In this era of information, the value of knowledge is more prominent, excellent books are the essence of human wisdom, is our common cultural wealth, a good book is a wonderful journey, a soul encounter, a spiritual baptism.
As 2023 comes to an end, we review a year's hard work and fruitful harvest, and solemnly organize the selection of the top ten best books of the year.
Today's good book of the year includes professional research that has been immersed in many years, a long historical volume that spans time and space, an academic monograph that fills in the gaps, an in-depth classroom lecture, and an engaging reading feast ......It's up to you to start it yourself.
In the future, Peking University Press will continue to uphold the tenet of "disseminating knowledge, accumulating culture, prospering academics, and serving the society", and present more valuable and in-depth books to readers.
Finally, I would like to once again pay my respects to the authors, translators, and editors of the year's good books, and sincerely hope that these good books can accompany you to have a wonderful and meaningful time!
Top 10 Best Books of 2023.
Written in front of the words.
"Academic dignity and spiritual charm" has always been the spiritual pursuit of Peking University, and the 2023 good book represents Peking University's perseverance and efforts in terms of content depth, cultural taste, academic inheritance and cultural popularization in the past year.
We would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank our authors and readers who have been caring for and supporting the growth and progress of Peking University over the years
Open the book and warm in winter", accompanied by the fragrance of books, I wish friends at home and abroad a happy New Year, happiness and health!
Gate Valve Era: The Politics and Institutions of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.
Zhu Zongbin.
A classic that defines the characteristics of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties eras.
The front and back are connected, the overall situation is enveloped, and the research is subtle.
Each article has unique insights.
This book is an academic collection by the famous historian Professor Zhu Zongbin, which includes more than 10 important treatises on the history of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, focusing on the origin, development, and characteristics of gate politics and the unique phenomena in the political system of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. The book analyzes the decline of the high-ranking scholars in the late Eastern Jin Dynasty and the nature of the Huan Xuan Dynasty, the examination of the military systems of the Chinese and foreign governors, the elucidation of the characteristics of the Jin law, which occupies an important position in the history of ancient Chinese law, and the discussion of the "Confucianization" tendency of the Jin law. The external editor "Me and Ancient Chinese History" tells how the author himself embarked on the road of research on ancient Chinese history, which has important inspiration for young students.
Commentary on the Criminal Law of China (all three volumes).
Feng Jun, Liang Genlin, Li Hong Editors-in-Chief.
A commentary on China's criminal law in the strict sense of the word.
It is an authoritative work serving the theory and practice of criminal law.
This book is edited by Professor Feng Jun of Chinese University, Professor Liang Genlin of Peking University, Professor Li Hong of Tsinghua University, and co-authored by Professor Chen Xingliang and Professor Zhang Mingkai and nearly 70 scholars who are active in the field of criminal law in China today. This book explains and comments on the 452 articles of China's Criminal Law one by one, including five parts: preamble, article, literature, detailed table of contents, and text, which comprehensively reflects the research results of criminal law in New China, systematically integrates the academic literature of China's criminal law research and judicial precedents in judicial practice, and is a comprehensive combing and summary of the research and judicial practice of various systems and concepts of criminal law in China, and is an important reference book to guide the theory and practice of criminal justice.
Outside of four o'clock. Written by Zhu Liangzhi.
Which of the two is more important in Chinese art?
People are only a hundred years old, how to play a thousand-year-old tune?
"Beyond the Four Hours" captures the soul of Chinese art.
Chinese art attaches great importance to the creation of the state of life, pursues the interest beyond the form, and expresses the unchanging spirit in the changing appearance, and temporal transcendence is one of the ways that the artist attaches the most importance to. The four characters "beyond the four seasons" can be said to be the soul of Chinese art, and they are also the essential aspects that cause the inherent differences between Chinese and Western art. Chinese art embodies a unique sense of history, life and the universe in the transcendence of time. Professor Zhu Liangzhi's new book mainly discusses the development of Chinese art and the formation of core concepts from the perspective of time and history.
Hou Su: A New Exploration of Famous Public Cases in Chinese and Western Art History.
Written by Peng Feng. Revealing the famous public case of Chinese and Western art history.
An academic masterpiece as good as a suspense film.
A wonderful crossover between aesthetics and art history.
This book starts with ten very important issues in the history of art and aesthetics, and analyzes the deep problems of art theory and aesthetic theory related to these issues in detail and sharply. From patterns and totems, to unsolved documents, from representation and expression, to the relationship between objects and me, it involves many contents in ancient and modern China and abroad, as well as art theory, philosophy, literature, anthropology and many other disciplines. The author can see the big in the small, renovate the old case, and on the basis of the many explorations of the predecessors, he has come up with new ideas, which is refreshing.
Retelling China: Civilizational Consciousness and the Study of Thought and Culture in the 21st Century.
Written by He Guimei.
Tell the Chinese story well".
How to "speak well"?How "China"?
A book that allows you to understand ourselves in the 21st century.
The 21st century is a period of important transformation of China's national construction and social culture in the context of globalization, and how to "narrate" China has become a key issue. With "civilization" as the basic analytical framework, this book observes the ideological and cultural practices that have been taking place and are in progress for more than 20 years since the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries, including the main trends of thought in the intellectual circles, representative researchers in the humanities and their main achievements and ideas, and the main phenomena in popular culture such as film and television, so as to summon the conscious consciousness of China in the 21st century.
Fifteen Lectures on Ancient Medieval Philosophy.
Written by Wu Tianyue.
The open course on the history of Western philosophy that Peking University students love.
12 years of slow refining, four-color full-color printing.
A research guide from beginner to proficient.
Based on the history of Western philosophy taught by Professor Wu Tianyue for many years, this book is divided into 15 lectures to present the overall development of Western philosophy in the 2000 years from the pre-Socratic period to the high Middle Ages. Each lecture selects core topics that have had a profound impact on history, and provides readers with an academic path from beginner to proficient through meticulous conceptual analysis, argument reconstruction, and critical commentary. Each lecture also provides a reading reference book that reflects the latest research progress, leading readers into the palace of philosophical classics. The book is accompanied by more than 300 beautiful illustrations to help readers get a more realistic sense of the historical atmosphere of ancient and medieval philosophy. Different from the usual general works on the history of philosophy, this book not only highlights historical clues, but also fully demonstrates the theoretical charm of philosophical argumentation.
Sitting in the book city - the study room of Peking University scholars.
Edited by the Propaganda Department of the Party Committee of Peking University.
Ren Yuzhong Editor-in-Chief.
Unlock the lifestyle of Peking University's famous teachers.
Visit the spiritual home of scholars.
Feel another world of the wise.
This book selects 15 representative teachers from various disciplines of Peking University to show their study rooms and teaching style, and tell their stories of reading, academic research, and diligent teaching. Each teacher also provided a valuable reading list that had an impact on life, which is a reading index dedicated to readers. These teachers are Dong Qiang, Han Maoli, Zhang Huiyu, Cao Wenxuan, Xu Xianglin, Dai Jinhua, Qin Xuezheng, Wang Yuguang, Zhang Fan, Mu Liangzhu, Lin Yifu, Zhu Qingsheng, Fang Bo, Wang Shichen, and Meng Juanjuan. This book uses the special field of "study" to provide readers with a reading feast with broad thoughts, profound thinking and exciting thinking, and is dedicated to all book lovers.
Fifteen lectures on Chinese calligraphy.
Written by Fang Jianxun.
Peking University Calligraphy Open Class" full version.
Readable, audible, appreciative, and learnable.
Become a calligrapher.
This book is a collation of the lecture manuscripts of the open course "Calligraphy Aesthetics and Practice" of Peking University, which not only touches on the technical level, but also the aesthetic level, and at the same time reveals the methods and ways of temporary posts and creation. With his own and unique experience and understanding, the author gives the key to practicing and appreciating calligraphy. The whole book retains the sense of scene and affinity of the speech, the writing is vivid and lively, the examples are rich and wonderful, and the subtlety is subtle with more than 1,000 high-definition pictures, showing the wonder of calligraphy. Each lecture is accompanied by a course**, which has been circulated on the whole network under the name of "Peking University Calligraphy Open Course", with more than 10 million clicks. The back of the book is accompanied by a specially recorded ancient inscription **, which can be waved off the paper, which is pleasing to the eye.
Streams and Mountains Qingyuan: A History of Early Ancient Chinese Painting.
Pre-Qin to Song) by James Cahill.
Translated by Zhang Jian et al.
He is a "super writer" and "debater" of Chinese art
The peak of overseas Chinese art history research.
The work of Professor Gao Juhan's life's work.
This book is based on Professor Gao Juhan's lecture series "A Pure and Remote View: Visualizing Early Chinese Landscape Painting". Through a close reading of the paintings and the comparison of the works, the author unfolds a systematic narrative of the history of early ancient Chinese painting, and analyzes how the painting of the two Song dynasties reached its peak and became the only great artistic tradition comparable to the European Renaissance. The author combines extensive knowledge and delicate and sensitive experience in reading paintings, interspersed with his years of personal experience in art appreciation and art history, with a huge amount of knowledge and information.
The Great Fire of Luoyang: A History of the Later Han Dynasty from 23-220 AD.
Written by Zhang Leifu.
Translated by Zou Qiuyun.
The winner of the 2011 Rulian Award is Lei Fu's latest masterpiece.
A grand perspective on the Cambridge style of Chinese history.
Meticulous interpretation of major historical events down to the date.
This book is the first general history of the Later Han Dynasty to be written in a Western language. The author takes the fate of the capital Luoyang as a symbol of the rise and fall of the Later Han Dynasty, and first describes the geography, layout, etiquette, population, and important buildings of Luoyang in the Later Han Dynasty based on archaeological and documentary data, and then starts to analyze the politics and society of the Later Han DynastyThen, in chronological order, it describes the important events and social development of different stages of the Later Han Dynasty. The book makes an in-depth study of the administrative characteristics of the Later Han Dynasty, the expansion and development to the south, the conflict between scholars and eunuchs, and the eventual overthrow of the Later Han regime.
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