Divine Redolence等

Wang Anyi,People’s Literature Publishing House,May 2011,? 30.00,ISBN: 9787020084593

In late Ming Dynasty, Shen, a well-off tenant in Shanghai built a luxurious mansion and named it

Divine Redolence. Shen’s son Shen Kehai married Silk, an educated girl from a wealthy family, and then took a concubine, Min. Min was the daughter of a weaver in Suzhou. Knowing how to embroider, she and Silk started to make embroidery crafts and the reputation of Divine Redolence Embroidery gradually spread. Kehai’s daughter in law, Xizhao, applied painting techniques to embroidery, which took the art to a new level. As the Shens’s fortunes declined, women’s embroidery became a major source of income to sustain the family. Xizhao’s niece Huilan took apprentices, and since then, the skill was opened out to people outside the family and passed on for generations. Originated from the origin and development of Gu Embroidery, Divine Redolence is a vivid reflection of Chinese folk life in Shanghai in late Ming and a beautiful yet powerful portrait of the tenacity of Chinese women.

Concession

Xiao Bai, People’s Literature Publishing House, March 2011, ? 30, ISBN: 9787020084036

Concession is an espionage novel that took place in Shanghai in the 1930s. Xiao Xue was a half Chinese half French photographer whose job was taking news photos for tabloids. His Belorussian lover, Teresa used her identity of a jeweler as disguise for arms trafficking. On a cruise ship from Hong Kong to Shanghai, Xiao Xue ran into a young girl, Ling Xiaoman, who was a spy for a revolutionary group, and since then, he was involved in an assassination, chased by the police, and caught in the middle of a series of dangerous events. Based on historical documents, Xiao Bai used his rich imagination to construct a world of revolution, love, money, violence, terror, scheme, faith and betrayal.

Pumpkin Head and Ginger Candy Man 2

Mumurong, People’s Literature Publishing House, April 2012, ?25.00 ISBN: 9787020089499

Pumpkin Head and Ginger Candy Man is a drawing diary about a happily married couple. I’m Chinese girl who is studying in the U.K., and Jim is an English boy, willing to follow “me” to China As the only child at home, I’m used to be spoile and don’ˉt know how to do housework, but to start a family, “I” take on cooking lessons and recorded little by little, the details of our lives and the love between two people from different cultures with different tastes.

Review of Classical Literature

As an important part of world literature, classical Chinese literature is also the foundation and root of Chinese literature and culture. This book is a selected collection of research papers with academic value and also includes an introduction to the mass at classical Chinese literature by famous Chinese writer Yue Miao. It is a masterwork accessible to general readers that also rewards researchers.

Yue Miao, famous Chinese historian, writer and educator, works includes: Discussion of Poetry, Selection of Du Mu’s Poems, etc.

New Reviews of Chinese Exegetics

Chinese Exegetics researches the meaning of ancient books in Chinese tradition and is one branch of minor study-traditional Chinese philology. Exegetics decodes the meanings of ancient words and, at the same time, analyzes the grammar and rhetoric of ancient books and studies ancient literature from the perspective of language to help people read classical literature. The collected essays of this book represent the outstanding research achievements of Zaiyi Guo -- a famous scholar in this field-- and are the most compelling exegetics achievements in modern times.

Zaiyi Guo was the director of the Linguistic Society of China, director of the Dunhuang-Turfan Association of China and also the deputy chairman of the Exegetics Society of China.

Strategic Thinking on Building an Innovation-based Country

Li Yining,et al,Peking University Press,39.00,ISBN:978-7-301-19802-5

The Peking University Mitsui Innovation Forum jointly sponsored by Peking University and Mitsui & Co., Ltd was hold at Guanghua School of Management under Peking University in March, 2006. The guest speakers of high-end Mitsui Innovation Forum are mainly ministerial-level or above government officials, authoritative Chinese experts as well as presidents of Fortune Global 500, large state-owned enterprises and well-known private enterprises. Based on in-depth understanding of the status quo and laws of economic development, the forum aims to grasp the mainstream trends of management innovation, actively facilitate the exchanges and cooperation between Chinese enterprises and Fortune Global 500 by establishing an exchange platform between excellent Chinese and Japanese enterprises and the Chinese government, endeavor to explore a road of independent scientific and technological innovation with Chinese characteristics and exert positive influences on society, economy, education, scientific research, enterprise production and Sino-Japan exchanges.

This book is the second volume of series titled Peking University Mitsui Innovation Forum, and covers many important economic topics concerning building an innovation-based country, such as the national medium- and long-term plan for science and technology development, modern service industry and development of China’s high-tech industry, new medical reform and the marketization process of China’s interest rate. The book interprets policies, leads the future ideas and highlights high-end and forward-looking Peking University Mitsui Innovation Forum.

Study of Chinese Acquisition as a Foreign Language: Theory and Classroom Practice

Wen Xiaohong,Peking University Press,48.00,ISBN:978-7-301-13453-5

This book objectively expounds the viewpoints of various schools in psycholinguistics from three perspectives, namely theory, experimental study and guidance of theory and study to teaching; it provides analysis on experimental study and tries to assist classroom teaching of Chinese as a foreign language with theories and study results. The book is composed with 18 lessons which are divided into following four chapters: 1) Theory of Language Acquisition; 2) Study on Grammar Acquisition of Chinese for Foreigners; 3)Factors Influencing Language Acquisition: Emotional Attitude and Learning Strategy of Learners;and 4) Study on Language Acquisition and Language Teaching.

Chinese Folk Art Successors Series

This series has 10 volumes, including Tangka Art Family for Generations ,Carving Paint Art Family for Generations, Tujia Brocade Art Family for Generations , Kite art Family for Generations, Shadow Play Art Family for Generations, Clay Art Family for Generations,Paper-cut Art Family for Generations, and Puppet Art Family for Generations.This is a publication that studies Chinese folk arts from the perspective of oral history, thus filling the vacuum of related research in China. Each volume covers contents such as the history of folk art, the history of the successors, craftsmanship,artistic characteristics,innovation and experience of the person who gives the oral account,and so on, and is attached with appendixes on the career achievements,family chronology and other data of the successors;and in addition, before each chapter there is an overview and after each chapter there is a summary so as to make the books more objective, academic,informative and authoritative while meeting the requirement of "oral history" on the objective and true recording and sorting.