Tsinghua University Press

Chinese Garments and Ornamentals: A 7,000-Year-Long Brilliance

Huang Nengfu, Chen Juanjuan, Tsinghua University Press, ?2998, ISBN: 98787302253280

Following the principle of “demonstrating history with objects”, this book gives a comprehensive and systematic introduction to China’s garment and ornamental evolution from the primitive society to date in a chronological manner by means of the most concise and pellucid texts along with the illustrations of the real garment and ornamental relics. It focuses on the elaboration of garment styles, garment and ornamental systems, garment materials, garment and ornamental patterns as well as headdresses and ornaments, in particular, the verification of historical literature with archeological achievements. It boasts plentiful contents, detailed historical records and exquisite illustrations comprising 2,809 color ones and 574 black and white ones with particular captions for each. The text of the book is about 300,000 Chinese characters.

This book is applicable for higher schools as a specialty textbook and for garment designers of theater, film and TV circles, creative designers of garment and ornamental arena, artists for fine art creation and collectors for artwork identification and appraisal.

It is, of all published books on the history of Chinese garments and ornaments till today, the most comprehensive in content, the most colorful in picture and the most scientific in layout. It is an academic monumental work of high value in historical researches, artistic appreciation, collection and popularization.

The Painting Essence Theory on Chinese Brush Painting

Wu Dongmei, Tsinghua University Press, ?36, ISBN: 9787302233169

Essence in Chinese brush painting theory refers to the vital spirit, both the soul and the main thread of the full history of Chinese brush painting, having taken a leading position in the creation of Chinese brush painting artists. The artistic spirit of Chinese brush painting deems the vital spirit as the origin and the utmost realm, and the embodiment of the universal life status and pursuance of purpose and harmony of lives as the supreme significance. Chinese brush painting has experienced great morphological evolutions but still maintains its cultural character, showcasing the core implication of its vital spirit. Centering around the Painting Essence Theory raised by Chinese landscape painter Jing Hao of the Five Dynasties period (907-960), the book sets forth researches and discussions on the spiritual essence of traditional Chinese painting, explores the spiritual essence of traditional Chinese painting from numerous and complicated phenomena in the history of art and analyzes the actual contents and representations of Essence through the core artistic category in traditional Chinese painting.

Morphology of Chinese Brush Painting

Ma Liangshu, Tsinghua University Press,?52, ISBN: 9787302270492

By means of western structuralism and art morphology, the book reviews the morphological evolution of Chinese brush painting ever since the Wei (220-265) and Jin (265-420) dynasties and probes into the deep structure system that dominates the generation of the morphology of Chinese brush painting. The book summarizes the major morphologies of Chinese brush painting ever since the Wei and Jin dynasties, analyzes the structure that produces the morphologies of Chinese brush painting, elaborates the generation modes of the form language of Chinese brush painting dominated by the underlying structure, the self-adjustment mechanism of the structure system of Chinese brush painting during historical gyre evolutions and the variation mechanism of the morphology of Chinese brush painting in case of changes of times.

Ways of Perception: the Mind-Object Theory in Chinese Traditional Mountain-Water Paintings

Du Wenjuan, Tsinghua University Press, ?45, ISBN:9787302269076

According to the ideal of Chinese classical esthetics, art must match with the perception of life. In this sense, Chinese classical esthetics is one of perception. Perception can even describe the existence of human. To merge paintings with life has been the endeavor of many ancestor artists. This spirit has transcended time. However, the problem lies in the ambiguity caused in the practice and theory due to the application of perceptions. This book probes into such problems and explores the key path to realize classical esthetics. This key path lies in the exchange between mind and objects, which relies on perceptions only.

Xinye Village

Chen Zhihua, Li Qiuxiang, Tsinghua University Press,?98, ISBN: 9787302254843

Xinye Village was built at the end of Song Dynasty and the beginning of Yuan Dynasty. Ever since the first generation of Yeh Family settled down in this village, it had extended through dynasty of Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing, till the republic of today, with 30 generations of the family. All kinds of external disturbs were excluded, the wars and mishaps were avoided. In this land not so rich, the family has developed into a big clan. Perhaps due to the blood ties, the descendants of Yeh family would not discard the houses inherited from their ancestors. For this reason, the layout and buildings of this village remain unchanged. This book tries to research rural buildings by taking it as part of the rural culture, and tries to unveil a history of co-existence and interaction between rural buildings and rural culture.

Guanlu Village

Chen Zhihua, Li Qiuxiang, Lou Qingxi, Shi Rong, Tsinghua University Press, ?138, ISBN:9787302238386

Located at Yixian County, Anhui Province, Guanlu Village is a quite typical hamlet with the tradition of Anhui Merchants. Amid the village, the prevailing Wang families were all engaged in trade and economically affluent in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Anhui Merchants had considered themselves as Confucian Merchants featuring well education and good manners. Their village life was of such a high cultural taste that more than a dozen of Learning Rooms were built even in the tiny hamlet. Everything in the village, such as residence location, structure and layout, house types and formations, furniture, furnishings and various daily necessities, vividly reflect the family lifestyle and culture of Anhui Merchants as well as social stratification in rural areas. Social life is quite developed in the village, which is a special integration of the traditional feudal patriarchal culture in agricultural society and the street culture of Anhui Merchants. Such a social life is also explicitly reflected in the planning and construction of the village.

Peking Opera in Pictures

Wang Ruzong, Tan Renjie, Tsinghua University Press, ?79, ISBN:9787302261032

This book is a general introduction of the art of Peking opera. With abundant pictures and illustrations, the book shows to the readers the brief history, characteristics, roles, schools, performance, music, scenarios and the makeup, face cover, and costume of each type of roles. Thus it makes a full introduction of the art of Peking opera. The book contains 270 hand drawings. It is a good companion for readers at home and abroad to understand Chinese culture represented by Peking opera.

My Old Beijing: Picture book on a Citizen's Private Life

Guan Geng ,Published by Tsinghua University Press,?35,ISBN:9787302255734

The author was born in Huanchang court in Beijing and grew up there. The book introduces in detail the life of the general Beijing citizens in his childhood including courts and alleys, fairs and markets, stands and vendors. This book contains around 200 hand drawings to give a detailed account of daily life in memory.

White Collar, Grey Feelings, Blues

Qun Shanyue, Tsinghua University Press, ?32, ISBN:9787302262336

This is a novel depicting the life styles of modern metropolitan habitants from multiple angles. Money and spirit, reality and ideal, enduring and struggle, desire and emotions, vanity and truth, all these are entangled in work space and emotional life. The hero and heroines of the novel are the anti-white collars with truthful personality, pursuing true love. In the story, they all succeed in finding the true self after struggling out from the shadows.

Nine Lectures on Confucian Self-Cultivation (2nd Edition)

Fang Zhaohui, Tsinghua University Press, ?29.8, ISBN:9787302179887

Taking ideas of Confucius as the main body and considering Buddhism and Taoism and other schools as well, this book tries to interpret the essence of cultivation thoughts of ancient times in China systematically and completely by using modern language and combining requirements of modern life. The cultivation wisdom of Confucius developing from Confucius and Mencius period to Song and Ming Dynasty is divided into nine scopes, namely, “Keeping utmost Quiet”, “Cultivation”, “Self-examination” “Character-fixing”, “Hearttreatment”, “Self-supervision”, “Respectfulness”, “Speaking cautiously” and “Sincerity”. Besides, the profound contents of the nine scopes as well as their meaning in real life are also explained in simple words.

The Gui Guzi's Way to Success

Liang Jiaping, Tsinghua University Press, ?36, ISBN: 9787302246633

Gui Guzi was regarded as a sensational work for its great wisdom in guiding military practice and governing a country. It contains teachings in foreign affairs, military activities and business. This book gives a thorough explanation on Gui Guzi, showing the country-governing methods, foreign affairs strategies and techniques of making speeches and discussions proposed by Gui Guzi. By analyzing the cases of Qirui Autos, Li Ning brand, McKinsey consultancy and Sony Electrics, the book endeavors to bring the readers to an understanding of the profound influence the philosophy of Gui Guizi has exerted on modern enterprise management: risk management, negotiating skills and communicating skills, nine core qualifications an entrepreneur should have, and the innovative management.

Yi Ching (The Book of Changes) and Life Wisdom

Chen Shuwen, Tsinghua University Press, ?52.8, ISBN: 9787302237655

Yi Ching, or Book of Changes, is an important classical work of China. It provides rich spiritual resources for Chinese culture and contains valuable life wisdom. Taking departure from explaining the signals of changes, this book explores the deeper connotations and denotations of the scriptures in combination with history and present reality to expose the life wisdom hidden in the book Yi Ching. This book can be a beneficiary reference for leaders, management staff and anyone who wants to succeed in life.

Fiction Translation and Culture Construction: In the Vision of Sino-Japanese Comparative Literature

Wang Zhisong, Tsinghua University Press, ?29, ISBN:9787302264569

Taking a couple of cases as example, this book discusses the formation of Japanese contemporary literature and the Chinese translation of Japanese contemporary literature. It puts focus both on the manipulation of Chinese dominant culture on the translation and the influence exerted by Japanese contemporary literature on Chinese modern culture. This book also analyzes the positive influence exerted by the elements of Chinese literature on Japanese contemporary literature, which is a new research perspective in comparative literature studies.

Networked Public Digital Media and Social Change in Contemporary China

He Wei, Tsinghua University Press, ?38, ISBN:9787302252320

The book advances the concepts of “network audience” and “network audience communication” and rolls out a series of discussions centering on these concepts, such as context, subjects, media, information flow, group behaviors and power gaming of network audience communication. By means of analysis to a series of typical cases in recent years, the book aims at investigating the tensioned interactive relationship among media (digital media), people (network users) and society (Chinese society) under the new media ecological environment and seeking for a better understanding to our world with the coexistence of collisions and opportunities.