The Commercial Press was founded in Shanghai in 1897 and moved to Beijing in 1954. In 2002, China Publishing Group Corporation was established, and the Commercial Press is one of the member units. In 2011, the Commercial Press was reorganized into the Commercial Press Limited.
The establishment of the Commercial Press marked the beginning of China's modern publishing industry. Publishers led by Zhang Yuanji and Xia Ruifang worked hard to start a business, laying a solid foundation for the development of business. For more than a century, the Commercial Press has taken "Changming education and opening up the wisdom of the people" as its mission, strived to inherit Chinese culture, actively disseminated new overseas knowledge, experienced disasters, and constantly reborn, creating a brilliant cause of Chinese cultural publishing. Over the past 100 years, more than 50,000 kinds of commercial publications have been published, and representative publications include Ciyuan, Xinhua Dictionary, Modern Chinese Dictionary, Oxford Advanced English-Chinese Dictionary, "Chinese Translation of World Academic Masterpieces Series", "Chinese Modern Academic Masterpieces Series", "World Celebrity Biography Series", as well as "English World", "Chinese World" and other magazines. Publications have won the International Platinum Star Quality Award and the National Book Award. The "Wenjin Pavilion Siku Quanshu" and the "Xinhua Dictionary" were given to foreign guests as state gifts by party and state leaders. Business is the winner of the honorary titles of "Top 100 Publishing Houses" and "China Publishing Government Award", has a good influence and reputation among readers, and is "a very important cultural and educational institution". Together with Peking University, the Commercial Press is known as the Gemini constellation in the history of modern and contemporary Chinese culture.
<h1>The Sound of Antiquities</h1>
By Yang Hong
This book uses ancient relics found in Chinese archaeology as specimens to restore the daily living habits, daily furniture and related daily rituals of the social life of the ancient Chinese. As an archaeologist who has worked hard for more than 50 years, the author combines historical documents, peels back the cocoon, interprets it carefully, and helps us enter the museum with vivid and rigorous brushstrokes, listen to the chanting of archaeological specimens, and feel the inherent historical and cultural accumulation and charm of antiquities.
<h1>Critique of Pure Reason</h1>
Kant by Wang Jiuxing
The Critique of Pure Reason is recognized as the most widely circulated and influential work of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, and one of the most important and far-reaching works in the entire history of Western philosophy. First published in 1781 and republished in 1787, the book is often referred to as Kant's "First Critique", and together with the subsequent Critique of Practical Reason and the Critique of Judgment, it is called Kant's "Three Critiques". In this foundational work of Western philosophy, Kant attempts to combine rationalism and empiricism in order to oppose David Hume's radical empiricism. In November 2015, it was named the 20 most influential academic books.
<h1>Eight Lessons in Poetry</h1>
The river is weak
What do poets write when they write poems? How was it written? And how to read? In the form of a series of lectures, this book draws on ancient and modern Chinese and foreign poems and poetic treatises, and carries out meaningful and interesting discussions on topics such as game, taste, sound text, texture, mysterious thoughts, eroticism, nostalgia, and death. Each lecture uses unique and charming works to give readers the double satisfaction of sensibility and intellect with unique analysis.
<h1>"String Recitation Of The Song of Fu Li"</h1>
Dai Jun
Church universities - in modern China, which originated in the early years of the Republic of China, to the mid-to-late 1920s, gradually became a booming trend, represented by Yanjing, Furen, etc. More than a dozen church universities scattered in Beijing, Shanghai, Shandong, and other national universities and other private universities, becoming a non-negligible branch of higher education in the Republic of China. In the 1930s, the pace of Japanese aggression accelerated, and then the whole country entered the eight-year-long stage of the War of Resistance, the whole country moved to the rear, and the church universities gradually migrated and gathered in Chengdu Huaxiba and other places to resume classes and studies. Shortly after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 1945, the four-year civil war resumed, and in 1949, new China was founded, and in 1952, the reform of colleges and universities was implemented in Chinese mainland, the church universities were dissolved, and the missionaries and experts from various fields in Western countries left the country. As a short-lived and influential educational institution in the history of education in modern and modern China, the church university has lasted for less than half a century, but it has had a far-reaching impact on modern higher education and academic research. Because of its "brilliance", there is "string chanting"; Sigh its shortness, but also repeat the "Li Song".
<h1>Stages of life's path</h1>
Kierkegaard by Kympot translated
"Stages of life's path" is Kierkegaard's masterpiece. Kierkegaard discusses the stages of the path of life in the form of a memoir by William Oheim and a letter to the reader, the stages of the path of aesthetics, ethics, and religion. Kierkegaard wants us to choose ourselves in the face of subjective individual survival feelings, he wants us to penetrate the aesthetic life, after enjoying the illusion and pleasure brought by life, to discover the misfortunes and pains hidden behind it, and then to recognize the limitations of ethical life, and finally enter the quiet religious stage.
<h1>"I Can't Make a Book: Su Shi's Calligraphy and Painting Art and Buddhism"</h1>
Chen Zhongzhe
Buddhism has a profound influence on Chinese culture, and Su Shi is the master of traditional Chinese culture, not only enjoying a lofty position in the history of calligraphy and painting, but also one of the most closely related representative figures of Buddhism among literati and doctors. This book discusses the causes of Su Shi and Buddhism, Su Shi's view of calligraphy and painting and Buddhism, Su Shi's theory of calligraphy and painting creation and Buddhism, and Su Shi's calligraphy and painting works are influenced by Buddhism, and through the case of Su Shi's calligraphy and painting and Buddhism, it carries out empirical and scientific discussions on how Buddhism affects Chinese culture.
<h1>The Beauty of Han Portraits: A Study of Han Portraits and Traditional Chinese Aesthetic Concepts</h1>
Zhu Cunming
The author elevates the study of Han portraits to an aesthetic height, and from the academic perspective of modern aesthetics, he excavates the aesthetic ideology of the Han Dynasty ethnic group expressed in Han portraits, and puts forward a new view that Han portraits are a kind of symbolist art. Today, when visual culture is increasingly becoming an important field of study, it is meaningful to re-examine the aesthetic culture of the Han people from a new perspective.
<h1>Being and Time</h1>
Heidegger by Chen Jiaying, translated by Wang Qingjie
Existence and Time is the representative work of the German philosopher Heidegger, and one of the most important philosophical works of this century, which not only influenced many important philosophical schools and important philosophers since then, but also had a broad and profound impact on literary criticism, sociology, theology, psychology, political science, law and other fields.
Existence and Time criticizes the tradition of studying philosophy as knowledge and existence as beings since Plato and Aristotle. At the same time, it abandons the method of starting from knowledge in modern philosophical research represented by Descartes.
Heidegger's philosophy begins with the existence of man, this, and reaches the clarity of the meaning of existence in the pursuit of "existence". The philosophy of existence based on Heidegger's Existence and Time represents a major shift in Western philosophy, both in terms of purpose and content.
<h1>In Search of The Order of Nature</h1>
Paul Lawrence Farber by Translated by Yang Sha
This book will take the reader to explore the origins and development of naturalism.
Farber examines nearly three centuries of naturalistic traditions. Farber argues that naturalism is a tradition somewhere between "folk biology" and mainstream science. "The difference between naturalism and earlier 'folk biology' is that naturalists try to group animals, plants, and minerals according to common underlying characteristics, and use rational, systematic methods to establish order for variations found in nature, which would otherwise be too numerous to deal with." The main difference between naturalism and modern science is that modern science is more dependent on experimentation.
<h1>There Are Fish in the North: The Anthropologist's Field Story</h1>
Zheng Shaoxiong, Li Rongrong, eds
This book is a collection of anthropologist field stories initiated and edited by the Research Center for Social and Cultural Anthropology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. When anthropologists engage in fieldwork in their respective professional directions, the impact and impact of differences between different cultures on individuals brings a very intimate individual feeling. The book includes 98 field stories collected by the author over a three-year period of 75 anthropologists at home and abroad. These stories are short, vivid and interesting, and highly readable, expounding the philosophy of life while conducting academic research.
<h1>The Secret Life of a Tree</h1>
Colin Tachi by Yao Yuzhi et al
A love letter to the big tree.
With trees, our romantic pursuits and our utilitarian pursuits often put our relationships with them in an awkward position.
Going to either extreme cannot be counted on. Or let us know them as friends in a community, appreciate them, and treat them with a feeling of interdependence, because this is the basis for our lasting coexistence, the enduring existence of our common home. Someone willingly wrote a book about trees, telling us many of them, as well as our stories and theirs. Let's flip through it all.
<h1>The Saints and the Sinners</h1>
Eamon Duffy by Long Xiuqing translation
This book chronicles the history of the entire Pope and the Holy See. It expounds the history of the entire Pope from Peter in the 1st century AD to John Paul II in the 21st century, but its focus is not on the deeds of individual popes, but on the major problems faced by the Church at different times and the responses of popes in stages, thus outlining the history of how the Catholic Church adapts to the requirements of different eras, which is the main feature of its history that distinguishes it from other popes. Of course, it also makes a vivid investigation and depiction of the rich details of some important popes. At the same time, there are also meticulous comments and analyses on the origin and development of the papacy system, the electoral system of the Pope, the relationship between the Pope and the Cardinal Order, and the role of the Pope in international affairs at different times, which provide us with extremely rich knowledge.
<h1>Studies on Ancient Chinese Costumes</h1>
Shen Congwen
"Research on Ancient Chinese Costumes" makes a broad and in-depth discussion of the evolution of the ancient Chinese costume system and the relationship between the material life and ideology of the society at that time in the order of historical dynasties, through the pictures of excavated and handed down cultural relics, combined with 174 articles, reflecting the situation of chinese national costumes in more than 3,000 years from yin Shang to qing dynasty.
<h1>China in the Treetops</h1>
Liang Heng
"China in the Treetops" is a collection of essays written by Mr. Liang Heng after wading through the mountains and rivers to find ancient humanistic trees. The book records the historical rise and fall of many ancient trees on the land of China, integrates the author's concept of "humanistic forest" and rich historical connotations, and also conveys the author's humanistic thinking of advocating green civilization.
Mr. Liang Heng is a well-known scholar, journalistic theorist, essayist, popular science writer and political commentator in China. He loves nature and loves ancient trees, excavating 300 ancient humanistic trees with historical backgrounds throughout the country, naming and listing, and its cultural meaning is comparable to 300 Tang poems. In "China on the Treetops", the author selects more than 20 representative ancient trees, excavates the ancient trees and the moving historical and humanistic stories behind them, and writes classic masterpieces such as "The Old Ginkgo of Huabiao", "A Red Willow of the Great Wall", "Chinese Tubai" and so on. As the initiator of "humanistic forestry", the author believes that every ancient tree is a green history book, a living historical coordinate, and a landmark of life that can dialogue with human beings.
<h1>A History of Enlightenment Ideas</h1>
Vincenzo Ferrone by Ma Tao et al
The Enlightenment was an important watershed in Western culture, but its philosophical and historical interpretations have been confusing. The author argues that it is necessary to revisit it from the perspective of socio-cultural history in order to understand its essence and importance. By analyzing how philosophers and historians have defined and interpreted the Enlightenment since the 18th century, the author conducts a profound reflection on the misunderstanding, abuse and defense of the Concept of enlightenment by analyzing how philosophers and historians have defined and interpreted the Enlightenment, and the differences in research methods and research objectives. The Enlightenment was the "testing ground of modernity," a far-reaching cultural change that reshaped Western identity, revolutionized politics through the invention of human rights, created a critical culture, and redefined knowledge, radically changing the way humans perceive themselves and their lives.
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