People say that "spring is short", but they don't know that human perception of time is not constant.
One spring evening, the 74-year-old poet Lu You was quietly reading in the library when he suddenly heard a New Year's night rain falling down the eaves of his house. Winter goes to spring, and it's just a flash. He suddenly felt that time was in a hurry, and muttered "A drop of New Year rain between the eaves, and a midnight light under the window" - Pulsatilla is old and learning, lest he can't catch up with the years.
One spring afternoon, the poet Ye Cai leaned on the window to read a book, and occasionally raised his eyes to see the shadow of a pair of small sparrows on the roof falling on the bookcase and bouncing, and the spring breeze blew the poplar flowers off the inkstone intentionally or unintentionally. He suddenly felt that the shadow of the sun was slanting, "sitting in the small window reading Zhou Yi, I don't know how long the spring will go" - immersed in the happiness of opening the book, the reader does not know that the spring is flying.
To continue the beauty of spring, spring is the right time to read. On the occasion of this year's "April 23" World Book Day, the 21st Century Business Herald and the 21st Century Economic Research Institute have joined forces with more than 30 outstanding publishing houses, book editors and book reviewers in China to present a freshly released spring 2024 book list for readers. This season, we have selected a number of good books in various fields such as economics, finance, humanities, and public decision-making, which are "concerned about the future development of society". As it says in "The Old Man and the Sea": "Although the future cannot be controlled, I can do it every day to put my hook in the right place." ”
Throughout his life, Kissinger has spent his life dealing with fellow statesmen of the world's finest statesmen, whose leadership qualities and leadership are well understood. In "On Leadership", through Kissinger's analysis and summary of six important world leaders, we can follow his gaze into the successes and failures of history, and open up our deeper insight into the art of leadership.
Artificial intelligence has developed rapidly in recent years, which has strongly impacted and profoundly changed the existing way of life of human beings. In the nearly 70 years of artificial intelligence development, artificial intelligence historian Pamela McCordek has almost experienced it. She truly recorded the outstanding figures and important moments in the history of artificial intelligence development, and used a group portrait of the founders of artificial intelligence to connect the bumpy development of artificial intelligence in the past 70 years.
What kind of development path has China's new energy vehicles taken? On the basis of China's large automobile market, can we quickly find new opportunities for China's automobile industry to become stronger? How to realize the historic leap from a large automobile country to an automobile power? These questions can be glimpsed in the new book "Lane Changing Racing: China's Road for New Energy Vehicles" by Miao Wei, former minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
What changes will there be in the future? What unprecedented challenges and opportunities will mankind face? How can we use the power of trends to unravel the mystery of the future world? Marianne Salzman is a veteran trend forecaster who was once named one of the world's top five trend forecasters by Falls. In Top 10 Trends for the Future, we'll follow in her footsteps and try to harness the power of trends to navigate a changing world. (In no particular order)
Pension Reform: Principles and Policy Options
Nicholas Barr
By Peter Diamond
Translated by Ouyang Kui
Chinese University Press
January 2024
This book expounds the economic theories and international experiences related to pension reform, so that readers can have the ability to conduct independent analysis of pension policies. The first part of the book explains the core purpose, basic characteristics and economic basis of the pension system, discusses the pension and labor market, financing and accumulation, redistribution and risk-taking, and the implementation of the pension system, and discusses the international differences and changes in pension policy, the direction and suggestions of pension reform, policy problems and some solutions. One of the hallmarks of this book is its rejection of oversimplification, and its formulation of principles of policy analysis that are both simple, clear, and logical. The topics studied in this book are of great significance in a world where demographic, economic, and social structures are changing rapidly.
Top 10 Future Trends: Business, Culture, Consumption
By Marianne Salzman
Translated by Yang Chenguang
Chinese Translation Press
January 2024
In this book, Salzman draws on his extensive experience in advertising, public relations, and cutting-edge technology to summarize the economic, ecological, and socio-cultural fluctuations and anxieties experienced by American society over the past 20 years, and predicts ten trends that may affect business, culture, and consumption in the next 15 years: the future of work will be one person managing a bunch of robots, and scientists will develop "super enzymes" that can swallow plastic Global technology companies and healthcare sectors will work together to build early warning systems for infectious diseases, a new generation of 3D printers will be able to produce complex physical products, and wood can replace steel, concrete, plastics and even electronics in the future......
Lane Changing Racing: China's Road to New Energy Vehicles
Written by Miao Wei
People's Posts and Telecommunications Press
January 2024
This book takes technological development as the context and sorts out the century-old development history of the automotive industry. Through the collection of detailed information, the key events of China's new energy automobile industry in the past 20 years are restored, and the introduction process and implementation results of relevant national industrial policies are introduced in detail, the lessons and lessons of the competitiveness of automobile enterprises are summarized, the basic path of China's automobile power construction is explored, and the future development trend of the global automobile industry is discussed.
New Gilded Age
By James Crabtree
Translated by Xing Wei
New Classic Culture丨Nanhai Publishing Company
January 2024
Today, India has the world's largest and structurally young population, advanced technology, a growing middle class and swelling optimistic ambitions, but beneath the boiling façade lies an unsustainable crisis. The symbiosis of politics and business, which contributed to India's economic miracle, is now eroding the rusty state apparatus and the lives of every human being. In this book, James Crabtree, a veteran financial journalist and policy analyst, presents a divided society on the cusp of transformation and what it means for the world in the future.
The Great Monetary Fission: A Credit Money That Subverts Cognition
Wang Yongli
中译出版 February 2024
This book focuses on the emergence of credit money and the profound fission and influence of money brought about by it, conducts in-depth research and analysis on the hot issues that arise in the operation of a country's monetary and financial and even international monetary and financial operations, corrects many plausible, deviant from reality, and illogical theoretical understandings and practical operations, and puts forward many new explanations and conclusions that subvert traditional cognition and classical theories.
Capital Wars: The Rising Tide of Global Liquidity
Michael S. By J. Howell
Translated by Feng Xuming and Lang Kun
CITIC Publishing Group, January 2024
Global mobility is a widely discussed, but poorly researched and vaguely defined topic. This book delves into this topic, provides a clear definition and measurement of global liquidity, and demonstrates its importance to investors. The book focuses on the role of central banks, shadow banking, the rise of repos, and the growth of wholesale money, as well as recent developments in China's increasingly dominant financial economy.
On Leadership
Henry Kissinger
Translated by Hu Liping and Lin Hua
CITIC Publishing Group
March 2024
As Kissinger's last book published during his lifetime, "On Leadership" is an account of six famous leaders – Konrad Adenauer, the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Charles de Gaulle, the first President of the French Fifth Republic, former US President Richard Nixon, former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Singapore's first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, and former British Prime Minister Margaret Murphy. Thatcher's leadership has been interpreted concretely, by sorting out the development and evolution of major international events, and restoring the specific details of individual decision-making, which reflects the important value of leadership.
The Past of Artificial Intelligence: Elites, Culture, and Thinking
Written by Pamela McCordek
Translated by Yu Jingyi and Yang Lifeng
Gezhi Publishing January 2024
In "The Past of Artificial Intelligence", Pamela recalls her own experience of the impact of artificial intelligence on our lives from the early 60s of the 20th century to the 21st century, describes the people who have made significant contributions to the formation and development of artificial intelligence in this process, and explores the collision and combination between the two cultures of humanities and science.
Shadow Mothers: Micropolitics in Naniting, Au Pairs, and Parenting
By Cameron Lin MacDonald
Translated by Yang Ke
East China Normal University Press
January 2024
Based on in-depth interviews with 30 working mothers and 50 child caregivers, anthropologist MacDonald explores surrogate motherhood work from paid child care to the core of contemporary family life. She goes deep into the family to observe the commoditized work of mothers, including the emotional and monetary conflicts and negotiations between employers, mothers and child caregivers, and the rules and expectations in family care arrangements.
This book corrects the typical understanding of paid domestic workers, illuminates contemporary women's understanding of motherhood and employment strategies, and reveals the changing boundaries between family and community, home and work, love and money.
Wanderers of history
Written by Li Shuo
Shanghai People's Publishing House
March 2024
"The Wanderer of History" is a work of courage by Li Shuo, a genius in the historical world. This book has a broad field of vision, taking into account many fields such as political history, social history, legal history, and intellectual history. Starting from historical facts, in addition to combing historical materials and building stories, it also has insight into people's hearts, and strives to restore the little-known subtleties and truths in the depths of time.
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