Among these good books, there are legends all around us

Chinese Painting: The Five Dynasties to the Southern Song Dynasty

The nearly four hundred years from the Five Dynasties to the Southern Song Dynasty was the period of the emergence of such famous works as Han Xizai's Night Banquet, River Trip, A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains, and Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival. It was also a special and crucial stage in the history of Chinese painting.

At this stage, more and more painters broke away from the collective creation of temple and palace murals, and murals and scroll paintings formed a new interactive relationship. The emergence of the hanging shaft and the exploration of the form of the hand scroll have given birth to the far-reaching composition style and viewing mode; The increasingly refined branch of painting implies the further specialization of painting practice; The deep participation of central and local governments led to the administrative and institutional creation of painting, and then formed a comprehensive court painting system that had never appeared in Chinese history. The embryonic literati painting played an increasingly important role, and its aesthetic concept influenced the taste of the court and the style of religious painting, which finally opened the precedent for it to become the mainstream of Chinese painting.

This book is a new masterpiece by the famous art historian Wu Hong, continuing the writing idea of Chinese Painting: Ancient Times to Tang Dynasty, absorbing the recent research results of archaeological art, focusing on various types of painting works and media characteristics from the Five Dynasties to the Southern Song Dynasty, and trying to tell the new story of Chinese painting in multiple dimensions.

Ten Lectures by Wittgenstein

There is a saying: Read philosophy, who has not read Wittgenstein? The most important philosopher of the 20th century is hard for anyone who reads philosophy to avoid. And the average reader may have heard some golden words - "The boundary of language is the boundary of the world" - "What can be said clearly, can be said clearly; What cannot be said, remain silent. "Yes, they come from Wittgenstein.

Interesting, but brain-burning. Wittgenstein studied mathematics in his early years, and later, when he wrote philosophy, he also had a large number of formulas, which we can read with some difficulty.

Lou Wei, a professor at the School of Philosophy of Zhejiang University, studies Wittgenstein and the language of philosophy. He is the author of Wittgenstein's Commentary on Philosophical Studies, translated into Philosophical Studies, On Culture and Values, Blue Book and Brown Book. In this book, he explains clearly, so that we can understand Wittgenstein in many aspects, and solve the problem of Wittgenstein.

How to "get into the pit" Wittgenstein, Lou teacher wrote ten lessons.

Lab Life

To answer these questions, Bruno Latour, a prominent French sociologist of science, and Steve Woolgar, a British sociologist, went to a neuroendocrinology laboratory in the United States and spent two years with professors there, observing scientists, how they chose projects and applied for grants, how they conducted research and published papers, how they rated awards, and so on.

The author approaches science in a naturalistic way, particularly exploring the social constraints of science, touching on the larger issues of humanity, society, reason, and knowledge, and interpreting the construction of scientific facts from a new perspective.

The book is one of the classic studies of social anthropology, revealing to us how the distant, closed world relates to our daily lives, and providing new directions for our thinking about knowledge production.

My Mother is eight and a half Years Old.

Jiang Shumei, 86, is known as a "legendary grandma" whose life has been a series of "crazy" adventures.

Born in 1937, 10 months when the devil entered the village; 11 years old, hometown liberation; 22 years old, famine... She escaped death many times, but she always laughed and lived.

I read my first word at 60 and published my first book at 76. Accidentally sold all over the country, CCTV called her "legendary grandma". He began to learn painting at the age of 80, calligraphy at the age of 82, and his next goal is to live to 130.

Now you see the book "My mother eight and a half years old", written by her daughter, is a small summary of Grandma Jiang's more than 80 years of adventure. Opening a book is like holding a chair and sitting with grandma in the small courtyard in the afternoon to listen to her talk. Heavy experiences were told by her into jokes, casual words are golden sentences.

She always said to her readers, "Don't cry when you read my book. It's all over. Be happy."

Fulfilling the order

In just over two decades, Amazon has risen to become the world's largest Internet company, the second-largest private employer in the United States, and its "fulfillment centers" for warehousing and transportation have spread around the world and reshaped the way people live.

It brings the convenience of "one-click order", but also causes a series of chain reactions: the real economy continues to decline, and traditional communities have been withered; Squeezed by monopolies, small and medium-sized retailers are struggling; Workers are trapped in a high-pressure efficiency system and lose their dignity as workers.

Along with the rise of Internet giants comes our confusion. We live in a time when we have everything, but we are trapped in a life of nothing; We get 30-minute takeout at the click of a button, next-day delivery of digital products, the convenience of seven-day returns for no reason, but lose the dignity of labor, the freedom of choice, the right to public participation, and the connections and human feelings that once existed in the neighborhood.

Using Amazon as a lens, Alec McGillis, known as "one of America's most prominent senior journalists," captures the lives of people in the shadow of the tech oligarchy, showing an America divided geographically and classically by capital. Through a panoramic view, the book also shows that the upstream and downstream of the e-commerce industry, from industrial workers to ordinary buyers, are all caught in the slave trap of surveillance capitalism.

A Conversation Between the Lion and the Dragon

As the first official contact between Chinese and British officials, there is no doubt that the Macartney Mission's visit to China in 1793 had a profound impact on the historical development of the two countries, but the communication and translation of the mission rarely entered the field of researchers' attention.

Focusing on the key role of translation in this dialogue, the book's seven chapters are time-oriented and driven by multiple issues. Through an examination of the background of translators in diplomatic missions and the translation and adaptation of various documents, such as credentials, imperial edicts, gift lists, and correspondence, and based on in-depth excavation and analysis of a large number of valuable archives and documents in multiple languages, It tries to reconstruct the translation process of the Macartney Mission's visit to China, and shows the readers the vital importance of translation in the Macartney's visit to China and even in modern Chinese diplomatic activities.

This book is rich, detailed, and rigorous. It provides novel insights on many issues in the study of diplomatic missions, fills the gaps in the existing study of diplomatic missions, and provides an important reference and model for the study of modern Chinese translation history and Sino-British diplomatic history.

Who's in a nursing home?

Declining fertility rates, rising life expectancy and changes in family structure have made old-age care a major problem that the elderly and middle-aged people must deal with.

This is an ethnographic investigation report on elderly care institutions in China. Combining the traditional Chinese concept of old-age care with the theory of nursing care, the author describes the changes in the situation of old-age care in China from the time dimension, shows different forms of old-age care institutions from the spatial dimension, analyzes the current old-age care dilemma, and analyzes the aging, death and nursing problems faced by the elderly, their families and caregivers.

Based on 13 months of field research and interviews in Kunming, Yunnan Province, the author presents the daily life of aging and care from the perspective of the elderly.

With an account of the past and present experiences of the elderly, this book reveals the physical and psychological feelings of elderly people in nursing homes who see themselves as a "burden". At the same time, the author also records the interpersonal interactions seen in nursing homes, showing the complex network of relationships, and exploring the multiple perspectives of relationships that affect care.

The Catch

Harvey Weinstein was once considered to be Hollywood's "gold producer", "literary film gold promoter", and even called the "God" of Hollywood, the films involved in the production and distribution of more than 300 Oscar nominations, as a producer and executive producer of films nominated for Oscar 22 times and won 6 times. We are familiar with Shakespeare in Love, Chicago, The Return of the Lord of the Rings, The King's Speech, The Artist and so on.

The author Ronan comprehensively reviewed the whole process of investigating and reporting Weinstein's sexual harassment and assault as a journalist, as well as the obstruction, threats and surveillance encountered in the process.

It was a riveting, uncovering saga of two decades of Weinstein's misconduct, showing how power and wealth were used to evade punishment, cover up crimes and silence the entire media. More importantly, the women who have been victims have bravely stepped into the spotlight and reopened their wounds because they believe that by doing so, they are protecting other women.

Life of Women in Ming Dynasty

The Life of Women in the Ming Dynasty is a heavy monograph about the life of women in the Ming Dynasty. The main content is divided into eight chapters: the view of women in the Ming Dynasty, women of all social strata in the Ming Dynasty, etiquette and customs and women's life in the Ming Dynasty, women's education in the Ming Dynasty, women's clothing in the Ming Dynasty, women's social activities in the Ming Dynasty, women's talents and achievements in the Ming Dynasty, women's "vitality" and "diversity" in the Ming Dynasty. Each chapter is divided into several sections for detailed analysis.

Through the investigation of the life of women in the Ming Dynasty, the author explains the formation of women's group personality in the closed world of traditional rites and religions. On the other hand, after the middle of the Ming Dynasty, people had active thoughts, wide interests and broad horizons. Under the influence of this social ideological atmosphere, women's life in the late Ming Dynasty also had more vitality and diversity.

The Answer Is Blowing in the Wind.

The Answer Blows in the Wind is Bob Dylan's first new work since he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan said, "It's important to have something in a song that makes you feel your life."

In this new book, he offers extraordinary insights into the context and nature of content in 66 carefully selected pieces of modern popular music.

By recounting the music of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Little Richard, Cher, The Who, The Temptations, and others, Dylan not only provides readers with a personal set list of modern pop music, but also presents a kaleidoscopic portrait of 20th-century America. You can almost hear Dylan's voice emerge from the pages, a voice that has emotional fantasies and confessions, but also rational interpretations and Revelations.

Crocodile

This book is a magical drama written by the famous writer Mo Yan ten years after he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. It is also Mo Yan's magnificent transformation.

The story of Crocodile revolves around the protagonist Shan Wuzhi and the gift "crocodile" he receives at his birthday party. Knowing that the growth of crocodiles depends on the nature of the degree of environmental restriction, the preoccupied No fear has developed a strong interest in crocodiles.

Over the past ten years, he has constantly replaced a larger fish tank for the crocodile, allowing the crocodile to grow up until it has become a giant beast up to four meters long... Through an infinitely growing crocodile, the story digs into the deep secrets of human nature and deeply explores the theme of "desire".

Through the wonderful Shakespearean dialogue and imaginative dramatic conflict design, the work vividly portrays a series of typical characters, which not only reflects the writer's deep thinking and innovation in literature, but also has profound social practical significance and educational warning.

"Our Fleeting Splendor on the Earth"

A coming-of-age memoir of a Saigon teenager and a poignant family history, it is also a brutally frank exploration of kinship, race, class, gender and self-identity.

"My mother and grandmother fled to the United States because of the war. I took off our native language and put on my English, like a mask, so that others could see my face and then theirs."

"Enlightening, shocking, urgent, necessary" is the right way to describe this book, but the one that lingers in my mind is "naked" : the emotion is so powerful that you will feel it cut to the bone after reading it.

With the precision of a poet, Wang Ouxing examines whether the words of experience can be a bridge through the wounds of generations, and whether they can be heard and seen by those we truly love.

The Days of Abandonment

Elena Ferrante, author of the Neapolitan Tetralogy, deconstructs the darkness and lies of marriage.

Thirty-eight-year-old Olga is suddenly thrown into a life of hell: her husband Mario has left her, their young children, and a Wolf dog named Otto for a young woman.

Olga had lost not only a 15-year marriage, but her entire sense of life. She wrote undeliverable letters to her husband in an effort to understand why her marriage was falling apart.

She tried to follow the trail of her husband and lover, even at the expense of public gaffes. She indulges in the humiliation of being abandoned, allowing everything around her to fall into chaos: a minor car accident, a sick child, a poisoned dog, and a ridiculous night with a neighbor.

But Olga did not become the "outcast" she had feared since childhood. In unforgiving self-examination and hyperactive writing, she erases her long-held false projections of her husband and marriage and finally finds herself.

No Relation

Unaffinities is Saul's first collection of short stories. Eight novels, from the beginning of the 20th century to the millennium, travel freely through the real Lingnan and heterogeneous space, across the secret history of southern humanity: The foreign great-grandmother family involved in the Jinshan pig coolies trade, the "Doctor Uranium" who rushed forward, the Cousins who struggled to survive in the clan society, the Ultraman leather actor who was unemployed for ten years, the strange distant relatives who returned from Norway, and the fine uncle of Anita Mui in the provincial capital...

The author disassembles and reconstructs western Guangdong from the perspective of literary anthropology. Keen to catch the dragonfly released in the dusk of The Times, and specimen it. At the same time, he is also exploring the stretch and agitation of the Chinese language against the fashionable discourse of the era.