The experience of joy, pain and loneliness in life is one of the eternal themes of literary works, and it is the responsibility and obligation of writers to find the power of creation in the times through empathy and understanding, and then realize the output of ideas.

　　"Literature cannot be separated from public voices. A book and an era all need 'public voices'," said Mai Jia, a famous writer and winner of the Mao Dun Literature Prize.

　　On August 2nd, Pinduoduo's "Sounds Creators Program" released the 2022 midsummer book list. The book list is selected from the classics and new works of the "Sounds Creators Program" writers, as well as the works of Nobel Prize winners, Mao Dun Literature Award-winning works and other high-quality books.

　　"From 2021 onwards, the 'Zhongsheng Creators Program' will release a book list in midsummer every year. We hope to promote the works of excellent creators. We hope that literary creation is inclusive, respected and supported." Pinduoduo The relevant person in charge said.

The "voices" and "creation" in the midsummer book list

　　It is understood that the name "Voice Creator Project" comes from the classic sentence "There are many voices on this island" in Shakespeare's famous "The Tempest".

The plan originated from Pinduoduo's large-scale knowledge-inclusive action "Duoduo Reading Month". It aims to help excellent writers and high-quality works find a wider audience through traffic inclination and IP creation, and realize the relationship between writers, readers and publishers. positive interaction.

　　In the 2022 midsummer book list of the "Multiple Voice Creators Program", Czech writer Milan Kundera's classic masterpiece "Life Elsewhere", Austrian writer Zweig's "Yesterday's World", famous Japanese novelist and poet Okamoto Ka Naizi's "Old Prostitute", famous investor Rui Dalio's "Principles: Responding to a Changing World Order", Malaysian contemporary Chinese writer Li Zishu's "The Land of the Unknown" and Chinese writer Sun Ganlu's new work "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", Cheng Yongxin's new work "If Only For the First Time", Luo Xin's "The Long Remaining Life: A Palace Maiden of the Northern Wei Dynasty and Her Times" are all included.

▲The midsummer book list includes classics and new works by the authors of the “Crowd-Sound Creator Project”, as well as the works of Nobel Prize winners, Mao Dun Literature Prize winners, etc.

　　"She is like autumn leaves in the wind, like duckweed on the water." In "The Long Remaining Life: A Northern Wei Palace Maiden and Her Times" recently published by Luo Xin, a writer in residence of the "Crowd of Voices Creators Program" and a professor of history at Peking University, he Using epitaphs and other historical materials to tell the long and ups and downs of the ordinary palace queen Zhong Er, and to look at the times she was in through her eyes, and restore the emperor, concubines, relatives, courtiers, eunuchs and palace maids to specific People, seeing their joy, fear, arrogance, and despair in the face of power... As the life story of Wang Zhonger unfolds, there is also the history of the Northern Wei Dynasty from Emperor Xianwen, Emperor Xiaowen to Emperor Xuanwu and Emperor Xiaoming for nearly 80 years, of course. There are also many people who have been swept away by the stormy waves of the times.

　　"Love is: I should accompany you to play a bad hand to the end, and never discuss what it means." After two years, the author of "The Voice Creator Project" and the representative of the Mesozoic writer Lu Neiji "Mist Walker" Later, I will meet readers with my new work "Everything About Farewells".

Lu Nei once said in an interview, "When someone is still willing to read a romance novel, let's write it, and maybe no one will read it in the future."

In this typical "Lu-style" novel published by Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House, Lu Nei tells the life story of a middle-aged man spanning more than 30 years, about encounter, love and farewell.

　　How will artificial intelligence develop?

How will technology deeply affect human life?

The concept of "metaverse" has swept the world. AI expert Kai-Fu Lee and the "Crowd Voice Creator Project" resident writer and science fiction writer Chen Qiufan co-created "AI Future Progress" for the first time, bringing people to think about the relationship between technology landing and human society.

For readers who like the historical background and the suspenseful narrative style of espionage, the latest novel "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" by Sun Ganlu, vice chairman of the Shanghai Federation of Literary and Art Circles and a famous writer, leads everyone back to Shanghai in the 1930s and explores hidden secrets And great historical events.

▲During the third season of "Reading a lot", artificial intelligence expert Kai-Fu Lee and the "Zhongsheng Creator Project" resident writer and science fiction writer Chen Qiufan jointly created "AI Future Progress" and other high-quality works for the first time. Creator's Booklist".

　　In addition, the 2022 Midsummer Book List also featured classic books that were widely praised by readers during the "Duoduo Reading Month" event in previous seasons: "The Conspiracy" by Mai Jia, winner of the Mao Dun Literature Award, "Arriving Before Midnight" by travel writer Liu Zichao, History writer Zhang Mingyang's "Abandoning Chang'an" and poet Yu Xiuhua's "Unprovoked Joy" and so on.

　　The relevant person in charge of the New Classic Culture Publishing Company said that books such as travel literature "Lost Satellite", "Arrival Before Midnight" and "The Sinking Age", which comprehensively describe the history of the decline of the United States for more than 30 years, were all sold in the first three seasons of reading months. Popular, occupy the industry's best-selling list, widely praised by readers.

　　The "2021 Duoduo Reading Report" shows that during the "Duoduo Reading Month" activities in the first two quarters, the number of college students' ordering increased by 387% year-on-year.

In the second season of "Duoduo Reading Month", more than 4,000 copies of the new book "Arriving Before Midnight", a young writer Liu Zichao's new book "Arrived Before Midnight", was among the first batch of "Voice Creators Program", and it was among the most popular books among college students.

Symbiosis and upward knowledge

　　As one of the practices of the new e-commerce platform in the direction of inclusive knowledge, at the end of 2021, the “Crowd Voice Creators Program” announced an iteration. In addition to continuing to focus on the humanistic themes of the times and creation, it also focused more on the construction of social welfare responsibilities.

　　"The ultimate goal of reading is to experience, imagine, and empathize in the book, and become an independent, loving, and thoughtful person." In November last year, the writers of the "All Voices Creators Program" walked along Pinduoduo's "Reading for You" charity event came to Shuanghe Primary School in Xintang Township, Enshi, Hubei, to tell the children about their experiences and experiences during the writing of "Want to Jump into the Fire", and encouraged the children to study hard and get out of the mountains.

　　During the "Duoduo Reading Month" event in the third quarter of the first half of this year, the "Crowd Voices Creators Program" entered the new event page area of ​​"Variable 4: The Movement of Great Powers" by author and famous economist He Fan, becoming the most concerned one of the bibliographies.

In this book, He Fan wrote about the waves that were unwilling to be ordinary in the big era, churning with their own splendor, and even though they were shattered by the waves of history, they were still actively living.

　　While this best-selling book was widely listed, it was also included in the recommended book list of the "Reading for You" charity donation action.

In June of this year, "Variable 4: The Movement of Great Powers" arrived at the Minority Middle School in Leishan County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province together with more than 6,000 extracurricular books and supplementary books.

In the public welfare class, Li Chao, a young writer who accompanied "Reading for You", shared with the children, "When you absorb nutrients from the classics, it is like drawing a larger radius through an origin, and in this With greater power, we can move towards a larger world.”

▲In June of this year, young writer Li Chao brought a reading and sharing class of "Xiaohua Westward Journey" to the students of Leishan Nationalities Middle School.

　　According to the relevant person in charge of Pinduoduo, the "Reading for You" public welfare donation plan and the "Zhongsheng Creator Plan" both originated from the "Duoduo Reading Month", and it is the original intention of Pinduoduo to help the development of social welfare undertakings.

"In the upcoming fourth season of the 'Duoduo Reading Month' event, we will introduce more classic works, subsidize more genuine good books, and bring knowledge to more primary and secondary school students in remote mountainous areas. Let children feel the power of reading with everyone.”