The Debate between Confucianism and Legalism from the Contemporary Perspective —— Historical Meaning and Modern Enlightenment of China’s Traditional Thought
Time:15:00 on Friday, December 11th.
Location:Tencent Conference (Link: https://meeting.tencent.com/l/hdAPul9qnTWB)
Guest:Zhu Suli (Professor of Peking University Law School), Bei Danning (Dean of School of Political Science and Public Administration of Shandong University) and Bai Tongdong (Professor of Philosophy Department of Fudan University).
Confucianism and legalist thought originated from China’s pre-Qin era, and they represent systematic thinking and solutions to China society. After thousands of years of history, these two thoughts have been enriched in the times and gradually developed into an indispensable part of Chinese civilization. What inspiration can we get from China’s traditional thought in today’s society? What China wisdom can Confucianism and Legalism contribute to the world? In view of the above problems, three top scholars in the field of law and philosophy in China will have an academic dialogue in this lecture based on their newly published English monographs in Princeton University Press.
Russian business owners in the early 20th century.
Time:December 11th (Friday) 18:00-19:30
Location:ZOOM conference (ID: 67624988635, password: 010994)
Speaker:ю A. Petrov (Director, Professor, Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences)
A Petrov, director of the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, was invited to give an online lecture on Russian business owners in the early 20th century in the series of "Special Lecture on Russian History" by the Northeast Asia Institute of Jilin University.
Russia at the Turn of 19th-20th Century in Memoirs of Victor
Time:December 11th (Friday) 19:30-21:00.
Location:ZOOM conference (ID: 67624988635, password: 010994)
Speaker:A.г. Golikov (Professor, History Department, Moscow University)
Series of "Special Lectures on Russian History" by Northeast Asia Research Institute of Jilin University, A.г. Golikov, Professor of History Department of Moscow University, Director of Teaching and Research Section of Historical Materials and Meritorious Professor, gave a lecture on Memoirs of Victor by Count Victor, an important official at the end of Russian Empire.
Japan’s "Hollow" Society Created by Meiji Restoration and Post-war Reform —— Sharing the New Book The Mystery of Japan’s Power Structure
Time:20:00 on Friday, December 11th.
Location:Central video, Baidu APP, etc.
Speaker:Mao Danqing (writer, professor of Kobe International University)
The Mystery of Japan’s Power Structure is a classic by Dutch journalist and political critic Karel van Wolfren, which analyzes the social operation mechanism and cultural essence of Japan. When the Chinese version of the book was published, Mr. Mao Danqing, a Japanese cultural scholar, a professor at Kobe International University and a visiting professor in Peking University, visited CITIC to study. Starting from his real life experience of living in Japan for 30 years, he started a dialogue with Wolfram that spanned time and space, with the Meiji Restoration and post-war reform as the commanding heights, opening up this hollow Japanese society called "system".
"Confrontation" with Covid-19 —— Professor Yale talks about the severity of the COVID-19 epidemic.
Time:December 12th (Saturday) 9:00-10:00
Location:ZOOM conference
Speaker:Frank Snowden (Professor Xi Rongxiu, Professor Andrew Downey Orrick, History and Medical History of Yale University)
The soaring global infection data and the severely damaged social and economic life have made us feel the severity of the COVID-19 epidemic. On the morning of December 12th, Andrew Downey Orrick, the history and medical history of Yale University, who had a "head-on confrontation" with the epidemic when doing research in Italy, told him that Frank Snowden, a professor from Rong Xiu, would be a guest at Yale Beijing Center to talk about the changes and influences he had experienced and observed.
What does the post-industrial space of the city tell us?
Time:December 12th (Saturday) at 9:30.
Location:Tencent conference (ID: 668366915)
Guest:Liang Haohan (Professor, Department of Sociology, State University of new york at Oni On Tower), Zhu Weixuan (Professor, Department of Sociology, Tongji University), Huang Xian (Professor, Department of Urban Planning, School of Architectural Planning, Chongqing University), Zhou Jiangao (Researcher, Tianjin Academy of Social Sciences).
At present, the reuse and redevelopment of many post-industrial areas and commercial areas have attracted close attention from all sides. How can different institutions redevelop space in a meaningful and sustainable way, thus benefiting society? This lecture will lead to and reveal this problem by sharing some foreign successful cases and failure cases.
Realistic concern and situational consciousness in the study of political philosophy
Time:December 12th (Saturday) 13:30-16:50
Location:Tencent conference (ID: 730802293)
Guest:Wu Guanjun (Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, Department of Political Science, East China Normal University), Ma Hualing (Lecturer, Department of History, East China Normal University), Toby Lin (Assistant Dean, Institute of Advanced Social Sciences, Fudan University), Zeng Yixuan (Assistant Researcher, Institute of Politics and Public Administration, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences), Sun Guodong (Professor, Institute of Advanced Social Sciences, Fudan University), Chen Qiaojian (Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, East China Normal University), etc.
In the fifth session of the First National Annual Forum for Outstanding Young Scholars sponsored by Exploration and Contention magazine, the scholars attending the meeting discussed two topics, namely, "realistic concern in political philosophy research" and "situational consciousness in political philosophy research".
Farewell to the Gods: Anti-superstition and Self-identity in Modern China
Time:19:00 on December 12th (Saturday)
Location:Tencent conference (ID: 698901072)
Speaker:Jie Shen (Associate Research Fellow, Institute of History, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences)
During the rise of modern countries in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, the belief world of China people experienced rapid fracture and evolution. Superstition has risen from customs and people’s livelihood to a symbolic obstacle to the construction of a new nation. As a multiple carrier of culture, lifestyle and traditional politics, it has become a testing ground for all kinds of modernists to criticize, discuss and build an ideal model of a new country. Opposing superstition provides a complete possibility for the establishment of a strong attitude, which is both a position and a new belief. If the anti-superstition problem in modern China is regarded as a field of historical construction, then to clarify it, we need to follow the context to understand the emergence and development of the problem. "Superstition" has become the focus of criticism, and "set vector" also reflects the diversity of sources and paths. There is no unified direction to oppose superstition as an attitude, expression and practice. We will outline the development process of modernity in the first half of the 20th century with the pluralistic "enlightenment" and "politics" pointed by anti-superstition.
Rural Youth and New Culture Practice
Time:December 12th (Saturday) 19:00-20:00
Location:Bi Li Bi Li (room number: 22213171)
Speaker:Meng Dengying (Associate Professor, School of Humanities, China Academy of Social Sciences)
On the one hand, the country is advocating the cultivation of rural revitalization talents who know one thing and love two things, and rural areas need young people; On the other hand, the employment pressure of college students is increasing, and urban life is becoming more and more difficult. Can young people be combined with rural construction? This is a big issue of the times, not only the employment opportunities, but also the culture and values. To answer these questions, perhaps we need to look for clues from the background of the times in which young people support agriculture, especially from the historical context of the evolution of youth culture and values in China since modern times, and reflect on the driving force behind this phenomenon from the interactive tension between social reality and personal ideals. Furthermore, how to form a reflection from the practice of supporting agriculture and building youth in rural areas, rise to a universal level, and respond to the problems of the times is also an urgent task. Therefore, Guo Ren Xiang Jian Lecture Hall/Guo Ren Reading Club webcast lecture invited Meng Dengying from China Academy of Social Sciences to analyze and interpret it for everyone.
Chaos and Others —— Sharing the new book The Mystery of Japan’s Power Structure
Time:December 12th (Saturday) 19:00-20:00
Location:Yiming reading club
Speaker:Ren Songhua (translator)
As a translator of the Chinese version of The Mystery of Japan’s Power Structure, Mr. Ren Songhua has read the whole text for more than four times-what challenges did he encounter in translation? What’s your feeling? In this live broadcast, from the translator’s perspective, he will interpret what sustains the Japanese government and gives it "legitimacy"; It will also discuss a controversial topic-is The Mystery of Japan’s Power Structure "criticizing Japan" or "deconstructing Japan"?
What Promoted the Scientific Revolution —— From the "Copernican Revolution"
Time:December 12th (Saturday) 19:30-21:00
Location:Baidu, Sina Weibo Live and Sohu Live.
Speaker:Wu Guosheng (Professor, Dean of Humanities, Tsinghua University, Head of the Department of Science History)
From Aristotle to Copernicus, how the traditional view of the universe based on subjective imagination evolved into a modern view of the universe based on mathematical observation is a revolution in the history of western science. However, there are many other factors behind this scientific revolution called "Copernicus Revolution", including Galileo’s well-known experiment of who landed the first two iron balls at the leaning tower of Pisa, Columbus, Magellan and other western explorers’ voyage to update the new horizon of the earth, and the revival of an ancient mysterious philosophy that regarded the sun as the image of God during the Renaissance. Then, how do the scientific, historical and philosophical factors behind the Copernican Revolution work together to develop western science? How did it promote the later industrial revolution? Looking back at China, is the most fundamental factor that restricted the scientific development of ancient China just the lack of interaction among these scientific, historical and philosophical factors? Peking University Publishing House invited Professor Wu Guosheng, director of the Department of Science History of Tsinghua University Humanities College, to be a guest in the live broadcast room of Peking University Boya Forum to tell you about it.
Public sphere and urban management in contemporary China: historical thinking during the epidemic period
Time:December 12th (Saturday) 19:30-21:00
Location:Baidu, Sina Weibo Live, Sohu Live, Tencent.
Speaker:Wendy (distinguished professor, Head of History Department, University of Macau)
At present, the global epidemic in COVID-19 has not been extinguished, and the second wave of epidemic has come back. How to make the epidemic prevention and control orderly and make the social and economic life orderly? On the one hand, it needs the appeal and execution of the government, on the other hand, it needs the public sphere to play an important role in it. Only a well-developed society in the public sphere can be a sound society, and the whole society can be organized in an orderly manner to deal with the crisis when an emergency like this year’s COVID-19 epidemic occurs. Peking University Publishing House invited distinguished professor of the University of Macau and Wendy, director of the history department, to be guests in the live broadcast room. Through reviewing the development of China’s modern history, the relationship between the state and society was investigated, and the importance of encouraging the development of the public sphere was expounded. On this basis, the unique views on the contemporary urban management of China were put forward.
Extralegal land: the "strict responsibility" sought by foreign powers in "semi-colonial" China after 1840.
Time:December 13th (Sunday) 9:30.
Location:Tencent conference (ID: 610153451)
Speaker:Chen Li (Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Toronto)
This lecture will analyze how foreign powers developed a special system of "strict responsibility" or "absolute responsibility" in the history of international law and international relations in late Qing China after the Opium War.
Annual Dialogue on Psychoanalysis between China and France: Reading Lacan in 2020 —— Psychoanalysis, Lacan and China
Time:December 13th (Sunday) 19:30-22:00
Location:ZOOM conference
Guest:Elizabeth Rudinescu (thinker, psychoanalyst, historical research scholar of University of Paris VII), Huo Datong (professor of Sichuan University), Shen Zhizhong (professor of foreign languages department of Taiwan Province University), Ju Fei (associate professor of psychology and doctoral supervisor of Tongji University).
In 1921, Zhu Guangqian introduced Freud and psychoanalysis to China people for the first time in Oriental Magazine. In the past 100 years, the influence of psychoanalysis has spread from clinical application to humanities for adults, which has become a theoretical phenomenon sweeping the culture. Until Lacan ushered in a turning point … On Sunday evening, Lakeside Publishing invited Elizabeth Ludinescu, the author of Lacan Biography and a French thinker, to talk with three important scholars in the psychoanalytic field in China: How will Lacan’s thoughts clash with the consciousness of China and China in this special year of 2020?
System Besieged City: Escape from the "system", an absurd dream?
Time:19:00 on Monday, December 14th.
Location:Beijing News APP, Aauto Quicker, Tik Tok, and so on.
Guest:Yan Fei (Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Tsinghua University), Sun Ping (Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Journalism and Communication, China Academy of Social Sciences) and Zhang Anding (co-founder, music artist, youth culture research consulting company).
From "migrant workers" to "takeaway brothers", from "Ram case" to "menstrual poverty", from "big data era" to "platform capitalism" … It is not difficult to see the changing track of topics of concern in the field of public opinion. This year, people pay more attention to the structural problems in the system. They either come from the field of work and technology, or from the gender structure. In this system of work, technology and patriarchy, how should individuals in the system "besieged city" handle themselves? On December 14th, in the second session of the "Questioning 2020" series, we invited you to think with us about how to break through the "systematic siege".
Notre Dame de Paris and its restoration
Time:19:00 on Tuesday, December 15th.
Location:ZOOM conference (ID: 69993688221, password: 314840)
Speaker:Benjamin Mudong (Senior Director of Cultural Relics Architecture, French Ministry of Culture and Exchange, Senior Professor, Cheyenne Center for Advanced Studies, France)
As a famous landmark in Paris, France, Notre Dame de Paris suffered a fire in April 2019. In November of that year, China and France cooperated to carry out restoration work, and the scaffolding demolition work was completed on November 24, 2020. In this lecture, we invited Benjamin Mudong, former head of Notre Dame de Paris renovation project, to give a lecture on Notre Dame de Paris and its restoration.
The change of the concept of good and evil in ancient and modern times: taking the images of Nezha and Jiang Ziya as examples
Time:December 15th (Tuesday) 19:30-21:30
Location:Tencent Conference (ID: 522682956), Bi Li Bi Li Xing Zhengde National Studies Public Welfare
Speaker:Wang Zheng (Associate Editor, Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
In this online lecture, Mr. Wang Zheng will introduce the image innovation of Nezha and Jiang Ziya in domestic animation in recent years, and talk to you about the changes of the concept of good and evil in ancient and modern times.
Attachment: Preview of offline activities
Beijing | Crossing the World of Literature and Works
Time:14:00 on Friday, December 11th.
Location:Peking University Aesthetics and Aesthetic Education Research Center, No.56 Yannanyuan, Haidian District.
Speaker:Lu Beirong (Associate Research Fellow, Zhejiang Academy of Social Sciences)
There are thousands of relationships between literature and works. How to clarify the levels between them, reasonably grasp the weight of each material, and find the right angle to make them sound together? This lecture will make corresponding efforts with three examples from the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.
Beijing | Shanghai is the existence of light and the darkness of nothingness —— The launch of Cai Jun’s first semi-autobiographical new work Spring Night.
Time:December 11th (Friday) 19:00-21:00.
Location:SKP RENDEZ-VOUS, 4th floor, Beijing SKP Shopping Center, No.87 Jianguo Road, Chaoyang District
Guest:Cai Jun (writer and screenwriter), Yan Hui (deputy editor-in-chief of Writers Publishing House Co., Ltd.), Yang Qingxiang (deputy dean, doctoral supervisor and critic of the School of Literature of China Renmin University), Yue Wen (critic and associate researcher of the Creative Research Department of the Chinese Writers Association), Xu Chenliang (executive editor of Selected Chinese Literature), Jason Yan (CEO of Langang Film, film and television investment producer) and Huang Yiting (Himalayan).
Cai Jun made his debut in mystery novel, and suspense elements still abound in Spring Night, but it can’t be defined as mystery novel. In a sense, this is a family autobiography. But just like a spring night, between illusion and non-illusion, there is a vague and dark blue-green light floating. On December 11th, Cai Jun, Yan Hui, Yang Qingxiang, Yue Wen, Xu Chenliang, Jason Yan and Huang Yiting will be guests at SKP RENDEZ-VOUS, telling the story of Cai Jun’s first semi-autobiographical novel "Spring Night", which spans a hundred years of Shanghai’s history, more than half of China, and even half of the world, and uncovers the secret of intertwined love and desire.
Beijing | Commemorating the 110th Anniversary of Mr. Fei Xiaotong’s Birth and the Press Conference of "Selected Works of Fei Xiaotong"
Time:14:00 on December 12th (Saturday)
Location:Room 208, Peking University Jingyuan Second Hospital, No.5 Summer Palace Road, Haidian District
Guest:Zhang Zhe (Deputy Secretary-General of Social Investigation Center of the State Council Counselor’s Office), Xiao Qiming (Editor-in-Chief of Life Reading Xinzhi Sanlian Bookstore), Gan Yang (Dean of Xinya College of Tsinghua University), Qiu Zeqi (Professor of Sociology of Peking University and Doctoral Supervisor), Zhu Suli (Professor of Law School of Peking University), Wang Mingming (Professor of Sociology of Peking University) and Qu Jingdong (Professor of Sociology of Peking University).
In 2020, it is the 110th anniversary of Mr. Fei Xiaotong’s birth. Sanlian Bookstore selects and publishes 12 most representative works from his works of more than 7 million words, which can present Mr. Fei’s academic thinking course and main achievements in a vein. On this occasion, we invite experts and scholars to attend the meeting, reread Fei Xiaotong, and discuss the century-old topic of "China of social science" to commemorate the great ideological legacy left by Fei Lao and his great "scholar" character.
Beijing | Despair and Hope in the Technological Age
Time:December 12th (Saturday) 14:00-16:00
Location:SKP RENDEZ-VOUS, Floor 2, Beijing SKP-S Shopping Center, No.86 Jianguo Road, Chaoyang District
Guest:Duan Weiwen (researcher and doctoral supervisor of the Institute of Philosophy of China Academy of Social Sciences), Liu Yongmou (professor and doctoral supervisor of the School of Philosophy of China Renmin University) and Wei Ying (researcher and curator of science and technology and art of Central Academy of Fine Arts).
In the face of the surging technical myth, the "art crisis" and even the overall "cultural crisis" caused by technology, how will scholars of philosophy of science and technology and science and technology respond? On December 12th, we invited three guests from these two fields-Duan Weiwen, a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of China Academy of Social Sciences and director of the Center for Science, Technology and Social Studies; Liu Yongmou, a professor at the School of Philosophy of China Renmin University; and Wei Ying, a researcher and curator at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, to visit SKP RENDEZ-VOUS to share their thoughts and answers on these issues with readers.
Beijing | What can writing "often" and "things" bring us?
Time:December 12th (Saturday) 14:00-16:00
Location:Activity area on the second floor of Sanlian Taofen Bookstore, No.22 Art Museum East Street, Dongcheng District
Speaker:Hou Xudong (Professor, Department of History, Tsinghua University)
After the birth of Leviathan, people’s fate has been inextricably intertwined with the country, and understanding the history of the country has become a part of understanding the history of the people. Is there any new possibility beyond the existing route? Professor Hou Xudong reflects on the writing tradition of China’s history, and the emphasis on "change" since modern times, and puts forward a new research idea of "research on daily rule in history" and some new perspectives and ways of observing history, trying to "make a living" from events and historical materials and exploring the possibility of starting again in historical research. On December 12th, welcome you to the event site to study history with Professor Hou Xudong from a new perspective.
Beijing | At the Starting Point —— Sharing Meeting of Dong Quanbin’s "Drinking for One"
Time:December 12th (Saturday) 14:00-16:00
Location:One-way space 5F-42, Chaoyang Joy City, No.101 Chaoyang North Road, Chaoyang District
Guest:Yang Kui (editor, writer), Wang Kai (media person, writer) and Dong Quanbin (ceramist).
It took Dong Quanbin only eight years to be a designer and a ceramist, and his personalized works are full of natural wonders. In the book Drinking for One, we can feel that Dong Quanbin has profound thoughts on tradition, art and handicrafts, and his philosophical thinking has led him on the road of questioning and exploration. In this activity, Yang Kui, a writer who recommended the preface to Drink for One, and Wang Kai, a writer who has in-depth research on oriental aesthetics, were specially invited to talk with Dong Quanbin about the aesthetics of creation.
Beijing | The task is to fall into poetry —— Louise Glick’s poetry reading meeting
Time:December 12th (Saturday) 14:30-16:00
Location:No.6 Jianguo Road, Chaoyang District Lang wartime communism Hao Yuan Lang Yuan VINTAGE· Yushe Performing Arts Space
Guest:Chen Hongyu (independent musician), Li Di (CEO of Xiao Bing Company), Li Wan (poet and literary editor), Li Xiaofeng (director), Chunlin Mo (singer), Wang Tianai (translator), Yang Qingxiang (poet and critic) and Ye Bei (singer).
With the celebrity effect brought by the 2020 Nobel Prize, more and more people have entered the world of Louise Glick’s poetry and become her readers. On the afternoon of December 12th, Louise Glick’s poetry reading will be held in the Vintage Yushe Performing Arts Space in Langyuan, Beijing. There will be guests from many different fields, such as music, literature, movies, science and technology, drama and art, reading Glick’s poems for everyone.
Beijing | Face to Face with Wang Zhi —— Launching and Sharing Meeting of Wang Zhi’s Questioning Interview Series Books
Time:December 12th (Saturday) 14:30-16:30
Location:Dongcheng District Heping Li West Street Yonghe Palace No.1 Center North Sink Courtyard Yonghe Bookstore
Speaker:Wang Zhi (Moderator, Journalist, Professor of Communication University of China)
In the face-to-face interview, Wang Zhi left a deep impression on the audience with his distinctive questioning, sharp questioning, critical eyes and humanistic concern, and "questioning" became Wang Zhi’s most distinctive and prominent interview style. Recently, the masterpiece of Wang Zhiji’s 30-year media career and the classic work of "questioning" interview-The Power of Questioning (hardcover, 12 volumes), Questioning Approaching the Truth, The Secret of Interview and Interview Class were jointly published by Shandong People’s Publishing House and China Book Publishing House. On the afternoon of December 12th, Wang Zhi, a professor at Communication University of China, a doctoral supervisor, a former famous host and journalist of CCTV, will come to Yonghe Bookstore with his new works, and be interviewed face to face by columnist Qi Xin to lead everyone to feel the power of "questioning".
Beijing | People who love to eat will always meet —— Xiao Kuan’s new book release sharing session
Time:December 12th (Saturday) 15:00-17:00
Location:Haidian District Garden Road No.2 Mudan Science and Technology Building Block A Bi ‘an Bookstore
Guest:Xiao Kuan (food reporter), Cao Difei (host), etc.
People who love to eat will always meet, which is a collection of essays written by Xiao Kuan in recent years. On Saturday afternoon, Xiao Kuan gave a new book sharing party in the other shore bookstore, and invited several friends to chat together. Among them, the main guests were not only Cao Difei, but also his dinner partner.
Beijing | Diamond and Rust: joan baez’s Autobiography Reading Concert
Time:December 12th (Saturday) 19:30-21:00
Location:Dimo Music Private School, Room 229, Floor 2, Building 1, Zuanhe Mansion, No.66 Jiaotong University East Road, Haidian District
Guest:Cha Cha (book editor), Wang Yuhan (independent musician), Sunny (independent musician, singer)
How did the talented girl who attracted much attention become the queen of folk songs fighting for freedom? In the book "Diamonds and Rust: Autobiography of joan baez", we can get a glimpse of joan baez’s life journey, which is as hard and bright as diamonds and deposits time like rust. On the evening of December 12th, we invited the publisher of this book, the editor-in-chief of the one-page folio Art Museum, to come to Dimo Music Private School in Beijing to share the history of this book and tell her about joan baez, the queen of folk songs. At the same time, there will be excellent music guests at the scene to bring you music performances.
Beijing | Burnout is not as simple as "mourning" —— A new book sharing session on Burnout: Why We Don’t Want to Work
Time:December 13th (Sunday) from 14: 00 to 16: 00.
Location:One-way space 5F-42, Chaoyang Joy City, No.101 Chaoyang North Road, Chaoyang District
Guest:Popov (science and technology columnist), Xiong Taixing (best-selling author) and Wang Jianfei (best-selling author).
Job burnout is not only a problem in the workplace, but also a problem of employees themselves. It is a scar of modern civilization whipped by a series of factors such as outdated education system, abnormal economic growth, unfair wealth distribution and weak social support. On the afternoon of December 13th, popov, a science and technology columnist, will take his new book "Burnout: Why We Don’t Want to Work" as a guest at Joy City Store, and discuss the phenomenon of "job burnout" with Xiong Taixing, the manager of "Workplace Relations Course" and Wang Jianfei, the manager of "Red Tide".
Beijing | Only Chu has talent: the home and country of Huxiang characters in the late Qing Dynasty-a sharing meeting of ten years’ firewood cutting and new books
Time:19:30 on Wednesday, December 16th.
Location:Floor 1, Block A, Innovation Park, No.56 Dongwai, No.56 Dongzhimenwai Xiejie, Chaoyang District, Youxin Bookstore
Speaker:Decades of chopping wood (literature and history expert, commentator)
Family and World: A Profile of the History of the Late Qing Dynasty is a recent masterpiece of a famous writer of literature and history who has been chopping wood for ten years. Under the framework of the great history of the late Qing Dynasty, this book presents many historical details of Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang, Li Hongzhang and many other civil servants and military commanders from two dimensions, and extends from their friends and aides to see the history and society at that time, deeply explores the influence and force of family and world on history, and deeply analyzes the historical truth of the fate of the late Qing Dynasty and personal destiny. In this issue of "Cooking and Reading with Wine", we invited Zhu Xuedong, who has been chopping wood for ten years, to talk about those people and things in the late Qing Dynasty.
Shanghai | Hurd’s China Identity
Time:December 11th (Friday) 14:30-17:00
Location:Meeting Room 301, Physics Building, East China Normal University, No.3663 Zhongshan North Road, Putuo District
Speaker:Liang Zhan (researcher, Institute of Foreign Literature, China Academy of Social Sciences)
Hurd, a Northern Irishman who once worked in the British Foreign Office, served as the General Tax Department of China Customs from 1863 to 1911. During his tenure, he clarified, established and expanded the business including postal services, water services and foreign loans, and personally formulated the criteria and conditions for selecting and promoting foreign customs officers, which objectively made a great contribution to China Customs and served as an important mediator in a series of Sino-foreign negotiations. Therefore, some historians even regard Hurd as loyal to Yu Daqing, especially loyal to his sovereign, Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu, and call him "our Hurd". This lecture attempts to deeply analyze Hurd’s political and cultural identity with China and Britain through his experience in China and his biographical materials, and points out that no matter how Hurd gained the trust of the Qing government, his true national identity and sovereignty identity were tied to his hometown and motherland-Northern Ireland and the British Empire.
Shanghai | "Tour Guide" Feng Zhi —— A New Book Sharing Meeting of the Complete Works of Feng Zhi’s Translation
Time:December 11th (Friday) 19:00-21:00.
Location:3/F, No.150 Pucheng Road, Pudong District, Shanghai Pudong Library Rong Study Room
Guest:Zhao Song (writer) and Liang Xijiang (professor and doctoral supervisor of German Department of Shanghai International Studies University)
From German poetry to Ten Letters to a Young Poet, from Letters on Aesthetic Education to William Meister’s Learning Times, Feng Zhi’s translations have made generations of young people see profound and distant literary scenery, but he modestly calls himself only a "tour guide" in the rich field of German literature. "It is often not a" tour guide "who can find more and understand more in this area. On Friday night, the Lujiazui Reading Club invited Zhao Song, a writer, and Liang Xijiang, a professor and doctoral supervisor of the German Department of Shanghai International Studies University, a Shanghai Shuguang scholar and deputy director of the Sino-German Humanities Research Center, to approach Feng Zhi with readers.
Shanghai | Rebuilding the Chinese Translation of Babel —— Reading Meeting for the Seventh Anniversary of the Publication of Babel Poems
Time:December 11th (Friday) 19:30-21:00.
Location:No.16 Gaolan Road, Huangpu District Sinan Bookstore Poetry Store
Guest:Liu Yanghe (poet) and Yu Hang (poet)
Since 2014, the "Classic Poetry and Classic Translation" has been published for seven consecutive years, with 40 volumes of poetry. On December 11th, young poets Liu Yanghe and Yu Hang, as well as Zhou Zhan, the editor of this series, will come to the Poetry Shop of Sinan Bookstore to read the poems of seven collections of poems in the "Babel Poetry" with readers, pay tribute to the classics and commemorate the seventh anniversary of the publication of this series.
Shanghai | Today, how do we get along with the world —— A sharing session of the new book "Kissing the World —— Notes of Manhattan"
Time:December 12th (Saturday) 14:00-16:00
Location:Sinan Literature House, No.505 Fuxing Middle Road, Huangpu District
Guest:Chen Sihe (director of Fudan University Library, distinguished professor, doctoral supervisor), Li Tiangang (professor and doctoral supervisor of the Department of Religion, School of Philosophy, Fudan University), Qian Hong (professor of Tongji University, professor zhejiang yuexiu university of foreign languages) and Zhou Li (writer).
Thirty-five years ago, Zhou Li, who had passed his thirties, gave up the comfortable life in Shanghai to study abroad at his own expense, in order to see the world with his eyes open. In the next 35 years, she traveled all over the continents, visited World War II sites, walked the North and South poles, climbed matterhorn, explored Mount Everest, and jumped into the Arctic Ocean … The new book "Kissing the World-Notes on Manhattan" shows her open mind, exploration of world civilization and understanding of different cultures … On December 12th, she will share her experiences with readers and discuss with guests how to get along with the world.
Shanghai | Upper-class parents are evil —— Melrose Five-part Sharing Meeting
Time:December 12th (Saturday) 14:00-15:30
Location:Create a new space on the 3rd floor of the main entrance of Shanghai Library, No.1555 Huaihai Middle Road, Xuhui District.
Guest:Zou Huan (translator and editor), Yu Ruiyin (translator and sports columnist), Wu Jiejing (literary editor and translator) and Feng Jieyin (reference librarian and translator of Shanghai Library)
According to his personal experience, Edward St Aubyn’s Melrose Pentatem (Forget it, Bad News, Hope, Breast Milk and Finally) is his most acclaimed work. Like Patrick, the protagonist, St. Aubyn was once a prodigal son of a rich family, but behind his wealth and status, there is evil and absurdity that outsiders can’t imagine. This Saturday afternoon, I met with four translators of Melrose’s Five Works, Zou Huan, Yu Ruiyin, Wu Jiejing and Feng Jieyin, to talk about this set of contemporary British classic novels.
SHANGHAI | Texture Reproduction and Innovation in the History of China’s Landscape Paintings from a Scientific Perspective
Time:14:00 on December 12th (Saturday)
Location:Lecture Hall, 2nd Floor, West District, Shanghai Library, No.1555 Huaihai Middle Road, Xuhui District
Guest:Yang Chonghe (Independent Art Historian), Fan Jingzhong (Professor of China Academy of Fine Arts), Bai Qianshen (Dean of College of Art and Archaeology of Zhejiang University, Curator of Museum of Art and Archaeology of Zhejiang University).
In this lecture, Dr. Yang Chonghe will start with the "chip" problem that the whole society is concerned about at present, and use the perspective of scientific analysis to analyze the industry and academic logic behind the chip, which not only responds to the future development of China Core, but also reorganizes the development of China’s landscape painting from the tenth to seventeenth centuries from the brand-new concept of "visual texture" put forward by the public, and systematically explains the reproduction, innovation and style evolution in it. After the lecture, Dr. Yang Chonghe will also hold a salon dialogue with two famous art historians, Fan Jingzhong and Bai Qianshen, to discuss in depth the history of style changes of ancient landscape paintings in China.
Study on the Style and Features of Shanghai Historic District Based on the Three-dimensional Modeling Method of Shanghai |
Time:December 12th (Saturday) 14:00-16:00
Location:No.300 Nanchang Road, Huangpu District
Speaker:Fu Ding (Planner of Tongji Urban Planning and Design Institute Co., Ltd.)
The centennial meeting from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China made Shanghai a metropolis in the Far East. The introduction and practice of western urban planning concepts also made her "Paris of the East". Today, these areas with fierce cultural collisions have evolved into twelve historical and cultural areas in the central city of Shanghai. This time, Fu Ding was invited to be a guest in the cross-border meeting room of Nanchang Road, and the research on the features of Shanghai historic district was explained by the method of three-dimensional modeling.
Shanghai | Let Children Fall in Love with Writing —— Sharing Meeting of New Books of Dragonfly Writing
Time:December 12th (Saturday) 14:00-15:30
Location:Baixin Bookstore, No.366 Fuzhou Road, Huangpu District
Guest:Xiao Fan (writer) and Gong Xiaoyue (writer and media person)
"Dragonfly Writing: Comments on Selected Primary School Students’ Composition Masters" and the "Dragonfly Writing" team invited 48 top Chinese writers to give children writing tips. On Saturday afternoon, two authors of the book will share with parents how to make their children fall in love with writing.
Shanghai | "Everything is comparable to tears": the anxiety of artificial intelligence —— A sharing session of McEwan’s new book "A Machine Like Me"
Time:December 12th (Saturday) 15:00-17:00
Location:China Securities Museum, No.15 Huangpu Road, Hongkou District
Guest:Chen Qiufan (writer, screenwriter, translator and curator), Xiaobai (writer) and Zhang Zheng (expert in artificial intelligence).
Ian mcewan, a British national treasure writer, broke through the "comfort zone" of personal writing and set foot in the cutting-edge technology of artificial intelligence, and created a novel —— A Machine Like Me, which has a distinctive Maxwell label and a strong sci-fi color and "really thinks about the future predicament of mankind". On the afternoon of December 12th, Chen Qiufan, Xiao Bai and Zhang Zheng, three experts, scholars and writers from different fields, will come to the China Securities Museum to enjoy and discuss this outstanding work with the readers.
Shanghai | Face-to-face with the Chinese translator and editor of the French best-selling book Underground Paris.
Time:15:30 on December 12th (Saturday)
Location:Marseille Hall, Shanghai French Training Center, 6th Floor, No.297 Wusong Road, Hongkou District
Guest:Shi Ke (Head of Marketing and Development Department of Shanghai French Training Center) and Huang Yaqin (Book Editor)
What is the story behind the publication of Underground Paris, a French bestseller? In this activity, Shi Ke, a Chinese translator of Underground Paris, and Huang Yaqin, a senior French literature editor of Shanghai Translation Society, were invited to look forward to a winter afternoon warmed by French literature.
Shanghai | Light makeup is always appropriate —— On the similarities and differences between Chinese and Western views on rare books
Time:December 12th (Saturday) 19:00-21:00
Location:Duoyun Art Museum, 4th floor, Duoyunxuan, No.422 Nanjing East Road, Huangpu District
Guest:Wang Qiang (chairman of Caolu Culture Media, co-founder of New Oriental, co-founder of Zhenge Fund) and Wei Li (bibliophile).
Rosenbach, a collector, once said, "The greatest game in the world is the art of love, and the most enjoyable thing after that is the collection of books." So how pleasant is the collection of books? What kind of charm makes Rosenbach put the happiness of book collection after love? On December 12th, let’s gather at Duoyun Art Museum on the fourth floor of Duoyunxuan Building on Nanjing East Road, and listen to two rare books collected by Wang Qiang and Wei Li.
Shanghai | Sinking Stones and Flames: The Complete Poems of Transtrom
Time:December 12th (Saturday) 19:00-21:00
Location:Room 104, No.8 Bridge, No.457 Jumen Road, Huangpu District
Guest:Xia Chao (poet, translator) and Liu Yichen (book editor, musician)
In the second session of "Free Reading" Salon, we will read the poems of Nobel Prize in Literature-winning Swedish poet Trondstrom together under the leadership of the readers Xia Chao and Liu Yichen.
SHANGHAI | What an interesting lesson history is —— Sharing Meeting of China’s Great Wisdom.
Time:December 12th (Saturday) 19:00-20:30.
Location:Zhida Bookstore, Floor 1.5, Fuhua Science and Technology Building, No.525 Guoquan Road, Yangpu District, Activity Space
Speaker:Hu Axiang (Professor, School of History, Nanjing University, Curator of Six Dynasties Museum)
Hu Axiang, a professor at the School of History of Nanjing University and the curator of the Six Dynasties Museum, brings you a unique history lesson with his latest book "The Great Wisdom of China". Reading history makes people wise. Listening to Hu Axiang teaches us how to read the course "History" and explore the code of history learning together.
Guangzhou | Novel of the World, Novel World —— Sharing the New Book of Li Meizhen
Time:December 12th (Saturday) 15:00-17:00
Location:1200Book&Bed, No.116 Wuyuewai Street, Pantang, Liwan District
Guest:Kong Yalei (writer) and Zhang Hong (writer and publishing planner)
In the world of novels, novelists try to control everything. But what if the novelist himself is in a huge fictional story and only exists as a trivial role outside the subject? This is the problem that the author Kong Yalei explores in his novels. On December 12th, Kong Yalei, writer and publishing planner Zhang Hong will share the new book "Li Meizhen" with us at the flagship store of Liwan Lake in 1200Book&Bed, and visit "the world’s novels, the world of novels" together.
Guangzhou | Dream Southern Language —— Peng Jianbin’s New Book Sharing
Time:December 13th (Sunday) 15:00-17:00
Location:1200Book&Bed, No.116 Wuyuewai Street, Pantang, Liwan District
Guest:Peng Jianbin (writer) and Feng Junhua (founder and editor of copy production)
What is the southern language in their mind? How are the southern languages reflected in their literary creation and artistic practice, and in what direction will they point? We invited Feng Junhua, the founder of the replica production, and Peng Jianbin, the author of the novel, who are old friends for many years, to talk about "the dream southern language".
Guangzhou | The General Trend of the Times and Personal Role —— Reading When the Stars Shine
Time:December 12th (Saturday) 15:00-17:00
Location:Multifunctional Hall, 4th Floor, Xueeryou Bookstore, No.93 Xingang West Road, Haizhu District
Speaker:Lin Zhiqiang (Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, Department of History, Jinan University)
Zweig’s masterpiece When the Stars Shine describes 14 historical heroes in very beautiful language. Different from general biographical literature, Zweig wrote "moments", 14 historical figures and their moments that influenced the world. Why did Zweig capture such a moment? On Saturday afternoon, I followed Professor Lin Zhiqiang to Zweig and saw accident and necessity, history and reality, truth and enlightenment.
Guangzhou | How do we observe the world and tell stories —— A new book salon of Servant of Time
Time:December 12th (Saturday) 19:30-21:30
Location:Floor 1, taikoo hui, No.383 Tianhe Road, Tianhe District
Guest:Kuailehao (media person), Huang Tongtong (media person, columnist)
What kind of writing and even life experience is it to switch back and forth between fictional and non-fictional worlds? Kuailehao and Huang Tongtong, both media people and novel creators, have their own unique experiences on this issue. So, what are the difficulties and fun of leaping from non-fiction to fiction? What are the differences and similarities between the two creative paths? How can the observation and record of reality enter the novel? On December 13th, let’s talk with two female creators about their experiences: how we observe the world and tell stories.
Shenzhen | The Literary Ideal Transmitted by Ten Heroes
Time:20:00 on Friday, December 11th.
Location:Steps of Chengbei District, Shenzhen Book City Center, No.2014 Fuzhongyi Road, Futian District
Speaker:Qiu Huadong (writer)
Ten Chivalrous Men is a series of short historical chivalrous novels by writer Qiu Huadong. From the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it tells the stories of ten chivalrous men with their own characteristics. On Friday night, he will be a guest at Shenzhen 8: 00 pm Friday book club to share this new book with readers.
Shenzhen | Love is beyond description —— Peng Jianbin’s new book sharing
Time:December 12th (Saturday) 14:00-16:00
Location:Kubrick Bookstore, L5 Floor, Wanxiang Tiandi, No.9668 Shennan Avenue, Nanshan District
Guest:Peng Jianbin (writer) and Du Lulu (poet)
Love, as a theme that has been "badly described by people", can it still inspire new possibilities for novel creation and reflect our deeper inner feelings? We invite poets Du Lulu and Peng Jianbin to talk about this seemingly unspeakable topic.
Shenzhen | From Hypnosis and I Ching to Robinson and Psychedelic Mushrooms: An Encyclopedia of Natural History in Li Meizhen
Time:December 13th (Sunday) 19:00-21:00
Location:Kubrick Bookstore, L5 Floor, Wanxiang Tiandi, No.9668 Shennan Avenue, Nanshan District
Speaker:Kong Yalei (writer)
Milan Kundera once said that the word "erudition" in novels means "bringing together every means and every form of knowledge in order to explain existence". From computer virtual reality to hypnosis, from the Book of Changes to the Bible … There are so many encyclopedic fragments scattered in Kong Yalei’s new work "Li Meizhen", which not only increase our interest in reading, but also lead to a larger and more complete pattern like countless indispensable jigsaw pieces.
Nanjing | Dreams are Fat —— A new book sharing session of Lu Min’s Dream Reaper
Time:19:00 on Friday, December 11th.
Location:Pioneer bookstore, No.173 Guangzhou Road, Gulou District
Guest:Lu Min (writer), HanDong (novelist, poet) and He Ping (professor college of nanjing normal university, doctoral supervisor).
On the evening of December 11th, writer Lu Min will come to Wutaishan Head Office in pioneer bookstore, Nanjing with his new work "Dream Reaper" to talk with poet HanDong and critic He Ping about novel, the art of dreaming.
Nanjing | Record the Individuals Forgotten by the Times —— Wei Sixiao’s new book sharing meeting: Don’t take the rest, It’s all the people
Time:December 12th (Saturday) 14:00-16:00
Location:Jindi Wutongli Investment Center, No.78 Bancang Street, Xuanwu District
Speaker:Wei Sixiao (writer)
On December 12th, writer Wei Sixiao will take two new books, Don’t take the rest, and All Are the People, to visit Jindi Wutongli, to share with the readers and friends on the spot the daily life of rural people, and to share his observation of "rural people in the torrent of the times".
Nanjing | A Unique Phenomenon of Russian Literature —— Sharing Meeting of leskov: Life and Creation.
Time:December 12th (Saturday) 18:00-20:00
Location:Wanxiang Bookstore, No.8 Jinyinjie, Gulou District
Speaker:Luan Xin (Lecturer, Russian Department, School of Foreign Languages, Nanjing Normal University)
Leskov is a classic writer with special influence in 19th century Russian literature. He appeared in the literary world in the turbulent historical moment of the 1960s, and his creative style was unique, unique, eclectic and parallel. Leskov is good at narrating in concise language, and his works are widely circulated, leaving a valuable literary legacy for readers. On December 12th, Luan Xin, a young teacher of Russian Department of Foreign Languages College of Nanjing Normal University, will visit Vientiane Bookstore to deeply analyze leskov’s creative themes and thoughts.
Nanjing | People in Time —— Jiang Fangzhou’s New Book Sharing Meeting
Time:19:00 on Tuesday, December 15th.
Location:Pioneer bookstore, No.173 Guangzhou Road, Gulou District
Speaker:Jiang Fangzhou (writer)
In November, 2020, Jiang Fangzhou’s latest collection of novels, Walking with the only person who knows why the stars shine, was published. On December 15th, she will come to Wutaishan Head Office in pioneer bookstore to talk with readers about her novel collection and share many hidden "reading codes".
Hangzhou | When the World is Burning —— Sharing Meeting of the New Book "Walking with the Only People Who Know Why Stars Shine"
Time:19:00-20:30 on Monday, December 14th.
Location:B1 One-way Space 1F, Zone B, Yuanyang Ledi Port, No.58 Lishui Road, Gongshu District
Guest:Jiang Fangzhou (writer) and Xiao Er (writer and media person)
In her latest collection of novels, Walking with the Only Person Who Know Why Stars Shine, Jiang Fangzhou has integrated our unique life experience in 2020 into literary creation. In the fictional space-time of cosmic civilization, if they are experiencing a state of suffering from plague and returning to "isolated" life, what changes will happen to their individual lifestyles and emotional patterns? If human beings can live forever, is the eternal life a pleasure or a pain? On December 14th, Jiang Fangzhou, a young writer, and Xiao Er, a senior media person, will visit Hangzhou One-way Space together to talk about this collection of novels and a possibility of contemporary literary creation.
Chengdu | Xialiba insect: My beautiful encounter with insects
Time:December 13th (Sunday) 14:30-16:30
Location:No.918, South Section 1 of Tianfu Avenue, Tianfu New District, Luhu Art Exhibition Center, Luhuitang
Speaker:Lu Yuegang (reporter, writer)
On December 13th, the lecture hall series of Xunlu Library invited Mr. Lu Yuegang to share his new book "Xialiba Insect" and the stories behind those insects, so as to explore the wonderful relationship and beautiful yearning of the insect world with readers.
Xi ‘an | Calling for "Crime and Punishment" in Suspense Writing —— A Sharing Session of Sacrifice of the Knight
Time:14:00 on December 13th (Sunday)
Location:Qujiang Book City, Building 10, Furong Xintiandi, No.1 Furong South Road, Yanta District
Guest:Naduo (suspense novelist), Yu Gengyun (critic)
Naduo came to Qujiang Bookstore in Xi ‘an with his new work "Sacrifice of Knights", and talked with young critic and columnist Yu Gengyun about "crime and punishment" in suspense writing.
Zhengzhou | Beneath the Sin and Above the Good —— Sharing Meeting of Naduo’s New Work "Sacrifice of the Knight"
Time:19:00 on Tuesday, December 15th.
Location:2-2 Wenhua Road, Jinshui District Songshe Bookstore
Speaker:Naduo (suspense novelist)
Naduo visited Zhengzhou Songshe Bookstore with his new work "Sacrifice of Knights" to share and communicate with readers.
Zhuhai | Novel is not the antidote to this world —— A new book salon of Servant of Time and Fairy Disease
Time:December 12th (Saturday) 19:30-21:30
Location:Xiangzhou District Lovers North Road Gree Coast Coast Park Binhai Business Building 1 3F Unbounded Bookstore
Guest:Kuailehao (media person) and Zheng Zhi (writer and screenwriter)
Why should we read novels? Or, why do we need literature? Shuttling through different words, we see scenery we have never seen before and experience life we have never had before. In the book, we read time and have time; Passing through the cracks in life also has unlimited possibilities. Perhaps the initial answer we are looking for is no longer important. On December 12th, Kuailehao, the author of Servant of Time, and Zheng Zhi, the author of Immortal Disease, will visit the Boundless Bookstore with two novel collections with different temperament, and they will spy on the world and the past in Northeast China together in the book in the warm sea breeze of December in the south of China.