The spring breeze sways, and the grass grows warblers fly. We have just bid farewell to World Book Day and are about to usher in a golden may. May is a day for laborers, a day for young people, and a mother's day, which means hard work, youth and love. The taste of gold is sweet, and it jumps in the air, dyeing the May point into the most beautiful season, making people yearn for poetry and far away.
In the recommended book list of the 26th issue of the "100 Good Books for You to Read" campaign, you will feel a more diverse collision: the classic literature "Gone with the Wind", "Alive", "War and Peace", etc., showing the stoicism of life and the complexity of human nature; "Naked Economics", "Global Financial System: Crisis and Change", etc., to help us feel the pulse of economic and social beats; "The subconscious mind knows the answer: know what you don't know", "Longevity Life: How to Live Beautifully in the Age of Longevity" leads us to better understand ourselves I believe that there is always a book for you.
Golden May, let's go with reading and feel the aroma of books along the way.
Life always has an unknown perseverance
"Alive"
Author: Yu Hua
Publisher: Writers Press
"Alive" tells the life experience of Fugui, and is a life testimonial of an old man who has experienced the vicissitudes and tribulations of the world. The book has won the highest prize of the Italian Grinzana Carver Literary Award (1998), the third World Chinese "Bingxin Literature Award" (2002), the "Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century Chinese" by Hong Kong's Asia Weekly, and the "10 Most Influential Works of the 1990s" by 100 Chinese critics and literary editors. Yu Hua was awarded the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres des Arts et des Arts in France in march 2004 for his novel.
Book recommender
Fan Xing (Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, School of Liberal Arts, Wuhan University):
In the 30 years since its publication, Yu Hua's novel "Alive" has sold more than 20 million copies, and it is a very best-selling contemporary literary classic since the reform and opening up. The protagonist of the novel, Fu Gui, has escaped the doom of being suppressed because of gambling, but he has also escaped the doom of being suppressed, which is the absurd proof of the Taoist "blessings and misfortunes depend on, and misfortunes and blessings lie down". However, did he really have good luck because of this? His family died in various encounters, which is also a portrayal of "disaster is not alone". As a result, he was devastated and relied on an old cow for his life. However, Yu Hua wrote his misery and insensitivity into a stoic meaning, becoming a typical epitome of the tenacious life of countless people at the bottom. Fugui's miserable life is therefore full of emotions, and it is enough to make people have an inexhaustible understanding of the vitality: in the depths of numbness, there may be an unknown perseverance. Yu Hua expresses the will to live and the tenacity of life through condensed suffering.
An easy economics "trip"
Naked Economics
Author: [U.S.] Charles Whalen
Translator: Sun Wencun / Li Feng (School)
Publisher: CITIC Publishing House
Charles Whalen has a superior ability, he completely "stripped the dull cloak of economics", removed all the difficult figures, equations and terminology, replaced by vivid stories, plain language and witty tone, brought us the ivory tower discipline of economics, leading us on a relaxed and pleasant journey in the surrounding economic world.
Book recommender
Huang Qinghua (Vice Dean and Professor, School of Economics and Management, Southwest University):
Economics is closely related to us, but is often labeled "dull." This book strips away the boring cloak of "charts, formulas and terms" of economics, vividly presents it to the reader with vivid and interesting cases and anecdotes, and tells the core points of economics from the two parts of micro and macro, which is an economics book for the public.
The first half of the book, which focuses on the field of microeconomics, uses the core concepts of "maximization" and "scarcity" to explore "how to understand the wealth gap between individuals?" What is the key to personal wealth accumulation? " and other issues. The second half of the book, which focuses on macroeconomics, evaluates GDP as an indicator and explores "how to view the wealth gap between countries?" Why are rich countries rich? How did poor countries get rich? " and other issues. This book can not only help readers think about how to achieve a better life, but also help readers learn to use economic thinking to explore the laws of world operation.
An enduring elegy of love
Gone with the Wind
Author: [U.S.] Margaret Mitchell
Translator: Fu Donghua
Publisher: Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House
Margaret Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind" is a novel about war, but the author does not focus on the battlefield, but takes the American Civil War and the post-war reconstruction period as the background, takes the heroine Scarlett's love entanglement and life encounter as the main line, focuses on the experience and feelings of the women who stayed in the rear and suffered from the war, vividly reproduced the social reality of the southern turmoil during the American Civil War, with a strong epic style, which can be called "an elegy dedicated to the South", so it has lasted for a long time. The work won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1937.
Book recommender
Chen Ying (Professor, Sichuan University of Foreign Chinese):
Published in the first half of the 20th century, Gone with the Wind is still enduring, not only because of Vivien Leigh's memorable performance in the classic film "Gone with the Wind", based on this novel, but also because the work itself has high literary value in addition to the ups and downs of the plot. This is a magnificent historical novel, and the female writer Mitchell uses realism to tell the life of the Southern farmer class before and after the American Civil War in the 19th century. The novel portrays several complex and realistic characters, especially the heroine Scarlett, who is full of vitality and never concedes defeat, and after experiencing a turbulent and chaotic life, her pursuit of wealth, love, and land is still fanatical. The last sentence of the novel: "After all, tomorrow is a new and another day." "It gives hope for the future. The characters and lives of an era will drift away with the wind, but the writer uses a superb technique to bring us back to the past and witness that complex and fascinating history.
A roadmap for China's financial power
The Global Financial System: Crisis and Change
Author: Huang Haizhou
Publisher: CITIC Publishing Group
This book includes the research results of Dr. Huang Haizhou in recent years. As a scholar with profound theoretical foundation and rich practical experience, he strives to follow the research framework of academic, policy and investment strategies, and comprehensively expound on major issues related to the evolution of the global financial system, global economic restructuring and global capital market trends in recent years from the perspective of international and historical comparison.
Book recommender
Jiang Song (Professor, School of Economics and Finance, Chongqing University of Technology):
Starting from the grand narrative of the evolution of the crisis and change in the global financial system, this book profoundly deconstructs the relationship between finance and the rise of great powers, comprehensively portrays the specific process of global crisis and transmission, policy intervention measures, and the importance of government "selective action", and restores the whole process of rebalancing the global economy, as well as the new changes and challenges contained in economic rebalancing.
In the face of changes, the book further focuses on China's practice, discusses China's wisdom and China's deeds in the midst of change, puts forward the implementation strategy of RMB internationalization, as well as the strategic practice of China's further reform and opening up and further globalization of China's economy, draws a road map for China's financial power of "cultivating opportunities in the crisis and opening a new situation in the changing situation", showing the responsibility of a big country that rides the waves and coexists and wins win-win.
An encyclopedic epic
War and Peace
Author: [Russian] Lev Tolstoy
Translator: Grass Baby
Publisher: People's Literature Publishing House
War and Peace is a novel by the Russian writer Tolstoy, written between 1863 and 1869. The novel mainly depicts the Great Patriotic War of the Russian people against Napoleon's invasion in the early 19th century, and depicts the magnificent social life of Russia before and after the war. With extremely vivid and vivid words and excellent psychological analysis, the writer has contributed to the history of world literature such as the naïve Natasha, the loyal and kind Pierre, the serious and sincere André and other typical images with distinct personalities and flesh and blood.
Book recommender
Zheng Jinsong (Vice President of Chongqing Essay Literature Association, Vice Chairman of Beibei District Writers Association):
"War and Peace" is an unquestionable masterpiece of world literature, a classic within a classic. Maugham called it "the greatest novel of all time", Roman Rowland called it "the greatest epic of our time, the modern Iliad", and the mainland reading community hailed it as "an encyclopedic epic".
The reason why this work has been long-lasting and timeless, its core code is just like its title: it profoundly describes and highly summarizes the two major themes of "war" and "peace" that mankind has not been able to avoid so far. The novel is always a war after a peace, a peace after a war, war and peace have become the two basic lifestyles and basic life states of all characters, the storyline is between the two themes of wandering, shuttle, unfolding, so as to integrate the individual's "love and hate" and "life and death" into the human group's "war and peace" problem, "capture" the reader, and reach an eternal aesthetic realm.
Discover yourself deep inside
"The Subconscious Knows the Answer: Know Yourself You Don't Know"
Author: Zhu Jianjun
Publisher: CITIC Publishing Group
Image dialogue, recognized as an effective way to enter the subconscious mind, was founded by the well-known psychologist Zhu Jianjun. In the book "The Subconscious Mind Knows the Answer", Professor Zhu Jianjun used this simple practical way to realize professional psychotherapy, aiming at 30 high-frequency problems in the six aspects of people's heart, action, interpersonal relationships, workplace, past and future, giving the practical method of interpreting the subconscious, guiding the reader to dialogue with his subconscious, read the subconscious, and then read himself, reduce confusion and entanglement, and live the life he wants.
Book recommender
Qiu Si (Founder of Chongqing Bright Psychological Counseling Institute and Senior Psychological Counselor):
This is a book on the psychological therapy methods invented by Professor Zhu Jianjun, a famous psychologist on the mainland, through reading, to help you know yourself more accurately, to have a dialogue with your subconscious, to raise the unknown consciousness to the level of consciousness to help you solve problems, as the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates said, "Know yourself".
The book uses a simplified five-step method of image dialogue. This seemingly simple method can help you know yourself, guide social interaction, and let you develop yourself in the workplace, so as to control life and meet a better self. This book explores yourself that you may not even know, such as how many sub-personalities you have? What traits do I have for boys and girls? What is the level of psychological maturity? Why do I often feel insecure? What am I best suited for? What my future might look like and so on, through the practice of image dialogue, I discovered my inner self.
The brain-burning pleasure no one can resist
The Labyrinth of Reasoning
Author: [American] William Poundstone
Translator: Li Daqiang
Publisher: CITIC Publishing House
In this book, the author William Poundstone collects a large number of philosophical paradoxes and logical puzzles from ancient times to the present, and elaborates and analyzes these problems. The book is comprehensive in a wide range of fields, including logic, mathematics, philosophy, physics, decision-making, linguistics, and computer science, with a clear context and rigorous reasoning, each of which can read the author's amazing insights.
Book recommender
Liu Xin (Vice Principal of Chongqing People's Primary School):
Philosophy is broad and profound and is the foundation of all science. With his personal thinking and insights in philosophy, mathematics, logic, linguistics and many other fields, William Poundstone presents many famous philosophical paradoxes and logical disassembly to the reader one by one. The reader is taken into the labyrinth of thought again and again in the high-density reasoning information. While experiencing the brain-burning pleasure, we also feel the fragility of knowledge and the one-sidedness of our cognition.
The paradoxes and puzzles that are enough to make people think while watching, and the more they think, the more they are dizzy, may be difficult to have real answers after reading. Because of this, when reading this book, you can use a relaxed enough mind to tell yourself that you don't have to seek a solution. You will find some kind of wonder in traveling through time and space, and at the same time you can perceive the unremitting pursuit of all the ultimate meanings of human beings.
Red classic new hero legend
Bright Sword
Author: Du Liang
Publisher: People's Liberation Army Literature and Art Publishing House
The protagonist of the story, Li Yunlong, is a soldier who has fought in the battlefield of a hundred battles, and is a famous general who has fought in blood and fire all his life. His life creed is: in the face of a powerful opponent, knowing that he is invincible, he must resolutely shine his sword, even if he falls, he must become a mountain and a ridge. In the time and space transition between war and peace, his fate is destined to be full of sorrow and joy.
Book recommender
Liu Zhihua (Associate Professor, School of Liberal Arts, Southwest University):
"Bright Sword" is a work selected for the "New China 70 Years and 70 Novels Collection". The tv series of the same name adapted has been hit many times, and it is good to watch and enjoy. In fact, the novel is also readable, worth savoring, the language is free and flexible, the psychological activities are carefully crafted, and the character personality is more three-dimensional. The novel is about the great history of China's modern and contemporary times, but it is full of the temperature of human nature, and the main character, Li Yunlong, is a typical bloody soldier, acting roughly, odd and righteous, courageous and wise, dare to make decisions and be able to take responsibility, the key is to have feelings and righteousness. The novel continues the new hero legend of the red classic, but thinks about war, tragic fate, thought has depth, emotion has power. Especially when shaping the hero's image, without avoiding the impact of personal fate and history, Li Yunlong's final tragedy is personal and the times, which is lamentable and sad, and also leaves enough space for readers to think. The "bright sword" is not only a strong enemy in the face of the battlefield, but also a brave person who is not afraid in the face of fate.
Listen to the voices of those who love life
A Guide to Life Addiction: Interesting Souls in the Moment
Author: Yao Yao
Publisher: Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House
This is a heart-warming collection of graphic essays. You can think of this book as a travel guide or a photographic guide, and the words in the book are not idealized daily life, but they can certainly make you hear the voice of loving life. You can write down your wish list one by one, and then little by little to complete the small things that are actually not so difficult, and drink the pot of life's spicy wine.
Book recommender
Xu Peng (Member of the Plenary Committee of Chongqing Writers Association, Vice Chairman of Yuzhong District Literary Association):
The author of the book uses 27 stories to bring together the interesting soul of a girl. She can feel the temperature of the Mediterranean Sea with her body, she will also use her eyes to trace the world a hundred years ago, and she will give herself a sense of ritual with words and photos, life is a big playground, she only wants to have fun and leave no regrets. Life is uncertain, "tomorrow is a new day", which means that tomorrow will be better, tomorrow is full of hope, every today is just accumulating strength, we have to accept the uncertainty of life, and strive to live today, train ourselves to bravely accept the challenge. After doing so, whether tomorrow will be better or not, we have accumulated enough ability and courage today to be able to calmly meet a new day full of unknowns. This is also a piece of advice I gave myself after reading this book.
Meet the challenges of a long life
"Longevity Life: How to Live a Beautiful Life in the Age of Longevity"
Author: [Us] Andrews/[English] Linda Gratton
Translator: Sherch
Publisher: CITIC Publishing House
For a longer life, you need to re-plan. Embrace change with exploration and learning, and start a new multi-segment life. How to stay healthy? How do you stay ahead of the curve in your career? How to live happily? How to manage your finances, do not worry about it, and enjoy it leisurely? "Long Life" is a book of future planning, remember, don't just look at the present, walking into the future with your head held high is the best posture to meet the challenge.
Book recommender
Nancy (President of the Endless Book Club):
According to statistics, from 1981 to the end of 2020, the average life expectancy of mainland residents increased from 67.77 years to 77.9 years, and we will be greeted by various problems caused by longevity. Due to the changes in the entire social environment and lifestyle, people are bound to come out of the previous three-stage model of "going to school, working, and retiring" step by step and face greater challenges. At that time, how can we balance the health, fertility, wealth, pension and other issues brought about by these changes?
Through 7 fictional characters, this book expounds the impact of technological development and life extension on people's work and life, and observes the era of longevity from a new perspective and new cognition. After reading, it can help us have more understanding of unknown opportunities and challenges, remind people that in the case of longer life and more time, they can also use exploration and learning to meet change, achieve continuous self-transcendence, and plan their future with a very development vision.
Source: Chongqing Daily client