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1 Bright Moments: Single Reading 28
Wu Qi, editor-in-chief
Single read | Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House 2021-11
This mook uses the method of a collection of film scripts to focus on the creation and situation of contemporary young female directors. The five script excerpts or full versions in this book belong to the debut or masterpieces of five contemporary young female directors. Among them are Teng Congcong's "Send Me to Qingyun", which tells the story of a female cancer reporter with journalistic ideals who takes over the work of writing an autobiography to people in order to survive; Yang Mingming's "Tender Love History", showing the conflict between a mother and daughter in a Beijing hutong; Han Shuai's "Nineteen Ninety-Nine" tells the emotional entanglements faced by a girl at the beginning of her love sinus and the aging and death of her relatives; Huang Qiline's "Jindu" tells a woman who is worried about a true and false marriage; Wang Lina's "The First Parting" is a long poem she dedicated to Xinjiang and childhood. The poetry of this land is the source of the work.
In addition to the screenplay, the book also includes the directors' creative talk. In addition, there are video works, novels, essays and reviews created by women artists and writers, which explore the female world from different angles and make women's voices heard.
The Exile's Dream
[Argentina] Mambo Giardineri by Fan Tongxin, translated
Shanghai Translation Publishing House 2021-12
According to the writer Ignacio Tebault, "The most splendid works in Argentina's new narrative novels were created after the military coup or widely circulated abroad." The Argentine writer Mambo Giardineri had a period of exile, and in 1976, a military coup broke out in Argentina, and like other persecuted intellectuals, Giardineri went into exile in Mexico for nearly a decade.
In 1983, Giardineri's masterpiece Thermidorian won Mexico's National Fiction Prize, which was set in Argentina under the military dictatorship in 1977. The Dream of the Exile is a collection of short stories in which 25 stories also feature themes such as exiles, military dictators, and childhood memories, in which the author also pays tribute to Latin American literary masters such as Borges.
Rio Fold: The Hunt for the Ghetto Drug Lords
[English] Misha Granny by Wu Sangyu translated
Republic of | Hainan Publishing House 2021-11
The protagonist of the book is Nem, the leader of the Rocilla drug syndicate, the largest slum in South America, who is Rosinia's "de facto president and prime minister, a powerful businessman in this medium-sized city", but in the media description, he is also the "number one public enemy" of the Brazilian people, the most wanted person in Brazil. Investigative journalist and historian Misha Granny gave numerous interviews to Nem, who was serving his sentence, as well as interviews with his family and friends, politicians, businessmen, policemen, and enemies associated with him.
The book tells the story of how Neme rose as a child of the slums and became an "imperial" emperor in less than six years, and in the process, through the experiences of the slum poison king, he also described the poverty, violence, greed, and political intrigue of the city of Rio, showing what happened when the government tried to violate The autonomy of Rosinia in various ways. The authors argue that "this story somehow reflects the nature of contemporary Brazil." ”
Reason and Justice
Wang Ding Ding
Century Wenjing, Shanghai People's Publishing House, 2021-10
The book is based on an EMBA program offered by economist Wang Dingding in recent years for the National Institute of Development studies at Peking University. In the preface, Mr. Wang said that when the economist Adam Smith taught at the University of Glasgow, he first talked about "natural theology", followed by "moral philosophy", then "political philosophy and legal philosophy", and finally "economics". Contemporary Chinese society, on the other hand, is in a period of "culture-politics-economy" triple transition, so ethical, economic, and political is the perspective of the occurrence of Chinese phenomena.
The reason why ethics should be the first thing to consider is because Wang Dingding believes that the fundamental question of the economics of Chinese society in transition is how to realize potential trading opportunities. Potential trading opportunities are only possible if both parties to a transaction have a minimum sense of trust (i.e., an ethical relationship). He said that some of his friends who listened to the course believed that the ethics he taught should be the primary course for EMBA students. In addition, Wang Dingding also recommended Michael Sandel's Justice Speech, Lobster Professor Jordan Peterson's "Twelve Laws of Life" and "Map of Meaning" and other works.
Luck's Bait: Gambling Design in Las Vegas and The Runaway Robot Student
Natasha Doe Shure by Richie translation
Republic of | Democracy and Construction Press 2021-12
"One thing that a lot of people don't always understand: I'm not gambling to make money." One interviewer told the book's author, Natasha Dow Shure, an associate professor of cultural anthropology at New York University, that gambling is just about keeping playing, to stay in the labyrinth of machines and forget everything else. Cultural historian Jackson Lears has a book on American gambling culture, "Something for Nothing," which speaks of the tension between a "chance culture" and a "control culture" that defines the character of the nation. The former is typically a speculative liar, and the latter is a self-regulator who embraces the Protestant work ethic. But in the case of machine gamblers, they have nothing to do with either, because the goal is not to win, but to keep playing. Why do gambling addicts even pee in a cup in order to be able to play non-stop? It is because they see gambling as "a port of entry to the wider world."
Sociologist Zheng Yefu once said in "The Coming of the Post-Materialistic Era" that after the solution of food and clothing, we will encounter spiritual emptiness. However, with addiction, there is no emptiness. Without addiction, not only is it still possible to fall into emptiness, but it is even difficult to bond with a pattern of behavior. Modern people's large-scale and unrepentant investment in "addiction" has profound reasons and functions. "The Bait of Luck" shows us why gamblers are the epitome of the fate of every individual in the atomized age.
Iran: An Undervalued Civilization and Unfinished Change
[English] Michael Axworthy by Zhao Yishen translation
Zhejiang People's Publishing House 2021-12
When it comes to Iran, many Chinese readers may first think of the "axis of evil" label given to it by the United States. Iran has been demonized by the Western media for a long time, and even in China, there are many misconceptions about the country. In fact, the historical encounters of the Persian nation and the Chinese nation are very similar - both have a glorious history and a great culture, and in modern times they have experienced the process of national weakness and bullying. For Iran, its history of becoming a stage for imperial power, a plundered oil country and an instrument of the Cold War in the United States has deeply hurt Iranians.
How much do we really know about this country at the crossroads of Eastern and Western cultures? The book covers the 1979 Revolution and the Iran wars of Iran from ancient Iran and Islamization, the Safavi dynasty and influence from the West, the Pahlavi dynasty, The 1979 Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War, Rafsanjani, Khatami, post-war reconstruction and reform, as well as Ahmadinejad, Rouhani, and present-day Iran. The book is a series of iranian histories in the form of questions and answers, which is suitable for lovers of history and international relations.
The Consolation of Classical Music: An Introduction to Listening from the Ear to the Heart
By Han Jiatian
CITIC Publishing Group 2021-11
Music can be listened to by anyone, because it can be directly experienced, bringing psychological and even physical shock. However, listening to music only by feeling, just listening to the hilarity, it is difficult to understand its doorway, and it is even more necessary to go deep into it.
The Consolation of Classical Music: An Introduction to Listening from Ear to Heart is an introductory book for beginner classical music connoisseurs. The author starts from the genre of music and musical instruments, talks about rhythm, melody, and emotion, and then popularizes the emergence of motivations or themes in classical music works for readers, using words to capture the mysteries of music and analyze them to the readers one by one. Most of the examples in the book come from more popular composers and their works, which makes the reader feel intimate. In addition, the book is also like "Novel Pills", with a prescription for different themes.
What Makes a City
Jonathan Ross by Xie Mujuan, translated
After the wave | Beijing Times Chinese Literature Bureau 2021-12
Didn't you expect Bach's "Average Piano Song Collection" to affect the book? Admittedly, everyone says that music is a fluid building, but who would have thought that the problem of modern urban planning could also be answered from music theory? Jonathan Ross, the book's author and honorary fellow of the American Institute of Architects, proposes that the world's earliest cities, like Bach's music, were built around churches and temples, full of wisdom and sacred meanings. But now that most cities have lost their original goals, this book is all about twisting together scattered threads—technology, social potential, and nature's driving force—to return to the original goals of cities, so that prosperity and happiness, efficiency and equality can be balanced, and human beings and civilizations can collide and connect.
Jane Jacobs, author of "The Death and Life of America's Great Cities," once argued that the complex functions of cities are not manifestations of chaos and disorder. Rather, it represents a complex and elaborate and highly developed form of order. The author of the book, after participating in the excavation of an ancient village in Anasazi for a thousand years in New Mexico, was determined to find this order. "I feel like I can find it in many places – biology and evolution, physics and quantum mechanics, religion and philosophy, psychology and ecology, the history of cities thousands of years ago, and the emerging cities of today." He says his goal is to learn from these different channels and figure out how to make cities a whole.