In 2021, a total of 72 books were read, which was the same as in 2020, including 6 books of party history, 13 books of three rural areas, 10 books of Internet and e-commerce, 15 books of economic management, 12 books of humanities and social sciences, and 16 books of literature and art, and the overall time schedule showed the characteristics of more than two ends and less in the middle. Previously, a brief evaluation was made in chronological order by quarterly reading, and now the brief evaluation is classified by bibliographic category as follows (the bibliography in each category, except for the annual recommendation, is basically in the order of reading time).
I. Party History (6 books)
1. "Decisive Battle: How Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek Responded to the Three Major Battles", by Jin Chongji, Life, Reading, and Xinzhi Sanlian Bookstore.
In fact, from the very beginning, the Kuomintang repeated the mistakes of the Japanese army invading China, seized territory, fell into the ocean of people's war, and quickly became corrupt, doomed to failure, and the command of the three major battles made this defeat more thorough. The commanders of the two sides, one who fully grasps the information, has the strategic initiative and tactical flexibility, boldly authorizes the generals at the front, and wins a decisive victory in the midst of strategizing; one is taking it for granted, the strategy is passive and tactically rigid, and the failure is even worse when he visits several times. In the face of the great war that determined the fate of history, Chiang Kai-shek appeared many unbelievable divine operations, such as supervising the battle on the front line of the Liaoshen Campaign and suddenly running to Shanghai to deal with personal affairs; the Huaihai Campaign wanted to smoothly withdraw, but suddenly wanted to counter-encircle, and the results can be imagined.
2. "Reading the Second Collection of Mao Zedong's Notes", by Chen Jin, Life, Reading, and Xinzhi Triptych Bookstore. If you study everything deeply, you can go deep and easy.
Mr. Chen Jin has been working in the Central Documentation Research Office for many years, studying Mao Zedong all his life, the historical materials disclosed in the book are real and verifiable, and the books written are naturally easy to read, especially the disclosure of some historical details, such as the treatment of Yan'an intellectuals reflected in the high fee, Mao Zedong's disappointment in several talents and young cadres in his later years, etc., which are interspersed with discussions and are impressive.
3. "The Revelation of Sparks: The Creation and Development of Revolutionary Base Areas", by Jin Chong and Jin Chong, Life, Reading, and Xinzhi Triptych Bookstore.
The most important part of this book is the reflection on the creation of the Western Fujian Soviet Region in gannan province, which is a long discussion, but it is easier to read; what impresses me most is the unique course of the Shandong anti-Japanese base area and the initial stage of the Northeast Liberation War, both of which are the opening of a new situation in a dangerous situation, and which have paid less attention to in the past, the former is a self-made start to the end of the army is strong, the latter is based on unstable but broken boats and finally reversed the situation, reading to feel profound.
4. "The History of a Book: Hu Qiaomu and Hu Shengtan", by Jin Chonghe, Life, Reading, and Xinzhi Sanlian Bookstore.
This book records in detail the process of the birth of the book "Seventy Years of the Communist Party of China", especially Hu Qiaomu and Hu Sheng's evaluation and qualitative discussion of important historical events, including the careful use of word by word, discussion after discussion, deliberation over and over again, and some background marginal notes. Through these details, we can see that behind a book is the rigorous spirit of governance, admirable historical knowledge and historical writing.
5. "Battle in Shanghai", by Liu Tong, Shanghai People's Publishing House, Xuelin Publishing House.
The liberation of Shanghai is only the first step, and how to govern this large city in the Far East with a population of 6 million is the real test, but it took only one year for the Communists from the countryside to enter the city to complete this examination paper well, accumulating valuable experience for the urban management and economic work of the entire new China, and also shattering the prediction that "the Communist Party fights wars and does not do economic work." Later, the policies of unified supply and unified marketing that we were familiar with were also summed up from the Work in Shanghai in this period. The whole book is skillfully written and reads freely, and it is a good reading of party history.
6. "Three Yugoslavias", by Ma Xipu, Contemporary China Publishing House.
The book was read in one sitting, in 40,000 words briefly described the basic situation of Yugoslavia in the three historical periods of the Yugoslav Dynasty, the Yugoslav Federation and the short-lived Yugoslav Federation, due to the complexity of the historical ethnic contradictions, although in The Second World War to form an alliance against the Nazis, but the hidden crisis has not been resolved, after Tito's death, the Alliance quickly disintegrated, and triggered a chain of wars, which made people sigh, and its historical lessons were also thought-provoking. In addition, the editorial philosophy of this series of books is also commendable, that is, it is concisely compiled into a booklet, so that everyone can read it without effort. Coincidentally, in the early stage, I read a book written by a foreigner, which clearly stated that this book could be read in one trip. The pace of society is fast, the book is thinner, a little easier to read, so that more people do not lose the seeds of reading.
II. Three Agricultural Categories (13 books)
1. "Thinking of Danger in Times of Peace: National Security and Rural Governance" (Revised Edition), Wen Tiejun et al., Oriental Publishing House.
The extreme importance of the "three rural areas" issue from the perspective of global crisis resolution is both an important strategic buffer and the potential for future growth. The author adheres to the consistent view that the deep hinterland of China's "three rural areas" has helped China resolve many major historical crises, and rural revitalization thus requires a higher and farther observation position. If you read the author's earlier works "Eight Crises: China's Real Experience 1949-2009" and the newly published "Globalization and National Competition: A Comparative Study of the Emerging Seven Countries", you can better appreciate this broad observation horizon and the big historical research path.
2. Fruit Hunter: A Story of Nature, Commerce, Adventure and Obsession, by Adam Lees Göllner, thus translated, Life, Reading, and New Knowledge Triptych Bookstore.
To put it simply, it seems to be a universal law in the world for the poor to eat spicy and rich to eat sweet, and for the poor to eat vegetables and fruits. The grab for sugar and the pursuit of fruit sweetness, as well as the attempt at more fruit categories, are all manifestations of the rich era. But the authors expose the unforgiving reality that while the world's rich begin to explore the world in search of more delicious fruits, the poor people of the Third World have to cut down their own fruit trees to grow food, and their first task is to fill their stomachs, an unequal fruit world.
3. "Pu'er Cooked Tea Textbook", by Zhou Chonglin and Yang Jingqian, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Press.
As a young professional researcher, the author has written a lot, and in recent years I have read several books and written book reviews, and I have become friends with the author. In this book, the author uses simple language to clearly and clearly describe the knowledge of all aspects of Pu'er ripe tea, and it can be seen that modern Pu'er tea is a very young tea category, only a few decades of time, which is the natural fermentation process of the Tea Horse Ancient Road for half a year or even a year or more, and is accelerated by the Wodui technology, so as to make the large-leaf tea in Yunnan glow with a different brilliance.
4. "Five Acres for Big Run: The Reform and Practice of China's Fruit Industry in the New Era", by Qing Yang, China Agricultural Science and Technology Press.
The author is a fruit industry "old jianghu", running all over the country's fruit production areas, handing over various big coffee, the title of the book is novel and atmospheric, the writing is concise but very sharp. Good at using data to speak, from China's fruit production, resident consumption and other calculations, the overall supply is oversupplied, must take the road of high-quality characteristics. The style of writing is humorous and funny, describing the European and American fruit industry as a Shaolin school and a hard kung fu; the Japanese fruit industry is a Wudang school with strong internal skills; the Chinese fruit industry is a beggar gang, and there is no helper. The positioning of different business entities is also discussed in the comparison, family farms are suitable for fine products, and scale operations are suitable for standard products. After reading it, I made a recommendation to my peers in the fruit industry, that is, full-color printing, which is a bit expensive.
5. Botanical Garden: 200 Incredible Anecdotes of 400 Plant Species, by Anne-France-Dortwell, translated by Sun Juan, Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd.
As the recommended words of this book say, this is an all-encompassing plant miscellaneous, involving a total of 400 kinds of plants, the content comes from botanical works, myths and legends to academic papers, travel essays, etc., specially picked out 200 plant gossip, rigorous but interesting, scientific and practical, foreigners are always very exquisite leisure, beautiful writing, witty language, suitable for leisure reading.
6. "Ten Years of Liang Zhuang", by Liang Hong, Shanghai Sanlian Bookstore.
It is the third part of the trilogy of Liangzhuang's documentary works, following "China in Liangzhuang" to pay attention to the pain of rural transformation, "Out of Liangzhuang" to care about the hardships of migrant workers, once again turning their eyes back to the village, and the first part reflects the shocking scene of the rural transformation era, the second part describes the sorrow and sorrow of the peasants entering the city, this book has been peaceful and natural, "look at the mountain or the mountain" is the tone of the book, and then write about the return to the hometown and people and things, "want to write this long river-like process, want to let every wave be refracted by the sun.".
7. "Digital Agriculture: The Only Way to the Development of Agricultural Modernization", Zhu Yan et al., Intellectual Property Publishing House.
Digital agriculture has unconsciously become an obvious science, and there are more discussions among all parties, but in general, it is still in its infancy, and the gap between the digitalization process of the secondary and tertiary industries is large. From the perspective of scholars, this book sorts out and compiles the concepts, connotations, compositions, progress, problems, etc. of digital agriculture through relevant literature, which is a good bird's-eye view reading, but perhaps due to the depth of the bookstore, the selection of practical cases often deviates from the cognition in the industry, and some cases are actually only found in the literature.
8. "Southeast Asian Fruit Hunter", by Yang Xiaoyang, China Agriculture Press.
China's native fruits and Southeast Asian fruits are similar and very different, the book contains 19 families and 37 kinds of fruits, Chinese familiar with only 5 species, only 5 species distributed in the mainland, the other 27 species are distributed in Southeast Asia or other tropical regions, many of which we do not know. Unlike the more famous "Fruit Hunter" book, this book is mainly based on the display of pictures, often from seedlings to trees, from inflorescences to fruits, showing a large number of photos, supplemented by a small amount of text, more visual and intuitive. For example, the mysterious woman's ass fruit that spends a lot of ink in "Fruit Hunter", this book directly shows the picture, that is, the underwater coconut of the Seychelles, of course, there are some similarities.
9. "Foreign Farmers I Visited", by Han Changfu, China Agricultural Publishing House.
This is a world agriculture observation of the minister of agriculture of a big country, in the process of intensive travel, the author timely recorded the observation of the agriculture of the country he visited and some thoughts on the actual situation in China, and finally presented it in the form of storytelling. According to the geographical location of the countries visited, the book is divided into 15 parts such as Western European family farms, Nordic family farmers, Balkan farmers, etc., involving 49 countries and regions around the world such as the United States, Germany, France, Russia, Brazil, Thailand, etc. On the one hand, it tells what it sees and hears in foreign villages, praises for pastoral songs, has a homely dialogue with farmers, and also explores the fields; while thinking about the enlightenment of China's three rural areas, such as the cooperative mechanism in Western Europe, the agricultural socialization service system in North America, Professional manager management model in Kibbutz, Israel, etc.
10. "Agitation: Memories of the "Three Rural Areas" of the Republic", edited by the Research Office of Contemporary Agricultural History of the Rural Economic Research Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Contemporary China Publishing House.
This book is composed of a review of major rural theoretical issues, interviews with important rural figures, and memoirs, which concentrate on the ins and outs of several major events in rural reform, such as the twists and turns of the agricultural cooperative movement, the germination of co-production contracting after 30 years, and the rise and fall of the rural collective economy. It is also through these combing and reminiscing that we have a systematic understanding of some important phenomena in the three rural areas, such as the township and town enterprises that sprung up after the reform and opening up, which actually originated in January 1958 when Comrade Mao Zedong gave the instruction that "we must learn to run a society and also learn to run a factory" at the Nanning Conference in January 1958, and for the first time put forward the concept of "social industry", which was mainly positioned in the agricultural productive service industry in the early stage.
11. "National Strategy: The True Secret of Poverty Alleviation in Yan'an", by Xing Xiaojun, Shaanxi Normal University Press.
Great causes need the praises of the times, and reportage literature makes the story of poverty alleviation in the holy land of revolution more touching and profound. The author does not depict the battlefield panorama of Yan'an's poverty alleviation in a grand narrative way, but carefully selects typical people and things such as ordinary peasant families returning farmland to forests, returning to their hometowns to achieve great changes in mountains and townships, the old branch secretary has been developing apple characteristic industries for many years and the disabled people have the courage to start an e-commerce business, etc., with touching stories to shape advanced characters who can sing and cry, and set off the overall era style of Yan'an's poverty alleviation with advanced figures, which is very pleasant to read.
12. "Report on the Development of China's Agricultural Brands (2021)", Chief Editor of the Department of Market and Information Technology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, China Agricultural University, China Agriculture Press.
This book is an annual review of agricultural brand development in 2020, including an overall discussion, case studies from 8 provinces, and articles by 6 experts. Overall, the consensus on agricultural branding has been formed, but the construction of regional public brands is not the same, supporting corporate brands, product brands have not yet been established, although the consumption habits of brand agricultural products have been formed, but what to buy, where to buy, how to buy is still a problem. At the same time, in terms of brand theory, it still mainly relies on the copying and copying of the West, and the agricultural brand theory that adapts to China's actual situation needs to be created.
13. "Different Apples", Edited by Yang Junxian and others, Science and Technology Literature Publishing House.
As an important fruit in the world, Apple appeared in the legend of the Bible, and also inspired Newton's mechanical research and became a symbol of high-end mobile phones. This book attempts to analyze the intrinsic quality, nutritional characteristics and health benefits of apples in more detail from a biochemical point of view, and sorts out the apple diet remedies for high-incidence diseases.
III. Internet and E-commerce (10 books)
1. Giants: The Runaway Internet Enterprise, edited by Martin Moore and Damian Tambini, translated by Wei Ruili and Ni Jindan, Zhejiang University Press.
The world's concerns about Internet giants are growing, as exemplified by the huge fines frequently issued by the European Union, and China is also undergoing stricter regulation, with Alibaba's huge fines of up to 18.228 billion yuan in 2021 and Meituan's 3.442 billion yuan punishment as a sign. The main concerns in Europe and the United States are that a private enterprise has taken a large number of citizens' data into its arms, and under the seemingly opaque algorithms and technological operations of the outside world, these platforms have distorted information dissemination, the proliferation of disinformation, the misleading consumption choices and even the interference of democratic politics, although the platform may not have deliberately done it. In China, the monopoly of the platform and the "two choices" and other violations of the law of the market economy have affected the normal market order and damaged the development of the real economy, and it is necessary to standardize governance.
2. "Boiling New Decade: Brave Crossers in the Mobile Internet Jungle (Part 1)", by Lin Jun and Hu Zhe, Electronic Industry Press.
This book is the sequel to "Boiling Fifteen Years", which mainly tells the business evolution of China's Internet in the decade from 2010 to 2020, and the first part mainly tells the story of 2010-2015. In this decade, the biggest feature of the Internet is full mobility, also known as the era of mobile Internet, which originated from the intelligent terminal represented by Apple and the open system represented by Android, which has spawned countless new business opportunities. 2010-2015 is the first half of the mobile Internet, all kinds of applications appeared, Qianfan racing and barbaric growth coexist, fierce competition and vertical intertwined, thousands of regiments war, takeaway war, online tourism war, cross-border e-commerce war, social media war, online car war in the support of capital intensified, Meituan, Weibo, WeChat, Didi, today's headlines, B station and other new platforms have emerged after the traditional TAB, people and things in it in the passionate dream to interpret the new story of China's Internet. The two authors from the editor of "Computer Newspaper", based on a large number of materials and extensive Internet contacts, can be said to be close to the report, wonderful and informative.
3. "Boiling New Decade: Brave Crossers in the Mobile Internet Jungle (Part 2)", by Lin Jun and Hu Zhe, Electronic Industry Press.
In July 2016, Wang Xing of Meituan proposed that China's Internet has entered the "second half" and won the recognition of the industry, the rapidly growing Internet demographic dividend is nearing the end, and the situation and competition mode of the Internet industry have begun to change. The second part of this book is about the "second half", the rise of the knowledge payment field, the surge of online education, the scuffle of fresh e-commerce, the war of a thousand broadcasts, the stormy rise of Pinduoduo, the bicycle war that is noisy and eclipsed for a while, the deformed growth of P2P, the competition between Kuaishou and Douyin, the quiet heating up of the second-hand economy, the outbreak of online office in the epidemic, the blood-loss competition of community group buying, and the formation of new consumption such as blind boxes and milk tea, as well as the phenomenon of small red books that are popular in planting grass. The Internet competition in the second half is more about the launch of innovative applications to compete for the limited time of users, some whimsical dreams eventually come true, and some imaginations eventually disappear.
4. "Number Quotient", by Tu Zipei, CITIC Publishing House.
The author's book read 3 books in 2021, and this book is the most inspiring. Number quotient is a new word invented by the author, similar to IQ and emotional intelligence, which means that in the era of digital economy, everyone must have digital cognition, digital thinking and numerical ability, and drafted a set of questions to test the level of digital quotient and put them in the book. The author did not expound with a boring argument, but with a consistent storytelling style, theoretical combing and induction in the case, the first story of the opening chapter is different, a desperate person, but with the courage of the broken boat to calculate the law of the roulette wheel, and finally successfully bet on the point, overnight rich; and then like how a poor but high-energy science student with digital thinking to win the favor of the future mother-in-law, how a boy with a developed number quotient uses the digital concept to accurately find his favorite half on the mixed marriage website , let people feel deeply. Therefore, the author's call for the cultivation of citizens' digital quotients in the digital age is definitely a prescient and scientific advice that conforms to the trend of the times. People in the future must value data, learn to grow and find opportunities in data.
5. "The Era of Live Broadcasting", by Kuaishou Research Institute, CITIC Publishing House.
The young team of Kuaishou Research Institute is really good in combat, and after the publication of "The Power of Being Seen" in 2020, it continued to work hard, through 152 research interviews and more than 30 case visits, and another one a year later in the spring. Although live e-commerce is very popular, the concept of live e-commerce has been discussed, and its connotation, scope, form, etc. still need to be observed and studied, and this book is a further beneficial exploration. It's also an honor that some discussions about martial arts e-commerce are part of the book. After reading, three discussion articles on live e-commerce were formed, which were very fruitful.
6. "Unlimited Supply: The New Economy in the Digital Age", by Zhou Chunsheng, CITIC Publishing House.
This book follows the view of zero marginal cost, and further analyzes the infinite supply characteristics of the digital new economy, that is, when the marginal cost tends to zero, the product supply capacity tends to be infinite, completely breaking free of the shackles of the marginal cost theory that has been tied to traditional enterprises for a long time, and theoretically explains the reason why Internet companies such as Google, Tencent, and Alibaba can become giants. Of course, these new economies as a whole belong to the service industry, rarely physical production, only the link and service between service providers and consumers, so that they can break through the marginal cost limits of traditional enterprises and present the characteristics of zero marginal costs and unlimited supply.
7. "Digital Civilization: How Big Data Reshapes Human Civilization, Business Forms and the Personal World", by Tu Zipei, CITIC Publishing House.
The author believes that the West can win over China in modern times, in part because of the rapid popularization of modern printing in the West, which makes recording more convenient; the subsequent cameras, phonographs, telegraphs, etc., expand the scope of recording, improve the timeliness of recording, and further widen the gap between the West and the traditional world. What lies ahead of us is how to record ourselves scientifically, use massive amounts of data for my own use, and constantly achieve personal progress and promote the change of the world. The unexpected gain is that the book tells the author's experience of being young and sleepy when he first joined the work, and he was criticized by his superiors because he could not write materials, but in the end, he worked hard to grasp the rules and became a master of writing materials, which was very inspiring to read.
8. "The Road to rural e-commerce development in China's counties: Based on the practice of Cao County in Shandong, Shuyang in Jiangsu and Lin'an in Zhejiang", by Guo Hongdong, Qu Jiang and Li Xiaokang, China Agriculture Press.
This is the new work of several old friends in the rural e-commerce industry, and it is also a phased summary of their rural e-commerce research in the past few years. The book mainly includes rural e-commerce research reports in Caoxian, Shuyang and Lin'an counties, 6 surveys of Taobao villages, 1 comprehensive questionnaire analysis, and finally conclusions and suggestions. Overall, the development of rural e-commerce represented by Taobao Village not only proves that the various advantages and conveniences of rural areas in the development of e-commerce can eventually spark the original spark; it also reflects the various problems and changes that have occurred in rural areas after the development of e-commerce, indicating that Taobao Village is not the future of Taobao Village, and must be transformed and upgraded in the integration of urban and rural development.
9. "The Era of Reverse Business: Understanding New Retail, New Manufacturing, New Finance, New Technology, New Energy" by Lu Xipeng, Edited by Business Week, Beijing United Publishing Company.
Consumer reverse customization production, not only in e-commerce, but also further derived to manufacturing, finance and other aspects, the distance between production and consumption has never been so close. So the traditional retail and e-commerce began to integrate into new retail, and new retail in turn gave birth to new manufacturing with intelligent production as the core, and because of the digitization of production and sales, so that new finance and new technologies can be widely used, and finally the Internet has become the same new energy as water, electricity and coal. This book focuses on the analysis of the concepts of new retail, new manufacturing, and new finance in the form of cases, the main content was formed in 2016, and the cases are a bit old to read today, but the analysis is still very inspiring.
10. "Good Numbers Become: Big Data Changes China", by Tu Zipei and Zheng Lei, People's Post and Telecommunications Publishing House.
This book is a "deep science popularization" work on big data, introducing the gratifying changes that big data brings to nine key areas such as government public services, manufacturing, business and finance, transportation, medical care, and education. It can be seen that the key to the success of good numbers lies in the word "good", that is, to fully integrate big data into the development of the industry and greatly improve efficiency and effectiveness. However, compared with reality, although there have been many successful applications, there are still a considerable number of data visualization displays that are still stuck in simple data visualization, which is breathtaking. At the same time, big data is a tool and a weapon, but it cannot replace the industry itself, and those enterprises that have been digitized also face inevitable operational risks.
IV. Economic Management (15 books)
1. "On China's Economy: Challenges, Confidence and Staying Power", by Lin Yifu, CITIC Publishing House.
If we look at the mainstream economic theory of the West, China's operation since the reform and opening up can be said to be wrong, but it has actually succeeded, that is to say, "learning from the West" cannot explain the phenomenon of China's economy. Therefore, on the basis of systematically expounding the historical evolution of development economics, the author puts forward the distinct proposition of the third generation of development economics- based on the comparative advantages of factor endowment structure, so as to explain China's development and growth momentum, and express the ambition of building a political economy theory with Chinese characteristics. The main point of this book is that in the market economy, the government should play a role in guiding the situation, eliminating the bottleneck constraints of soft and hard infrastructure, and helping entrepreneurs to quickly transform industries with (potential) comparative advantages in factor endowment structure into industries with obvious comparative advantages and competitive advantages.
2. "The Fourth Age of Consumption", by Miura Zhan, translated by Manet, Oriental Publishing House.
Japan's modernization process predates China's, and its journey can often be used as a reference. Today's Japan, economically surpassed by China, in the society of less and more serious, in the consumption also showed some new characteristics, that is, in the era of widespread material consumption more and more return to the real physiological needs and inner emotional needs, with a large number of purchases, crazy possession, follow the trend to show off as the characteristics of mass consumption is close to the end, consumption is more and more simple, simple and even retro, and whether consumption is needed has become a reality, this is the consumption phenomenon that this book wants to reveal, and pursue the complex economy behind it, Social and other factors. Today, our consumption also appears in the domestic products popular, sinking market active, niche customization flying, second-hand trading hot and other new phenomena, look at japan's consumption trends in recent years and the complex formation factors behind it, there will be new enlightenment.
3. "China's New Economy", by Han Xiuyun, CITIC Publishing House.
This book has a total of 32 lectures, divided into four parts: new macro, new industry, new micro, and new financial management, which sequentially interprets macroeconomic phenomena such as economic growth and inflation, emerging industry trends such as services, culture, and environmental protection, microeconomic concepts such as opportunity cost, information symmetry, behavioral economics, and financial management issues such as real estate, funds, and stock markets.
4. "Bursting: 9 Survival Principles for The Future Society", by Honichi Ito and Jeff Howe, CITIC Publishing House.
Among the 9 survival principles proposed that emergence is better than authority, pull is better than thrust, compass is better than map, risk is better than safety, defiance is better than obedience, practice is better than theory, diversity is better than ability, resilience is better than strength, and system is better than individual, some are more abstract and need to be explained concretely, and some are still on the way to the future, but in the new world of the digital economy, traditional thinking is destined to change.
5. "Chengfa", written by Kazuo Inamori ,compiled by Inamori Archive, Zhejiang People's Publishing House.
This book draws 108 successful laws identified by Kazuo Inamori for centralized interpretation, and their views are not re-proposed, but have been embodied in books such as "Living Law" and "Dry Law". Although I have read several works by Kazuo Inamori before, and some of the views are already familiar, there are new revelations for re-reading. For example, the choice of hardship and enjoyment of happiness, the problem of how to persist scientifically, the idealism of leaders, and so on.
6. "Learning to Gain Insight into the Industry", by Wang Yuquan, Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd.
Although the industry is very different, the thinking of analysis is always different, because the universal truth of things and the general methodology are universal. Some of the research methods mentioned in this book, such as how to decompose complex problems, how to judge the accuracy of intelligence, and how to maximize the efficiency of corporate visits, can be applied commercially and are worth learning from other industries. This book will be some mature business analysis methods in the way of actual cases to show, vivid, image, readable, for some controversial issues, but also through the analysis of some rational views, such as that Lang Xianping's theory on the industrial chain ignores the importance of manufacturing, cooperative competition relationship today is suitable for the combination of long board between enterprises, rather than reluctantly making up for the shortcomings, but the analysis of Tesla Motors' market environment in China ignores the importance of face consumption, The proposal to reduce the allocation and expand the market for Qu Gao and Oligo was to cause quality problems, and this was exactly the case later.
7. "Penetration", edited by Business School Magazine, China Business Press.
Of the 50 cases in this book, Internet and e-commerce companies account for most of them, more like Internet business reviews. For Alibaba, the main business and profit sources of enterprises are still highly tied to the traditional Taobao, Tmall, and Juhuasuan retail platforms, and the fields of big data and industrial Internet have yet to be deeply explored. For Kuaishou and Douyin, the former is stronger than private domain traffic and the latter is stronger than public domain traffic, and the competition ultimately depends on the balance of public domain and private domain traffic and the evolution of algorithms, but the information distribution experience formed by Douyin based on today's headlines is an important advantage. The success of The Queen of Goods, Via, cannot simply be regarded as the internet popularity of TV shopping guides, which is essentially a commercial trust formed on the basis of authenticity, professionalism and interaction, and Via's self-statement also proves this. The fact that Ruhan Company became Zhang Dayi and also lost to Zhang Dayi shows that it is not easy and embarrassing for Internet celebrity cultivation companies, how to cultivate more Zhang Dayi is a realistic appeal, but it can be encountered and cannot be sought, so the company can only turn to supply chain services and even brand product development.
8. "Depth: A Collection of Practical Cases", edited by Business School Magazine, China Business Press.
This book's in-depth analysis of the great defeat of Coolpad mobile phones is actually a general rule of the decline of traditional mobile phone companies such as "China Cool Union" from the general sense level, although these companies also have research and development teams, but they have never really faced the market, highly dependent on the customization and subsidy policies of telecom operators, once the policy changes, it is often doomed, Coolpad, ZTE, Lenovo are the same, and Huawei is planning ahead, through the development of high-end smart phones to completely land; if further comparative analysis, Although Xiaomi hangs the name of Internet companies, but marketing is better than research and development, relying on price advantages to open the market if you can not rely on technology to win greater profit margins, then the development will inevitably face a bottleneck, the high-end jump is Xiaomi's heart disease; the once popular HTC is in hesitation to miss the 4G track, there is no chance to catch up, can only leave the field; Samsung's defeat, due to quality problems caused dissatisfaction, and because of the arrogant attitude to anger consumers, completely lost the Chinese market; Gionee's bankruptcy, It confirms that the traditional marketing routine without core technology is no longer suitable for the times today. This book also analyzes the difficult process of Haier's transformation to the "Rendanheyi" 2.0 era, a traditional home appliance company is evolving into a large-scale innovation platform that gathers many makers, and the spirit and courage to never stop and constantly explore are worthy of respect and learning.
9. "Evolution: Top50 Practical Case Study Episode II", edited by Business School Magazine, China Business Press.
Reports on companies related to artificial intelligence, automobiles, and knowledge payment have sparked some thinking. Behind the anxiety of iFLYTEK, the competition of technology companies has shifted from technology to system, from products to standards, no longer a competition for one city and one pool, but a redividing of the business map, and enterprises at the head must have sufficient strategic vision and mind. Ford's decline in China is not isolated, many Chinese car companies have not had a good time in recent years, especially in order to meet the popularity of automobile consumption among civilians, some low-end follow-up car companies like Lifan and Zotye have completed their historical mission, and other joint ventures and independent brands are also facing the pressure of total market bottlenecks and consumption transformation and upgrading, depending on the speed of adaptation. The once noisy knowledge payment gradually revealed the bone of reality, Luo Ji's thinking of broad-spectrum audio products began to deheat, the rise of many audio platforms, just return to the essence of leisure, more segmented, more professional vertical market still needs to be cultivated and dug deep.
10. "The Millennium Trade War: Trade Conflicts and the Rise and Fall of Great Powers", by Peng Bo and Shi Cheng, Chinese Min University Press.
This book systematically reviews the history and historical impact of important trade wars in the world since the rise of capitalism, such as the commercial war between Britain and the Netherlands, the economic struggle behind the Boston tea pouring incident, the customs union in the process of German reunification, the failure of Napoleon's "continental blockade", the trade friction between the United States and Japan, etc., and sorts out the important historical stages of China's foreign trade since the end of the Qing Dynasty. Generally speaking, international trade is related to the fate of the country, and the cruelty of trade wars is no less than that of military wars, which is crucial to the grasp of the world situation and scientific strategic decision-making.
11. "Change Your Costume, Change Your Life", by George Brescia, translated by Hongxia, Beijing United Publishing Company.
It is also an idle book interspersed with reading. The author is an influential image designer, clearly proposing that getting dressed is a natural thing, you must wear personality, attract attention, so as to enhance self-confidence and win the future. The proposition of this book is consistent with the Western pursuit of self-expression, and for Chinese, it may be relatively low-key and euphemistic in dress, but the younger generation is changing. The book gives a list of 22 kinds of women's classic wearing objects, different color combinations on different occasions, and twice a year wardrobe cleaning, which is worth learning. At the same time, the advice not to be too casual at any time, including casual dressing at home and on weekends, is worthy of our reflection, and not trimming is not a good feeling for others and ourselves.
12. "Becoming a Favorite Brand: How to Gain Irrational Loyalty from Consumers", by Chen Liangtu, CITIC Publishing House.
Brand marketing is often treated as a word, and the author reminds at the beginning that doing branding and doing marketing are two different things, one may have no effect in the short term, one only cares about short-term benefits, and it is a century-old store that can be based on long-term branding. However, doing a brand is not to use marketing methods to encourage consumers to buy, but on the basis of precise positioning, occupy the minds of consumers in a silent way, so that they consciously choose and trust the brand based on irrational emotional factors, rather than requiring consumers to make choices through shopping around, because people's consumption decisions are often irrational. Therefore, many of today's customary marketing methods also need to change, such as advertising into content production, so that consumers can spread; market segmentation has become a community, so that consumers dominate the product; excellent quality must also be accompanied by the high value of packaging and channel social understanding, and so on.
13. "A Book to Understand the Free Trade Zone", by Ren Xuewu, People's Post and Telecommunications Publishing House.
Since the establishment of the FTZ was officially approved in Shanghai in August 2013, it has been eight years, and the establishment area has also been expanded to 11 provinces and cities, of which Shaanxi is the third batch of pilot zones. Shaanxi is a big fruit province, and whether it can use more channels to let Shaanxi's fruits go out is a real problem. Can we do fruit articles in the free trade zone and better integrate into the new pattern of "double circulation"? With this in mind, start with the basic popular science reader to understand the basic situation of the free trade zone. From the book, it can be seen that the free trade zone is actually a free trade zone, which is different from the free trade zone between countries, compared with the bonded zone and the export processing zone, it has been greatly expanded and upgraded, and it is an important carrier of the "Belt and Road", which requires a new management system and daily management mode, which brings new opportunities at the same time, but also brings new challenges, and needs to continuously innovate in institutional mechanisms.
14. "The Past of Capital: 1978-2020", by Wang Lianzhou and Wang Bin, China Machine Press.
The title of the book looks very story-like, but in fact, it is a very serious memoir of the construction of the rule of law in China's capital market, and Wang Lianzhou, the drafting organizer of the Securities Law, the Trust Law, and the Securities Investment Fund Law, witnessed the development of China's securities and futures market from small to large, from single to pluralistic, from barbaric growth to standardized development from the perspective of a witness. From this, we can learn in detail what kind of ideological concepts and practical problems these laws encountered in the process of promulgation, and finally how to gather consensus in the discussion and realize that there is a law to follow.
15. "Heart: Kazuo Inamori's Life's Instructions", by Kazuo Inamori, People's Post and Telecommunications Publishing House.
The author put forward the slogan of "improving mentality and expanding management" and put it into practice. Similar to books such as "Dry Law" and "Chengfa", the author always emphasizes the use of altruism to run enterprises and achieve excellence with extraordinary efforts. Understanding the author's "heart" can be summarized as: based on the altruistic heart, from the brave heart, into the mind of concentration, into the heart of tenacity. The author also cites a saying to compare the importance of a leader's mental cultivation—"a crab burrows according to the size of its carapace." An organization cannot grow beyond the size of its leaders. Therefore, the author repeatedly warns that as a leader, you must work hard to have a good, noble heart, which is more important than anything else.
V. Humanities and Social Sciences (12 books)
1. "Jiang Xiaojuan's Academic Autobiography", by Jiang Xiaojuan, Guangdong Economic Publishing House.
In 2021, I read 5 academic autobiographies of economists, and I gained a lot, and I can observe the changes of the times through the author's personal experience and obtain a deeper interpretation. The author of the book also tells us what kind of heights can be reached in life's struggles, and she has grown from a nurse to an economist and served as deputy secretary general of the State Council. The author's rigorous and meticulous study style is worth learning, for example, everyone criticizes from a moral point of view why the price of the vegetable market is so much higher than the place of origin, and the coffee shop is profiteering, but the conclusion given by the author after a detailed investigation is that this is reasonable, because the production efficiency of the vegetable circulation system is not high, especially the terminal snack link is the least efficient, and the people involved must obtain a reasonable labor income, and there is no huge profit in all links; the coffee shop is "brother drinking is not coffee, it is rent"! I feel empathy for the author's approach to the relationship between work and research, because the job position is not convenient to analyze and draw conclusions on specific events, and some rational and quantitative research can be done. Over the years, I have also experienced several job adjustments, but I have always adhered to the research of three rural areas and e-commerce, and generally prefer to analyze common problems on the surface and.
2. "Eastern Dialects and Western Languages", by Zheng Zining, Dunhuang Literature and Art Publishing House.
In the form of storytelling, this book looks at the historical changes of China's economy and society in the change of language, clarifies those false rumors that have no historical basis, such as the words of a certain province almost became Chinese; it also analyzes that the sweet and salty nature of the south and the saltiness of the north have been exactly the opposite in history, but the law of rich eating sugar and poor salt is the same in ancient and modern times, and the world is consistent.
3. Frontiers of Science and Technology: Compulsory Courses for Leading Cadres, written by Xue Qikun, Yang Jie, Jia Kang, etc., People's Daily Publishing House.
As one of the special bibliographies for leading cadres to learn, this series invites 9 industry experts to explain the frontier content of science and technology that is concerned about and emphasized by the 19th Politburo of the CPC Central Committee, such as quantum technology, data elements, new infrastructure, 5G, industrial Internet, blockchain, media integration, artificial intelligence, and big data. For example, big data is finding ways to move from the original telling correlation to explaining causality, which is a major change; media convergence should explore a series of issues such as content supply and distribution from the perspective of "media is an extension of people", rather than simple carrier integration.
4. "Mongolian Chronicle: From Ulaanbaatar to the Altai Mountains", by Luo Feng, Life, Reading, xinzhi triptych bookstore.
In the summer of 2006, a group of archaeologists mainly Chinese scholars went to Mongolia for field investigation, as one of them, the author described in detail the customs and customs, natural scenery and archaeological sites along the way, the text is delicate, poetic, and there is no lack of historical contemplation, reflecting mongolia's economy, society, culture, people's livelihood and other aspects, popularizing some common sense of ethnic minority archaeology. It can be seen that a landlocked country dependent on Soviet Russia and wants to try to break away from China's influence, the tall sculpture figure of the founding father and the country's unsatisfactory development reality, or form a sharp contrast, but Japan's influence on it is even greater than China, which makes people think.
5. Lecture on History and Culture of Ministerial Leading Cadres 2018, edited by the National Library of China, National Library Press.
In this series, I was impressed by two lectures on art and poetry. Mr. Yin Jinan's "Macroscopic Observation of the History of Chinese Art - Centered on the Rise of the Civil-Official Group", put forward a discernment of the ordinary impression that Chinese painting is rewritten without rewriting reality, and believes that ancient China also has a tradition of realistic art, and the early art tradition of the West is the same, most of the calligraphers at that time were aristocratic, like the calligraphy pen and sword in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and the imitation of future generations did not reach its level, because later literati did not use swords at all. Some pen edges cannot be written. However, since the Tang Dynasty, especially after the Song Dynasty, a large number of literati groups have grown up, and the literati paintings derived from them do not attach importance to realism but are always freehand, and even disdain for realism, which has formed our impression of Chinese painting today, and Song Huizong's Gongbi painting and Zhang Zeduan's "Qingming On the River" can be said to be the last struggle of the realistic painting school. Ms. Ge Xiaoyin's lecture on "Landscape Poetry and Sheng Tang Meteorology" reviewed the development of landscape poetry, believing that the earlier description of landscape poetry was mainly as a comparison of life, did not find its own aesthetic value, and brought a strong philosophical color to the Wei and Jin dynasties, and the Sheng Tang era integrated the landscape and the countryside together, forming a long song and pine wind to respond to each other, reflecting the meaning of people and nature depending on each other, which is the essence of the Sheng Tang landscape idylls. In this way, more consciously than before, the pursuit of pure personality ideals is expressed in poetry, which greatly improves the character of landscape poetry.
6. Lecture on History and Culture of Ministerial Leading Cadres 2019, edited by the National Library of China, National Library Press.
In this series, the two articles that impressed me the most were the civilization of the ancient Greek city-states and the modern significance of Su Dongpo. In Mr. Huang Yang's ancient Greek city-state civilization, he interpreted from the source why Europe would have small countries and widows, because after the decline of the Mansini civilization, the historical experience of long-term local division and classification accumulated in their concepts, forming a deep-rooted ideology That the traditional country should be a city-state, and it should be a small country and a widow. Especially after the collapse of Rome, there was no more powerful force to promote the unification of Europe, coupled with the abundance of peoples and frequent migration, and the situation of Europe's good division was fixed. But from a cultural point of view, Europe has a unified foundation, because their roots are all Greco-Roman culture, which forms the basis of Western values. Mr. Mo Lifeng interpreted Su Shi's life and enlightenment for contemporary people from six aspects: a politician with high style and bright festivals, a local official who is diligent in government and loves the people, a diligent genius, an approachable celebrity, an ordinary person who is content and happy, and a life of ups and downs, and the enlightenment of contemporary people This is something that many modern people today cannot do, and it is also the most important thing to learn.
7. "The Color of Banmen and The Color of The Hammer", edited by the editorial board of Banmen and published by Beijing United Publishing Company.
Banmen is the gate of Luban, concrete is concrete, the title of the book tells everyone that this is a book about architectural design, but it is presented in the form of prose, which can be counted as architectural prose. The more impressive article is Song Xiaodong's "Dream White", which arranges a dream dialogue in a unique way, allowing three architects, Le Corbusier, Louis Kang, and Tadao Ando, to meet across time and space to evolve the architectural design concept of concrete materials in mutual exchanges; and Li Xiaoming's "The King of Foreign Ash" tells another legendary story of the Republic of China, and Chinese has also made the cement industry prosperous; Fermi's "Agat", Xue Ming's "The Life of the Painted God" It is a reflection on architectural art after the collision of tradition and modernity in Tibetan areas.
8. "Cai Fang's Academic Autobiography", by Cai Fang, Guangdong Economic Publishing House.
Occasionally reading the academic autobiography of economists, I feel that it is easier to read. Then I bought several copies one after another, interspersed with reading. Different from the previous "Jiang Xiaojuan Academic Autobiography", the author's work experience is not complicated, basically from the school to the research institution so far, so it mainly tells the academic experience of different research stages, focusing on the creation of the discipline promoted by the author of population economics and its propositions, especially the emergence of the "Lewis inflection point" in China, the author's first and controversial judgment, how it is proposed and how it is gradually recognized, and theoretically responds to some criticisms caused by this. The summary of the stage of the general national economic development process and the proposal of the employment priority strategy are also related to this judgment.
9. "Li Yining Academic Autobiography", by Li Yining, Guangdong Economic Publishing House.
Mr. Li Lao's experience as an economist mainly began with reform and opening up, and his academic autobiography also began with this. However, unlike the previous academic autobiographies, the author did not combine too much research experience with academic discussion, but like a travelogue, he relied on the past and the present, wrote poems to fill in the words, and the whole book contained dozens of words alone, and some fragments had quite ancient rhymes. Because the author is famous for "strong shares", the viewpoint has long been heard, and there is no strong feeling in reading, but some of the expositions on the importance of economic history feel inspired, such as the European countries before industrialization, although they plundered wealth, had no industry to invest, only squandered, typically Spain and Portugal; after the Rise of the Netherlands with trade, but lacked an industrial base; until the United Kingdom took the lead in the rise of the industrial revolution, coupled with the mature investment system formed in the Netherlands and other places, it was able to stand alone in the world. The contrast between the feudal system in Central Europe reminds me of Tocqueville's exposition on the French Revolution, but the struggle against despotism made the nobility disappear, and the root cause is that the cities formed by industrialization and the royal power took the lead in uniting, thus jointly destroying the rule of the feudal aristocracy, which is a major "windfall" harvest of the Revolution.
10. "Zheng Xinli Academic Autobiography", by Zheng Xinli, Guangdong Economic Publishing House.
This book is the least likely autobiography in the academic autobiography series that I have read; in addition to the brief review of academic experience at the beginning and a little experience in the end, the middle part is basically a compilation of the main academic achievements, and a considerable part of the compilation is the interpretation of the central government's major policies that the author is good at. Taking ten years as a stage, the author believes that since the reform and opening up, there have been four major economic structural transformations, the first being the implementation of the land and household contract responsibility system in the 1980s and the rise of township enterprises, which led to the take-off of the national economy; the second was the 1990s proposal to build a socialist market economy and the establishment of a modern enterprise system, which led to the revitalization of the four pillar industries and achieved economic take-off; the third was the first decade of the 21st century, issuing long-term construction bonds, mainly for infrastructure construction The fourth is the second decade of the 21st century, focusing on the transformation of the mode of economic development, adjusting the structure of demand, industrial structure and factor structure, and promoting the transformation of the economy to the direction of high-quality development. The author's learning experience attaches the most importance to the combination of quantitative and qualitative, quantitative is of course the foundation, if there is no qualitative judgment, it is equivalent to having knowledge and ignorance, and in the end the achievement is not high. Several representative works in the appendices at the end of the book have influenced the central decision-making, and their literary style is capable and their vision is broad, reflecting the standard of the Central Research Office. The author has similarities with Mr. Li Yining, that is, he has been responsible for the editing of materials for a long time after working, Li Yining has been engaged in the translation of economic history materials for twenty years, and the author is responsible for editing the research briefing on economic issues.
11. "Gao Shangquan Academic Autobiography", Gao Shangquan, Guangdong Economic Publishing House.
The author has been engaged in the study of the economic system and has many good suggestions for reform. The autobiography uses the axis of time to tell the progress of his own research and the situation of decision-making suggestions, from which it can be clearly felt that the reform is really not easy along the way, like the "labor market" proposed by the author, it was actually written into the official document speech after being circled by the standing committee members of the Politburo of the Central Committee; as early as 1984, the author proposed to take the reform of the government as the central link, especially to suppress the government's strong investment impulse, which was very accurate; and then, the author listed through the actual survey that enterprises had to go through to do things in Beijing." Nine passes", the First Ministry of Machinery Industry sends and receives more than 30,000 official documents every month, and the purchase of blowers applied for in the summer is not approved until the autumn is cold, etc., so it is not a big deal, it is certainly not good. Therefore, the author said with emotion that if we review the reform, the most important thing is to emancipate the mind.
12. "Here is China 2", by Planet Research Institute, CITIC Publishing House.
If the first series is a perfect display of China's natural scenery, then this series is a shocking display of "artificial" miracles, from the perspective of China in the past 100 years, focusing on the theme of "reshaping rivers and mountains in a hundred years", which is specifically divided into four major parts: connection (transportation and other infrastructure), reorganization (allocation of public resources such as energy and water conservancy), homeland (ecological protection such as greening, haze control), and dreams (rockets, Shenzhou, Beidou and other aerospace undertakings), with 267 photographic works, 80 drawings and contrasting arrangements, forming a strong visual experience This can make people more deeply feel the vicissitudes and great changes since the founding of New China.
VI. History and Literature (16 books)
1. "Books Should Be Happy", by Zhang Zongzi, Life, Reading, and Xinzhi Triptych Bookstore.
The public account of Sanlian Bookstore has been recommended several times, so I made up my mind to take a look, read it for the first time, and read more than 80 pages in one breath, which is really "the book should be easy to read quickly"! There are three points that are particularly impressive, one is that the side Zhengbo has insights, such as the stubborn stone of Baoyu in "Dream of the Red Chamber", in ancient times, there was the saying that Nuwa left behind to make up for the heavens, and the author carefully listed the relevant literature comparisons; the second is to be blunt and honest, such as the evaluation of the writer's elderly articles often fried cold rice, nagging, which reminds me of the feeling of reading the miscellaneous notes of Mr. Ji Xianlin during his hospitalization; the third is to go deep into dongpo The most touching, write several sets of miscellaneous notes of Su Dongpo, which is indeed written to the depths of the heart of this great writer, which makes people emotional. Then I quickly bought the author's other works and read two more books in the year.
2. "Lecture Notes", by Dai Yan, Life, Reading, and Xinzhi Triptych Bookstore.
In view of the fact that the story of the Three Kingdoms has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, this book focuses on the ten biographies of Cao Cao's father and son, Empress Bian, And historical figures such as Zhen, He Yan, Hua Tuo, Zhuge Liang, lu xun, and other national states, as well as karasuma and Wu, and tells the history of history, geography, humanities and other related aspects in a simple and simple way, reflecting the depth of professionalism.
3. "Chang'an Ke", by Beimingyu, Tianjin People's Publishing House.
This book is the author's new work after "Looking Up at the Starry Sky in the Abyss - The Humility and Pride of Wei and Jin Celebrities". The title page slogan , " They are the shining stars of the poetic country, they are the sad young people in Chang'an City " shows that this is a concentrated lyric of the frustrated literati, Li Bai, Du Fu, Wang Wei, Bai Juyi, Yuan Shu, Liu Zongyuan, Liu Yuxi, li Shangyin The fate of the eight poets is not as brilliant as the empire in the prosperous period, but it is as sinking as the declining empire, only the great works make them immortal, and the expression of historical prose makes this historical sorrow even deeper.
4. "Jiangnan Sunset: Thirty-Nine Years of the Southern Tang Dynasty", by Zhu Zhongyu, China Encyclopedia Publishing House.
The author is a famous historian, drawing on the writing method of historical interpretation, using 35 chapters to tell the history of the three monarchs of the Southern Tang Dynasty for a total of 39 years, fully combining rigorous historical research with vivid and vivid notes on wild history, just like telling stories, not only major political and military events, but also meticulously showing the economy, culture and life at that time, forming a vivid historical picture of the Southern Tang Dynasty. For Li Yu, a great scholar, of course, he did not forget to interpret the changes in court life and creation before and after his fall, which was more profoundly touching.
5. "The Great Context of History", by Xu Zhuoyun, Guangxi Normal University Press.
Different from our past study of Chinese history and world history, the author looks at China's nearly 10,000-year historical changes from the broad perspective of world history, adheres to the comparison of the history of the development of Chinese and Western civilizations, analyzes the world and The Chinese situation in detail during major historical events, and opens up the East and the West, looks at the ancient and modern, crisscrosses and goes deep and simple, which is a typical large historical work.
6. "The Temperature of History 5: Those Games, Contests and Human Nature", by Zhang Wei, CITIC Publishing House.
It is the 5th book in the series of historical popular books "The Temperature of History" written by a sports journalist who has transformed into a writer, and has been continuously purchased and read since the first book, to put it bluntly, I want to enjoy this relaxed and pleasant reading feeling, like eating ice cream in the summer. The historical background of China's 16 consecutive negative votes at the United Nations, a War between the British and Argentine Falklands that spans half the world, and the Sino-Japanese rivalry behind the last king of Korea, etc., are like personal reports.
7. "The Thirteen Years of Yongzheng: The Way of a Tough Man Emperor", by Lin Qian, Hundred Flowers Literature and Art Publishing House.
Different from many previous books on the Yongzheng Emperor, the author focuses on several important courtiers of the Yongzheng Dynasty, such as Tian Wenjing, Ortai, Yunxiang, Li Wei, and Zhang Tingyu, and reflects the emperor's efforts in dealing with historical problems and clarifying politics through the ups and downs of their careers and the important events they handled, such as checking the deficit, raising clean silver, and collecting grain as a whole for the gentry. At the same time, through the depiction of the characters around Yongzheng, as well as some of Yongzheng's hobbies and life details, he also showed us the other side of the serious emperor. The book inserts a number of court paintings of the Yongzheng era and a number of Yongzheng Zhu criticisms, which add a lot of color to the whole book.
8. "Books Should Be Happy", by Zong Pu, Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House.
Compared with the book of the same name read in the second quarter, this book did not reach the level of "pleasure", and the first half was some trivial notes and case notes about the book, which were interesting; but the second half of the style was abrupt, and it was compiled into three early literary papers, which needed to be read slowly. If you say that the deepest impression is still the opening book selling, happy book talk, book lovers, bookworms, book collectors, should have the same feeling, selling books is really difficult.
9. "A Doctor's Reading Notes", by Lang Jinghe, Life, Reading, and Xinzhi Triptych Bookstore.
As soon as you read it, you know that this doctor is not simple; and when you understand it again, Fang Zhi is a famous medical expert, and he is immediately in awe, and some reading notes arouse strong resonance. For example, "Before going to bed, on weekends, it is necessary to read idle books, miscellaneous books and non-professional or 'useless' books." It's an interest, a desire. This is not comparable to movies and TV series, the former has room for thinking and has a lot of interest; the latter has no room for rumination and less memories. "I just insist on reading paper books, but also insist on mixing and matching reading, as much as possible outside the profession, insisting on it for a long time, and gaining a lot."
10. "2019 Short Stories", edited by the Editorial Department of the People's Literature Publishing House, and the People's Literature Publishing House.
This year's anthology has changed the cover, it seems that the style has also changed, the first few articles are hard to read out of the feeling, to the back of the better. In 2018, several novels with major diseases brought disasters to ordinary people's families were selected, and this year, several novels were selected to deal a heavy blow to ordinary families, which made people feel sad, and also selected works that mocked the "Mimon" style of selling chicken soup for the soul in a timely manner, which can be said to be very strong in the times. Truly impressive, the first to promote "Heavenly Eclipse, Earth Food", a chef daughter who studies philosophy, tirelessly seeks truth around the world, but finally becomes enlightened in the process of cracking the secret recipes of ancestral recipes, and the highest philosophy is around. Secondly, there is "Jupiter Moment", which depicts the future intelligent era in which even fertility must be procedurally controlled, and the difficulty of human nature to suppress and resist. The works of Mo Yan and Feng Jicai, the two old masters, are old and spicy, but the story is not novel, and there are some regrets, so it is better for Chi Zijian to write a small story of the Northeast Anti-Japanese War as thrilling.
11. Alternative Tang Dynasty: Analyzing History with Food, by Zhang Jinzhen, Zhejiang University Press.
It is an interesting historical book, first of all, the angle is more unique, starting from the food, reproducing the scene of the Tang Dynasty, such as the jaw-dropping "burning tail banquet" What are the big dishes, how luxurious and how to be canceled; secondly, it starts from the examination, but the story runs through it, like lychee and Yang Guifei, tea and Lu Yu, which are fascinating; again, the language is vivid, and from time to time to express ancient events in today's words, such as Chang'an's CBD - East Market and West Market, Tang Taizong taking the lead in admiring the foreign and drinking foreign wine, etc., which is interesting And the content is not limited to the Tang Dynasty, ancient and modern Chinese and foreign hands, which shows the historical skill. The history of wine combing, concise and clear vein, the Han Dynasty began and the North and South Dynasties were noble, to the Tang Taizong period, under the personal guidance of the emperor, finally changed a large number of relying on the import of scarce and expensive status quo, realized the "localization" of winemaking, ushered in the wine boom. However, I am sorry to find that there is a half sentence of text on page 32 that is missing, the picture annotation on page 127 is incorrectly marked, and the story of Prince Tang Taizong is too much to tell and it is indeed a little far from food, but these small flaws are flawed.
12. "Wind And Appearance", by Zhang Zongzi, Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House.
This book is rich in content, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, literature and art, involved in a wide range of topics, the deeper impression of the content are: criticism of the Republic of China fever, follow the trend of the book, hard to write a chaotic world as a rule of the world, some characters are written as gods; the lamentation of the current situation of the annotated book, now no one is willing to work hard, most of the notes are better than nothing; the discussion of China's literati-dominated freehand painting style has further deepened the understanding of the difference between Chinese and foreign painting styles, and the reading before this year has read similar discussions twice. What resonates is the occasional happiness that is doubtful in reading books here but inadvertently in other places, and the author's opening statement that a good book is to be reread, which is also a reminder to me that although there have been similar ideas for a long time, they have not been able to put them into action for a long time, and they must be grasped.
13. "Bloodline: The Family", by Chen Zhenghong, Zhonghua Bookstore.
"History" is a rotten subject, and it is not easy to tell a new idea and make everyone willing to read it. The author also pointed out that he wants to break through the tradition and tell more about some content points that everyone pays less attention to, such as everyone loves to read the stories of history, and the author wants to talk about the things behind people and things, after the Himalayas opened the "History of History", it was welcomed, so the classification was collated into a book, with a series of four guides, the articles in each series are relatively independent, and the overall coherence, strong readability, and some new reading feelings.
14. "Time and Space: The Book of Books, Tables and Books", by Chen Zhenghong, Zhonghua Bookstore.
There are too many people who talk about the "History of History", but few people pay attention to tables and books, because it is relatively boring, and it is not smooth to read. This book talks more about the formation and significance of the table, and supplements it with precious historical pictures; the book is systematically sorted out from the perspective of institutional history, focusing on the "Book of Sealing Zen" and "Book of River Canals", which can be regarded as making up for the shortcomings of some historical reading and new gains.
15. "The Southern Song Dynasty Can't Bear to Look Closely", by Yan Jianhuai, China Friendship Publishing Company.
It is a compilation of historical essays, focusing on the examination and review of the characters and deeds of the Southern Song Dynasty, in addition to some familiar faces such as Han Shizhong, Zhang Jun and other generals and Li Qingzhao, Zhu Xi and other literati, but also highlighted the stories of several difficult diplomats and their envoys to the Jin Dynasty. Because it is a compilation, the articles are not too long, which is more convenient to read, but there is also the problem of repeated narrative of the content of each article.
16. "Han Xing: From Lü Hou to Emperor Wen of Han", by Li Kaiyuan, Life, Reading, and Xinzhi Sanlian Bookstore.
The most pleasant winter night, that is, hot water, idle reading history books! Helplessly read too many history books, many bridge sections have been reviewed for an unknown number of times, Mr. Li Kaiyuan's trilogy of history in the late Qin and early Han Dynasties, with 20 years of effort, read some new feelings. For example, Lou Jing suggested that Liu Bangding capital Chang'an everyone listened more, but the details were heard less, the book details that the Qin Xianyang Palace opposite the Wei River is Longshou Mountain, there is Xingle Palace, belongs to Chang'an Township, the whole modification is relatively easy, so Xianyang renamed Chang'an, based on xingle palace, quickly built Changle Palace, the imperial court first moved to the office operation, followed by the construction of Weiyang Palace, Mingguang Palace and so on. For another example, in the early Han Dynasty, the great meritorious officers and soldiers listened to a lot, but the author specifically calculated the account, about 600,000 people were rewarded, and 300 million mu of land and 27 million mu of residences were taken out, so that Liu Bang's generals and their families, who accounted for about 20% of the total number of the country, occupied 40% of the country's wealth, and a new military meritorious class was formed. In addition, the dispatch of troops at the critical moment of the change of Xuelu, the author uses a detailed map of Chang'an City to illustrate, more immersive feeling. When reading history, we cannot always listen to stories, but we also need to examine the changes in politics, military, society, etc., in order to be more fruitful.
(January 30, 2021)
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