The "Humanities and Social Sciences Chinese Original Good Books List", which is dedicated to recommending excellent Chinese original books in the field of Chinese humanities and social sciences, is coming in Issue 5 (Issue 58 in total) in 2024!
Meihua Library: So says the archive
Su Jing
Chung Hwa Book Company
79 yuan | April 2024
For the first time, it completely presents the 88-year history of the rise and fall of Meihua Library, the formation history of Western-style Chinese printing in modern China, and the new work of Professor Su Jing, author of "Casting to Engraving: Changes in Chinese Printing in the Nineteenth Century".
Meihua Library has long been in charge of Western-style Chinese printing and publishing, and has made important contributions to the dissemination of modern Chinese thought and knowledge.
This book mainly starts from overseas first-hand English archives, and studies the 88-year history of the Meihua Library from 1844 to 1931 through small incisions of people, events and materials, covering the replacement of several directors of the Meihua Library, several innovations in Chinese lead type technology, internal management and relocation, etc. For the first time, it not only describes in detail the life and personality of Ke Li and Jiang Beili, the founding figures of the American and Chinese causes, but also includes Chinese craftsmen such as Wang Fengjia and Bao Zhecai into the research vision. For the first time, the invention, composition and origin of various types of movable type in Meihua Library were demonstrated in detail, and the relevant controversies and doubts in the academic community were answered. For the first time, the internal and external roots of Meihua Bookstore from prosperity to decline were pointed out, and the specific time when Meihua was finally closed was corrected; For the first time, he introduced how he became involved with the archives of Meihua Library, and how to find and use archives for research related to the history of printing.
Wanderers of history
Li Shuo
Century Wenjing, Shanghai People's Publishing House
99 yuan | March 2024
Li Shuo, the author of "Jianshang", is a work of courage, 12 academic wanderings, 3,000 years of time and space travel, writing history, and writing people's hearts.
This book is a work of courage by Li Shuo, a genius in the historical world, with a broad vision, taking into account many fields of political history, social history, legal history, and intellectual history: from the ancient world of King Zhou Youwang to the frontier of the late Qing Empire by Lin Zexu; From the "immortals" and cultivators in the "True Message" to the tragic bureaucrats in the era of Emperor Xiaowen; From the men and women who eat and drink in the dust, to the dangerous and pleasant forbidden love in the history of law; From Lattimore's northern march to the causes of the paradox of Hobbes's political doctrine; From the large canteen in Lixian County to the ruins of the Han Dynasty city at the end of the Hexi Corridor...... Starting from historical facts, 12 academic wanderings, 12 academic monologues, in addition to combing historical materials and story construction, they also have more insight into people's hearts, and strive to restore the little-known subtleties and truths in the depths of time.
Trivia: Culture, Cities and Enlightenment since the Ming and Qing Dynasties
By Li Hsiao-yi
Guangxi Normal University Press
79 yuan | April 2024
The representative works of cultural history by the famous historian Li Xiaoyi reveal the multiple aspects of cities, culture and ideas since the Ming and Qing dynasties.
This book is a representative work of cultural history by the famous historian Li Xiaoyi, revealing the multiple aspects of culture, cities and ideas since the Ming and Qing dynasties, and showing the truth of life hidden in the depths of the city and in the dust of history.
The content of the book spans more than 500 years of history, from the Hongwu year of the Ming Dynasty to the "May Fourth" vernacular literary movement, covering a variety of topics such as urban society, ideological enlightenment and culture, and providing interesting details for understanding modern China since the Ming and Qing dynasties. The author uses the new vision of social history and cultural history research, based on the imperial anthology, the compilation of classics, opera and folk songs, and other materials, through the themes of "Notes on Strange Things", "Historical Stories" and "Urban Style", presents the faces of emperors, scholars, intellectuals and the lower classes, and constructs a vivid and modern world.
Love and betrayal in the late Ming Dynasty
Xu Meijie
Zhejiang Ancient Books Publishing House
35 yuan | March 2024
An easy-to-understand, humorous essay on literature and history, reading stories of the late Ming Dynasty and "being friends with the ancients".
This book is one of the "Rizhi Literature Series", which is a number of historical and literary essays written by Xu Meijie, a researcher and columnist of literary literature in the Ming and Qing dynasties, on the society, culture, and literature of the late Ming Dynasty. Most of the articles have been published as columns in the Shanghai Review of Books. The content includes interesting stories in the notes of Ming Dynasty novels, anecdotes from the Ming court, and market customs in the Ming Dynasty, etc., and often interprets the phenomena of the late Ming Dynasty with the theories of communication and aesthetics in modern society, reflecting the distinctive personality of the late Ming literati. The language of the book is witty and concise, the cited literature is detailed and rigorous, the descriptions are vivid and vivid, and it is both readable and literary.
The humanistic spirit and the world of the future
Chen Fangzheng
Sichuan People's Publishing House
78 yuan | March 2024
·“ What does "humanistic spirit" refer to, what is the history of China and the West, and where should we go in the confrontation and integration with science and technology?
This book is a collection of essays by Professor Chen Fangzheng, a well-known historian of science, mainly including the author's prefaces and book reviews on classic works in the field of culture and science, as well as speeches and monographs at some forums. Articles or reminiscences of the past, feeling nostalgic for the old people; or focus on traditional Chinese culture and analyze the differences between China and the West, ancient and modern; Or touch on the history and frontiers of science, and imagine the future of the world in various fields. From Wang Yuanhua, Jao Tsung-i, Tang Yijie to Yang Zhenning and Dirac, from the great discoveries of Western geography to Alpha Go, artificial intelligence, and humanistic spirit, the author presents many thought-provoking reviews and reflections on life and the world with his rich experience, grand vision, and profound knowledge, all of which show the deep feelings of family and country and the grand global vision of that generation of scholars. Huairen is sincere and elegant, and the expositions are clear and detailed, and they are of great value in the fields of history of science, philosophy of science, and comparison of Chinese and Western cultures.
Weaving to save time: a study of modern Chinese textile history
Liao Dawei Editor-in-Chief
Liu Panhong and Zhang Huaming are deputy editors-in-chief
Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Press
98 yuan | April 2024
Fully embody the grand purpose of China's modern textile industry "weaving to save time".
Textile production in mainland China has a long history, in the process of national rejuvenation and China's industrial modernization, the textile industry is a pillar industry, related to the national economy and people's livelihood. This book studies different aspects of China's modern textile history, covering the history of textile enterprises, the history of textile science and technology, the history of textile figures, the history of textile politics, the history of textile newspapers and periodicals, and the analysis of textile data, etc., bringing together the latest special achievements of 28 experts, fully embodying the grand purpose of China's modern textile industry "weaving to save time", and also has certain academic value in the study of Chinese textile history and its data issues.
Zhang Jingsheng's academic chronology
Written by Xiao Yuhua
Shanghai People's Publishing House
88 yuan | March 2024
Sort out the mental journey of a generation of cultural strangers, and reflect the overall situation of China's turbulent times in the past 100 years.
Zhang Jingsheng is an influential and controversial figure in the history of Chinese culture in the 20th century. He has made achievements and contributions in many disciplines such as philosophy, aesthetics, logic, sexuality, sociology, folklore, literature, etc., and is a figure who embodies the pursuit of self-worth and forward-looking from theory to practice.
With the help of the collation and proofreading of "Zhang Jingsheng's Collection", this book sorts out the truth obscured by the smoke and dust of history through the scrutiny of various sources and the confusing "fog", in an attempt to restore a real Zhang Jingsheng. This book takes Zhang Jingsheng's life whereabouts and writing practice as clues, uses the method of linking events to the years, and combines the background of the times, with special attention to deducing the trajectory of writing.
Poetry and wine rivers and lakes: Jiang Kongyin's food life
Written by Li Huaiyu
Oriental Publishing Center
78 yuan | April 2024
The legendary life of the late Qing Dynasty imperial examination into Shijiang Kong Yin. The father of the Thirteen Langs of the South China Sea, the founder of "Dragon and Tiger Fighting", and the god of food in Guangzhou.
This book is written by Li Huaiyu about the life and deeds of Jiang Kongyin, the last generation of imperial examination scholars in the late Qing Dynasty and respected as "Taishi Gong". From Jiang Kongyin's juvenile scientific expedition to his ups and downs in officialdom, he not only extended the intersection and anecdotes of many celebrities in modern times, but also explored Jiang Kongyin's achievements and contributions in literature and food from historical materials.
The whole book excavates and uses the five volumes of Jiang Kongyin's self-printed "Lanzhai Poems" in his later years in the Zhongshan Library of Guangdong Province, which is rarely used by those who have studied Jiang Kongyin so far. The author also relied on the convenience of long-term visits to overseas scholars to excavate and correspondingly verify the historical materials left by relatives and friends related to Jiang Kongyin, and exposed a three-dimensional and plump character image in front of readers, which can be described as the pre-history of contemporary Cantonese cuisine, and can read the hearts of the people of the past world.
On the Realm: The Words of the World and Kant's Philosophy
Written by Chen Jianhua
The Commercial Press, Shanghai Branch
68 yuan | March 2024
Interpret the mystery of modernity in Words of the World under the overall framework of Wang Guowei's poetics and Kant's philosophy.
Why does "Words of the World" endure? Where is the mystery of its modernity? In this book, Professor Chen Jianhua uses empirical and historical contextualization methods to interpret "Human Words" in the overall framework of Wang Guowei and Kant's philosophy, discuss the global aspect of "realm", and discuss how Wang Guowei accepts Kant's philosophy, how to localize it, and embodies it in "Human Words" and a series of other issues.
This book consists of three essays, in which readers can gradually appreciate Wang Guowei's experience from Schopenhauer to Kant, and further understand the relationship between Wang Guowei and Kant's philosophy, the times, and the production field of literary theory in the late Qing Dynasty.
Zhou system and Qin system
Written by Feng Tianyu
The Commercial Press
128 yuan | March 2024
Mr. Feng Tianyu's reflections and summary on the history of institutional culture.
This book is a posthumous work by Mr. Feng Tianyu, which synthesizes Mr. Feng's experience in the study of ancient Chinese traditional culture, traditional institutions and history. The title of this book is "Zhou System and Qin System", which is not "the system of the Zhou Dynasty" or "the system of the Qin Dynasty" in a narrow sense, but refers to the Zhou system culture that lasted 3,000 years from the Zhou Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty, and the Qin system culture that lasted 2,000 years. In the process of China's institutional culture, the "Zhou-Qin system" is a pair of basic categories of Chinese institutional culture, which is close to the pivotal point of history. Regarding the choice of the Zhou system or the Qin system, the imperial courts and scholars of successive dynasties have debated endlessly, and the debates were particularly fierce in the early Qin, early Han, Tang, Ming and Qing dynasties. In the practice of the political system for thousands of years, there has been a phenomenon of ups and downs of the two systems, and the Zhou system and the Qin system have been constantly changing, and there have been rotations from generation to generation. However, in the basic tenet of the imperial art of the past dynasties, it is the miscellaneous use of hegemony and royal road, the Confucian expression method, and the yang and Confucian yin method.
Battle of Huitong Bridge
Written by Yu Ge
Tianxi Culture
88 yuan | May 2024
The works of Yu Ge, winner of the China Good Book, China Outstanding Publication Award and Wenjin Book Award, are a history of the Chinese Expeditionary Force's War of Resistance in western Yunnan and northern Burma.
In World War II, the Chinese Expeditionary Force's War of Resistance in Northern Burma and Western Yunnan was an important part of the National War of Resistance. During the war, the Yunnan-Burma Highway became China's only foreign transportation lifeline, and there was only one bridge over the Nu River that could carry cars - Huitong Bridge.
During the first invasion of Burma, the Huitong Bridge maintained the transportation of troops and supplies of 100,000 expeditionary forces; After the defeat of the war, the Huitong Bridge was blasted in time to build a strategic firewall to avoid the situation being critical. In the counteroffensive stage of western Yunnan, the Huitong Bridge was repaired and the Yunnan-Burma Highway was captured, and the Huitong Bridge became a strategic hub to turn the tide of the war and win the victory.
The Huitong Bridge not only supports the two battlefields of northern Myanmar and western Yunnan, but also serves as a strategic focus from strategic defense to strategic offensive. In this sense, the Huitong Bridge is not only related to the success or failure of the Yunnan-Burma battlefield, but also to the fate of the national war of resistance.
This book is written in the style of "micro-war history", with the help of the newly discovered original archives, and the details of the battle and characters around the Huitong Bridge are carefully restored. Focusing on the strategic node of Huitong Bridge, the author calmly and objectively recounted the offensive and defensive contest between the Chinese Expeditionary Force and the Japanese army around Huitong Bridge in 1942, and delicately and vividly reproduced a fateful battle in the history of the Anti-Japanese War.
Mouguo: Zeng Guofan and his staff
Written by Daming Tsuka
Yuelu Book Society
78 yuan | April 2024
A panoramic view of the far-reaching influence of the Shogunate of Zeng Guo on the political situation of the late Qing Dynasty, and many scenes of high-ranking officials and secretaries in the Qing Dynasty are presented in detail.
Why was Zeng Guofan able to achieve great things? In a letter to his younger brother Zeng Guoquan, he revealed his secret, saying: "Those who do great things should choose more substitutes as the first righteousness." "To plan and achieve one's own great cause for the interests of the country, we must have helpers, think tanks, and staff teams. This book selects the top ten staff members of Zeng Guofan (Li Yuandu, Li Hongzhang, Chen Shijie, Cheng Huansheng, Zhao Liewen, Zhou Tenghu, Gong Cheng, Shen Baozhen, Rong Hong, Xue Fucheng) as specimens, presents many scenes of high-ranking officials and secretaries in the Qing Dynasty in detail with solid historical materials and vivid narration, and shows the far-reaching influence of the shogunate of Zeng Guofan on the political situation of the late Qing Dynasty.
The pursuit of "Taoism" in Confucianism in the Ming Dynasty:
Wang Ting's thought on the theory of phase qi
Hu Dongcai
Shanghai Joint Bookstore
89 yuan | December 2023
The interaction between Qi Theory and Confucianism constitutes an important way to understand the thought of the Wangting Dynasty Theory of Qi Theory.
This book focuses on the case study of Wang Ting's Xiangqi theory, and attempts to point out through this case study that the identity of Wang Ting's Confucian scholar and his problem consciousness lie in the pursuit of "Tao Zhen", and the characteristics of his qi theory theory lie in the theory of Yuan Qi and its qi theory. At the same time, he expounded some unique views through his criticism of Cheng Zhu Lixue, and constructed some new aspects of Confucianism in the Ming Dynasty. More importantly, Wang Ting's theory of qi has an important relationship with the development of Confucianism and qi theory in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Therefore, the interaction between Qi Theory and Confucianism constitutes an important way to understand Wang Ting's Qi Theory thought, and it is also the proper dimension of Qi theory, Confucianism and Chinese philosophical research.
Literary and Historical Ephemeris: A Series of Manuscripts on the History of the Qin and Han Dynasties
Written by Chen Kanli
Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House
118 yuan | February 2024
Reflections of outstanding contemporary young historians on the history of the Qin and Han dynasties
The Ephemeris of Literature and History: A Series of Manuscripts on the History of the Qin and Han Dynasties brings together more than 20 essays on the history, politics, culture, and excavated documents of the Qin and Han dynasties over the past ten years, focusing on important topics such as the Records of the Historian and historical memory, time order, culture and institutions, and so on. In addition to solving specific problems and providing new knowledge, the papers collected in this book are rich in historical data, delicate in examination, unique in perspective, and quite creative, in addition to solving specific problems and providing new knowledge, they also strive to "see the big from the small", expand their horizons, explore methods, and open up a broader space for future research.
What is the history of subject knowledge
Zhang Qing
Life, Reading, and New Knowledge
69 yuan | April 2024
The "aid to the West and China" of subject knowledge has laid the tone of modern Chinese history.
The "aid to the West and the introduction of China" in disciplinary knowledge has set the tone of modern Chinese history. This covers two types of interrelated issues: the "dissemination" and "introduction" of knowledge, the former involving the basic path of the introduction of "Western Studies" ("Eastern Studies") into China and the related works translated and introduced, and the latter concerning the institutional and social environment in which "subject-specific knowledge" grows. This book briefly illustrates how to carry out the study of "history of discipline knowledge" in China by showing the different aspects of the growth of discipline knowledge in China, from discipline terminology to discipline history writing, as well as the basic historical facts and relevant historical materials involved.
Confucius's Analects of Confucius: Interpretation, Discussion and Exploration
Huang Gang
Jinan University Press, Returnees
149.8 yuan | March 2024
Tracing the essence of ancient culture, we will once again approach Confucius and the Analects.
This book is a summary of the author's experience in the study of Confucius and the Analects for many years. The book is divided into two parts, each of which begins with a general thesis of classic sentences from the Analects, and begins with an analysis of Confucius and some of the best ideas in the Analects. The following part reviews the interactive debates between Confucius and his representative disciples one by one, and comprehensively explains the friendship between Confucius and his disciples and the collision of ideas through dialogues and biographies in the Analects and related historical books. The author's point of view is clear, which provides a large space for today's readers to trace the essence of ancient culture and get closer to Confucius and the Analects again.
History of pre-Qin carrier calligraphy
Chu Mo wrote
Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House
358 yuan | April 2024
Who carried the evolution of calligraphy?
This book is a theoretical monograph on the study of pre-Qin carrier calligraphy. The pre-Qin period was the period of the origin and initial development of Chinese calligraphy art, and it was also a period when the appearance of calligraphy was relatively rich, which was directly related to the diversification of calligraphy carriers. It can be said that the history of the development of Chinese calligraphy is also the history of the evolution of the medium of writing. This book takes the carrier as the object of investigation, and the carrier is related to the penmanship, glyph, form composition and other factors, which are rarely touched on nowadays, so it has extremely high artistic and documentary value. The oracle bones, gold inscriptions, pottery inscriptions, seals and other glyphs involved in this book are not available in computers, and the contents of the book are handwritten and drawn by the author. The book is presented in photocopy form.
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