The 13th Party Member Learning Month of Xincheng Road Street was officially opened on May 13. In the next month, Xincheng Road Street will carry out learning and exchanges in the form of reading exchanges, theme presentations, knowledge competitions, exhibitions, and study tours. 8 books are carefully selected for the reference and study of party members and the masses. The recommended books are as follows:
Recommended Books
01
Self-Revolution - The Most Distinctive Character of the Communist Party of China
Author: Zhang Rongchen Zheng Chaohua Publisher: China Democracy and Legal Publishing House Publication date: June 2023
Introduction: This book focuses on General Secretary Xi Jinping's important exposition on the party's self-revolution, combined with the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and discusses from multiple dimensions such as theory, history, and reality. The book elaborates on the theoretical basis, rich connotation, and historical development of the Communist Party of China's self-revolution, as well as how the Party achieves self-purification, self-improvement, self-innovation, and self-improvement through self-revolution. At the same time, it shows the great practice of unswervingly governing the party strictly in an all-round way in the new era and leading the social revolution with the party's self-revolution, helping readers deeply understand the connotation and essential requirements of self-revolution. This book adheres to the combination of theory and practice, the content is popular, and the language is vivid, which can help party members and cadres deepen their understanding of the party's self-revolution, deeply understand the historical experience of adhering to the self-revolution of a hundred years, and then inspire themselves to enhance their sense of responsibility and mission, constantly improve their ability level, forge ahead, and take responsibility.
02
Understanding New Productivity
Author: Huang Qunhui Publisher: CITIC Press Publication date: March 2023
Introduction: The development of new quality productivity is an inherent requirement and an important focus to promote high-quality development, and we must continue to do a good job in innovation to accelerate the development of new quality productivity. Huang Qunhui, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and director of the Institute of Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, based on years of research results, systematically expounded the scientific connotation, significance and practical path of the new quality productivity from the dimensions of innovation-driven, new industrialization, industrial chain layout, new production relations and high-quality development, so as to provide readers with a deep understanding and grasp of the new quality productivity. Seize the opportunities of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation and development, and provide an important reference.
03
Planning Beijing: A New Examination of the Liang Chen Plan
Author: Li Hao Publisher: Social Sciences Academic PressPublication date: June 2023
Introduction: "Liang Chen Plan" is a well-known event in the history of urban planning in China, and it is also an important topic related to the construction and development of the capital Beijing. On the basis of combing some basic historical facts, the author of this book uses a newly discovered important historical material, "Liang Linchen Commentary", to reveal the real differences between Liang Sicheng and other Soviet experts. Through a systematic combing of the origin and practical basis of Liang Sicheng's "New Beijing" planning thought, the source and work experience of Chen Zhanxiang's planning thought, as well as the main sources and practical experience of Soviet experts' planning thought, the key meaning of the planning dispute between the two sides is clarified, and then the overall picture, cause and effect of the "Liang Chen Plan" are systematically understood and recognized from multiple perspectives. As an expert in the history of urban planning, the author combs the historical materials based on first-hand information, as well as calmly, rigorously and rationally investigates and argues, which ensures the objectivity and scientificity of the discussion in this book.
04
"I Deliver Courier in Beijing"
Author: Hu Anyan Publishing House: Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House Publication date: March 2023
Introduction: In the past 20 years since entering the social work, Hu Anyan has traveled to Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Shanghai, Beijing and other places, and has worked as a courier, night shift picker, convenience store clerk, security guard, bicycle shop sales, clothing store shopping guide, gas station refueling worker...... He turned the daily bits and pieces and the sweetness and hardship of work into a sincere self-report, recording the hard work, selfishness, warmth and righteousness of an ordinary person in life. A year of night picking in a logistics company left a deep physiological imprint on him: "This job can also make people lose their temper, because staying up late for a long time and overworking will significantly reduce people's emotional control...... I'm already feeling bad in my head, mainly because my reflexes have become sluggish and my memory is starting to deteriorate. During the two years he delivered in Beijing, he "saw himself as a delivery machine with a salary of 30 yuan an hour, and when he could not reach the rated output value, he became angry and angry"...... But he eventually realized that a life of resentment was not worth living. These work experiences, written in hindsight, permeate his attitude and reflection on life and the world, and aim to express the individual's direct face and affirmation of the meaning of life in the midst of limited choices and cramped realities: many ordinary and timeless moments in life are more decisive to life than the aspects that plague reality.
05
Under the Shadow of Ancestors: Kinship, Personality, and Social Mobility in Traditional China
Author: [United States] Xu Hongguang Publisher: Kyushu Publishing House, Houlang Publication date: September 2023
Introduction: In 1941, under the flames of the Anti-Japanese War, the young anthropologist Xu Hongguang began an in-depth anthropological fieldwork in Xizhou Town, Dali, Yunnan Province. He tries to start from a small town to understand a wider China. Therefore, the classic work of Chinese anthropological research "Under the Shadow of the Ancestors" has been achieved. By outlining the traditional Chinese family system and ethics in this small town community, we discover a consistent and stable chain of complex social and cultural relations in the Chinese social and cultural system, which starts from the family social practice of integrating father and son, and derives the ideal of the big family. Although this book was written 70 years ago, the in-depth description and analysis of the community in Xizhou Town is still like a key from the future, opening not only the door to the past, but also the door to the present and the future.
06
One Hundred Years, Many People, Many Things
Author: Yang Yi Publisher: Yilin Publishing House Publication date: January 2023
Introduction: This book is the only oral autobiography of Yang Yi, a peer of the May Fourth Movement, a progressive student of Southwest Associated University, a famous translator, and a centenarian. From 1919 to today, Yang Yi's life is a hundred years of great changes in China. The tempering of the times and life has condensed into the innocent and romantic song of a generation of intellectual women. Looking back at the century, compared with legends and achievements, Yang Yi attaches more importance to her "days", and the family, friendship, love and world conditions she carries: in the deep house of her childhood, she did not make much trouble with the changes in the political and business worlds of her ancestors, and those who never forgot were the situation of ordinary people; Friendship with classmates, girls' hearts, poetry and dramas, "Chinese and Western" have been riding the wings of singing for ten years, and they are the most carefree; When the nation was in danger, from Tianjin, Shanghai, Hong Kong to Kunming, on the way to the west, sang "On the Songhua River", and the flame of civilization was not extinguished; From Southwest Associated University to Central University, I still have a young figure in my memory - the first time I saw the "literary idol" Ba Jin, Wen Yiduo who was covered with dust after the bombing, Wu Mi who was ticking on the stone road with a cane, Shen Congwen, the mentor who "praised us as brave girls", and the heart-to-heart talk under the moon on the edge of the Yunnan River, and the reunion and farewell on the bank of the Jialing River...... Scholar Yu Bin spent ten years resisting forgetting with listening, and leading to the truth of history with details. Family stories, the emerald years, the road to study, the mountains and rivers, a century of people and events slowly unfold in the narrative.
07
Lattimore's History of China
Authors: Owen Lattimore, Eleanor LattimorePublisher: Shanghai People's Publishing HousePublication date: January 2024
Introduction: This book is a unique and concise work of Chinese history written by the famous sinologist Lattimore and his wife based on their years of life and academic research experience in China. Through four parts and twelve chapters of "Land and People", "The Oldest Existing Civilization", "Modern China" and "China in the Modern World", this book recounts the history of China from the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties to the 40s of the 20th century, especially the stereotype of "Huayi" in ancient historiography, and reinterprets the law of the rise and fall of Chinese dynasties from the perspective of "the hometown inside and outside the Great Wall", and analyzes the new changes and new atmosphere in China since modern times, and exposes Japan's aggression against China and the connivance of Western countries against Japan's aggression. He looked forward to China's important position in the world, and expressed his views on how to think about China issues and the U.S. policy toward China in the context of the world.
08
Why China: From the Age of Legends to the Western Zhou Dynasty
Author: Li Linzhi Publisher: Research PressPublication date: November 2023
Introduction: Why do the "Rongdi barbarians", who are regarded as culturally backward by Chinese orthodoxy, consider themselves to be descendants of the "Three Emperors and Five Emperors"? Why has the "Rongdi Barbarians" continued to chase the Central Plains for thousands of years? Through the archaeological system, this book finds that the reason why the Central Plains region can become the "middle of the world" in the minds of the ancestors is that in addition to the superior geographical location and environment, there is also an important factor that in the Peiligang and Yangshao cultural periods of 9000~5300 years ago, the Central Plains people continued to expand and migrate outward, and the resulting upper-level exchanges between different cultural groups contributed to the recognition of the concepts of ancestor worship and worship, so that the marginal ethnic groups continued to compete for the Central Plains and continue to expand the landscape outward. After 6,000 years of friction, conflict and integration, the Central Plains ethnic groups were in the Western Zhou Dynasty, through the implementation of the "feudal" system by the Zhou Dynasty, transitioning from the chaotic stage of freedom to the stage of active self-determination, the national consciousness was awakened, the concepts of "Huaxia", "Zhuxia" and "China" were established, and the Chinese nation was formally formed. Its essence lies in the fact that it transcends the political perspective of the previous dynasties that was limited to the scope of the tribe, and forges a cultural community with a sense of "Tianxia", so that China is no longer a battlefield for the competition of people from different cultural systems, but has become a stage for the pursuit of continuity and strength within China.
Correspondent: Yang Chenwei Editor: Zhou Yanjie