【New Book Recommendation】
Original title: The Factory in the Human Body History in the Everyday
"The Incredible Arsenal of the Human Body"
Written by Catherine Carver
Translated by Xu Shuo
Guizhou People's Publishing House
There is an invisible team in everyone's body – the immune system. Starting with the main defenses, the book walks the reader through the various ways in which the immune system works. Using humorous language, the author explores the incredible arsenal of the human body and explores how the immune system fights off everything from the common cold to the plague.
Tears and snot are also products of the immune system? The relationship between the fetus and the expectant mother is actually parasitism and parasitism? There are no lengthy medical terms here, and complex medical knowledge becomes easier to understand.
Fracture and Rebirth
Written by Zhang Xingjun
Guizhou People's Publishing House
Journalist Zhang Xingjun walked between China and India, witnessing the huge gap between the real India and the India that is circulating in China. During his time in India, he experienced India's general elections, the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, and the boom of Chinese companies in India; visited all walks of Indian society: from roadside vendors, taxi drivers, factory owners, to teachers, academics, and movie stars; and provided a real India through the eyes of the Chinese through the perspective of the Chinese in India.
"In a way, it's not just about how we see India, it's a reflection of how a rising power sees the world and how it gets along with it. ”
Civilization: Three Thousand Years of East-West Exchanges
Written by Zhang Guogang
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As the only civilization in the world that has never interrupted its history, the prosperity of Chinese civilization is inseparable from exchanges and mutual learning with other civilizations in the world. Zhang Qian's passage to the Western Regions in the Han Dynasty, the cultural convergence of the Western Regions in the Tang Dynasty to Chang'an, the prosperity of the Silk Road in the Song and Yuan dynasties, and the arrival of Western scientific and technological and religious forces in the Ming and Qing dynasties were the four major climaxes of the exchange between Chinese and Western civilizations. From the pre-Qin period to the Ming and Qing dynasties, from the inland to the ocean, this book traces the footprints of the ancestors, and tells the historical process of exchanges, collisions and mutual nourishment between ancient Chinese civilization and Western civilization through the records of King Zhou Mu's trip to the west, Zhang Qian's journey to the Western Regions, Xuanzang's journey to the west, Zheng He's voyage to the West, and Xu Guangqi's translation of Western scientific and technological works.
"The Depths of Everyday Life"
Written by Wang Xiaowei
CITIC Press
Why is a wood-fired stove more fragrant than a gas stove for cooking, why is a stove warmer than a heater?
This book reviews how the technological artifacts we are familiar with since the eighties and nineties have come into being, and tries to explain why in the years before the objects were so valuable, like family members, while now objects have become mere commodities, leaving only shriveled use value. Based on the philosophy of technology, the author breaks down the barriers between academia and literature, takes objects as the protagonists, and portrays a collective history that we have walked together. (Su Mo)
Source: China Workers' Daily