In 2021, the Communist Party of China ushered in its centennial anniversary, and the theme publishing showed a new atmosphere and trend. Coinciding with this year, the People's Literature Publishing House also ushered in its 70th birthday.
As the earliest, longest and largest professional literary publishing institution in the founding of New China, the People's Literature Publishing House celebrates the centenary of the founding of the party with good books in the era of literary dialogue. On June 22, 2021, the online live broadcast activity of "Greeting the Centenary of the Founding of the Party and Paying Tribute to the Glorious History - 2021 Theme Publication Promotion Conference of the People's Literature Publishing House" was held. Zang Yongqing, President of the People's Literature Publishing House, and Wang Qiuling, Vice President of the People's Literature Publishing House, came to the live broadcast site to focus on introducing the theme publications in 2021 and the key books that are particularly competitive in the current book market.
President Zang Yongqing told the story of the people's literature publishing house's thick history and current mission through live broadcast. He introduced in the live broadcast that the People's Literature Publishing House has been diligently pursuing works published on the theme since its establishment. Over the past 70 years, the Humanities Society has successively published a large number of excellent theme books, which have endured for a long time. Among them, there are well-known works such as "Plain Fire", "Defending Yan'an", "Song of Youth", "Great Changes in Mountains and Townships", "Stormy Storm", "The Sun Shines on the Sanggan River", "Orient", "Bloody Luoxiao" and other works, as well as Wang Shuzeng's "Long March", "Liberation War", "War of Resistance Against Japan" and other "war series" works, which have been polished over the years and are still deeply loved by readers.
President Zang believes that a good book on a real theme is a very long life. He said that the Humanities Society will shoulder the mission of Publishing China's "National Team" at the critical point in the centenary of the founding of the Party. At the same time, it also calls on the responsible editors to establish the self-confidence of theme publishing, and calls on dealers and the People's Literature Publishing House to jointly create good books on theme publishing and jointly promote red classics.
In the 2-hour live broadcast activity, the People's Literature Publishing House launched a number of outstanding key new books with the theme of "Greeting the Centenary of the Founding of the Party and Paying Tribute to the Glorious History". The Contemporary Literature Editorial Office has launched works such as Tieliu 'Patron Mountain', Chen Hui's "Selected Poems of Chen Hui", Fan Wen's "The Sun Turns", Wang Xiaoying's "Monument", "Red Novel Classics" series, "Middle School Red Literature Classics Reading Series" and other works; the editorial department of "Contemporary" magazine has launched "1937, Yan'an Dialogue", Qinbei", "Return to the Heart", Lao Teng's "NorthLand" and "Short Classics of Literature in the Centenary of the Founding of the Party"; the Youth Literature Editorial Office has launched Liang Xiaosheng's "My Life and Me", Li Ruqing's "Battle of Xiangjiang", "Blue Blood and Yellow Sand", "Anhui South Incident"; Huang Chuanhui's "China Beidou" and Pompeii's "West Introduction" and other works; Footprint Studio has launched works such as Edgar Snow's "Red Star Shines in China", Wang Shuzeng's "Long March", "War of Resistance Against Japan", "Liberation War", "Korean War", Xu Guixiang's "Historical Sky", "Immediately Under the Heavens", "August Laurel Flowers Bloom Everywhere", "Hero Mountain", Li Mingsheng's "Flying to the Spaceport" and Ji Yu's "Whistling in the Mountains"; the Modern Literature Editorial Office has launched Ye Yonglie's "Red Starting Point" and other works. These works are all written by famous artists, which are not only detailed historical materials of party history, but also excellent literary works, which add a strong and colorful stroke to the gorgeous chapter written by the People's Literature Publishing House.
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Wang Qiuling, vice president of the People's Literature Publishing House, analyzed the reasons for the unbroken popularity of the red classics in the live broadcast: First, the red classics use literary methods to interpret the meaningful connection between the individual life and the country, the people and the times, which not only has the aesthetic function of literature, but also can portray the national expression, shape the national personality, show the national strength, and carry forward the national spirit; second, the red classics show the feelings of the family and the country, social responsibilities and ideals and beliefs, which are very valuable literary heritage in this era; The image depicted in excellent literary works is very vivid, with an intuitive textbook function, which can subtly make the majority of readers invigorate their spirits and forge ahead.
Vice President Wang Qiuling also introduced in detail the red classic series, Wang Shuzeng's war series, "The Red Star Shines on China", "The Red Starting Point", "Who is the Most Lovely Person", Xu Guixiang's Anti-Japanese War Series, Li Ruqing's War Series and other published works, as well as "The Record of the Wind", "The Rebel", "New China 70 Years 70 Novel Collection Series", "Mao Zedong Poetry Collection" and other good books.
She hopes to introduce these excellent works to more readers, so that more people can learn the knowledge of party history through reading these literary classics, experience the spirit of party history in literary works, draw on the strength of progress, and let literary classics last forever.