April 23, World Book Day, is also the annual "China Good Books" release day.
"China Good Books" is a book selection activity sponsored by the China Book Critics Association under the guidance of the Central Propaganda Department, which aims to transmit positive energy and promote and guide the reading of the whole people through the promotion of good books.
At the grand ceremony of the "National Reading Conference • Chinese Good Books", "Forty Degrees North Latitude" won the "2021 China Good Books". This is the second honor won by Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House after winning the Book Award of the Fifth China Publishing Government Award in 2021 and the "2020 China Good Book".
Award speech
As a cultural essay, "Forty Degrees North Latitude" takes the long-standing Chinese civilization as the context, conducts cultural and historical exploration of the geographical belt of forty degrees north latitude, and draws a different map of China's thousand miles of rivers and mountains.
"Forty Degrees North Latitude" is a collection of historical and cultural essays written by literary critic Mr. Chen Fumin, and the first theme essay to be explored around forty degrees north latitude. Chen Fumin took the long history of China as the longitude and the geographical belt of 40 degrees north latitude as the latitude, and drew a different map of the ancient rivers and mountains.
The geographical belt of "forty degrees north latitude" and the Great Wall of China are interdependent in each other, and it runs through the whole of North China, which is the most magnificent mountain and river in China.
Marked by the Great Wall, the 40-degree north latitude geographical belt has gradually formed different ethnic groups and lifestyles in the process of historical evolution. The different races looked at each other, imagined each other, and joined each other, eventually completing the fusion of different civilization types.
About the Author
Chen Fumin
Scholar and critic. Doctor of Literature. In 1996, he joined the Research Office of Contemporary Literature at the Institute of Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is the vice president of the Chinese Contemporary Literature Research Association; a member of the Prose Professional Committee of the Chinese Writers Association; a director of the Beijing Writers Association; the deputy secretary general of the Literature Committee of the Beijing Literary and Art Critics Association; and a judge of the Mao Dun Literature Award and the Lu Xun Literature Award for many times. He is the author of the literary criticism collection "The Power of Reading and Criticism" and the historical and cultural essay collection "Forty Degrees North Latitude".
"Forty Degrees North Latitude": Presenting the beauty of China
Receive honors
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Won the "2021 China Good Book"
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Won the 2021 Harvest Literature List and Feature-Length Nonfiction List
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Selected for the 2021 National Elderly Recommendation Excellent Publication
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Selected into the Guangming Daily Guangming Book List
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It was selected into the annual excellent best-selling literature sub-list of China Press, Publication, Radio and Telegraph
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It was selected into the "China Press, Publication, Radio and Telegraph" good book reading list
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Selected for the 22nd issue of the "Liberation Book List"
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It was selected as one of the 30 good books in the Shanghai edition of China Reading News
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It was selected as one of the top ten literary books of the year by China Publishing Media Business Daily
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It was selected as the annual literary influence book of China Publishing Media Business Daily
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Selected by Yangtze River Literary Review in the 2021 Annual Literary Ranking (non-fiction)
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Selected for the "Literary Criticism" 2021 Annual Literary Works Book List
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Selected as one of the top 10 non-fiction original books of the year
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Selected as the Spring Breeze Reading List's Best Book of the Year and Non-Fiction Good Book of the Year
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Selected for the 100 Good Books List
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Selected for "Sinan Book List 2021" · Positive List Non-Fiction of the Year
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Selected as one of the top ten books of the year in the cover news "2021 Hall of Fame Humanities List"
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Selected as one of the top ten good books in "Book Fragrant Sheep City"
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Named to Peninsula News' Top 10 Books of the Year
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Selected for the Writer's Digest Good Book List
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Selected for the list of good Chinese books
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Selected into the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Book Review Good Book List
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Selected into the List of Original Good Books Chinese Humanities and Social Sciences
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Publication significance
The great cultural essay "Forty Degrees North Latitude" takes the long-standing Chinese civilization as the longitude and the geographical belt of the north latitude of forty degrees as the latitude, drawing a majestic map of the ancient rivers and mountains. This book uses a contemporary vision to hook history and illuminate the future, and is a song of the brilliant and immortal Chinese civilization.
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This book is a lofty tribute to the Chinese nation, a glory of Chinese civilization, and an in-depth exploration of national integration and cultural prosperity in the new era.
The Chinese nation is the ancient and great nation in the world, creating a splendid civilization that has lasted for more than 5,000 years and making indelible contributions to the progress of human civilization. Taking history as a mirror to know the rise and fall, this book is based on the "forty degrees north latitude", which is the key area where farming peoples and nomadic peoples are intertwined with each other, civilization and culture are intertwined, and through the writing of grand historical memories and individual life experiences, this book explores how Chinese civilization presents a vibrant cultural relationship and dynamic structure under the background of different ethnic groups learning from each other and shaping each other, so as to respond to why Chinese civilization has survived a long river of time and has been endlessly vibrant. It has also built a Chinese national community and a common spiritual homeland of the Chinese nation, forming a strong spiritual bond of cohesion and unity and progress. This book presents the value and significance of the Chinese nation, history and civilization in the new era with exquisite literary expression.
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This book is a professional reading of literature with both historical and geographical characteristics, which is not only an affectionate review of history and an interpretation of the present, but also a masterpiece of prose that presents the beauty of China in geographical space.
"Forty Degrees North Latitude" is a perfect combination of the delicate brushwork of literary creation and the rigorous posture of historical research, and it is also a masterpiece of cultural prose that combines historical facts with literary lyricism, and attaches equal importance to historical retelling and sense of scene, which is both telling history and representing modern concerns. This book combines the ideals of root-seeking culture and spiritual bloodline, allowing people to obtain "spiritual discoveries" across time, effectively linking history and contemporary times. The author has visited geographical sites several times, bringing history into the present and giving history new vitality and possibilities, and "Forty Degrees North Latitude" has also been praised by scholars as "Contemporary New "History"" by scholars. From a geographical point of view, this book is a literary experiment that presents the beauty of China spatially, and in addition to the explicit geographical line of "forty degrees north latitude", there is another potential geographical line from west to east. For the continuous return of the "forty degrees north latitude" geographical belt, it has the motivation and significance of historical search, geographical examination, value re-appreciation, and self-confirmation, and the concept of "forty degrees north latitude" proposed for the first time in this book has thus become a new area for understanding China.
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This book is a popular and popular historical and cultural essay that is easy to read, and innovatively uses popular stories to tell and explain China's traditional history and culture.
"Forty Degrees North Latitude" is a highly readable Chinese history and culture of the good book, in the historical truth and literary fiction calmly switch, but the text is not obscure, difficult to read, this is a text written for ordinary readers, beautiful, grounded language can allow readers to see the reading process as a grand trip to find historical mysteries. Judging from the screening, screening and description of historical materials, "Forty Degrees North Latitude" combines vivid language, delicate descriptions, appropriate psychological analysis and rigorous historical materials, and talks with readers with their hearts, "looking at the ancient and modern in a flash, touching the four seas in a moment", while clearly explaining and well China's excellent history and culture, it is both intellectual, ideological and literary. The idea, position and aesthetics of "Forty Degrees North Latitude" also have the significance of a new system of articles, a new style of writing, and a new historical outlook and world outlook.
Expert recommendation
Lee Kyung-taek
Forty degrees north latitude, this important geographical belt is both a story of history and a modern concern. When observing Chinese history, the 40th parallel represents the dynamic structure of Chinese civilization for 5,000 years, in this area, nomadic civilizations and agricultural civilizations are intertwined and intertwined, and various ethnic groups in history interact here, forming a mighty historical torrent. The author has a rich knowledge reserve and field preparation, and the works provide a new paradigm of historical writing, representing the new possibilities and broader space of literature and pan-literature.
Bai Ye
"Forty Degrees North Latitude" is a fascinating special text, with a composite nature, there is an essay component, there is also a thesis component, and even the component of historical evidence, and there are many stories. This is Chen Fumin's new interpretation of famous events and famous people. Behind these stories, there is a new understanding of many events, telling the process of the integration of nationalities and the collision and integration of civilizations.
Meng bustling
"Forty Degrees North Latitude" is written very purely. When Chen Fumin wrote "Forty Degrees North Latitude", he used literature to dialogue with history, history and literature are not the same, literature can be classicized, history cannot be classicized, but history can be historicized, and it is not the longer the time, the more it is called historicization, and the longer the time is, the history is still history, and only new and continuous dialogue can present history more clearly. When history is clear, our understanding of reality and the future is also clear.
Liang Hongying
The history of the various ethnic groups in the north is an important topic in our country, Chen Fumin attacked from the front, starting from the head of the entire root vein, and after clarifying it, Zhixing looked at the past, and from this book we can see the author's feelings. At the same time, he also wrote that the fierce ambitions of history cannot grow, ideals are difficult to achieve, and the gap with actual historical conditions restores the historical trends and events that have influenced in a region that has not been noticed.
He Shaojun
"Forty Degrees North Latitude" is of great significance in the current prose creation. Chen Fumin mentioned in the book that there should be a legitimate view of literature and history, which is his critical view and a principle that he adheres to in writing this book. The literary view and the historical view are coordinated and unified, not sticking to one thing and one thing, not being limited to the theory of formality, and trying to grasp the core and essence of events through all-round, historical synthesis and comparison when analyzing and arguing.
Sun Yu
Critic Chen Fumin's new work "Forty Degrees North Latitude" is not only familiar with the classics, but importantly, it is necessary to do field investigations along the north latitude of forty degrees, between the mountains and rivers, in the place of grass and trees, found many traces of the ancients. From Liaoxi in the east, to Longdi in the west, and to Mohe in the north, what you see and feel is different from the feeling of traditional history books. On the one hand, borrowing old materials, on the other hand, there is a sense of field, and in the inaccessible area, some nerves of ancient times have been touched.
Yao Dali
"Forty Degrees North Latitude" is a superior work in the "non-fiction literature" trend that has been in the ascendant in recent years. On the "non-fiction" side, it has some commonalities with historical writing, but it cannot be written by historical practitioners. Because it also has a "literary" side, that is, the use of literary techniques and techniques to tell the real story, giving the real story a "powerful emotional and aesthetic effect".
Horse step up
Based on historical facts, supplemented by on-the-spot surveys, and then with flying and flexible words, the author runs across the historical and cultural circles, integrating the ancient and modern in a weft line. The insights of historians and the feelings of literati are always dancing in "Forty Degrees North Latitude".
Wu Jun
The original intention of "Forty Degrees North Latitude" is very large, very deep, and very extensive. It has been more than 2,000 years up and down, spanning all of China inside and outside. The core of it lies in revealing how the historical scene at 40 degrees north latitude decisively influenced, interpreted, and created China and Its culture and civilization.
Hairy tip
Chen Fumin is willing to work research, and Forty Degrees North Latitude is an example, he and his Great Wall form an isomorphism.
Zhong Hongming
This book is a book of youth. The author is not a boring narrative of history, but very enthusiastic and warm. In the process of reading such historical prose, the reader will be brought in, and the breadth and meaning of the work will be different for each reader, which is very successful.
Joe leaf
All history is contemporary history, and it is not only a question of the reincarnation of history, but also a test of the writer's ability to see the essence through phenomena and how to see history with a contemporary eye. At the same time, how to use historical events to reflect the contemporary is a difficult matter, and we need to work hard to find a balance between them. And to deal with it interestingly, interestingly, and to see the temperament of the writer, all aspects of the requirements are very high.
'd rather
We must introduce the spirit of the classics to connect with modern people, and now this hundred years and the past few thousand years must have a bridge, a tentacle, and we need to open up the ancient Ren Dou er vein and establish a close connection with the present. Chen Fumin's "Forty Degrees North Latitude" is a fairly successful work. He very clearly and consciously crossed such a highway, had a very modern consciousness, and established a very effective dialogue with the ancient times on the basis of the modern century.
Zhou Xiaofeng
Forty Degrees North is a book destined to belong to Chen Fumin, and his interest, learning, accumulation, and his criticism of the subjective, gamified, and personal likes and dislikes of positions in the way he makes historical judgments, constitute the way the book is presented. This is the knowledge, insight, and consciousness of the critic, including his boldness. From "Forty Degrees North Latitude", I found that the author's position, aesthetics, and shots and creations were extraordinary, and I saw the writing with temperature and taste.
Yang early
"Forty Degrees North Latitude" has fixed focus and zoom, bringing a completely different dimension and perspective to the historical narrative. This perspective is a transcendent and groundbreaking development for the traditional Narrative of Chinese history. The establishment of spatial consciousness brought about by "Forty Degrees North Latitude" and its elaboration of the entire forty degrees north latitude in the history of the Chinese nation after its rise have made pioneering contributions.
Wang Jijun
The style of Forty Degrees North contains not only idealistic feelings, but also very realistic concerns. As Chen Fumin said in the interview, thinking about this heroism from the perspective of very practical survival, people's needs, living conditions, various environments, and very specific cultural factors is also exploring how people have the pursuit of stability or happiness in a very harsh environment.
Liu Daxian
After postmodernity or deconstructionism, we will find that all history may be like literature, and we are just one point of view from a certain point of view. But the book "Forty Degrees North Latitude" has its own determination, has a judgment, uses a concept to string out historical facts, and then gives its own insights, which is very rare. "Forty degrees north latitude" gives us a very clear image, and this image has a lot of potential to be tapped.
Yang Qingxiang
"Forty Degrees North Latitude" has three frameworks, the first framework is the framework of epistemology, which involves many important intellectual aspects; the second framework is the framework of civilization theory, that is, how to re-understand China's ancient history and China's contemporary history within the framework of civilization theory, and how to effectively communicate and dialogue; the third framework is the framework of narrative theory, so that the book maintains a literary narrative. The author makes a personal style and his own characteristics within these three frameworks.
Huang Dehai
Forty Degrees North creates a literary image. Not only that, "Forty Degrees North Latitude" also stitches together history and reality to form a new discourse. This kind of discussion is different from the discussion of historical logic that we commonly perceive. Rather, it is to return to our own history, to our own conception of history, to state our own historical clues and historical possibilities.
Yue Wen
Teacher Chen Fumin looks at the problem from the perspective of the conflict between nomadic civilization and agricultural civilization and the process of their interaction. Behind this is a large vision of civilization theory, and the most fundamental foothold is the survival and development of the value of this civilization, which is also the focus of the entire book of "Forty Degrees North Latitude". In the heat of globalization, we look back at history, reinterpret history in a traditional way, and in the process of reinterpreting history, we also reinterpret our current state.
Item Jing
"Forty Degrees North Latitude" is a book of practice, with the author's ongoing cognition to clean up the historical stereotypes and excessive literary rhetoric, distinguish various arguments and relics, and let the difficult process of achieving history and civilization itself emerge one by one.
Zhang Dinghao
There must be a utopia in the mind of a historian or a good historian, and this utopia is, to some extent, his own ideology and his own theoretical cognition. For it to be recognized, it must have a process of amplification, trade-off and selection. The writing of "Forty Degrees North Latitude" is a continuous writing, returning to the more ancient tradition of historiography.
Kim Lee
As an important area for exchanges, integration, conflict and competition between different nationalities and even different civilizations, the "forty degrees north latitude" that highly coincides with the Great Wall is undoubtedly a geographical boundary and historical concept that exudes unique charm. "Forty Degrees North Latitude" represents contemporary literature to effectively respond to the magnificent proposition of frontier history, and at the same time reproduces the boundaries and potential of "literature" in the wave of "non-fiction" writing.
Wood leaves
When writing history, whether in a literary, non-fiction or historical way, it is very important to pay attention to words and ornaments, text and action, and this book also uses its own efforts to include these things. What we see in "Forty Degrees North" is that a nation, a country, is constantly exploring its own body. In fact, he explores the soul associated with the body—why this nation, this country, is like this.
Li Linrong
For contemporary writers and contemporary readers, history is a process of dialogue with historical documents. True contemporary historical writing should be full of dialogue writing, and this dialogue writing has very high requirements for the subject of dialogue. In this sense, the most prominent point of "Forty Degrees North Latitude" is that this book dedicates a new image of the subject of dialogue with history in the contemporary literary world, which is more important than the writing technique or the discernment of a specific historical fact.
Xu Gang
"Forty Degrees North Latitude" was very stretched, very cheerful, and happy when it was written, and Chen Fumin found the meaning of writing. Whether it is writing novels, writing prose, or writing literary criticism, each of us who writes is always looking for the meaning of writing, in this sense, we should congratulate and envy Teacher Chen Fumin.
Zhu Fa
Forty degrees north latitude is not only a one-dimensional standard. Behind this heavy work that seems to be dominated by historical narrative and criticism, it must first be pointed out that the author is not a deep historian immersed in the old paper, but a critic who has been wandering in the field of literature for a long time. In the past, we will repeat the Chen saying that "literature and history do not separate families", which of course has repeatedly echoed and recognized in literary history.
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