Readers (2025 No. 7)

Readers Magazine Editorial OfficeGansu People's Publishing House2025

Rating 4.4
Word count
77K words
Chapters
10
Series
Readers

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Magazines Literature Inspiring ThoughtBroadening HorizonsLife PhilosophyPersonal EssaysSelected WorksComprehensivenessHumanistic Reading

Summary

Readers 2025 No. 7 is the seventh issue of 2025 of this comprehensive digest magazine founded in 1981 (a semimonthly, by convention publishing one issue in each half of the month, distributed nationwide under its postal code). This issue continues Readers' tradition of "gathering the best from China and abroad, assembling the finest, inspiring thought, and broadening horizons," selecting short, highly readable pieces from newspapers, magazines, and books and placing them under columns such as Foreword, Special Features, Literary Garden, People, Essays and Reflections, and Knowledge Window. The foreword of this issue is "The Art of Observation," which uses the critic Susan Sontag's reminder to "pay attention" to discuss how focus and longing can widen the breadth of a life. In Special Features, "Yu Gong Tends the Mountain" records the story of an old mountain guide, Yu, who refuses to install streetlights on the mountain, protecting it by not disturbing the daily rhythms of wildlife; "The Love of 12306" tells the growth story of Shan Xinghua, a technical leader of the railway ticketing system, from a village in Wuyuan, Jiangxi, to the front lines of technical breakthroughs. Literary Garden includes prose and translated fiction such as "Facial Makeup," "Spring Sits in Meditation in the Flower Bud," "Snow Is Whiter Than Linen," "Father Became a Dog," and "Swapping Secrets with a Spring Mountain," on themes of self-identity, spring phenology, and family affection. In People, "Jiaozi Is Also 'Nezha'" describes how animation director Jiaozi moved from a pharmacy major to animation creation; there are also historical-figure essays such as "A Beautifully Written Warmonger." The whole issue consists mainly of short pieces, suited to casual reading in fragmented time such as commutes or before bed, with something gained from each piece finished.

Editor's review

作为一本办了四十余年的文摘杂志，《读者》最见功力的地方在于“选”。2025年第7期延续了这种稳妥的品位：卷首语《观察的艺术》借桑塔格的一句话点题，谈注意力如何成为一个人的生命力，短小却有余味；专题里的《俞公养山》没有豪言壮语，只写一位向导拒绝在山里装路灯的理由——不打扰昆虫、鸟和植物的生物钟，读完会让人对“守护”二字有更朴素的理解。 《12306之恋》写单杏花从婺源乡村一路走到铁路客票系统研发一线的经历，属于《读者》一贯偏爱的那类“平凡人做成不平凡事”的人物稿，不煽情，但有劲。文苑几篇则负责调剂的节奏：《脸谱》借换一张脸的想法写中年人的自我怀疑，《春天在花苞里打坐》《与一座春山交换秘密》是清亮的春景文字，《父亲变成了一条狗》用荒诞的笔法讲亲情，读来心口一紧。人物栏目《饺子亦是“哪吒”》讲的也是“转行”与“死磕”的故事。 如果你想找一本不必从头读到尾、随手翻开一页就能读进去的书，这一期很合适。

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Reading tips

  1. 不必按目录顺序读，先从卷首语和专题入手，再按心情挑文苑或人物栏目。
  2. 遇到喜欢的段落可以摘抄，本期多篇文章都适合作为写作素材积累。
  3. 读到人物稿时，不妨顺手查一查文中人物的背景，阅读的延展感会更强。
  4. 一期读完可留作资料，日后按栏目检索重复阅读，比一次性读完更有收获。

About the publisher

Gansu People's Publishing House China · Founded in 1951

Founded in Lanzhou in 1951, Gansu People's Publishing House specializes in local chronicles, Dunhuang studies, historical documents of northwest China, collation of ancient books, and cultural and historical readings. It once launched the magazine Reader and is now an independent subsidiary of Reader Publishing Group. Its six titles in our database span several fields: in medicine, Advances in Clinical Pharmacology and Research Methods by Qin Hongyan, Liu Lijuan and Zang Kaihong; in documentary literature, Chen Yufu's Record of Traffic Police in Earthquake Relief; in biography, the volume Wang Shitai: A Biography by its editorial committee; and also Li Mengji's A Life of Unpaid Debts, Shi Fang's Quality Education Library: Creativity, and Sun Kui's Selected Lectures on Armed Police Development. Its authors are mainly medical researchers, documentary and biography writers, and educators. Public information is limited, so this introduction focuses on the publishing directions reflected in the titles in our database.

Contents

  1. Foreword: The Art of Observation
  2. Special Features: Yu Gong Tends the Mountain
  3. Special Features: The Love of 12306
  4. Literary Garden: Facial Makeup
  5. Literary Garden: Spring Sits in Meditation in the Flower Bud
  6. Literary Garden: Snow Is Whiter Than Linen
  7. Literary Garden: Father Became a Dog
  8. Literary Garden: Swapping Secrets with a Spring Mountain
  9. People: Jiaozi Is Also 'Nezha'
  10. People: A Beautifully Written Warmonger

FAQ

这是《读者》的正刊还是校园版、原创版？ 是《读者》正刊（普通版）2025年第7期。同一时期市面上还有《读者·原创版》《读者（校园版·成长）》等衍生刊物，内容和栏目各不相同，购买时请认准封面刊名与期号。
《读者》是月刊还是半月刊？ 《读者》为半月刊，一年出24期，通过邮发代号54-17在全国发行。因此“2025年第7期”指的是一年中的第7册，而非7月号。
这一期有没有明确的主题？ 本期没有单一主题，仍按卷首语、专题、文苑、人物、杂谈等栏目编排。相对集中的话题是“专注与守护”——卷首语谈注意力，专题《俞公养山》谈不打扰自然的守护方式。
《读者》适合学生当作课外读物吗？ 适合初高中学生作为课外泛读材料，篇幅短、语言规范，可积累素材与语感。不过文摘内容较为杂散，若用于应试训练，仍需配合整本书阅读与针对性练习。

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About the author

Readers Magazine Editorial Office Author

Readers Magazine Editorial Office is the editorial and publishing body of the magazine Readers, affiliated with Readers Publishing & Media Co., Ltd. Founded in Lanzhou, Gansu, in April 1981 under the name Reader's Digest, the magazine adopted its current name in 1993. Guided by the principle of drawing widely from Chinese and foreign sources and gathering the finest writing, it selects outstanding articles from home and abroad, covering the humanities, society, daily life and human feeling. Its plain and enduring style has earned it the reputation of a spiritual reader for the Chinese people , and its circulation has long ranked among the leading Chinese periodicals. The database holds 97 titles edited by the office, mostly individual issues from various years. Due to limited public information, its institutional history and staffing are not elaborated here.