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View Rights PortalThis book takes the homogeneous, isomorphic, and mutual relationship of Shen Congwen's aesthetic thoughts, artistic thoughts and cultural anthropological thoughts as the starting point, and then explores the anthropological characteristics of Shen Congwen's works from the perspective of anthropological ontology, methodology and axiology. The following analyses focusing on the expression form, ideological root, and value and significance to literary creation and cultural construction are an extended study of Shen Congwen's cultural thought, aesthetic thought, artistic creation thought and value.
This book is the oral autobiography of Zhiyun Shen,the senior fellow member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. By the recall of his science study life on the railway motors, communication and transportation, it veritably reflects the development of the Chinese railway vehicles, especially the high rail.
Shen Nong’s Miracle Herbs is adapted from an ancient Chinese legend that Shen Nong (the Yan Emperor) taught people to grow crops to feed themselves when food was in short due to the reproduction of human being after Nüwa repaired the sky. Later he tasted many kinds of herbal medicines to help cure people’s diseases.
The heartfelt recalling of his uncle Shen Congwen as the mentor in his lifetime and the cultivation, encouragement and help for him by the modern artistic master Huang Yongyu.
It tells the story of the craftsmen and their families. They all come from the Shen Village, the hometown of the writer. They are gardeners, tailors and blacksmiths. From the story, we can see the change of northern Suzhou. And the writer reminisces about her hometown. The prosperity or decline of Shen Village not only shows the changes of the time, but also tells about the fate of karma.
"Six stories of Floating Life" takes the life of the author Shen Fu and his wife as the main line, and narrates what they saw and heard about the ordinary and interesting life at home. The work describes the life of the author and his wife Chen Yun, who want to live a kind of cloth clothes and vegetarianism and engage in art. Because of the oppression of feudal ethics and the suffering of poor life, their ideals are finally broken.The whole article is nearly 40000 words, saying that the world is sweet and sour.
It is an account of the life of Shen Fu and his wife, which is a story of their ordinary but interesting home life and their travels around the world. The work describes the author and his wife Chen Yun's love for each other and their desire to lead a life of art while being clothed and fed, but the oppression of feudal rituals and the torment of a life of poverty eventually led to the destruction of their ideals. The book is written in a fresh and honest manner, without any trace of ornamentation, and the plot is about a couple who love each other to death; it begins with joy and ends with sorrow, and it is sad and moving as they drift away from home.
To saw his sick mother, Shen Congwen started his journey to home and wrote down what he saw and heard and his perceptions along the journey on the letters to his wife in Beijing. Later, basing on these letters, he collated and published this prose work. Besides the natural sceneries of western Hunan he saw while sailing towards upstream of Yuan River, he mainly focused on the scenes of life, work and multiplying of the people from all walks of life in the land of western Hunan, including sailors, soldiers, miners, merchants, ordinary masses he had met. On reading the book, the hints of his concerns about the changes of Western Hunan under the influence of the age can be felt, which reflects Shen’s deep love and strong sense of responsibility for his hometown.
"How to appreciate a painting", "How to understand art", "this painting can also be seen here", "XX Art History"... Similar books are emerging on the Internet, and homogenization is too serious. How to break out of this phenomenon, and not only talk about art history, but also blindly follow the trend and make a topic that no one else has? Cold knowledge of art seems to be "cold", but in fact it is not cold. Although it contains a lot of background knowledge of art history, it can make them "hot", so that readers who are interested in understanding art history can explore the more inner way of art history under the clues of large art history in a relaxed and pleasant reading experience. "These" Arts "Are Not Too Cold! ", aimed at breaking the general cognition and misunderstanding of the public on the art of the cold knowledge, to express a writer's attitude. Let's see what Shen says about art!
This book is the oral autobiography of SHEN Zhiyun, the senior fellow member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. By the recall of his science study life on the railway motors, communications and transportations, it veritably reflects the development of the Chinese railway vehicles, especially the high rail.
This book is a classic work created in the image of Qin Wenjun's daughter Xiaoniao. "Little Xianggu and Little Devil's Bone" contains 27 stories, shaping a group of girls with distinctive characters. Little Xianggu is a girl with small hands and a timid heart, but can give the world warmth and true feelings. An incident made mother who were gentle enough to be a nurse and father who were handsome enough to be on TV every day suddenly started ignoring her, thus starting a series of life stories at her grandmother's house. Little Xianggu, who lives in grandma's house, and several of her cousins form a small world of girls. The big man He Sang, the bud girl Xianggu, the ingenious Meihua, etc. They have different temper and characters, but they all share a shining and beautiful in their youth that deeply rooted in the heavy real life—to observe and feel the whole world in the eyes of children, its enriched writing content contains profound life philosophy.
Written by an experienced head teacher who is also a Chinese language and psychology teacher, this book addresses the psychological reasons behind children's problematic behaviors such as crying, lying, running away, and pessimism. It explores the developmental characteristics and growth rhythms of school-age and adolescent children and offers practical principles and methods for effective parent-child communication. The book aims to help parents connect with their children, identify their issues, and effectively overcome communication barriers and challenges.
This book provides parents with effective and practical guidance from current school teachers. It helps parents scientifically learn about children's learning and cognitive systems, and effectively improves children's learning ability and eliminates the anxiety and difficulties parents face in accompanying their children's school life.
This is a novel by a famous Chinese historian Li Zhiliang. It unfolds the stories of political games under the rule of Xiaozong Zhao Shen and Guangzong Zhao Dun, the eleventh emperor and the twelfth emperor in the Song Dynasty respectively, through which it unearths the truth of the vicissitude of the Song Dynasty.
Das Stück, eine Parabel, zeigt am Einzelfall des Mädchens Shen Te das allgemeine Gesetz dieser Welt auf, daß es unmöglich ist, »gut zu sein und doch zu leben«. Drei Götter durchwandern die Welt auf der Suche nach einem guten Menschen. Sie wollen das Gerücht Lügen strafen, wonach die wirtschaftlichen Bedingungen auf Erden zu unerträglich seien, als daß die Menschen die Gebote der Götter zu befolgen vermöchten.
Winner of the “China’s Most Beautiful Book Prize” in 2014. Dead As a Dodo tells the stories of 30 species which have already died out or are currently threatened with extinction. The last dodo died in 1681 by gunshot. Mauritius, the last passenger pigeon on earth died in 1914 in the United States in her cage at the Cincinnati Zoo. The animals described in this book are gone, we are still here. After closing the book, everyone will ask: what kind of pain has our behavior brought to the earth? Have we overdrawn our future for the sake of temporary benefits?A lonely human being is a sad human being and every time we kill an animal, we take another step toward global loneliness. Each story in the book is accompanied by beautiful and touching illustrations from the hands of the painter Wei Eternity.