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A social worker for ten years, after experiencing abscesses on her buttocks, hair loss, and physical breakdown, she came to the countryside and bought an old house. She was determined to give up marriage, overseas education, and a familiar job to become a farmer. I imagined that I would be able to develop myself well after controlling my time, but I ended up spending the first day unknowingly watching TV series. Imagine the idyll of leisurely brewing tea, only to spend more time holding a shovel than chopsticks. As a former gnawer, I didn't know the price of rolling paper until I left my "host" and regretted not stealing more rice from my parents' house before I left. I was once a stay-at-home girl who could lie down but not stand up, and a fragile laborer with no strength, but now I have to carry cement on my shoulders and drive an excavator to pave the yard with 25 tons of soil. I wanted to rely on my retired mother to help with farming, but my mother left a message, "Mom is not as free as you, come on, come on" and ran back to Seoul overnight. She finally understood that with freedom of choice, one must also bear the consequences independently. Only then did she experience how happy it was to bravely face the loss of control, challenges, and possibilities she had never encountered before, and to start a new life that was truly her own.

"Life is as long as grass and trees are in autumn." Study the aesthetic culture behind flowers and explore the historical changes of Chinese traditional culture. Chen Zhidong takes you into the artistic world of traditional Chinese flowers. "Idle Flowers" is an exquisite work that integrates art, literature, history and nature. It was created with great devotion by Mr. Chen Zhidong, an art history researcher, painter, calligrapher and collector. Chen Zhudong relied on his profound knowledge of Chinese classical literature and rich artistic creation experience to depict the beauty and charm of traditional Chinese flowers with his unique perspective and delicate brushwork, and shared with readers what he saw, heard, thought and painted about these flowers. The book contains the author's calligraphy and painting works on ten traditional Chinese flowers, including magnolias in early spring and March, banana flowers in the midsummer night rain, plum blossoms blooming in the cold wind of the twelfth lunar month, etc. Each work is accompanied by a detailed explanation, covering traditional cultural origins, botanical knowledge, relevant literary and artistic works and historical allusions, as well as the author's personal experience with these flowers. Reading this book is not only an appreciation of the beauty of Chinese flower-and-bird painting, but also an exploration of the aesthetic development of traditional Chinese culture. It is also a journey of spiritual healing through the dialogue between man and nature.

"Fox Treasure Bag: My Boyhood" is a collection of autobiographical memories of Shibusawa Tatsuhiko. Using his boyhood in the early Showa era as a clue, he recalls food, comics, ballads, baseball, sumo wrestling, Tokyo air raids and other life fragments, linking together the special experiences of an ordinary Japanese family during the war years. The sweet nectar in New Year's cuisine, the nursery rhymes that only he can sing, the summer sceneries of the Koshien baseball game, the nostalgic big iron umbrella, the lunatic asylum adjacent to the junior high school and General Awara... The frail and sickly Tokyo teenager glimpsed the shining golden age through the "diorama". Under the gentle recollection, the cruel reality of war is looming, and the despair and loneliness of that era are outlined like a gray line. This is not "hometown" or "childhood", but the entrance to dreams and death, an echo of the origin of Shibusawa Tatsuhiko's aesthetics. In this collection of essays with "memory" as the core, he rarely removes the mask of "gorgeous", "weird" and "black aesthetics" in his previous works. What he writes is the world in the eyes of a child, gentle, clear, and even a bit "bright", showing the rare sincerity and nostalgia of Shibusawa Tatsuhiko. Hidden in the quiet memories is the loneliness and confusion shared by a generation.

This book uses the theories and methods of Chinese rhetoric to show the style of Su Shi's prose rhetoric, explores the motivations of Su Shi's prose rhetoric, and sorts out the inheritance and innovation of Su Shi's prose rhetoric on predecessors and its influence on later generations. The introduction part outlines the current situation of research on Su Shi's prose rhetoric and introduces the research methods of this topic. The first three chapters examine the style, causes and achievements of Su Shi's prose rhetoric from multiple angles and levels, including phonetic rhetoric, lexical rhetoric, syntactic rhetoric, rhetoric use and discourse rhetoric. The last four chapters, in connection with the subject matter and genre of Su Shi's prose, explore the inheritance and innovation of Su Shi's prose from previous generations in terms of rhetorical techniques and genre styles, and do a special study on the impact of Su Shi's prose rhetoric on later generations. The conclusion briefly describes the status, contribution and influence of Su Shi's prose rhetoric in the history of ancient prose rhetoric.

This collection of Japanese documentary literature fully discloses the tragedy that shocked the whole society! Each book is a slice of reality that has not been beautified. You can see reality that is more absurd than fiction, and understand human nature that is more complex than fiction. There are 3 volumes in the set, namely "The Parasite Family", "The Devil's House" and "The Home with No Escape". Reveal potential family crises in order to help more people get out of the quagmire of intimate relationships.

In the book "Leave Everything to Time, Just Love", the author uses a diary to record the last time he and his father spent after his father suffered from cancer, such as his father's fight against the disease, memories of the past, and the warm time of the family living together. The author promised to write a book like this for his father when he was dying. This is a memoir about his father and family relationships, and it is also a book of self-reconciliation for the author, with simple language and sincere feelings. This book also shares practical experiences with readers - how we can better care for patients, comfort family members, and ease our own grief when suffering the trauma of a loved one's serious illness or even death.

This book is the latest in a series of Japanese travel essays by the well-known writer Jie Chen, written in the 15th year of her trip to Japan. During more than 20 trips, Jiechen hiked in the mountains and rivers of Japan, and visited temples, palaces and hometowns of literati, integrating characters, allusions and cultural aesthetics in Japanese culture into his thoughts and feelings. Using haiku as a clue and the four seasons as chapters, Jie Chen follows the footsteps of haiku artists and revisits Japan's countryside and mountains, cities and wilderness. In the actual scenes, he can taste the unique artistic conception and beauty of Japanese haiku, which is delicate, subtle and Zen. Every journey is an escape and a measurement of the world and time. Walking on the road is like walking in the floating world.

"Tofu" is a conceptual theme book planned and designed by Zhu Yingchun, the winner of "The World's Most Beautiful Book". It visually looks fake and real, with more than 300 authors participating in the "cooking" to present a series of pleasing "feasts" of tofu. There are ancient poems, modern poems, essays, interviews with craftsmen, folk stories, nursery rhymes and operas... The forms are diverse, including famous calligraphy and painting, art installations, song creations, precious old photos, as well as interesting sayings and lantern riddles. From flavor to form, from food to culture, this book explains everything about Chinese tofu.

This book is a work of literary theory and an interpretation of Ba Jin's "Random Thoughts" by young writer Jin Xiaoan. It uses popular language to explain the literary connotation and contemporary significance contained in Ba Jin's classic work. Ba Jin's "Random Thoughts" has five episodes in total, namely "Random Thoughts", "Exploration Collection", "Sickness Collection", "Truth Collection" and "Untitled Collection". The author excerpts and interprets the golden sentences in Ba Jin's original text, reveals the background of the times, and leads readers to approach and understand Ba Jin in simple and profound terms.

Part One of Deborah Levy's Trilogy on Women's Growth: On Women's Writing. The winner of the 2020 French Femina Foreign Literature Prize. How do we face things we cannot bear and things we don't want to know? --Writing, every writing is an attempt to create a better world. Levy integrates personal history, gender politics, philosophy and literary theory, responding to George Orwell's famous "Why I Write" from a female perspective, discussing writing, love and loss, forming this private, sincere and touching record of personal life. In the book, Levy strives to balance the triple identities of woman, mother, and writer, while describing the real-life experiences that profoundly influenced her novel creation: as a child in South Africa, she lost the ability to speak due to her father's disaster; as a teenager, she lived with construction workers and bus drivers in cheap restaurants in the United Kingdom, and gradually grew into a writer; at the age of fifty, her marriage broke up, and she made an impromptu trip to Mallorca, Spain, to review her previous life in a foreign country.

Poet and writer Shen Hao's latest collection of essays in 2024, including ten articles. It is mainly about his observations and thoughts on life during his life experiences such as traveling, reading, and interacting with relatives and friends. The writer's naturalistic tendency is once again reflected in the collection, in which we can read stories about hiking in Meili Snow Mountain, Yubeng Village and other places. These stories are not only thick from the outside to the inside, but also light from the inside to the outside. Reality and fiction are mixed, and poetry and drama are experimentally involved. Each article is a dialogue between the writer and himself. Words are an ability that he has never lost, and it is also his most precious asset.

Zhang Yimou, a controversial director and iconic filmmaker. Whether he is making literary films and frequently winning overseas film awards, making commercial blockbusters and impacting the world film market, or directing the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games, Zhang Yimou will always trigger discussions and even controversies. This book consists of three parts: "Biography of Zhang Yimou", "Interviews with Zhang Yimou's Films" and "Interviews with Zhang Yimou's Olympic Games". It spans forty years and covers all aspects of Zhang Yimou's career: the hardships he put in to study at Beijing Film Academy, the process of becoming a "Best Actor" from photography, The behind-the-scenes story of directing the opening of the Olympic Games, the twists and turns of transforming into a commercial blockbuster, the response to public opinion and criticism, etc., Are reviewed and sorted out the different controversies caused by Zhang Yimou in different periods, aiming to solve the "Zhang Yimou phenomenon" that has lasted for many years from the perspective of the parties involved.

The third part of Deborah Levy's trilogy on women's coming of age: On women and private property. This book won the Los Angeles Times Book Award and was named a book of the year by Time Magazine, The Washington Post, and others. In addition to a room of their own, women may need a house of their own. A collection of personal documentaries that intelligently and subtly explore women's home ownership, living alone, and spiritual life. Why do we always want to buy a house? What does it mean to live alone? Levy used himself as an example to reveal the psychological and social reasons behind women's desire for real estate, pointing out that real estate is not the key. The freedom, independence, security, and warm life brought by real estate may be what women really desire. London, New York, Mumbai, Paris, Berlin... Writer Levy, who is about to enter his sixties, begins his journey of celibacy. She shuttled between rental houses with different styles, and the desire to own a house of her own always lingered in her heart. Virginia Woolf said that if a woman wants to be a writer, she must have a room of her own. In "A House of One's Own," Levy takes stock of a woman's real and imaginary possessions with profound insight and keen wisdom, prompting readers to question their own cultural understanding of possessions and property, and to think about the value of women's personal material and intellectual lives.

This classic non-fiction work by the master of oral history Craig Taylor took 5 years and more than 200 interviews to tell the tragic and joyful stories told by 85 ordinary Londoners. "Londoners are the ordinary people you see." Like us, they are looking for and losing in the big city, praying and confused in the big city, gaining rewards in the big city, and being hurt by the big city. Writer Craig Taylor spent 5 years, day and night, traveling to every corner of London, selecting 85 ordinary people from more than 200 interviews. Among them, there are currency traders who have realized their professional ideals, lost and found office staff who are accustomed to all kinds of things in the world, plumbers who have been actors, as well as sanitation workers, taxi drivers, emergency paramedics, real estate agents, chefs, pilots, etc. These true stories of ordinary people, a mixture of sorrow and joy, constitute the ukiyo-e of all living beings in the city of London. Every word touches our hearts and resonates with us. "When a person is tired of London, he must be tired of life." However, only those who have lived in a big city will understand the complexity of it: love it, hate it, long for it, be tired of it, escape from it, or stay and continue living.

Zhang Jiawei's new breakthrough "life" work is a book that saves the "wasted life" and restarts it! What if a period of life is wasted... So what? Growing older, having trouble at work, being criticized by others, being unhappy, accomplishing nothing... When anxiety continues to iterate, and when we are afraid of "wasting" our lives, how can we get closer to the life we ​​like? Zhang Jiawei uses ten years of life philosophy to teach you how to get rid of anxiety from multiple perspectives such as childhood, marriage, and life. This collection of life attitude essays collects the essence of Zhang Jiawei's ten years of prose. With the writer's unique warm writing style, he transforms youthful confusion and middle-aged confusion into tangible words. The book explores life's encounters, the meaning of love, the joy of life, and the complexity of personality. When anxiety continues to iterate and self-worth begins to waver, these true reflections on life will become a beam of light that illuminates ordinary days. There are many golden sentences in the book. Those questions about love, talent and self-identity, there is always one sentence that will hit you.

Part Two of Deborah Levy's Trilogy of Women's Growth: On Women and Family Life. It was named one of the "100 Best Works of the 21st Century" by The Guardian and won the 2020 French Femina Foreign Literature Prize. "Life falls apart. We try to control ourselves, to stay calm. Then we realize that we don't want to stay calm..." How much does it cost a woman to break old boundaries and gain a small role in a world that is stacked against her? This is the story of every woman in history-who created a home with their love and labor that ended up meeting the needs of everyone but themselves. In this short, emotional, and controversial documentary work, writer Levy not only candidly reviews the darkest moments of his life, including the breakdown of his marriage and the death of his mother, but also thinks about what is a meaningful, valuable, and fun life for women. She cites the works of artists or thinkers such as Simone de Beauvoir, James Baldwin, Elena Ferrante, Marguerite Duras, David Lynch and Emily Dickinson to outline what is the ultimate freedom in women's lives. Recommended by Li Yiyun and Janet Winterson, it is the desk book of Oscar-winning actress Natalie Portman.

"Tea and Beauty" is a classic work handed down from generation to generation by Liu Zongyue. It is a collection of his essays on the theme of tea and beauty. In the book, Yanagi Zongue uses tea utensils, tea ceremonies, crafts, paintings, etc. To deeply explore the spirit and core of beauty of tea, explains the methods and methods of collection, criticizes the chaos of tea ceremony, and points out that the key to appreciating utensils is intuition. In his eyes, the beauty of tea is the beauty of nothingness and the ultimate beauty.

The philosophy of survival in the post-epidemic era, a classic work by Japanese national writer Hiroshi Itsuki, brings endless healing philosophy of survival! This is a best-selling book in Japan for more than 20 years, with sales exceeding 3.2 Million copies. During the epidemic in Japan, an additional 300,000 copies were urgently printed, which was called by the Japanese media "a philosophy of survival that breaks the uneasiness during the epidemic"! "Everyone is a drop of water in the big river." We have to admit that people are insignificant existences. No matter how actively you live your life, there will always be dark moments of despair. No matter how hard I tried, it was useless, and a feeling of powerlessness swept through my body. At this time, Itsuki Hiroyuki said calmly that it doesn't matter if he fails in life. Just being alive is already great. Drawing on the thoughts of Buddha and Shinran, and starting from the perspective of negative thinking, he frankly shared his thoughts and insights on how people can survive in an era when they cannot see the future, which is shocking. Since the publication of "A Drop of the River", the cumulative sales have exceeded 3.2 Million copies. During the epidemic, it brought endless healing to the Japanese who were physically and mentally injured.

George Orwell is one of the most thought-provoking and vivid essayists of the 20th century. He is famous for his extraordinary energy and uncompromising language, using pen and paper to fight against the prejudices of his time. This book contains the author's two classic essays "Why I Want to Write" and "Hanging". For readers who are new to Orwell, this book is an excellent introductory book; for readers who are familiar with Orwell, "Why I Write" will be a valuable collection.

In this collection of essays, Russell explores the social and political impact of his beliefs with characteristic clarity and humor. In Praise of Idleness is a masterpiece that only Bertrand Russell could have done.

This book is an investigative record of the fake socialite Anna incident that shocked the Western world. 25-Year-old Anna claims to be a wealthy German girl with a trust fund of 60 million euros. She came to New York to create an art foundation worth 40 million US dollars. She wears famous brands, stays in five-star hotels, eats at Michelin-starred restaurants, takes private charter flights, and socializes among politicians, businessmen and celebrities. However, despite her glamorous appearance, she was penniless. Rachel was Anna's best friend and victim. As an editor at Vanity Fair, she met Anna and became friends. In the process of witnessing Anna's socialite style, Rachel had to pay Anna's bills and incurred huge debts... In this true story, we will see the daily life, values, deceitful tactics of the fake socialite, and the personality that made her "unobstructed" along the way. We will find that fake socialites and swindlers have the same thing in common, that is, they take advantage of human nature's imagination for beautiful things and awe of power. How does Anna use money worship and social circles to create the myth of a famous lady? How do you get into the upper class and almost realize your so-called dream? Through the Anna incident, this book sees the social landscape of today's United States, uncovers the charming surface of Manhattan's upper class, and glimpses the hidden truth of human nature and the world of capital.

"Politics and the English Language" is a classic essay by the famous British writer George Orwell. This essay is widely regarded as Orwell's most important essay on style. For Orwell, style was never a simple aesthetic issue; it was always inseparable from politics and truth. "All problems are political problems, and politics itself is a collection of lies, avoidance, stupidity, hatred and schizophrenia." "When the overall atmosphere is not good, language is bound to suffer." Language is a political problem, and the sloppy use of language and clichés make it easier for those in power to deliberately use misleading language to hide unpleasant political facts. He believed that poor English was a vehicle for oppressive ideologies.

"Miner's Poet" and writer Chen Nianxi's 2025 masterpiece. This book takes the hotel as its carrier and once again presents a group of ordinary and simple workers, including miners, river backers, charcoal burners, Nanyang hawkers, old students from the county theater troupe, printer Lao Jiao, Feng Qinshi, Liu Suona... The book has no ups and downs of emotional entanglements, nor fierce life and death struggles. Instead, it depicts the story of these ordinary people like us, running around for a living, looking for that "way to live." Life may be like a journey. We are all running and wandering in this world, being escorted by fate to live in a panic, feeling trapped, sad, and feeling tenderness in it. And it is precisely the lives and destiny of these unknown people that make people want to live as pure and down-to-earth as they do.

"There is an Invincible Summer in Me" is a collection of essays by Camus. The creation spans nearly 20 years (1935-1953), and is Camus's literary experimental field from youth to ideological maturity. This book selects 14 of Camus's essays. In these chapters, Camus uses the living scenes of the slums of Algiers as anatomical samples, juxtaposing death and poverty with the sun and the ocean, revealing the absurd nature of existence: the brilliance and decay of life are always parasitic to each other, just like the never-fading blue sky on the land of North Africa forever envelopes human suffering. At the same time, Camus showed the uniqueness of his own thinking through his odes to Tipasa, Djemilla and other places. Different from the philosophical thinking in Sartre's cafe, Camus's philosophy was born in the sun-baked ruins, the salty sea breeze and the fragrance of the fig tree. Here he established his absolute loyalty to "the incomprehensible beauty of the world" - not through rational cognition, but using his whole body to feel the temperature of the rocks and the rhythm of the waves, achieving a brief reconciliation with the universe in the ecstasy of the senses. The most profound value of this work is that it shows the most authentic form of existentialism: not a conceptual game in a study room, but the pain and pleasure of stepping on hot sand with bare feet. In this work, Camus also established his lifelong writing theme - to resist the eternal darkness with his greedy sucking of sunlight, and to embrace the passion of life in the face of absurdity. This thought was later sublimated into the famous assertion that "Sisyphus should be imagined to be happy" in "The Myth of Sisyphus", but its origin is precisely the sober and intoxicated gaze on life of the poor young man in this book who stares at the sea from the balcony of the slum.

From calligraphy skills to mental methods, from pen and ink to life, calligrapher and painter Lin Xi teaches you to get the nourishment of life from calligraphy! Xuan Tong Classroom, founded by calligrapher and painter Lin Xi, interviewed calligraphy learners from different professions, ages, and encounters, listening to their sincere stories and life experiences derived from calligraphy, and summarized them into 10 key words in the process of learning to write: beginning, gain, difficulty, method, time, understanding, peace of mind, teacher, others, tradition. Calligraphy is writing, but it is much more than just writing. Through the matter of writing, the book shares a set of solutions about life and success: how to start learning a skill; how to use time efficiently; how to deal with difficulties; how to reconcile with life and live in the moment... These experiences and wisdom derived from calligraphy can be transferred to all aspects of life. Starting with one stroke, one piece of paper, one ink, and one inscription, enter the world of calligraphy and enjoy the time of being alone with yourself and communing with the ancients. Many changes, improvements, and beauties will begin to grow from this.

How can a 60-year-old woman destroy each family with PUA? A pyramid work of 5-year follow-up investigation and case documentation, a complete disclosure of the tragedy that shocked the entire Japanese society! The Amagasaki Series of Bizarre Deaths is a series of murders centered on Amagasaki City, Hyogo Prefecture, in which several families were tortured, imprisoned, and even killed for a long period of time. In this incident, more than 10 people were killed and missing. For 15 years, the principal criminal, Miyoko Tsunoda, usurped other people's families by means of violent coercion and financial coercion, imprisoned and abused family members, and mentally controlled them to eat each other. However, the suicide of the principal criminal left many mysteries in the Amagasaki incident. The writer tracked the incident alone for five years, interviewed the parties involved and insiders, obtained first-hand information, and got closer to the bloody truth step by step, uncovering a cruel and helpless human tragedy.

Bai Xianyong's new work! Describing my father and mother and that era of great sorrow. This is a song of life written with blood, tears and sincerity by the master of Chinese literature Pai Xianyong. He uses words to take us through the corridors of history and experience the troubled era of the Republic of China. The book specially includes photos that the author has collected for decades, restoring the true temperature of a family and preserving those figures that have not been wiped out. "Eight Thousand Miles of Road with Clouds and Moon" is a collection of Mr. Bai Xianyong's new prose works in recent years after "The Tree Is Like This". In the book, the author either reminisces about his parents, misses old friends, expresses his feelings, or discusses literature and art. Although he writes about personal memories, it is fundamentally about the vicissitudes of Chinese history in the twentieth century. The book is divided into three major parts. Part 1: Eight Thousand Miles of Road, Clouds and Moons - The feelings of family and country, describing father, mother and that troubled era; Part 2: Colorful Colors - chronicling characters, describing the friendship between teachers and friends who have been close friends for many years, including Brigitte Lin, Xia Zhiqing, Xi Song, etc.; Part 3: Suddenly Looking Back - Reading Reflections, using more than sixty years of literary accumulation to describe the in-depth understanding and perception of words. Mr. Bai Xianyong uses words to take us through the historical corridor, looking at the life story of an all-powerful old general, and clearly experiencing the troubled era of the Republic of China. His writings reveal beauty in their plainness, and deep feelings in their restraint.

Don't despair, and don't despair because you don't feel hopeless. --Kafka Kafka started keeping diaries in 1910, and until 1923, this was also the most creative period in his life. Compared with his novels, he is more candid and free in his diary, allowing us to have a glimpse of his unique and rich inner world. This book collects Kafka's diaries written from 1910 to 1913. During this period, he recorded conflicts with his father, inner struggle between writing and work, interest in Jewish history, acquaintance with his lover Phyllis, etc. At the same time, it also allows us to see fragments of his inspiration, unfinished manuscripts, and his complete weakness and loneliness in his heart. This version is based on the German version compiled by Brod and is a classic translation by the famous German translator Ji Jianmei. The text is carefully annotated, the index title is listed in the table of contents, and the manuscripts and graffiti are included. Enter Kafka's real life in this authoritative reading.

"It's Different, It's Okay: Growth Interviews with "I'm Not a Stupid Child"" was written by the creative team of the CCTV documentary "I'm Not a Stupid Child" and compiled into a book six or seven years of front and backstage interviews before and after the filming of the documentary. It not only includes interviews with three children and their parents at various stages, but also includes follow-up interviews with the children and their parents six years later. It also includes behind-the-scenes interviews with five experts and scholars in the field of dyslexia. The growth and new development of children will bring hope to every family still groping in the tunnel. And "It's Different, It's Okay: Interviews on Growing Up with "I'm Not a Stupid Child"" will also take us through the fog of dyslexia, see the way forward clearly, and go on bravely.

Is it possible that after missing out on the life you hoped to have, you can step back into that distant river again? It's like having a regret pill. The story touches people's hearts with truth. This book tells 29 real life stories. Among these stories, some are a series of tragedies with one wrong step after another, some are a trick of fate due to personality, some are people who deserve to be punished for making excuses for greed and laziness; some are a desperate counterattack at the bottom of life, the tranquility of the years after the glory has been washed away, and the goodwill of human nature in the indifferent world. [The price of asking for help] If you come out to hang out, you will have to pay it back sooner or later. Borrowing money, even more so. In addition to testing credibility and character, other costs must also be considered. When you ask the public for help and receive a lot of money and materials, you are so lucky. But what follows is your privacy being stripped away, your face being dishonored, and being constantly monitored and questioned. Is this something you can bear? This story tells the different choices of two families facing a seriously ill child. [Who has never felt guilty in this life] To be precise, this is a story about jealousy. Two girls, one is ordinary and the other is beautiful and outstanding, but this does not prevent the two from becoming the best best friends. Long-term envy, slowly fermenting. An "accidental" loss of important documents caused the originally outstanding girl to miss a once-in-a-lifetime development opportunity. Years later, this dusty secret once again tests their friendship. [Unchaste] Is chastity the most important thing for a woman? Of course not, but in that special era, if a mistake is repeated a hundred times, it seems to become right. Under what circumstances would a son accuse his mother of being unchaste? This starts from a wrong cause and condition. ... 29 Stories, 29 life choices, either major or inadvertent. What efforts have you made to not regret it now? Maybe you will understand the future road and how to go after reading the story.

The first collection of pictures and essays by the popular healing illustrator Liu Xixi. Blank space is not a waste of time, it is a space for life to grow. May you always have the ability to perceive happiness in the ordinary. To leave a blank space in life is to press the pause button when you are tired and allow yourself to rest without guilt; while chasing, slow down at the right time to give your soul a breathing space. Listen to your inner voice in silence, and meet a better version of yourself in the blank space.

It is a meaningful adventure to try to use the method of "poetic theory" to refresh the concepts, forms and styles of literary criticism. The so-called literary criticism is not actually a judgment, but more like a kind of excavation, a kind of dialogue and conversation, a kind of self-cleaning and enlightenment. Use the words of others to present your own reflections. "Contemporary Novel Poetry" is divided into two parts: "Predecessors" and "Contemporaries". The upper part reviews the works of writers born around the 1960s, such as Jia Pingwa, Liu Zhenyun, and Han Shaogong, while the lower part reviews the works of "post-70s" and "post-80s" writers such as Liang Hong, Huang Deng, Xu Zechen, Liu Yukun, and Sun Pin. Each review article is preceded by a short poem. The concise "poetry" and the detailed "theory" explain and complement each other. Each serves as a footnote to the other. It is also an in-depth practice of the concept that "literary criticism is also a kind of literary creation".

"How is space presented? With flowing objects, knotted sounds and escaping behaviors." Under the guidance of curiosity, we reach interesting places and understand different experiences. Through persistent exploration and keen awareness of the unknown, we constantly broaden our horizons and receive rich gifts. This collection of reviews is a partial presentation of the author's "roaming" and "tracing" experiences in his academic research. The book consists of three volumes: the first two volumes are selected reviews, which include specific analyzes of the works of writers such as Ge Fei, Xu Haofeng, Lin Bai, and Yi Zhou, as well as overall thoughts on issues such as fact construction in non-fiction writing; the third volume includes the author Shen Congwen's initial research results: Shen Congwen's biography.

"I don't like creations that need to be given meaning by criticism, and I don't like criticism that clings to the continuation of the work." This is a collection of criticism about literature and accident, which places the subject of literature back in the historical time and space governed by "accident". Hegel saw the spirit of the world coming towards us on horseback. What I saw was a spider web hanging on the horse's back, binding the world mechanism of sunrise and sunset. The literary field is the same, it's a big cobweb. Everyone's writing and actions are not accidental, they all operate in an orderly manner within a logical framework driven by spiritual pursuit and fame and fortune. It's just that literature itself presupposes more subjectivity, so we always look forward to some miraculous and accidental moments that can redefine life.

"Literature is a particularly personal and concrete work, and the gathering of countless concrete works cannot match the moment when the unknown happens." "Time is the Postscript of Everything" is one of the "Series of Statements and Criticisms" (Second Series) edited by "Sinan Literature Selections". Wencong gathers the most influential and potential critical writers in Shanghai and strives to become a collection of fine essays that can fully reflect the overall style of Shanghai youth literary criticism. This book is a collection of comments compiled by the author during the three years since he moved to Shanghai. It is divided into three volumes. The first volume focuses on the analysis of short and medium-sized novels; the second volume is a close reading of the novels; the third volume is essays, which are slightly more interesting than the first two volumes; the appendix records some thoughts in the form of notes.

An important mission of the avant-garde today is to cross the fog of history and become the stranger again. This book mainly focuses on the evolution of Chinese avant-garde poetry in the 1980s and 1990s and the two spiritual aspects of poetry in the 1990s. Starting from root-seeking poems and Haizi's cultural epic, the author explores how poetry conveys cultural reflection by transforming the concept of "tradition." Then it takes the poems of Wang Jiaxin, Ouyang Jianghe, Duoduo, Han Dong, Yu Jian, Zang Di, Zhang Zao, Xiao Kaiyu and others as examples to rethink the issue of "pure poetry/pure literature" and describe the "narrative" turn of poetry in the 1990s. The author intends to explore the transformation and differentiation process of avant-garde poetry in the 1980s and 1990s, and is more concerned about the differences and convergence of poetic consciousness in the two eras.

"The Gravity of Reality" is one of the "Series of Statements and Criticisms" (Second Series) edited by "Selected Sinan Literature". Wencong gathers 11 of the most influential and potential young critical writers in Shanghai, and asks each author to select his or her most representative literary criticism articles, striving to become a collection of fine articles that can fully reflect the overall style of Shanghai youth literary criticism. This book is the second collection of reviews by the young writer and critic Wang Huicheng. Following the publication of "Do Beautiful Women Love Me" published in 2020, this work collects Wang Huicheng's review articles on the works of young writers such as Shen Shuzhi, Xiang Jing, Wen Zhen, San San, Zhang Yiwei, Qian Jianan, Zhang Dinghao and other young writers. In addition to commenting on the works, it also describes the author's own understanding of novels, essays and other literary creations.

Who said that literary criticism must be written with a frown on one's brows, and read like one must take medicine? The long and short "mini-comments" not only delve into the details of the text, but also take a panoramic view of the literary world, talking about Huang Yongyu's wonderful "The Wandering Man of Wuchou River", Wei Wei's "Flying Time" like a breeze, gossiping about the Mao Dun Literary Award, and asking about the "third way" of literary criticism... The 35 articles strive to reshape the vitality of literary criticism with vivid words.

From Zhang Yueran's "art complex" to Huang Jinshu's "youth fantasy", from Lin Chu's fictitious frogs to the old factories in Zhang Yiwei's and Lu Nei's novels, 24 in-depth and simple reading notes take us beyond the limits of literary criticism and find new surprises in the diverse aspects of contemporary Chinese novels.

The book is divided into three volumes: "Lessons of Love", "Connecting with Others" and "Crossing Boundaries". It not only discusses and reviews specific novels and poetry works, but also cares about the trend of contemporary poetry, the mission of translators in the digital age and other larger issues. From Mutis, Benjamin, and Szymborska to Mu Dan, Zhang Ji, and Liu Liduo, the author's brushstrokes travel lightly through ancient and modern times, at home and abroad, outlining the reading map and thinking path of a literary creator and researcher.

Troubadour poet and folk singer Zhou Yunpeng's collection of essays "Green Train: Always on the Road" is back in a new edition, with a new preface and several new works, recreating the spiritual wandering history of a generation. After setting off on the green train at the age of seventeen, he writes about the places he has arrived on the road of traveling and singing for thirty years, the friends he has made, the vicissitudes of life he has experienced and the growth of Chinese new folk songs, the unique life he has gained, and the people and things he has lost. Now that the year of destiny has arrived, the world is changing rapidly, and the only thing that remains unchanged is that time continues to move forward like a green train. "Green Train: Always on the Road" retains the free and easy freedom of self-exile and self-healing in the wilderness of life, but also adds a touch of the taste of life and a broad-minded attitude towards life. What remains unchanged is the author's warm and hopeful heart, as he himself said: "Looking forward to the arrival of better people, looking forward to the arrival of more beautiful people. Looking forward to the possession of our past souls and returning."

Thomas Bernhard is a frequent recipient of literary awards and has won dozens of important awards, including the most important Büchner Prize in German literature, the Austrian National Prize, etc. But he soon lost interest in winning awards and refused to accept any literary awards. In the mid-1970s, Bernhard was twice nominated as a candidate for the Nobel Prize. In the end, the jury decided to avoid touching this thorn in view of his attitude towards the award. "My Literary Prize" contains 9 articles by Bernhard about his love and hatred for winning the literary prize, 4 speeches at the award ceremony, and 1 confession about withdrawing from the German Academy of Philology and Literature. Thomas Bernhard roared at all mankind and shook his head at himself as he recorded his true experience of receiving literary awards and prizes.

Zhang Beihai, the original author of the movie "The Righteous One", began to write the story of his life when he was eighty years old. The author mentioned in the preface "What animal has four in the morning and three in the evening?" The answer is "human". This book is his "four in the morning and three in the evening". During the Anti-Japanese War, my father was unwilling to surrender to the Japanese, so my mother had no choice but to evacuate from Tianjin with several children, crossed the Yellow River, and arrived in Xi'an. Finally, the family reunited in Chongqing; the unruly young man was kicked out of the house by his father and witnessed Taiwan's bizarre society in the 1950s; the second brother was Song Meiling's daughter. The pilot of a special plane died young in a plane crash, leaving behind a daughter, the famous Sylvia Chang in the future; he became a United Nations official, worked and traveled around the world, and had unique experiences; in his later years, he returned to his hometown in Shanxi to explore the love of his hometown; and reunited with his first love in his twilight years. Life is like this, get together, have fun, and then part ways. These concise and calm words contain open-mindedness and humor that can clearly understand the world. They are also the last gift left by an old naughty boy to the world.

"Criticism" must be "decision-making", just as "becoming a human being is still a kind of decision-making". This is an atypical collection of critical essays. What critics care about is not so much the works as life. If these various lives have something in common, it is that they all failed, and the secret of the times lies in this failure. Look, how many people around us regard "spectating" as "failure" and are eager to appear on stage despite being unwilling to be lonely. If the "spectator" is the poet's prophecy, it is one he is willing to bear. Because, in the life of "spectating", "knowledge" is the only reward for "spectating". But - our good people, please don't get me wrong, "bystanders" are not "victims". And the "knowledge" of the "spectator" is not the "knowledge" of the "baby" or the "square head". Remember this, otherwise, we will have fallen into the "trance" of the times before we even get on the right track.

Looking for the "intermediary" between language and politics in the late Qing Dynasty, tracing the "form" and "content" of contemporary Chinese novels through the prism of Lukács's "Theory of Novel", being obsessed with the untranslatability of "cannibalism" in "Diary of a Madman", trying to provide another explanation for the "silence" of "Flowers"... The eight articles included in this collection not only trace important moments in the evolution of "new literature", but also examine the historical "ghosts" in contemporary literature.

This book is a diary written by the famous translator Xu Yuanchong while he was studying at Southwest Associated University. Xu Yuanchong personally compiled, annotated and revised it before his death, without changing a word. The book completely presents the magnificent journey of teachers and students of Southwest Associated University from south to north and back from 1938 to 1946. Through Xu Yuanchong's delicate brushwork, you can touch the most realistic and vivid appearance of the most legendary institution in the history of Chinese education - Southwest Associated University. Xu Yuanchong lends us his eyes and ears in this book, allowing us to travel back to that extraordinary era, where we can take classes, take exams, entertain, and fall in love like real Union students, and appreciate the style of masters such as Qian Zhongshu, Zhu Ziqing, and Wen Yiduo up close, and gossip about their anecdotes. This book specially adds a character index to allow users to quickly find the gossip they want to read. What Xu Yuanchong recorded from the perspective of an eyewitness is not only an individual's youth, but also a spiritual epic of a nation guarding the fire of civilization in its darkest moments. The most moving thing in this diary is the "sound of reading in the flames of war" presented in the diary. When the war burned Changsha into a sea of ​​flames, students from Southwest Associated University moved away despite the enemy's artillery fire. When the Japanese army carried out frequent air raids on Kunming, teachers and students from the United Union picked up books from the ruins and persisted in studying while running to alert the police, studying for the rise of China. These academic perseverances that burst out on the edge of life and death confirm the cultural backbone tempered in the flames of war. The diary specially contains more than 30 old photos, manuscripts and letters, which restores the three-dimensional reconstruction of that period of "fortitude and perseverance". The best teachers and the best students create the best Southwest Associated University. Let this diary take us back to those legendary years and experience the ceiling of Chinese universities.

In recent years, the Sichuan Provincial Department of Civil Affairs has innovatively implemented the "Yi Road Accompanying" and "Hand in Hand" action plans to promote "deep cultivation of good governance" in 34 off-site poverty alleviation and resettlement communities in four cities (prefectures), including Luzhou, Leshan, Garze and Liangshan, and made civil affairs contributions to consolidate and expand the results of poverty alleviation and the effective connection with rural revitalization. In the process, a large number of stories of cadres' dedication, warm-hearted social workers' services, and the gratitude of the masses have emerged. This book has written nearly 30 short stories in a documentary way with themes such as showing the spirit of the masses, reflecting the actions of community cadres, and highlighting the professional services of social workers. It aims to vividly show the effectiveness of the "Yi Road Accompanying" and "Hand in Hand" actions as well as various real-life touching stories in written form, and provide experience and reference for the governance of other resettlement communities across the province.

"Thinking" is a collection of prose essays written by Professor He Huaihong, which spans from 1977 to 1987. The contents of the book include moral and social thinking, questioning of love and marriage, the joy of reading and writing, the pursuit of philosophy and truth, questioning of life and death, etc. The book contains both a poetic gaze on all things in nature and a calm analysis of the depths of human nature, truly presenting the author's spiritual trajectory in the changing times. The text is simple and profound, retaining the original throbbing of thinking, exploring eternal propositions such as life, morality, rationality, and loneliness with delicate brushstrokes, showing the subtle integration of philosophy and literature, and providing a pure land of contemplation for the noisy world.

"Broader than the Sky" starts from an ethical perspective, shuttles between ancient Greek philosophical debates, Eastern meditation and modern dilemmas, and explores ultimate propositions such as freedom, dignity, suffering and transcendence. By analyzing the subtleties of historical events and daily life, it reveals the fragile and sublime duality of human nature, trying to find an anchor for the soul in an era of rapid technological advancement. The book contains both a spiritual deconstruction of Dostoyevsky's "Man in the Basement" and a contemporary interpretation of Zhuangzi's "Happy Wandering", which ultimately leads to a shocking conclusion: the real vastness is not in the clouds, but when mortals face limitations, they still choose to look upward.

This book is Chen Xingjia's second autobiographical essay after "At the Turn of the Xiajiang River". It tells the story of his departure from office and his career in charity. Chen Xingjia recorded with the greatest sincerity the intertwining fate of ordinary people, and vividly wrote about the difficulties and embarrassments in life, struggles and efforts, joys and sorrows and partings; he delicately described the warm embraces and long-flowing tears in the world... Real life has more ups and downs than the script, with depression and optimism intertwined, sorrow and joy intertwined. From generation to generation, we are still living, loving, accompanying, missing, crying, laughing, and living our lives. These words are not only his story, but also your and my story. I hope you can feel the love and warmth from it and gain the strength to move forward.