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Once | World Book Day, let's read together – these are good books that you can't miss

Once | World Book Day, let's read together – these are good books that you can't miss

Humanity / Nature / Life

Yinchuan Evening Newspaper Official Fang Wenhua WeChat Pingtai | No. 1087

The flower blossom reading season, mostly when reading. Some people feel the wind and bones of their predecessors in the vast ocean of history; some people find their firm hearts in legendary stories; some people glimpse the mysteries of the future in fantasy and wisdom... Reading books, that's it, every page will make you meet a better world. Today is the 27th World Book Day, we interviewed Wang Fei, head of the operation and development center of Yinchuan Xinhua Bookstore Co., Ltd., who recommended some excellent books to add a book fragrance to this spring.

Once | World Book Day, let's read together – these are good books that you can't miss
Once | World Book Day, let's read together – these are good books that you can't miss

Natasha's Dance: A History of Russian Culture

Author: [English] Orlando Figis

Publisher: Sichuan People's Publishing House

Through Tolstoy's famous book War and Peace, the book explores the deep and complex multiple aspects of Russian culture, showing the differences and complex interactions between the European culture of the upper classes and the Russian culture of the peasants, and how the confrontation between "civilization" and "native" has had a crucial impact on national consciousness and literature and art from the 19th century onwards.

Once | World Book Day, let's read together – these are good books that you can't miss

"The Bottom of Fracking"

Author: [American] Eliza Griswold

Publisher: Wenhui Publishing House

This book tells the story of poor families living in natural gas-extracting areas who are caught up in an environmental crisis. With seven years of immersive reporting, the author shows the eternal contradiction between energy development and environmental protection, while revealing the plight of the bottom people in the United States in the gap between capital and government.

Once | World Book Day, let's read together – these are good books that you can't miss

"Reading water margin"

Author: Absalom

Publisher: Sanqin Publishing House

This is a book that interprets the characters of Water Margin. The book writes about Lin Chong, Lu Zhishen, Song Jiang, Wu Yong, Chao Gai, Wu Song, Li Kui, Hu Sanniang, Shi Xiu, Yan Qing, Shi Jin, Lei Heng, Zhu Tong, Yang Zhi and more than a dozen other characters, the author "strives to understand their psychology, deliberate their behavior, analyze their personality, and figure out why they behave in this way", so that each character can show his complex side and show the good and evil in the depths of their human nature.

Once | World Book Day, let's read together – these are good books that you can't miss

"Native China"

Author: Fei Xiaotong

Publisher: Shanghai People's Publishing House

Professor Fei Xiaotong, a famous sociologist, has written many immortal chapters in his life, conducting field investigations and investigations to summarize various models of China's rural economic development. This book introduces four masterpieces recognized by scholars on the traditional culture of Chinese vernacular society and the theory of social structure, "Vernacular China", "Fertility System", "Re-establishment of The Vernacular Land" and "Imperial Power and Gentry Power", which can be used as a reference for sociological work or teaching and researchers.

Once | World Book Day, let's read together – these are good books that you can't miss

History of Chinese Philosophy

Author: Feng Youlan

Publisher: Gu Wuxuan Publishing House

This book was written by Feng Youlan in 1928 when he went to Tsinghua University to teach the history of Chinese philosophy (in 1931 and 1934, he completed the first and second volumes of the History of Chinese Philosophy, and later used as a university textbook) The book wrote the history of Chinese philosophy with the attitude of "interpreting the ancients", which was highly praised by Chen Yinke and Jin Yuelin, two reviewers, and was called the foundation work of the discipline of the history of Chinese philosophy.

Once | World Book Day, let's read together – these are good books that you can't miss

The Course of Beauty

Author: Li Zehou

Published: Life Reading New Knowledge Triptych Bookstore

This book is a classic of Chinese aesthetics. Condensing the author Mr. Li Zehou's years of research, he shows the Chinese's feelings of beauty in the past and the present in front of everyone's eyes, such as sensibility and kindness. With exquisite illustrations, it more concretely shows this magnificent beauty of China.

Once | World Book Day, let's read together – these are good books that you can't miss

The Republic

Author: [Ancient Greece] Plato

Publisher: Yunnan People's Publishing House

Like most of Plato's writings, the Republic, with Socrates as the protagonist, is written in a dialogue style and is divided into 10 volumes, which is second only to the Law, and is generally considered to belong to Plato's mid-period works. This "Philosophical Compendium" is not only Plato's summary and summary of his previous philosophical thought, but also a synthesis of various disciplines at that time, which explores the problems of philosophy, politics, ethics, education, literature and art, etc., and establishes a systematic ideal state program based on the theory of ideas.

Once | World Book Day, let's read together – these are good books that you can't miss

The Four Precepts of the Mortals

Author: Yuan Yifan

Publisher: Hundred Flowers Literary and Art Publishing House

The Four Precepts of The Four Precepts of The Ming Dynasty, written by Yuan Guofan in the Ming Dynasty, expounds the idea of "self-reliance on one's own destiny and one's own happiness and seeking one's own happiness", pointing out that all misfortunes and blessings are in one's own hands, and that doing good deeds accumulates blessings, and evil deeds invite misfortune; and he also appears to explain this principle in combination with the three schools of Confucianism, Interpretation, and Taoism, and expounds this principle with his own experience and experience, encouraging him to stand up for goodness, be cautious and independent, seek more blessings for himself, and avoid disasters from afar.

Once | World Book Day, let's read together – these are good books that you can't miss

General History of China

Author: Lu Simian

Publisher: Qunyan Publishing House

This "General History of China" was written by Mr. Lu Simian to meet the needs of university teaching at that time when Shanghai became an "isolated island" during the War of Resistance Against Japan. The book is divided into two volumes, the first volume is the history of Chinese culture, and the second volume is the history of Chinese politics. A book that condenses 5,000 years of China's history in one book, using only 380,000 words.

Once | World Book Day, let's read together – these are good books that you can't miss

A World Without Time

Author: Tim Ye

Publisher: Shanghai Sanlian Bookstore

This book is a collection of Yip Kam Tim's art essays, which includes his aesthetic views and practical aspects in multiple fields such as costumes, stage, film art, visual arts, and contemporary art creation, and explains his unique artistic propositions and ways to generate creativity from tradition and culture. Running through it is his philosophical reflections on time and space, the future, technology, people and their surroundings, and their relationships.

Once | World Book Day, let's read together – these are good books that you can't miss

Bordertown

Author: Shen Congwen

Publisher: China Youth Publishing House

"Border City" is Mr. Shen Congwen's most prestigious masterpiece, known as "the purest novel text in the history of literature" and "the ethereal fairy in the novel". In 1999, Asia Weekly launched the "Top 100 Novels of the twentieth century Chinese", and "Border city" ranked second. His works have been translated into more than 40 languages and published, and have been selected into university textbooks by more than 10 countries or regions such as the United States, Japan, South Korea, and the United Kingdom.

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Xinhua Bookstore bestseller ranking

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The World of Man (All Three Volumes)

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One Hundred Years of Solitude (50th Anniversary Edition)

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"Blessings from Heavenly Officials (I)"

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《Confession》

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"Hard to Coax"

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Paradise Tour

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Finishing | reporter Wang Min

The accompanying pictures are all profile pictures

Editor| Seventh Floor Qi Yu

The head of the duty | Li Zhenwen

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