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From my book list at the beginning of 2017 to share “Year-End Volume | What books did I read in 2016? , 6 years have passed.
After getting married in 2017, with the transfer of my life center, the number of my readings dropped off a cliff.
I am a person who likes to read. I read the records of Douban since 2008. According to records, I have read 280 books. Counting the omissions, the average of these 15 years can be considered to be able to read 20 books per year.
Of course, the amount of reading in different years is also very different. In years with many years, such as 2013 and 2009, 59 and 36 books were read in a year respectively. Book.
My reading preference tends to be “fictional”. The total number of literature books is not large, and most of them are classics. Most of my reading is in the fields of society, technology, politics, and business. These books I have read in the past have largely shaped my values and way of thinking today.
In the past 4 years, I have experienced resignation to start a business and return to the workplace. In all fairness, although my channels for obtaining information are no longer limited to reading books, I will also obtain new information and information from other channels such as Podcasts and videos. However, the single-digit number of readings per year also reflects my stagnation in “personal growth” to a certain extent.
Since the second half of last year, I have deliberately slowed down my pace, paid more attention to balancing work, life and growth, and thought more about it.
This Spring Festival holiday, taking advantage of the end of the new crown, I went back to my wife’s natal home in Sichuan with my wife, and my son-in-law from out of town went home to celebrate the New Year. I had a lot of free time, so I specially downloaded a few recommended books from Douban’s 2022 annual reading list for Kindle. During the 8 days at my wife’s house, I started reading again. Also taking this opportunity, in today’s article, I will share the 6 books I read this holiday.
Book List ​
1. “Double Shock: The Future of the Great Power Game and the Future World Economy” / Li Xiao / Machinery Industry Press
On the first day of the holiday, I read an economics and management book “Double Impact”, which talked about some systematic reasons behind the current Sino-US competition. The author himself is a serious scholar with a background in economics. Introduced a lot of US dollar system and the rules of today’s international financial order, and also analyzed some major historical events from a financial perspective.
The confrontation between China and the United States has been a core issue in the world in the past few years. The so-called major changes unseen in a century, in this era, we have personally experienced the impact of this game of great powers.
After reading it, I feel that although the author’s views in the whole book are still very restrained, but considering the history, current strength comparison, cultural and political influence, it gives people the feeling that China is doomed.
2. “The Formation of Modern China (1600-1949) ” / Li Huaiyin / Guangxi Normal University Press
The second book I read during the holidays, “The Formation of Modern China”, is more theoretical, from the perspectives of geography, finance, military affairs, and political identity. Analyze why China has been able to survive and develop with the common understanding of “China” after experiencing civil strife, division, and invasion in the past two hundred years. Combined with “Towards a Republic” revisited some time ago, I have some new impressions of the Qing Dynasty. The analysis angle of central and local fiscal revenue in different periods is interesting.
3. “Making Consumers: A Global History of Consumerism” / [France] Anthony Galluzzo / Guangdong People’s Publishing House
The third book I read during the holidays, “Making Consumers”, has published many books in the past two years, such as advocating the trend of “non-essential consumption”. At first, I also thought it was another anti-consumerism best-selling book. After reading it, I found that it was a book introducing the birth and development of European and American consumerism. The perspective ranged from the traditional French farm market to the Parisian department store in the industrial age. , and then to the United States after the rise of printing, radio and television media. The improvement of traffic efficiency has brought about changes in the commodity circulation mode, and also contributed to the birth of the concept of cross-regional brands. The “habit” of pastime shopping has gradually sunk from the cultural symbols of the bourgeoisie to the working class; public relations and advertising have shaped consumer ideology, and the trend of thought has changed from following the crowd to chasing individuality, interspersed with sex and feminism. The book describes Europe and the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries The family conditions and consumption habits seem to be 100 years behind the Chinese families in the 1980s.
4. “The Art of Possibilities: 30 Lectures on Comparative Politics” / Liu Yu / Guangxi Normal University Press
I read the fourth book “The Art of Possibilities: 30 Lectures on Comparative Politics” during the vacation. I searched Douban records. The last time I read Liu Yu’s “Details of Democracy” was 13 years ago in 2010. “Ke” this The book is translated from the audio program and is easy to read. Over the past ten years, these old friends have all disappeared. If I hadn’t seen the book list recommendation, I would not have known that Liu Yu had published a new book. The level of public opinion has been turned into a thin piece of white paper.
Now, I seldom comment on public affairs. Sometimes when I see some topics, some remarks, or even the remarks of some people I know around me, I will deliberately avoid them.
5. “Know Your Heart: Mathematical Thinking in Life” / Liu Xuefeng / People’s Posts and Telecommunications Press
The fifth book of the holiday, “Know Your Heart: Mathematical Thinking in Life”, is a very interesting book, suitable for students, programmers and IT practitioners. Explain people’s thinking and way of thinking in their daily work with relatively basic mathematical formula functions, algorithms, and programming concepts. I feel that these examples can be used to educate children at home in the future.
6. “Creation: Doing Valuable Things in Unconventional Ways” / [US] Tony Fadell / CITIC Publishing Group
The revenge reading of this holiday is almost over, the sixth book “Creation”, this book has a high score, although it feels that behind this score, the author’s father of iPod and the founder of Nest have added a lot of halo effect. A successful person in Silicon Valley shared his experience and insights in growth, work, entrepreneurship, and management in fragments, interspersed with some industry gossip. There is survivorship bias, and appropriateness draws on some of its working methods and thinking
Navigation ​
- Year-End Volume | What Books Did I Read in 2016?
- What am I reading: 2016 spring reading sharing
- [Year-end volume] What books did I read in 2015?
- What am I reading: 2015 spring reading sharing
- [Year-end volume] What books did I read in 2014?
- What I’m Reading: 2014 Spring Reading Sharing
- “What are the recommended books I read in 2013? “
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