The literary and art joint book list is jointly released by 25 of the most influential book publishing units in the country, and a new list of literary and art books is issued every month. Let's take a look at the good books selected by Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House in 2020.
Here, meet the best literary and art books in China
The 37th issue was selected
The fifth series of "New Century Writers' Literature Series"
Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House
Bai Ye and Qiu Huadong are the editors-in-chief
January 2020
"New Century Writers Wencong" is edited by Bai Ye and Qiu Huadong, continuing the prestigious "Trans-Century Literary Cong" in the 1990s, including the representative works of powerful and active novelists since the new century, one series per year, each series selects 6 writers, and has published 5 series so far, including works by Li Er, Xu Zechen, Zhang Chu, Ah Yi and many other writers.
The fifth series includes Ge Ping's "Later", Xiao Jianghong's "Hanging Coffin", Teng Xiaolan's "Hold Your Hand", Ji Wenjun's "You and Me", Yu Xiaowei's "Miss Tao Qiong's Summer of 1944", and Song Xiaoling's "Warm Time Knife" six short story collections. This series of books aims to carefully select contemporary Chinese literature, to give a certain degree of "classicization" to the works of writers since the new century, so that the works of those writers with quality can reach more readers.
The 38th issue was selected
"Bi Shumin's Book of Spiritual Healing" series
By Bi Shumin
"Bi Shumin's Spiritual Healing Book" includes three books: "Bi Shumin's Spiritual Lesson", "Bi Shumin's Growth Lesson" and "Bi Shumin's Happiness Lesson", which is bi Shumin's spiritual healing book launched in 2019. This series is Bi Shumin's works on life, about self, and about happiness extracted from more than 10 years of psychological counseling practice. This series, together with Kobayashi Manga Lin Dihuan's healing manga, has produced a unique gentle "collision", taking you to break the chains of the soul, stay away from negative emotions, and build and have a happy life for a long time.
The 39th issue was selected
"Flowers bloom on the flower ridge"
By Xu Guixiang
February 2020
The book "Flowers blooming on The Ridge of Flowers" is a new collection of novellas by Mao Dun Literature Prize winner Xu Guixiang. The work consists of two novellas: Flowers Blooming on the Ridge of Flowers and Flying Red Xia.
"Flowers on the Ridge of Flowers" takes the century-old history of an antique cultural town as the main line of structure, intersperses the legend of Wei Mengwei and the story of Wei Mengwei's successor, to explore the relationship between revolution and literature, revolution and human nature, revolution and love, and focuses on the different performances of Bi Qi in the Battle of Maoping and the Battle of Xihuashan, which led to the bumpy end of life.
"Hongxia Fei" writes about a special team, which is a special branch of the Chinese revolution since the Gutian Conference, the literary and art propaganda team. The novel portrays a group of characters such as He Liantian, Yang Junhua, Ma De, and Zheng Zhenzhong, who were born at the bottom and grew up in the ordinary, who died and lived in war, and purified their souls like blue skies and white clouds in the extreme hunger and cold, nine deaths.
The 40th issue was selected
The Biography of Su Dongpo
By Liu Xiaochuan
March 2020
Su Dongpo is a writer, calligrapher, painter, politician, gourmet, master of life, Buddhist... There are thousands of labels, Liu Xiaochuan, the author of this book, said: Su Dongpo is good at borrowing from all parties, whether in books or in life. Integrate the essence of Chinese culture, cultivate into steel and bones, but do not lose flesh and blood. Through the ancient history books, the only person who has cultivated to such a state may be Su Dongpo.
For thousands of years, this supreme example of literati in politics has set an example for future generations, leaving a strong mark in the long river of Chinese history, healing and enlightening generations. In this book, Liu Xiaochuan, a best-selling author and fellow countryman of Su Dongpo, integrates philosophical thinking, historical knowledge, psychological perspective, and literary imagination, and writes Su Dongpo's life impulse with the creative brushwork of "four in one", vividly showing Su Dongpo's bumpy encounters and his long-distance life beyond suffering.
The 41st issue was selected
"Little Man"
By Li Donghua
May 2020
"Xiao Man" is a long inspirational growth novel created by children's literature writer Li Donghua, a sister article of the 2019 "China Good Book", the 15th Spiritual Civilization Construction "Five One Project" Award, and the Chen Bochui International Children's Book Award-winning book "Fireworks".
The kind, ordinary girl Xiaoman was admitted to the key high school with excellent results, but her good friend fell into a sudden embarrassment, and her grandmother also had a series of situations at this time. Xiao Man was worried about his friends and worried about his friends, and on the other hand, he held up the burden that he had to carry at a young age. It was not until she accidentally met Wang Shifan and got along with her in her hometown that she finally bravely escaped from the secret room in her heart and accepted the imperfect self that was unique in the world.
The work lyrically describes Xiao Man's psychological "epiphany" in this special summer vacation, and shows her persistent protection of beauty, responsibility and warmth in a chaotic and chaotic life.
The 42nd issue was selected
Astral Rays
Li Donghua/Author
"Astral Light" is a collection of short stories newly created by children's literature writer Li Donghua, a companion to the 2019 "China Good Book", the 15th Spiritual Civilization Construction "Five One Project" Award, and the Chen Bochui International Children's Book Award-winning book "Fireworks".
The book is written about the growth stories of a group of children from different places. Among them, some of them are disabled by illness, but they have excellent grades, are strong and studious; some stay in the countryside, but love to read and have high ambitions; some are "outliers" in the eyes of others from childhood, fortunately, under encouragement, they have grown into good children, and they are very "special"...
They are a group of kind, sunny "angels". Although they have different family backgrounds and different encounters, their beautiful expectations of the world and their infinite vision of the future are the same. They, quietly in the same starry sky, running under the same blue sky, growing all the way to the light.
The 43rd issue was selected
History of Silence
Luo Weizhang/Author
June 2020
The people's literature prize winner Luo Weizhang's collection of novellas, the last priestess tossed between the identities of "disaster star" and "immortal", in pursuit of "no life" to hide the past of the man, the excluded teenager because of his special become the idol of another teenager. Seven men and women who "took the initiative to lose their voices" and seven "noises and disturbances" in contemporary China.
"History of Silence" includes eight works, including "Moonlight Frontier", "Remembering an Evil Man", "The Name of a Bird", and "History of Silence". Among them, "History of Silence" tells that in order to develop tourism resources, the prefectural cultural librarian was ordered to interview the last priestess. Will she accept this human kindness, and what kind of legendary story will she tell? The vast silence covers the hustle and bustle of history, the beginning of life and the final destination.
The 44th issue was selected
A Brief History of Grey
By Li Hongwei
July 2020
"A Brief History of Grey" is wu cheng'en long fiction award winner, Asia Weekly top ten novels, China's best book shortlisted author Li Hongwei, the latest work after "The King and lyric poetry", is a "man who betrayed the shadow" as the theme of the fable of the structure of the multi-form novel, with strong symbolic meaning and philosophical speculation. The work mainly tells that Wang He is looking for investors for his own drama, and Feng Jinma, a big man in the film and television industry, takes the initiative to ask for investment, but there is a requirement: Wang He needs to exchange funds with a part of his body. Wang He weighed it up repeatedly and decided to trade with Feng Jinma. At this point, the novel suddenly opened up, and it was not Feng Jinma who negotiated with him, but the gray-clad man. Feng Jinma intends to use Wang He's shadow as bait to exchange his shadow with the gray-clad man, and the gray-clad man is indeed attracted by Wang He's dense shadow...
The 45th issue was selected
"A Year in Kyoto"
By Lin Wenyue
September 2020
"I can't take photography, I can only see what I see with my eyes, what I feel in my heart, and I go out of my room to capture the beauty of Kyoto, but I find that she is like a young woman with a variety of styles, the more I contact her, the more I realize her cuteness, which makes people deeply fascinated!" 」
This is a classic written in Kyoto. Taiwanese scholar Lin Wenyue is well versed in the language and culture of Japan, during her visit to Kyoto and residence in Kyoto, she went deep into all levels of the ancient capital, with meticulous observation and eloquent narration, presenting her personal experience of Kyoto, so the pavilions and pavilions in the suburbs of Kyoto, the famous gardens of ancient temples, the seasonal behaviors of Kyoto, folk customs, like a long white painting, one by one, showing in front of the eyes, both full of the thickness of the years of precipitation, but also the temperature of humanistic care, enough for readers to experience the leisurely and rich comfort of the slow life in Kyoto...
The 46th issue was selected
Letters that Don't Exist
Wu Liang
In the 1990s, the fragments of life in the art circle and the literary circle seemed to be a flash of light, but it was a real traffic in the depths of the heart, and it was also a reflection on religion, philosophy and so on. Unsigned letters, unidentified letter writers, entangled and ambiguous relationships around a mysterious woman named Manda... Wu Liang constructs a real shard with an incredible enigmatic writing posture, but when the building is completed, a mystery is revealed —perhaps all this does not exist at all. Wu Liang, who wrote "Ma Yuan's Narrative Trap", also played the trick of existence and nothingness in the novel, but this time, it is undoubtedly Wu Liang's own narrative trap.
The 47th issue was selected
[Czech] by Bohumir Hrabar
Translated by Xia Jingyu
November 2020
The Pearl at the Bottom is the work of the famous Czech literary master of the 20th century, Hrabar, first published in 1963, which caused a huge response as soon as it came out, and was translated into more than 30 languages and published around the world, and the film of the same name adapted from this book is the pioneering work of Czech New Wave cinema. This book is included in the "Yangtze River Translation Museum" series, composed of fourteen short stories, with a strange style, and the people in the book are under the extreme darkness of life and the shackles of the outside, but they are not willing to go with the flow and fight against fate with a ridiculous posture. Sometimes like madmen, like clowns, they are adept at using humor, even black humor, to greatly decorate their every day, even the most tragic of their days. With his unique exploratory narrative, Hrabar shows the romance and sublimity of the spiritually imprisoned desolation, full of warm love for life.
Text Editor: Xia Ping
Editor-in-Charge: Han Shudong
Reviewer: Zhu Yan