Chinanews.com, Beijing, March 9th (Reporter Ying Ni) After readers' votes and expert review, the "Top Ten Books of the Commercial Press" will be officially announced in February 2021: "China's Roads and High-quality Economic Development" and "History of Central Asia" "The History of the Rise and Fall of the Golden Horde", "The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia", "The Biography of Yang Zhenning (Newest Revised Edition)" "Li Ji Chuan (New Revised Edition)" "What is Philosophy" "The Origin of the First World War (Third Edition) "The Unpredictable Age-My Grandparents and War Trauma" and "Xinhua Dictionary (Chinese-English bilingual edition)" and other ten good books were selected.

  In the live broadcast on the evening of the 8th, Li Yining, a senior professor of Peking University, honorary dean of Peking University Guanghua School of Management, and winner of the "Pioneer of Reform" Medal, Nobel Prize winner in Physics, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study of Tsinghua University The founder Yang Zhenning and other authors of the Commercial Press send reading blessings to readers through video and text.

Gu Qing, Secretary of the Party Committee and Executive Director of the Commercial Press, Li Xin, former editor-in-chief of Life·Reading·Xinzhi Sanlian Bookstore, special editor-in-chief of the Commercial Press, and Chen Xiaowen, deputy editor-in-chief of the Commercial Press, have promoted more than 30 kinds of good books for online readers.

February 2021 "Top Ten Good Books of the Commercial Press" Photo courtesy of the Commercial Press

  Gu Qing said that the biggest feature of "Xinhua Dictionary (Chinese-English bilingual version)" is its Chinese-English bilingual presentation.

As a Chinese-English bilingual reference book, the dictionary contains more than 13,000 Chinese characters and 3,300 Chinese words, with 10 appendices + Hanyu Pinyin index + comparison of new and old glyphs + radical checklist.

The four major teams lasted two years to build, authoritative translation, the first Chinese-English dictionary, whether it is foreigners learning Chinese, or Chinese readers who need English translation, it is very practical.

  How to gather strength to rejuvenate the countryside is the focus of the whole society. The Commercial Press published "Chinese Roads and Economic High-Quality Development" and "A Collection of Thoughts and Practices on China's Rural Construction in a Century" on this theme, which responds to the needs of the times and society. The academic boutique.

  Li Xin focused on good books such as "The Biography of Yang Zhenning", "The Biography of Li Ji", "What is Philosophy", and "Modern History Lectures".

"The Biography of Yang Zhenning" was written by Mr. Yang Jianye, a professor of physics, and was approved by Mr. Yang Zhenning. It is the thickest, most comprehensive, and most professional biography about Mr. Yang Zhenning. It is to understand the life history, scientific achievements, and thoughts of a generation of scientific giants, Mr. Yang Zhenning. A masterpiece of trajectory and family and country feelings.

"The Biography of Li Ji" tells the academic career and life experience of Li Ji, the "father of modern Chinese archaeology", to show the feelings of Chinese scholars towards Chinese culture.

"What is Philosophy" is a classic philosophy textbook that explains profound theories in simple language, which can help readers construct a macro-understanding of the philosophical discipline system.

  Chen Xiaowen, deputy editor-in-chief of the Commercial Press, focused on "The History of the Rise and Fall of the Golden Horde", "The History of Central Asia", "The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia", "Nine Lectures on Tang Poems by Gu Bin", "Pre-Greek Philosophy-Ancient Babylon's Pursuit of Truth" "Chu Ci", "Three Hundred Tang Poems New Edition" and other good books.

Central Asia is located in the connecting zone of eastern and western civilizations, and at the same time it is the fringe zone where civilizations come into contact: from the east, it is the distant "Western Region"; from the west, it is the mysterious "East".

"Central Asia" and "Inner Asia" have always been a historical concept with ever-developing meanings. Due to the lack of systematic historical traditions in Central Asia, the history of Central Asia has always been a difficult problem in historical research.

The publication of "The History of the Rise and Fall of the Golden Horde", "The History of Central Asia" and "The History of Early Inner Asia in Cambridge" by the Commercial Press will further enrich the content of domestic research on Central Asia and Inner Asia.

  It is reported that following the "Monthly New Book Press Conference" of "New Year's Eve: The Commercial Press's 124th Anniversary Series Activities", the Commercial Press will combine online and offline forms through the "Monthly New Book Press Conference" and "Top Ten Good Books of the Month" Selecting "Hanfen Blooming", "Xinhua Blooming" and other thematic reading month methods, recommending the monthly good books of the Commercial Press to the readers of the whole society, and letting more classic good books through extensive communication and interaction with translators, channels and readers Walk into thousands of households.

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