relived the spirit, thoughts and lives of a generation of masters represented by Chen Yinke, Ding Wenjiang, Li Ji, Zhao Yuanren, Fu Sinian, Jia Lanpo, Liang Sicheng, Lin Huiyin, Liang Siyong, etc. with delicate and sensual brushwork; tells how they walked out of the study hall in a chaotic world, poured into the same time and space, cut through thorns, carried axes into the mountains, and stepped out of a new road in the wilderness. The process of exploring and reconstructing ancient Chinese history with scientific methods, thereby changing the world's most Chinese cognition. Unborn geniuses, an unprecedented generation, because of them, an era of great discovery, revealed themselves on the soil of China.
The Isolated Girl
By Barthe Van Ez
Oracle 丨 Social Sciences Literature Press
During World War II, the Nazis hunted down Jews on the European continent, and thanks to the strong cooperation of the Dutch authorities, Jewish families in Amsterdam, The Hague and other places were constantly shrouded in great danger and fear. In order to avoid capture, the Jewish girl Little Lion was entrusted by her parents to the homestay protection of the underground resistance organization, and after many escapes and escapes, witnessing the murder of countless compatriots, she finally survived the war. The author Van Es's grandparents were the ones who protected Little Lion the longest, however, due to a post-war dispute, the two sides were no longer in touch.
What really happened during and after the war? What does this story look like from the jewish girl's perspective? By searching for answers to these questions and delving into the Dutch resistance movement, Van Ace tells a true story like the Dutch version of Schindler's List.
Becoming a Star: Diary of an Astronaut Student
By Samantha Christopherettie
New text 丨Shanghai Translation Publishing House
This book is an essay by Samantha CristoFredi, Italy's first female astronaut. The first part introduces Samantha from a fighter pilot, all the way through the european space agency's layers of selection, to become an astronaut trainee. The second part documents Samantha's 200 days of space life from november 23, 2014, when the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft was launched into the International Space Station.
With the help of a detailed plot, "Becoming a Star" portrays the tests and trials that an astronaut needs to undergo before flying to space, and Samantha uses delicate brushstrokes to unfold a picture of a space journey: being sent to space by a rocket, docking with the International Space Station, weightlessness for the first time, eating and drinking in space, physical exercise, scientific experiments... And so on, curious and very interesting descriptions, and between sunrise and sunset 16 times a day, the magnificent miracle of the galaxy outside the dome is a perfect combination of science and literature.
The Necessary Forgetting and Unshirkable Memories
By Christian Meyer
Cultural Development Press
A core belief of our time is that in order to "cope" with the past, people must constantly keep a memory of it. Christian Meyer flipped through world history to understand what people did when they sought reconciliation after a war or civil war. His discovery was both astonishing and simple: since the ancient Greeks, the world has relied on oblivion. However, the german crimes of the Nazi era cannot be forgotten. The public's remembrance of them is and is indispensable.
This book reviews several reconciliations in human history through forgetting, and if humanity cannot forget, it cannot reconcile with the past and the enemy, thus falling into permanent chaos, and if the inhuman atrocities are chosen to be completely forgotten, it is possible to repeat the same mistakes. This book unveils a long-neglected side of history from a perspective that has received little attention.
50 Expressions of Snow
By Nancy Campbell
Gulou Xinyue 丨China Social Sciences Press
Greenland's glaciers roar and scatter to the sea, Kilimanjaro's snow melts silently and rapidly, poachers' guns are quietly aimed at the "ghostly mountain" snow leopard, raging snowstorms chase herds of sheep on the steppes, Siberian reindeer lose their snow-protected lichens and grasses, and black, orange, pink, plastic, foaming snow falls...
The world is losing snow, we are losing language. Climate and the environment are constantly changing, and the language that describes it and the way we understand it has changed with it. With the disappearance of ice and snow, the language associated with it is fading. Capturing 50 pieces of snow from around the world, this book introduces customs and traditions, history and mythology, philosophical views and adventure stories, natural phenomena and geographical knowledge of ice and snow in 50 languages and cultures.
"Time Miscellaneous"
By Greenwich Observatory, UK
Skyline 丨Yilin Publishing House
Known as the "House of Time", the Greenwich Observatory in the United Kingdom is the site of the prime meridian that divides the Earth into the eastern and western hemispheres. In "Time Miscellaneous", the experts of the Greenwich Observatory used hundreds of cold knowledge and a large number of hand-drawn drawings to answer a thousand strange time problems. Pendulums, toasters, cobwebs, pop songs... These seemingly mundane things are used to connect important discoveries about time in the history of science, and also reveal the profound impact of time on our daily lives.
The Three Capitals: A History of the Mongol Siege of Jin
Zhou Sicheng
Hantang Sunshine 丨 Shanxi People's Publishing House
In the 12th century, the Jurchen people, who originated in the northeast, rose rapidly, established the Jin Dynasty, and once leapt to the hegemony of East Asia. This regime destroyed the Liao state in a very short period of time, making Western Xia and Goryeo subservient, and causing the Northern Song Dynasty to suffer the "shame of Jingkang". However, since the Mongol army invaded the south in 1211, for more than 20 years, the Jin Dynasty lost its territory one after another, and the center of the resistance movement was forced to move from zhongdu to Fenjing and Caizhou, and finally perished in the attack of the Mongol and Southern Song armies.
This book takes several important "siege battles" during the Mengjin War as the main line, restores the military layout and engagement history of the two sides in several key large-scale battles, reveals a series of major coups, mutinies and power changes that occurred within the Jin Dynasty, and shows the defense strategies of the Jin soldiers and civilians during the siege of Zhongdu, Bijing and other cities by the Mongol Army, as well as the struggle and survival and psychological state in the situation of material shortage and epidemic attack. The author presents the whole process of the Jin Dynasty from organizational resistance and stubborn resistance to the death of the king and the death of the country in a popular and clear brushwork, and the reason for the rise and fall of the Jin Dynasty is contained in the narrative.
"Southern Dynasty Qiyun: Lectures on Stone Inscriptions of the Six Dynasties"
Nanjing University Museum, ed
Phoenix Press
"Southern Dynasty Qiyun: Lectures on Stone Inscriptions of the Six Dynasties" includes rubbings of the surviving characters in the stone carvings of the Southern Dynasty mausoleums, explained by three professors, Cheng Zhangcan, Zhang Xuefeng and Tong Ling. Including 15 tomb stone carvings, 1 tomb brick, 1 well column, 2 statue records, 1 statue stele, 2 Moya stone carvings, 3 Jigong stele, mainly involving the stone carvings in front of the tomb of Prince Xiaoliang, reflecting the unique style and charm of the Southern Dynasty, and at the same time, it includes rare extensions of important inscriptions from the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, such as the Han Dynasty's "School Official's Stele", the Three Kingdoms Wu's "Tianfa Divine Stele", the Southern Dynasty's "Cuan Baozi Stele", the "Cuan Long Yan Stele", the "Crane Inscription", the Tang Dynasty's "Ming Zhengjun Stele", etc., reflecting the continuity of the development of stone carving documents and calligraphy art. It shows the historical status of the Southern Dynasty "following the Han Kai Tang".
Professors Cheng Zhangcan, Zhang Xuefeng and Tong Ling of Nanjing University combined their research expertise to cut into the fields of ancient literature, archaeology and history, and excavated and reproduced the deep factors such as the historical story, political ecology, social and cultural soil behind the stone carving rubbings, so that readers can deeply understand the history of the Six Dynasties and feel the culture of the Six Dynasties.
"When Cancer Knocks"
Written by Cao Chaorong
Seventh floor bookstore 丨Scientific Science and Technology Literature Publishing House
Dr. Cao Chaorong, who has been practicing medicine for more than 40 years, is an authority on cancer medicine in Taiwan and a cancer patient who has survived the 20th year of tongue cancer surgery. With his own professional talent and personal experience of cancer, he has been brewing, fermenting and writing for 10 years, completing this medical popular science book, so that the public can understand the correct cancer diagnosis methods, medical resource selection, main treatment methods, cancer prevention knowledge, and physical and mental care for cancer patients through reading, and fixed the precious experience and philosophical model of practicing medicine and accompanying.
"Chinese Peach and Plum"
Liang Xiaosheng
Writers Press
In 2000, Li Xiaodong and Xu Ran, freshmen in the department of Chinese, met for the first time on the train to the university, and after a small conflict, their impressions of each other were not good. Neither he nor she expected that this would be the beginning of a long entanglement or entanglement. Preaching, teaching, dispelling puzzles... In the university, the rational people are in the world, but outside the ivory tower, they are under siege. Will the tragedy of Juan Sheng and Zijun in "Wounded Death" really be staged in another form in the new century?
Hometown, provincial capital, Beijing... The twists and turns of life trajectory are nothing more than finding a place to live. I always have to wait until I am tired of running, and then I suddenly find that this place of peace of mind is my hometown.
《Autumn Garden》
By Yang Benfen
Lefu Culture 丨Beijing United Publishing Company
In 1914, there was a person in the world, "Autumn Garden". In 1918, the Chinese language had the word "she". Autumn Garden, she has come, struggled, despaired, and been happy. Today, her 80-year-old daughter tells the world about her ordinary.
As the author said, "I wrote the story of the life of an ordinary Chinese woman, how our family struggled to survive like driftwood in the water, and wrote about the life and death of those rural characters in the hinterland of Central and Southern China." I know that the story I write is like a drop of water that will eventually flow into the long river of human history. ”
"New Motherhood"
By Ann Oakley
Watchmen 丨 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 one question after another. 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.
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