Parting Dreams
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy delicate, sincere essays and hope to reflect on themselves through slow reading
- People currently navigating growing pains or emotional ups and downs who need gentle, companionable writing
- Readers interested in cultural heritage and life-and-health topics who want inspiration from a personal perspective
- Aspiring writers who want to observe how essays distill feeling from everyday experience
Not a good fit for
- Readers who prefer strong plot and fast-paced narrative; this book centers on essays and reflections
- Those expecting systematic theory or practical methods; the book offers mostly personal reflection
- Readers accustomed to finishing a long, continuous story in one go; these individual essays call for slow reading
Reading tips
- Read in the order of Heritage, Emotion, and Growth to first grasp the overall arc, then revisit individual pieces
- Read one or two essays a day and jot down in the margins the lines or questions that move you
- Pause where you feel resonance and write two or three sentences in response, connecting to your own experience to deepen understanding
- Try comparing the book's approaches to living with oneself against your recent life and experiment with them on a small scale
About the publisher
Hangzhou Blue Lion Culture & Creative Co., Ltd. is a cultural institution dedicated to planning and publishing books on finance and business. Its publishing focuses on finance and management while also covering social psychology, history, travel and biography, with 130 titles currently in the catalog. Representative books include The Middle Passage, the Boiling Trilogy: China's Internet 1995–2020 and Everyone Is a Product Manager, as well as Fu Guoyong's Lead and Supporting Roles, The Confidence of Literati and Misunderstandings Deep in History, and Wu Xiaobo's What Kind of Monster Is the Official-Merchant? Its authors include Wu Xiaobo, Lin Jun, Hu Zhe, Su Jie, Fu Guoyong and James Hollis, among Chinese and international writers. In terms of publishing style, it emphasizes accessible and case-based writing on business issues while balancing historical and humanistic perspectives. It should be noted that, apart from the catalog information, public materials on its full publishing history and institutional development are limited.
Contents
- 版权信息
- 序言1：满庭芳·别梦
- 序言2：毫空间里且说“空”
- 序言3：在归途中成长
- 开篇词——陈佳佳：让文化传承，愿生命安康
- 第一篇：传承
- 张氏四姐妹的母亲
- 民国最后才女的朋友圈
- 三三小姐的爱情神话
- “最后的闺秀”都是新女性
- “我只比你大100岁哩！”
- 星斗其文赤子其人
- 榜样是条捷径
- 父女的离别笙箫
- 天空中最亮的星
- 反抗父母的“红孩子”
- 为家族命运带节奏
- 精英家庭如何保持社会地位
- 第二篇：情感
- 新年里的念念碎
- 藏在书里的爱情
- 黄教主的离婚瓜
- 体面离婚三招鲜
- 激情的种种
- 穿越时空的蓝颜知己
- 流金岁月百年孤独
- 侠女“半夏”
- 人生不过《暂坐》
- 笨小孩创《奇迹》
- “太懂了”的张艺谋不要解释
- 左手谷爱凌，右手“铁链女孩”
- 这世界有那么多人
- 唯有香如故
- 菩萨想知道
- 当魔都遇上帝都
- 聪明的上海女人
- 书房是陪伴
- 第三篇：成长
- 穿越时空来看周文王
- 东坡为官
- 东坡为百姓
- 向东坡先生学习养生
- 对抗焦虑的五门功课
- 底色
- 精致利己的专家
- 概率思维
- 事上磨修禅定
- 躺平也挺好
- 计算方法考满分
- 君子用心若镜
- 《梁品》教会我的事
- 直接打动心灵的还是美
- 有趣的时代向我们走来
- 从心尊重生命和身体
- 爱生命的人生命爱你
- 成为有魅力而强大的人
- 你够体面吗？
- 生死的倒叙
- 告别和远方
- 那些女神教我的事
- 衣品即底牌：“你没有披肩，我没有灵魂”
- 命若琴弦
- 按时长大
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About the author
Chen Jiajia is an author about whom only limited public information is currently available; the library holds just one work by this name, a collection of prose and miscellaneous writings titled Bie Meng (Parting Dream). As no clear records have been found regarding nationality, dates of birth and death, educational background, or writing career, this note can only offer a brief account of the existing work. Bie Meng is classified as prose and miscellaneous writings, suggesting a style that combines the essayist's brush with informal notes and reflections. It appears to draw on personal observations, fragments of daily life, and passing thoughts, emphasizing mood and detailed description rather than plot-driven narrative. Such works are usually short and loosely structured, suited to casual reading and apt to resonate with readers through their small, intimate observations. On the available evidence, Chen Jiajia's writing is still at a stage of initial acquaintance with readers, and the full picture of the author's output awaits further material.
