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Do people need to daydream more when they are awake? In this world, can anyone understand the weird people who don't fit in with the people around them? Is it because there is no better world, so we should cherish the present? ... You may find answers to the problems you encounter in life in books: about childhood, marriage, women's life, daily poetry, tobacco and alcohol, work and consumerism, the possibility of living away from the hustle and bustle... Taking "literary experience" as the guide, Master Miao started a sincere exchange between readers about reading experience. Through literature and film and television works, he still discusses life problems that have no definite answers: children, marriage and family life, consumerism, desires that "cannot be expressed in words", the ability of the five senses to perceive nature, the "salted fish" state of stillness in life, human malice and the good angels in human nature, etc. Talking about the works based on the theme, he jumps and connects between the hundreds of books and movies he has read. What he shares with you is not only his personal reading experience and a heart that is touched and shaken by good works, but also the common experiences of soberness and soul-warming in the world.

The works of Yasunari Kawabata, the Nobel Prize winner in literature, perceive the life of art and capture the breath of writing. Mr. Kawabata's sensitivity may be unparalleled. "New Articles Reader" is a collection of serials titled "New Articles Lectures" published by Kawabata Yasunari in the magazine "Literary Exchanges" from February 1949 to November 1950. It is a collection of literary criticism by Kawabata Yasunari. Kawabata, who has been familiar with "The Tale of Genji" and "Pillow" since childhood, strongly advocates "living articles" based on his nostalgia. The book is divided into ten chapters, citing articles by Japanese and foreign writers such as Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Ishikawa Jun, Yono Koji, Izumi Kyoka, Nagai Karikaze, Yokomitsu Riichi, Shiga Naoya, Sato Haruo, Kikuchi Hiroshi, Tayama Hanabukuro, Flaubert and other Japanese and foreign writers. It breaks down the entries and analyzes the secrets of masterpieces in language that is easy for ordinary readers to understand. Together with Junichiro Tanizaki and Yukio Mishima's literary review "Article Reader" of the same name, it is the most famous writer's literary review in the history of modern Japanese literature. From it, we can get a glimpse of the author's theory of writers and writing concepts.

Henry James was a pioneer of modern literature, a teacher of writers, a prodigious bookworm, and a heavy user of paper novels. In this book, he transforms into a diligent reading blogger and generously shares his private reading notes. Analyze the texture of the novel like peeling off cocoons and lead you to find the joy of reading novels. A sharp review of famous works, clearing away all the constraints on characters, plots, and themes in your mind, and getting straight to the truly exciting aspects of a novel. Happy are those who have mastered the art of fiction. As Henry James said: "An outstanding writer is a person who passionately tries to understand everything." After reading this book, you will learn to observe and imagine like a novelist, capture the countless indescribable beauty in life, and turn every subtle moment into a revelation.

This book was personally participated and guided by Mr. Ye Jiaying, and co-authored with Ms. An Yi. The book arranges Wang Guowei's poems in the order of publication time, namely: 61 poems in Draft A, 43 poems in Draft B, 3 newly added poems in "Long and Short Sentences" of "Guantang Jilin", and 8 newly added poems in "Tiaohua Ci" of "Guantang Jilin", for a total of 115 poems. Each poem is carefully commented by Mr. Ye Jiaying. In addition, various versions of Wang Guowei's Ci are listed in the appendix at the back of the book. 86 Kinds of articles or monographs about Wang Guowei's Ci by 69 authors are also listed in order of publication time and attached to the back of the book for readers' reference.

"Human Words" is the representative work of Wang Guowei, a master of modern Chinese studies. In the form of traditional Chinese words, it brings together Western philosophy, literature and aesthetic ideas, and provides a wonderful and unique commentary on traditional Chinese literature. The whole book takes the theory of "realm" as the core, with incisive arguments and a self-contained system. It is a classic work in Chinese classical literary criticism. This book contains 64 final manuscripts and 50 unpublished manuscripts of "Human Words" that Wang Guowei deleted, revised, and revised. Appropriate annotations and textual translations are provided for each article, as well as Mr. Ye Jiaying's interpretation of Wang Guowei's "Human Words", allowing readers to easily understand Wang Guowei's literary and aesthetic thoughts. At the same time, the text is appended with poems, Ci cards, selections from Wang Guowei's "Human Ci", Wang Guowei's life, biography of the poet, etc. The famous painter Lin Xi was invited to draw the cover of this book.

There is a wind coming from the south, carrying new sprouts on its wings. A good literary researcher should be such a "listener" who uses the works of writers as a medium, and the Huang Zhongdalu of the times can hear the hums and chants of people's hearts. Writer theory is Jin Li's personal favorite writing method. "It's like having a long conversation with friends, but it's not deliberately looking for or managing it, just like being transported by all kinds of unexpected winds." On the basis of thorough and careful reading of the text, he studied six writers who are active in the contemporary Chinese literary world, namely Ye Mi, Lu Min, Tian Er, Ge Liang, Zhang Ji, and Zheng Xiaolu, to taste the interest in the writers' words and explore their insights into society and people's hearts.

The first volume mainly contains thoughts on education and literature, including some of the author's prose, novel exercises and poems, as well as articles on college entrance examination composition guidance, students' literary growth and college entrance examination marking. The second volume is mainly literary criticism, including some of the author's prose reviews published in newspapers and magazines over the years. The whole book is full of sincere emotions, the language is smooth and fresh, and the connotation is rich and profound.

Every martial arts fan is a "everyone in the world", and every martial arts fan has his or her own "Weapon Book" in his or her heart. This book combines factors such as the degree of brilliance, literary level, ideological spirit and other factors to provide a comprehensive interpretation and reasonable ranking of Jin Yong's novels, so as to send "the greatest chivalrous man" from afar.

This book is a collection of essays by Ye Lang discussing "A Dream of Red Mansions" from an aesthetic perspective. The book mainly talks about two contents. One is the metaphysical implication of "Dream of Red Mansions". Cao Xueqin's pursuit of the ultimate meaning of life is to affirm the value of "emotion", pursue the liberation of "emotion", pursue the dignity of love, and pursue the equality of people. In summary, it is the pursuit of "a world with feelings." "The world of sentient beings" is not an illusory existence, but a real existence. "The world of sentient beings" is here, so life is meaningful. This is the "enlightenment" that "A Dream of Red Mansions" gives readers. Another content is the tragedy of "Dream of Red Mansions". The tragedy of "Dream of Red Mansions" is not the decline of the noble family, but the destruction of the "sentimental world". In Lin Daiyu's poem, it is "the cold moon buries the flower soul". In addition, the book also talks about the influence of Ye Xie and Jin Shengtan on "A Dream of Red Mansions", Zhi Yanzhai's comments, and the novel's aesthetics such as "the finishing touch" and "idle brushwork".

The 19th-century British romantic poet Byron's long poem "Don Juan" is a famous masterpiece in British poetry. It is 16,000 lines long and is unfinished. The poem uses the legend of Don Juan in European history as a carrier, but it breaks through various boundaries. The direction of the story is often unexpected, and part of the context is also slanted. It frequently incorporates seemingly unrelated content, including the poet's own pleasant comments on current hot issues. In the end, it becomes a whole of its own, belonging to its own era, but also incompatible. It becomes a classic because of its "alien". The work is such that it still leaves room for interpretation. This academic work uses the concept of "digression" to cover various related phenomena in this long poem. It treats digression in a broad sense as an object of inquiry rich in literary and philosophical significance. It uses the history of thought, Western epic tradition, literary trends, irony techniques, religious culture, ideographic formulas, and female focal figures to explore the specific meanings of digression at different levels, scales, and natures. The book's development process also had many interactions with internationally representative critical opinions, and used this to outline the author's own thinking perspective. Overall, it formed an academic discourse that crosses cultural boundaries and uses important Western literary works as the working surface.

The Aeneid, the epic poem by the ancient Roman poet Virgil, is a classic of Latin literature. It tells the story of the Trojan prince Aeneas who led the remaining people of his tribe to wander on the sea for many years and finally arrived in Italy, laying the foundation for the future Roman Empire. Virgil elaborated the legend of the founding of Rome in literature, and also wrote the political entanglements during the Roman Civil War into his poems. This epic is not only a literary classic, but also fully demonstrates many major issues such as Roman politics and national identity construction during the Augustus dynasty. "History and Politics in Virgil's Epic" mainly focuses on the political and historical issues contained in the epic, including the relationship between Virgil and Augustus, the political implications of the protagonist Aeneas, the political allusion of the image of Queen Dido, how the gods in the epic reflect the religious concepts of the Augustus era, and other issues. In addition to the historical and political analysis of the epic, "History and Politics in Virgil's Epic" will also analyze and evaluate the pessimistic interpretation and traditional "Augustinian" interpretation that have had a great impact in the 20th century.

The articles included in "New Poetry Review 2020 (Total 24th Series)" can be roughly classified into six aspects. "Modern Chinese Poetry Translation into English" is a special topic of this volume, which brings together professional discussions in this field by American sinologists and translators Ke Xiazhi, Fei Zhenghua, Ling Jingyi and Gu Ailing. It shows the cutting-edge exploration of Chinese poetry in translation cognition and practice with a serious yet personal attitude. "My Reading History" invites four poets and scholars who grew up in different eras to embark on a journey of memory. In a friendly, relaxed and immersive non-academic style, they review the landmark reading history of their respective learning eras. The special topic "Issues and Events" in this issue continues to organize written discussions around Jing Wendong's two long critical articles. The discussion articles by young scholars Yi Xing and Wang Dongdong settled the debate and contributed extended and inclusive academic propositions, pushing this "new poetics case" into a new field of poetic theory construction. "Poet Studies" includes the latest masterpieces of six young and middle-aged scholars, aiming to showcase the cutting-edge vision and multi-faceted interface of case studies of contemporary poets. Zhong Ming is a representative poet of the "third generation poetry" and an important participant, witness and observer of the contemporary poetry movement. This collection includes an interview he completed in the summer of 2019, focusing on "the critical context and ethics of poetry" to contribute a vigorous, magnificent, and penetrating diagnostic report on contemporary poetry. In order to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the death of the poet Chang Yao, this issue has specially opened a special topic to publish 20 letters from Chang Yao to his friends that have been excavated and compiled by later generations. This batch of letters and the letters in the "Appendix" part of "Chang Yao's Collection of Poems and Prose" can be regarded as a whole, becoming a sincere footnote to the poet's "Book of Destiny".

"Chronicles of Contemporary Foreign Literature (Spanish Volume)" is the main result of "Chronicles of Contemporary Spanish Literature", a sub-project of the "Chronicles of Contemporary Foreign Literature", a key project of the National Social Science Fund undertaken by the School of Foreign Languages ​​at Peking University. It aims to present the trends and development of Spanish literature from the late 20th century to the early 21st century. "Chronicles of Contemporary Foreign Literature (Spanish Volume)" includes a total of 87 contemporary Spanish writers, covering the old, middle and young generations. It focuses on introducing and commenting on novelists, poets and dramatists active in today's Spanish literary world, and strives to present the trend of Spanish literature to Chinese readers. In terms of style, "Chronicles of Contemporary Foreign Literature (Spanish Volume)" writes entries based on the writer as a unit, and sorts them alphabetically by the writer's surname. In addition to commenting on each writer's life and overall creative situation, there is also an entry for his works, most of which are representative works of the writers that have been published since the 21st century. "Chronicles of Contemporary Foreign Literature (Spanish Volume)" focuses on the study of writers and works by highlighting the word "new", new perspectives, new information, and new translations, with a view to providing a comprehensive archive of Spanish literature for the domestic academic community.

A key to getting started with a classic, a journey of reflection on modern marriage and family! This book is the author's reading experience and personal interpretation of Tolstoy's masterpiece "Anna Karenina". Starting from the famous saying "All happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way", the author sorted out the relationships of each family in the book according to the plot sequence of the original work, analyzed the personality and psychological characteristics of the main characters, and combined with the comments of many scholars, conducted an in-depth exploration of Tolstoy's views on marriage, family, and aristocracy in this book, trying to break away from the traditional interpretation perspective and provide a new interpretation of this classic text from the perspective of family sociology.

This book contains some reviews of the author's novels in recent years, divided into three series: the first series is a close reading of the text; the second series is a short criticism; the third series focuses on the historical form and recent phenomena of the novel. These articles not only cover important novels in recent years, such as "Kaogong Ji", "Morning Glow", "Yamamoto", "Fog Walker", "A Brief History of Gray Clothes", "Scenery Here", "Suzaku", etc.; They also focus on the typicality and influence of writers across generations, such as Wang Meng, Wu Liang, Wang Anyi, Jia Pingwa, Mai Jia, Chi Li, Ye Mi, Lu Nei, Ge Liang, Li Hongwei, etc.

When vernacular writing was on the rise, famous classic vernacular writers such as Hu Shi, Zhu Guangqian, Zhu Ziqing, etc. All had a profound foundation in ancient Chinese writing, so their writing was concise, clear, white and meaningful. The role of the foundation of ancient Chinese in improving the level of writing expression is fully reflected in these famous masters. This small book is intended to show the charm of ancient prose and its role that cannot be ignored in improving writing skills. It is hoped that more readers will know and understand the value of ancient prose. "Excellent and Good Prose-Analysis of Famous Classical Chinese Poems" is intended to be a companion to the previously published "Excellent and Good Poetry" and is a popular reading book for the appreciation of classical Chinese.

This book is not a high-level academic treatise that examines the author, year of writing, story evolution, version differences and other issues of "Water Margin". Instead, it is based on the existing text of "Water Margin" and takes the characters of Water Margin as the object. It selects some topics with significance, doubts, controversy and interest to comment on, and provides a reasonable and refreshing interpretation of the familiar Water Margin characters. Among them are comments on the behavior and image of the Liangshan characters, an explanation of the contrast between the Liangshan characters' talents (not just martial arts), military exploits, personalities and rankings; there are also criticisms of some of the outdated values ​​and cruelty and bloodthirsty aspects conveyed in "Water Margin"; an analysis of the storyline highlights and artistic flaws of "Water Margin;" The whole book has analysis, argumentation, textual research, and unique insights. It has the scientificity and rigor of academic works, but also the readability and interest of knowledge books. It will help people read, appreciate, and understand the "wonderful and eternal" world of Water Margin with joy and hatred more deeply and comprehensively.

This book is a close reading and analysis of the Mao Dun Literature Award-winning works by the famous contemporary literary critic Wang Chunlin. It includes his interpretations of 18 award-winning works that are widely welcomed by readers, such as "In the World", "Massage", "White Deer Plain", "Frog", "One Sentence is Worth Ten Thousand Sentences" and "Flowers". The Mao Dun Literature Award is one of the most authoritative and influential literary awards in contemporary China, representing the height of contemporary Chinese novel creation. Since its inception, the Mao Dun Literature Award has lasted for 40 years and has awarded nearly 50 novels with their own characteristics. Wang Chunlin has served as a judge for several important literary awards such as the Mao Dun Literature Award and the Lu Xun Literature Award. He has long been engaged in the research and criticism of modern and contemporary Chinese literature and has in-depth and unique insights into contemporary Chinese literature. In this book, he guides readers to appreciate and appreciate the rich connotation and artistic charm of these award-winning works from multiple perspectives such as the novel's structure, narrative techniques, language features, and main themes.

Mr. Guo Hongan is a famous translator and writer. His translations of "Flowers of Evil" and "The Plague" are regarded as models by domestic and foreign literary readers. He has also given nearly a hundred lectures in major universities and academic institutions across the country. This book collects the essence of his lectures on French literature over the years, including a total of 10 articles including "Montaigne and His Essays" and "Talk about Balzac", which fully demonstrates Mr. Guo Hongan's ideological spark and life wisdom.

"Analysis of Love" is the latest collection of literary criticism by critic Yue Wen, divided into three volumes. The first volume depicts the landscape of novels in the 20 years of the 21st century from a macro perspective, studying female consciousness and female writing in the new era, changes in the definition of "good people", changes in the beginning of novels, etc., Thus reflecting the novelist's easier understanding of the world and the era we live in. The second volume is an analysis of the writers' works, focusing on eight writers: Feng Jicai, Liang Xiaosheng, Jin Yucheng, Wang Anyi, Deng Yiguang, Alai, Feng Liang, and Ye Zhou, showing Yue Wen's vivid literary criticism style in recent years. The third volume is a smart essay, talking about "A Dream of Red Mansions", the literary genre she loves, and her encounter with literature... From the big to the small, it completes a complete explanation of the literary life of critic Yue Wen.

"Water Margin" is one of China's four famous novels. It mainly describes the story of 108 heroes led by Song Jiang who gathered in Liangshan, Shandong Province in the late Northern Song Dynasty. It is a chapter-style novel of heroic legends. After the publication of "Water Margin", it had a huge impact on society. Many characters in Water Margin have also been criticized by people of all ages. This book is the culmination of the author's many years of thinking and research. The book is in the form of essays and is divided into four parts: Tiangang chapter, Disha chapter, Huequ chapter and Bowai chapter. It uses modern concepts and thinking on the characters of "Water Margin" to interpret the life experience, experience, personality, abilities and endings of nearly a hundred characters in the book.

"A Dream of Red Mansions" is universally recognized as the pinnacle of Chinese classical novels, an encyclopedia of Chinese feudal society, and a masterpiece of traditional culture. Reading "A Dream of Red Mansions" is like walking into a corridor of characters, with hundreds of lifelike characters ready to emerge. The characters in "A Dream of Red Mansions" are all protagonists, and they are vividly portrayed. In order to better understand "Dream of Red Mansions", the author of this book wrote the book "Interesting Stories about the Characters of Red Mansions" based on his deep understanding of the characters in "Dream of Red Mansions". The book is divided into six parts: the Twelve Hairpins of Jinling, the master of the Jia family, the maids and concubines, the relatives of the Jia family, the servants and wives, and the outside of the two houses. It uses modern people's concepts and thinking to explain the life experience, experience, character, abilities and endings of nearly a hundred characters in the book.

Li Yiyun read "War and Peace" during the epidemic. She found that "the more unpredictable life is, the more stability and structure "War and Peace" provides." In this book, the author summarizes the ten major inspirations that "War and Peace" brought her in writing: (1) Simple and clear structure; (2) Narration and flashback; (3) Description of actions; (4) Returning the environment to its original nature; (5) Turning decay into magic; (6) Actions turning into activities; (7) Characters' uncharacteristic behavior; (8) Animals telling human stories; (9) Changing the script for the characters; (10) A certain landmark in the character's field of vision. Li Yiyun's 85 diary-style interpretations of "War and Peace" are both an understanding of "War and Peace" and a dialogue with Tolstoy. It is also an explanation of her personal understanding of Tolstoy's writing skills. For readers who like Tolstoy and "War and Peace", they will have a different reading experience.

This book is one of the "Zhiqu" series and is a literary essay about "Water Margin". The author uses the form of commentary to carefully read "Water Margin" around the two key words of "power" and "humanity", and integrates personal values ​​​​and understanding of society into his comments on the events and characters in the book. The whole book is divided into "inner chapters" and "outer chapters". The "inner part" analyzes the individual cases of the characters in "Water Margin", and the "outer part" generally describes the era and society as the background of "Water Margin", and the two parts echo each other. The language is simple and fluent, and there is no shortage of original insights.

This book is one of the Zhi·Qu series. The Ming and Qing Dynasties were the peak period of my country's novels about gods and demons, represented by "The Romance of the Gods" and "Journey to the West". The bizarre society and human relationships in the novel may seem absurd, but in fact they have a long historical evolution process. Mr. Liu Yisheng, the founder of the Lingnan School of Appreciation, tried to use a scientific research method to explore the causes and characters of the Kingdom of Gods and Demons in his book "Exploration of the Kingdom of Gods and Demons". This book is both ancient and modern, both literature and history; it is diverse and suitable for both elegance and vulgarity. It is a model work that combines traditional knowledge with fun.

The "1000 Newly Selected Chinese Famous Poems" series is edited by Han Jingtai, a distinguished professor at Beijing Language and Culture University, and written by famous contemporary scholars Zhao Minli, Qian Zhixi, Ge Xiaoyin, Mo Lizhen, Zhang Jing, Zuo Dongling, Jiang Yin, and Zhang Fugui , the author uses dynasties as the basic unit, selects 1,000 famous poems from the vast history of Chinese poetry, and provides detailed annotations and wonderful appreciation to help readers appreciate the ideological connotation and artistic characteristics of Chinese poetry. "Appreciation of Poems of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties" was compiled and annotated by Mr. Qian Zhixi, a famous professor of the Chinese Department of Peking University. This book contains 100 selected poems, covering the essence of poetry in this historical period. The author's brief analysis is particularly wonderful, which can well guide ordinary readers to appreciate the artistic style of five-character poems, Yuefu poems and other works in the medieval period.

This book is a book on the appreciation of Chinese classical literature that is both scientific and artistic. It is compiled from the lecture notes on the history of classical literature compiled by Mr. Pu Jiangqing. It covers a collection of literary thoughts accumulated by him while teaching at Tsinghua University, Southwest Associated University, and Peking University for many years. After repeated deliberation and revision, it has unique insights, novel arguments, and eloquent explanations. It has both depth and breadth, ideological and artistic qualities, and comprehensively reveals the essence and true meaning of the four great classics, from macroscopic ancient political thoughts to microscopic story plots and character analysis. In a language you can understand, it will take you through time and space, have long conversations with the masters of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and truly appreciate the immortal classical charm of the "Four Great Classics".

This book contains a total of 17 articles, divided into two parts: upper and lower. The first part "Reading Foreign Classics" mainly focuses on reading first-class works by some first-class foreign writers; the second part "Reading Chinese Classics" mainly focuses on reading classic works by some famous Chinese writers. This book is different from the general review-style reading notes and has formed its own characteristics. It is not only a comprehensive interpretation of 17 Chinese and foreign classics, but also the author's unique personal reading experience. There are descriptions of little-known details, detailed analysis of in-depth thoughts, and precise interpretations of artistic techniques. It is not only a reading exchange with readers who have read these famous works, but also an introduction for readers who have not yet had time to read these famous works. The author guides us to discover the power of classics in a book.

Song poetry has always been compared with Tang poetry. From the beginning, Song poetry focused on personal enjoyment and private life, highlighting the delicate sensory feelings, secluded spiritual experiences, and tortuous emotional processes of the lyrical subject enjoying life, forming the literary characteristics of "romance" and "side beauty". For thousands of years, countless readers have fallen in love with Song Ci. Its famous poems and lines are even more popular and become household names. This book contains a total of 334 selected works. The annotations are as concise as possible and the interpretation is relatively detailed. Sharing the experience of reading Song Ci with readers is to guide readers to understand and appreciate Song Ci more comprehensively, broadly and deeply. At the same time, this book is easy to understand and takes into account the content requirements of academic research and ordinary readers.

"Ode to the Elegance of Novels" is a collection of literary criticism by scholar Wang Guangsong. This book collects Wang Guangsong's modern and contemporary Chinese literary criticism works published since 2006, including an analysis of the Two Views and Three Lines in Lu Xun's "Wild Grass", etiquette and benevolence in Zhou Zuoren's novels, Konoha's poetic criticism, media investigation of oral works, etc. Literary criticism is also literature, and "Ode to the Elegance of Novel" aims to discover the masterpieces and masterstrokes, true feelings and philosophical thoughts, explicitness and subtlety in literary works. In the lines of concrete and perceptible words, Wang Guangsong possesses a pair of invisible, soft and sensitive tentacles. With his love for literature, these tentacles touch and wander in the context and texture of the works, searching for the writer's originality and discovering the unique aesthetic charm of the works.

Zhang Zhidong was not only a famous minister and capable official in the modern political arena, but also a leader in the poetry circle of the late Qing Dynasty and a backbone in the academic and ideological circles. Whether he is writing poems or essays, discussing knowledge or doing things, Zhang Zhidong always aims at being fair, accessible, elegant and solemn. Therefore, the "advocating elegance and uprightness" he emphasizes in poetry is based on his upright temperament and self-cultivation. Zhang Zhidong's contribution to poetry lies in his ability to reconcile the Tang and Song Dynasties in the late Qing Dynasty when the poetry style of the Song Dynasty was at its peak, advocating "Song style and Tang style" and striving for "moderateness" and elegance. The "Qingqie" theory advocated by him has considerable poetic value, but it also has cognitive limitations. Zhang Zhidong held a high position and was able to break down the barriers between families, tolerate a variety of poetic styles, and his poetic thoughts were rich in unique style. This objectively promoted the exchange of poetry at that time and influenced the atmosphere of the poetry world at that time. This book studies the reform political figure Zhang Zhidong and his poetic contribution from the perspectives of literature and poets.

The academic journal "Humanities" is sponsored by the Institute of Advanced Humanities of Henan University, edited by the editorial department of "Humanities", and published by China Social Sciences Press. "Humanities" adheres to the correct guidance of public opinion and the purpose of publishing the journal, insists on putting social benefits first, and pays attention to content construction and journal quality. "Humanities" centers on humanistic care, highlights academic originality and the dissemination of new knowledge, focuses on empirical research, encourages comprehensive innovation, and strives to integrate various disciplines, explore various academic thoughts and historical and cultural issues, promote in-depth thinking in different knowledge fields, and showcase new achievements in Chinese ideological and academic circles. The journal "Humanities" strives to provide a platform for the academic community to publish high-quality academic results, and to work with academic friends to contribute to the development of Chinese academics in the new era. Humanistic care, academic quality; highlighting new insights, both literary and intellectual beauty. This is our pursuit. A serious and high-grade academic and cultural journal is our goal. The articles published in this journal strive to have a clear awareness of issues, have great theoretical significance, reflect the academic level of the subject, and reflect the research frontiers and hot spots of the subject; the articles strive to have solid materials, full exposition, clear explanations, prove new insights, and suggest things that have not been published before. In addition to the main articles, "Humanities" has additional columns such as "Dialogue", "Xuelin", "Notes", "Books", "Historical Materials" and "Book Reviews" to reflect the research results of scholars in multiple forms and levels. The articles in "Humanities" are mainly academic articles (essays), but ideological academic essays and other forms of academic articles are also welcome. We welcome any article that involves humanities, thought, academia, culture, etc., Has new ideas, is clear and fresh in writing, and is carefully written.

Based on an intensive reading of the original classics and literary texts of Asian American criticism, on the one hand, this book conducts a diachronic examination of the process of Asian American literary criticism, grasping the fundamental critical paradigms and theoretical keywords for in-depth analysis and research; on the other hand, it conducts a horizontal comparative study of these critical paradigms and theoretical keywords and closely related contemporary Western literature, cultural trends and theories to reveal its complexity. This book extracts the paradigms, core discourses and theoretical keywords of Asian American literary criticism that have not been touched upon by critics and have not been studied in depth. It systematically explains the historical, social and cultural context of its emergence and its development trajectory, analyzes its historical contribution and limitations to Asian American literary criticism, and its positive and negative effects on the construction of Asian ethnic subjectivity and ethnic development.

This book is the author's second collection of drama criticism, which collects some of the drama criticism articles written by the author in the past ten years. These articles were mainly published in major mainstream media and professional drama magazines in Shanghai and Beijing, totaling more than 170 articles, covering dramas, children's plays, burlesques, radio dramas, and operas and folk arts such as Beijing, Kunming, Yue, Shanghai, Huai, Guangdong, Shanxi, Qinqiang, Huangmei, Pingtan and other operas. Most of these drama reviews have made comprehensive or focused perspectives and reviews on the drama's script, direction, performance, scenery, lighting, music, character modeling, etc. From the perspective of drama aesthetics. The article contains the author's own unique insights, fully affirming the artistic achievements of the work and pointing out its shortcomings, with enthusiastic praise and encouragement as well as sincere criticism and suggestions. The author compares them to a number of colorful shells picked up in the sea of ​​drama, and carefully appreciates and polishes them carefully.

This is a deconstruction of the famous work "Journey to the West". Readers who are interested in this classic may wish to read it. The work is imaginative and full of imagination, revealing six unknown "mysteries" that make people wonder: it reveals that the author of "Journey to the West" is not the well-known Wu Cheng'en, but more likely the great eunuch Feng Bao of the Ming Dynasty. It reveals the mystery of the version. In the Journey to the West, Tang Seng and his disciples are not familiar at all, but a different and subversive performance. It reveals the mystery of the connotation. The seemingly independent stories of the Nine-Nine-Eighty-One Dilemma actually have precise logical connections, aiming to explain destiny to the world. It reveals the mystery of the plot, and the unusual plot in the book is actually a political story full of satire. It reveals the mystery of the characters. It is Tang Monk who cares about trivial matters, but it is Sun Wukong who deeply understands Buddhism. The latter's growth is the core of Journey to the West. Finally, the mystery of the background is revealed - the various struggles between heavenly officials, Buddha and Taoism, casting a lingering shadow on the story of Journey to the West. After reading this book, readers will have a hearty and enlightened feeling. By following the classics, but not being superstitious about them, and treating them rationally and with a normal heart, we will eventually understand, love and spread the essence of our culture better.

Every time in history, Machiavelli is paid attention to again when the storm is coming, because he is a person who is good at philosophizing in the storm. Let us follow in the footsteps of Patrick Boujon, the author of "History of the French World", to get to know the real Machiavelli and his writings, and it will suddenly become clear to him in the winding path.

This book selects the works of Zhang Li, a judge of the Mao Dun Literature Award and a critic born in the 1970s, who have had a wide impact on the literary world and the media in recent years. With vivid, friendly and sharp writing, it outlines the vibrant scene of contemporary Chinese literature, and pays tribute to Mo Yan, Jia Pingwa, Yu Hua, Tiening, Wang Contemporary classic writers such as An Yi, Chi Zijian, and Bi Feiyu, as well as emerging authors such as Wei Wei, Lu Min, Xu Zechen, Zhang Chu, and Ge Liang, provide personalized observations and descriptions, discovering the subtle fires flickering in silent texts, and the hearts behind the words dedicated to change and perfection. It is not only a collection of literary essays with a unique style, but also a microscopic history of contemporary literature with a unique style.

This book starts with the seven greatest British novels from the 19th to the 20th centuries, aiming to explore the seven major stages that life must pass through. Edward Mendelson, a professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Columbia University, showed the real life corresponding to each novel, and presented the author's suppressed complex personality and true purpose through the works. Each chapter of this book has a dual theme: on the one hand, it is the interpretation of a literary work; on the other hand, it is also the interpretation of life. For example, Mendelsohn regarded the morals and emotions of childhood described in "Wuthering Heights" as a simple response to the adult world, and regarded "Mrs. Dalloway" as a portrayal of adult ideal love that is almost impossible to achieve. Mendelsohn's interpretation gives us a fascinating new feeling about these seven novels, and reminds us that after reading the last chapter of the book, "Intermission", it is the beginning of our thinking about personal life.

This book is an expanded edition of the critic Zhang Dinghao's masterpiece "Love and Sorrow". After six years, it finally added more than 40,000 words. Love is not just passion, it also means loss of control, and it is a complex mental life; compassion represents morality and responsibility. Both are often overwhelming, but are the choices of most brilliant novelists who aim to write about human life. From Graham Greene and Alice Munro to Auden and Brodsky, from "Stoner" to "The Bohemian", the book covers basically all the authors and works that the author loves. In a sense, this is a book of reading and writing, as well as a book of self-examination. One is simultaneously aware of the power and impotence of words, the abundance and poverty of love. But he still writes to please those unattainable shadows.

This book is the latest revised version of Zhang Dinghao's first collection of literary essays "Preparation for Criticism" published in 2015. The author replaced one-third of the original book to reorganize his literary theory writing of more than ten years to express his basic understanding of contemporary literature and literary criticism. Although most of the articles focus on a specific work published that year, what they ultimately talk about are the universal issues felt from these specific works. He believes that in the contemporary literary criticism scene where everyone is struggling alone and seems to be at a loss what to do, accuracy is the most relevant moral law. It first means talking about the work "as it is", and to achieve this goal, it is necessary to constantly doubt, verify, express, reflect on existing experience, and finally obtain a holistic judgment. Only in this way can criticism no longer be an intellectual game for critics, but can face ordinary readers; can it no longer be reduced to a appendage of literary creation and the appendix of knowledge, but truly become an exciting undertaking; can it start from here and now and try to understand the human emotions and creations that have existed in the past.

Professor Zhang Pingjin of Tongji University's film review collection "Handbook of Female Images" uses themes such as "girls", "working women", "mothers" and "crazy women" to cut into classic movies and analyze female images in detail: presentation, fiction and sensory effects. Women's survival has always been discussed, and women's plight and reality have never subsided.

The book is divided into upper, middle and lower parts. The first part is a general introduction to philosophy and art, which respectively explores the nature of "history of the mind" and the literary value of classics and philosophical writings in Jing, Zi and Ji, the philosophical and literary nature of the writing style of "Historical Records", the rhetorical phenomenon and its philosophical basis manifested in "The Three Changes", and the similarities between Heidegger's poetic proposition "poetically dwelling" and Zhuangzi's philosophical proposition "happy wandering". The middle part is a study of cross-cultural literary theory, using Qian Zhongshu's so-called "Books of the Two Wests" to connect the art of China and the earth, and carefully studying the poetic categories of "poetic flavor", "synesthesia", "speed" and "distance", and the last chapter discusses in detail the paradigmatic significance of poetic style. The next part is a new theory of classical literature. The first chapter analyzes two poems of "Magpies Stepping on the Branches", and then analyzes Li Yu's poems, Lu You's poems, Zheng Guanying's poems, "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", one of the four great books of the Ming Dynasty, and "The Peony Pavilion", a pair of classical operas. In general, this book focuses on both theoretical research and textual interpretation, and attempts to connect literature and history, and combine China and the West to examine Chinese aesthetic culture and literary literature.

"Inner Activity" selects 20 literary reviews written between 2000 and 2005 by J. M. Coetzee, the winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature. Here, Coetzee discusses in depth many 20th century literary masters such as Samuel Beckett, Günter Grass, García Márquez, and Philip Roth. Every article and every word he writes is full of profound insights and keen insight. This book may seem challenging, but in fact the writing style is friendly. The plain and precise writing opens a literary window for readers to appreciate those immortal works. The writers who commented in the book have played a great role in guiding readers and publishers in the Chinese-speaking world, and I believe this is still the case today.

"The Country of Strangers" selects 26 literary reviews written by J. M. Coetzee, the winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature, between 1986 and 1999. It is the author's first collection of literary reviews. In the first chapter, Coetzee asks the question "What is a classic?" And looks for the answer in the works and views of Eliot, Bach and Herbert. He then conducted in-depth discussions on literary masters of the 18th and 19th centuries such as Defoe, Turgenev, and Dostoevsky, as well as modernist German writers such as Rilke, Kafka, and Musil. At the same time, it also analyzes 20th century literary giants such as Borges, Brodsky, Gordimer, Oz, Rushdie, and Lessing. Coetzee's literary criticism has a more historical feel than other criticisms.

In the form of casual essays, the book analyzes various issues in the long satirical novel "The Scholars", including "Fortunateness and Misfortune", "Proud Family Status", "Six Dynasties Complex", "Wei and Jin Styles", "It is important for people to have self-knowledge", "Miscellaneous Readings and Miscellaneous Studies", "Principles and Talents", "Winners, Princes and Losers", "Right Roads and Strange Roads", "The Ship Arrives at the Wharf, the Car Arrives at the Station", "He" Chapters such as "Stinginess", "The Tiredness of a Good Reputation", "Money, Talent and Family" and "All Working on the Rules" are not commentary but have the interest of commentary, not textual research but the depth of textual research, and are not historiography but the seriousness of history. They are eclectic, rejecting formulas, twisting and turning, and making fun of writing, such as joking in opera, drunken boxing in martial arts, and wild cursive writing in calligraphy. With a scroll in hand, people forget about gains and losses and become intoxicated with it.

"Lu Xun is a Force" has a total of about 228,000 words. It collects the author's various articles on Lu Xun research since the 1970s. It is divided into three series: the first series includes papers and speeches from the 1980s to the first decade of the 21st century, including "A Brief Discussion on the Titles of Lu Xun's Essays", "Wu Guanzhong and the World of Lu Xun" and other articles The second volume includes speeches and interviews about Lu Xun's activities since the 21st century, including "Lu Xun in Cross-Cultural Dialogue" and "Lu Xun's Reading Life"; the third volume includes more than ten short essays and poems written from the mid-to-late 1970s to the early 1980s, including "Interpretation of Lu Xun's Era" and "Impressions of Reading Lu Xun".

Mr. Wen Yiduo's "Miscellaneous Comments on Tang Poetry" is a classic work in the study of Tang poetry. It covers many aspects such as the themes of Tang Dynasty poetry, famous poets, and the chronology of poets. He has unique and profound comments and analyzes on the poetic achievements of famous poets in the Tang Dynasty, such as the "Four Heroes of the Early Tang Dynasty", Meng Haoran, Jia Dao, Cen Shen, Du Fu, Li Bai and others. Mr. Wen Yiduo analyzed and studied the crystallization of Tang poetry from a historical perspective, breaking through the traditional narrow and closed academic research methods. He looked at and studied poetry from the perspective of a poet, and he made many outstanding achievements. As a pioneering work, its historical status in the study of Tang poetry is unshakable and it still has a very inspiring effect on our scholars today.

"Modernity" has various meanings, and it is still one of the hot topics in politics, literature, economics and other fields. The creations of Ryuyuki Akutagawa, a representative writer of the Japanese New Thought Movement around the 1920s, involve multiple perspectives such as space construction, body writing, and civilization criticism. They also contain two narrative dimensions, Chinese and Japanese, and provide a textual reference for us to understand the multiple aspects of "modernity." This book takes the modern Chinese-themed novels written by Akutagawa before and after his trip to China in 1921 as the main line, and uses the "Gendaimono" that describes Japan's Meiji period as a reference. It explores the essence and connotation of "modernity" writing in Akutagawa's literature from multiple dimensions, clarifies his reflection and criticism of Japan's modernization process, and opens a new horizon for re-examining the characteristics of Akutagawa's literature.

The research object of "Research on Novels of the New Period in the Han River Basin" is the novels in the new period of the Han River Basin. Based on the brief description of novel creation in the three major areas of southern Shaanxi, Nanyang and Wuhan, representative novelists such as Jia Pingwa, Yao Xueyin, Zhou Daxin, Qiao Dianyun, Chi Li, Fang Fang, etc. Are selected to conduct a detailed interpretation of their important works from the aspects of text narrative method, character image, language style, literary prototype, etc. In terms of research methods, we focus on the perspective of regional culture, paying special attention to unique cultural phenomena such as dialects, folk customs, and folk literature and art in the novels of the Han River Basin in the new period. The literary geography perspective of "Research on Novels of the Han River Basin in the New Period" highlights the unique status and value of Han River Basin literature in the Chinese literary landscape.

1. It brings together Mr. Feng Qiyong's important achievements in all aspects of Red Studies research over decades, and is a comprehensive interpretation of Red Mansions. 2. Use "Zhiyanzhai's Commentary on Stones" (Gengchen edition) as the original version, use Jiaxu, Jimao, Liezang, Mengfu, Qixu and other editions as the revised edition, and refer to Shixian's new annotated edition. The content includes comments on sentences, paragraphs and each chapter, as well as explanations of the historical background of the writing of "Dream of Red Mansions", the author's family background and special sentences, etc. It is a model in terms of the depth of interpretation, the way of commenting, the practicality of evidence analysis, and the accuracy of collation. 3. Not only are Mr. Feng Qiyong's own comments, but also selected comments from the Jiaxu, Jimao and Gengchen editions are included for readers' reference and research.