Reading means getting close to something that will exist.
—— Calvino, "The Winter Night Walker"
All these books are solemn expressions of the universal conscience
They are to be read on bent knees
Must come from a heart of enthusiasm and throbbing.
—— Emerson, Society and Loneliness
2017 Commercial Press Summer Key Book Recommendation (third batch, 10 kinds) is coming!
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1. "Wen Yi Car - A Novel of the Republic of China Train"
2. "Stages of life path"
3. "String Recitation of The Song of Fu Li - The Past of Church University Scholars"
4. The Decipherer: A History of Cryptography from the Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs to the Quantum Age
5. "Quenching Thirst: The Globalization of Chinese Tea"
6. "Post-Rural China"
7. Bird of Paradise
8. The Sociality of Innovation
9. The Future of Art-Politics: A Study of the Aesthetic Thought of Jacques Rancière
10. Silk Road Research Journal
1. "Wen Yi Car - A Short Biography of the Republic of China Train": The train gallops in a new time and space and the flow of civilization, mixed with panic, leisure, humiliation and pride. The history of Chinese literature and culture sitting on the train, a small book of famous artists in modern literature on train imagery.
The text carries the road, and the judicious car carries the goods. There is a way to go.
Once upon a time, trains, cars, Oriental cars, and planes came pouring in, and apart from unicycles, nothing was their own.
Gradually, Chinese got used to the new steps, learned to control, and learned to make.
In the carriage society you look at me and I look at you
Look inward and outward
There are many people in third-class cars!
Third class text in tabloids,
It seems that anyone can be an author...
Illustration of "The New Wine Traces", Novel Pictorial, 1917
Carriage social people look at people:
Zhao Renbo took the toilet to the train and listened to the two men (Feng Chunpu and Wang Shizhen) mumbling and talking in foreign languages, but Renbo couldn't understand, "Xiao Ren translated and told him: They said there, Chinese have such barbarism, no wonder they are looked down upon by foreigners..."
The old man was out of place, and his crooked reasoning was fully spent by Feng Chunpu in person: "Even if you take a second-class car, you can also be regarded as a person in the middle society, but you put this kind of pickled thing here... People are sitting across from you, but they are not poisoned! ”
As a result, Renbo had to obey the civilized order, and with the intervention of the waiter, he moved the toilet to the toilet himself.
Automatic Bookcase in the Train, The Bulletin of Public Opinion, 1908
Ding Shu, "Hundred Beauty Map", 1916
Narrated according to first-hand information and historical chronology, dozens of historical images selected from a large number of newspapers and magazines vividly present literary works of different genres such as May Fourth New Literature, Mandarin Duck Butterfly School, and New Sensation School, and make careful reading and interpretation of classic texts.
2. "The Stages of the Path of Life": the representative work of Kierkegaard, the founder of modern existential philosophy. In the form of William Oheim's memoirs and letters to the reader, Kierkegaard discusses the stages of life's path in a Danish fairy tale tone, namely the aesthetic, ethical, and religious stages, while restoring a real Kierkegaard.
On those long winter nights, when I didn't know what else to do, I would take out the book and read it with enjoyment.
- "To a Well-Meaning Reader"
About reading: a book that falls into the right hands of a suitable person is worth thousands of dollars... It is possible for us to contribute to an age in which people not only have little money but also few faiths, to spread to the children of mankind all kinds of beautiful and useful knowledge.
About memories: "Memories" are by no means the same as "remembering." Memory is only a condition that is disappearing, and memory soothes the elderly with poetic remote vision.
About marriage: What is sacred in marriage miraculously makes these little things meaningful to the believer. None of us are what we are in ourselves, but we are who we are in our union.
About the ego: If I hadn't been destroyed, then I would have been destroyed.
About life: content with small things, hopefully when bigger things are likely to be given to me, focused on spiritual pursuits, I rejoice in life, rejoice in this little world as my surroundings.
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 illusions and pleasures brought by life, to discover the misfortunes and pains hidden behind it, and then to recognize the limitations of ethical life.
3. "The Song of The Recitation of strings: The Past of the Scholars of the Church University": "There are bathhouses and feasts, here are battles and trauma. Dai Jun, author of "The Biography of Li Ji" and "Discovering Li Zhuang", set out again, warmly telling the spiritual temperament of a generation of scholars and the encounters between people and the world.
"Pack up the mountains and rivers and go to the rear." Exhausted, the faint journey, the desert plain forest, the fortress of the mountain, the rolling river... Majestic city strong, look at the country and mountains unharmed, who knows me a scoop and a kasa to go to other places..."
The best journalism department in the Far East, the best dentistry school in the Far East, the Qilu Guoxue Institute, Jinling Women's University, the four talents of Yanda University, the romantic imagination of Far Eastern culture...
The strings and songs under the flames of war and chaos never quit, and the songs in the twilight will never be said goodbye.
The tortuous experiences of famous scholars such as Gu Jiegang and Qian Mu of the Institute of Traditional Chinese Studies of Qilu University also include many scholars who are either prominent for a while or whose academic influence is far-reaching but who have been obliterated by history for various reasons and are little known by history (such as anthropologist Li Anzhai and philosopher Luo Zhongshu, etc.), overseas scholars who have come to China as missionaries (such as Bu Kai, agricultural and economician, professor Rui Tao'an of Jinling University, etc.), and media people who have experienced twists and turns because they have been involved in political disputes (Tang Zhenchang, Yan Qingshu, and so on) who graduated from Yenching University' "Four Masters of Journalism").
Pearl Buck teaches English and American literature at the Department of Foreign Languages at King University. And heuristic pedagogies such as getting students to read an english original book every week are not very acceptable, and she turned to the case and began to write, making a name for her novel "The Earth" trilogy, which won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
His ex-husband, Bu Kai, is an agricultural economist who has organized the largest survey of farmers and land in China, and published "China's Rural Economy" and "China's Land Use", which have become indispensable works for the study of Modern Agriculture and Rural Issues in China.
In the summer of 1946, before Yanda moved back to Beiping, he recommended a group of journalism graduates with excellent character and learning to the Ta Kung Pao. Ta Kung Pao is a newspaper with libraries everywhere. The profile picture shows an interview class in the Shanghai Ta Kung Pao in the 1940s.
Professor Qian Mu taught us the general history of China, and he always liked to take small stories to connect the big events in history in the classroom. At that time, there were already many college students, and it seemed that they could not play any role in society, let alone the driving force.
Professor Qian gave the story of a college student in the Eastern Han Dynasty,...... In the Han Dynasty, there was a college student named Guo Linzong, who was walking on the street one day, when it suddenly rained, and the raindrops hung down the corner of his four-corner hat and became a five-corner hat. The next day, in Chang'an City, many people imitated him and brought up a five-pointed hat. Will today's college students have such a big influence?
- "Four Years of Qilu"
Qian Mu filled in the transcript of Qi University students
Whether a person reads or does things, the scale must be grand and lofty at the beginning, otherwise there will be no great achievements. One's will can dictate everything, and if it comes on a small scale, when this goal is achieved, there is no courage. One step has been completed, and if you take the second step, you will suffer a lot! ......
- Qian Mu
4. The Decipherer: The History of Cryptography from the Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs to the Quantum Age: The history of cryptography is even more thrilling than fiction. With the dual harvest of cryptography and the history of cryptography, quickly acquire the basic skills necessary for a cracker.
Why is it that every phone call we make, every channel we watch, every channel we withdraw cash from an ATM, there's always a way to eavesdrop or snoop?
To be a decipherer, first understand your language:
Frequency analysis is likely to be the most basic tool that decipherers need. In English, the letter e appears most frequently
, followed by the most common t, a, o, i, n, and s. The least common are j, q, z, and x.
Technology has triggered the cryptography revolution, but many passwords remain unsolvable.
Zimmerman Telegram, ADFGX Code, Cold War Code, Winona Code, Navajo Secret Language.
The history from ancient Egypt to Mary I, Queen of Scots, is illustrated through sexual and religious codes.
Monks, diplomats, and papal advisers on how to make cryptography look new.
How to make invisible ink
The simplest are orange juice, onion juice, or milk. These inks can be seen as soon as they are baked on a light bulb or iron.
Another invisible ink that is easily available is vinegar, and purple cabbage juice makes it appear.
When writing in invisible ink, it's a good idea to write a piece of false information on this piece of paper with a normal ballpoint pen, as blank stationery may look suspicious.
Ellen · Encrypted information from Poe's work The Golden Beetle. The Golden Beetle is centered on an encrypted message written on a piece of parchment.
5. "Quenching Thirst: The Globalization of Chinese Tea": Depicts the role played by Chinese tea in the history of the modern world, showing its colorful and colorful side of Western products such as coffee and cola.
The history of the introduction of Chinese tea to the West dates back to the 17th century.
If you look at the pronunciation of the word tea (te) in various countries in the world, it is called "tea road" and "silk road", that is, the path of tea spread from the East to the West, it also shows the globalization process of Chinese tea.
The Japanese tea ceremony originated in China. Chinese regard tea drinking as an art of life, so there is no sectarian distinction in the art of tea drinking.
The Tea Classic, published in the Ming Dynasty. Lu Yu's "Tea Classic" gives tea drinking humanistic significance.
In the process of globalization, although the habit of using tea as a beverage originated in China, it spread to all corners of the world by land and sea. However, in the East and the West, due to the difference in their own traditional culture and the difference in the environment, there is a different tea drinking culture.
A courier ship that contributed to the transportation of tea in the 19th century
If we think that black tea culture is a culture that symbolizes the Pursuit of Material Enjoyment in the West, then green tea culture can be said to symbolize the culture of the East's pursuit of spiritual tranquility.
The Extravagant Woman: The Consumer Culture of Jiangnan Women in the Ming and Qing Dynasties
The History of Porridge
Speaking of the Earth: The Story of Chinese Understanding the Shape of the Earth
Buddhism and Vegetarianism
Compassion and Purity: Buddhism and Medieval Social Life
The Death of a Princess: A History of Chinese Law You Don't Know
"Help: Doctors and Patients in Ming and Qing China"
The Stranger: Victorian Science through the Eyes of Chinese
6. "Post-Rural China": Achievements of National Philosophy and Social Sciences. Post-rural China, from the perspective of historical changes and modernization and globalization, we think about the major problems facing rural society.
In Chinese studies, the most suitable unit to start with is the countryside, because most of the Chinese live in the countryside; and the countryside is a small enough community.
Empty-nest society, village future, willingness to go to the city, women's role, self-reliance, family power...
What is the current form of China's rural society? How to build a post-rural society in the process of modernization and transformation?
Farmers' well-being:
Although the happiness and misfortune of peasants' private lives are very different, "development is the last word", which shows that the current rural policy, especially the policy of supporting agriculture and benefiting farmers, has played a certain positive effect.
Farmers' sense of fairness:
The difference between urban and rural areas has always been the biggest and most prominent difference in Chinese society. Comparatively speaking, the subjective sense of fairness of Chinese farmers belongs to the ideal level.
Respect for the Elderly Culture in Post-Native China:
After the rural society, although it has entered the society of "not rich before getting old, not preparing to be old", although there is a double aging of "empty nest old people", the aging problem of rural society and the pressure of old-age care do not seem to be highlighted, one of the important reasons may be that the self-reliance of rural society has diluted the aging problem and eliminated the tension of the old-age problem.
7. "Bird of Paradise": The treasure of the Town Hall of the American Museum of Natural History, a famous bird of paradise that has been handed down for more than 100 years, showing the style and fragrance of the most beautiful bird.
The famous American zoologist Eliot carried the masterpiece,
The Western museum painting master Wolff devoted himself to painting.
500 years after the discovery of birds of paradise in the civilized world, Chinese readers can finally see their style and beauty.
On the ornithologist's bed is a specimen of the bird of paradise
The bird of paradise lives in the sky, has no feet, and is always facing the sun until it dies.
The truth is that it was the hunter who saved the bird of paradise after the hunt, and only then did it put its feet...
Its feathers give off a dazzling metallic color,
Eat nectar and drink dew,
No wonder it gives the illusion of romance.
Paradisea raggiana
Xanthomelus aureus
Author: Daniel Elliott
American zoologist, one of the founders of the American Museum of Natural History, the American Ornithological Society and the French Zoological Society, and the curator of the Zoology Museum at the Field Museum of Nature in Chicago. His books include Birds of the Pheasant Family, Birds of Paradise, and A Review of Primates.
Illustrated by Joseph Wolff
"He was one of the finest animal painters, not one of them." (The famous British animal painter Edwin · Lancil)
German museum illustrator. Working at the British Museum, he has painted for many well-known explorers and naturalists, and is known as one of the great pioneers of wildlife painting art.