Dandu (Volumes 01–10)

Xu Zhiyuan / 肖海生 / Guo Yujie / 衷声Guangxi Normal University Press2016

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Series: One-Way Street

Summary

Dandu (Volumes 01–10) collects the first ten issues of the magazine-book series Dandu. The first five issues were originally titled One-Way Street; from the sixth issue onward the series was renamed Dandu. The ten issues are One-Way Street 001: The Most Stupid Generation?; One-Way Street 002: Is the Avant-Garde Dead?; One-Way Street 003: Complexity·Sex; One-Way Street 004: Elsewhere; One-Way Street 005: The Age of Anti-Intellectualism; Dandu 06: Escape·Return; Dandu 07: The Pain of the Bystander; Dandu 08: The Wanderer; Dandu 09: Patience; and Dandu 10: The Age of Anxiety. It continues the founding motto of "record, explore, criticize," using columns such as topics, interviews, reportage, photography, essays, and salons to document the social moods, cultural phenomena, and real circumstances of ordinary people at the time: the first issue asks whether the internet and electronic devices are making the younger generation stupider; the second asks, through theater, rock, and independent film, whether the "avant-garde" still exists; the third discusses sex and the complex moral situations of daily life; the fourth treats cities such as Jerusalem, Venice, Tokyo, and New York as coordinates for understanding the world; the fifth moves from campaign culture and Apple's design philosophy to "anti-intellectualism"; and issues six through ten take up escape and return, the bystander's predicament, wandering, patience, and anxiety. Contributors include established names such as Xu Zhiyuan, Leung Man-tao, Zhang Dachun, Dai Jinhua, Li Haipeng, and Zhang Tonghe, as well as many young reporters, scholars, and photographers. The writing shifts between long-form reportage, in-depth interviews, and intellectual essays, and can be seen as a cross-section of Chinese public writing from 2009 to 2015.

Editor's review

这套合集的价值，在于它保留了《单读》最早十年的样子。2009年创刊时，它把自己定位成“以非虚构报道、评论、摄影作品为主”的杂志书，栏目固定、作者阵容豪华，连黄永玉、许倬云、戴锦华、梁文道这样的人物都出现在创刊号里；到第六辑改名《单读》后，开本和装帧换了，关注点也从“知识分子如何自我表达”慢慢转向“知识分子的表达如何与更广泛的社会情绪相遇”。十辑连读，正好能看到这个过程：从《最愚蠢的一代？》对互联网的焦虑，到《焦虑的年代》把焦虑直接写进主题；从《先锋已死？》对文化先锋性的追问，到《耐心》里对慢、对重复、对一生只做一件事的人的打量。每一辑都围绕一个关键词组织，话题、访谈、影像、随笔分工清楚，读起来像一期专题杂志，又比杂志更有分量。今天回过头看，书里不少判断已经被时间验证，也有一些说法明显带着那个年代的乐观或急躁，这种“不完美”恰是它作为时代记录的价值。对想了解中国MOOK出版史、非虚构写作脉络，或者只是想看看十年前大家在想什么的读者，这套书都值得慢慢翻。

Who it's for

A good fit for

喜欢《读库》《正午故事》等杂志书，习惯碎片化深度阅读的读者
对社会文化评论、非虚构报道和长篇访谈感兴趣的人
想了解2009—2015年中国公共写作与青年文化面貌的读者
写作爱好者，可以从里面的报道和特稿中学习选题与结构

Not a good fit for

只想读完整长篇小说的读者，这里的文本多为短篇报道与随笔
希望得到系统理论或教科书式知识的人，各辑之间没有严密体系
对十年前的话题语境没有兴趣、只关心当下热点的读者

Reading tips

不必按顺序读，可以先挑自己感兴趣的主题词，比如《耐心》《焦虑的年代》或《他乡》，单篇读完再回头看前后几辑。
每辑的序言和栏目设置值得读完，它们能说明这一期为什么要做这个话题。
把同一主题分散在不同辑里的文章对照着读，比如“互联网”“青年”“城市”，能看出十年间讨论口径的变化。
读到具体人物和事件时，可以顺手查一下后续，很多人和事已经在这十年里有了新的结局。

About the publisher

Guangxi Normal University Press China · Founded in 1986

Guangxi Normal University Press is a publisher known for literature, foreign literature and history titles. Its 1,175 books in the database show a solid accumulation in classics and prose collections, including foreign literary works such as Les Fleurs du mal: Annotated Poems of Baudelaire, Snow Country, Dubliners and The Wild Palms, as well as modern prose compilations like The Complete Prose of Zhou Zuoren. History and philosophy also hold a notable share, with titles such as Running Dogs: Clerks and Runners in Qing County Yamen and The History and Thought of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom reflecting attention to Qing local administration and modern history. In art literature there is the 16-volume Ten Bamboo Studio Painting and Calligraphy Manual. Its author resources include foreign writers Charles Baudelaire and Yasunari Kawabata, translators and annotators Liu Nanqi and Zou Bo, and scholars such as Zhong Shuhe, Bradly W. Reed and You Chenjun. As public information is limited, this characterization is based only on the books in the database, which together present a profile balancing Chinese and foreign literary classics with academic works in the humanities and social sciences.

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FAQ

《单读（01-10）》是十本实体书还是一本合集？

这里说的“01-10”指《单读》系列前十辑的电子合集，收录从《单向街001：最愚蠢的一代？》到《单读10：焦虑的年代》共十辑内容。纸本上它们是十册独立的杂志书，最初分别由凤凰出版社、宁夏人民出版社、甘肃人民美术出版社和广西师范大学出版社出版。

为什么前五辑叫《单向街》，后面叫《单读》？

《单向街》2009年创刊，2014年从第6辑起更名为《单读》，封面标识也从“记录、探索、批评”调整为“记录、探索、审美”，内容上把虚构（小说、诗歌）固定为栏目，装帧由软精装改为平装。所以前十辑其实是同一个系列的前后两个阶段。

没读过《单读》可以从这一套入门吗？

可以，而且这套前十年合集比追新刊更适合入门：它涵盖创刊号到第十辑，主题从互联网、先锋文化、城市到耐心与焦虑，能快速建立对这套杂志书风格和栏目结构的整体印象，之后再决定是否跟进后面的辑数。

每辑之间需要按顺序读吗？

不需要。每一辑围绕一个独立主题组织，栏目结构相似但文章互不依赖，可以按兴趣跳读。不过如果按顺序读，会更容易看出主编更替（许知远、肖海生、衷声、吴琦等）带来的选题和文体变化。

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About the author

Xu Zhiyuan Author · Chinese · 1976

Xu Zhiyuan, born in Jiangsu in 1976, graduated from the Department of Computer Science at Peking University. He is a writer and publisher, one of the founders of One Way Space, and is known to a wider audience as the host of the interview program Shisan Yao. His writing spans social culture, essays, and travel sketches, showing a broad outlook and often reflecting on the times and the individual's situation. The library holds seven of his works, including Patience, The Pain of the Bystander, and The Wanderer from the Du Du series; Complexity and The Pioneer Is Dead from the One Way Street series; plus Nostalgia for Journalism and Culture Figures on the World: Travel Essays (5 volumes). These works cover diverse subjects, combining reflections on journalism with records of walking and observing the world, and their style blends the ease of the essay with the edge of commentary.

肖海生 Author

Xiao Haisheng is an author in the field of Chinese book publishing who has been involved in editorial and introductory work. Public information about him is limited, and his name appears mainly in connection with the Paris Review series and the One-Way Street (Dandu) journals. Four of his works are held in the collection: Paris Review: Interviews with Women Writers and the Paris Review Special Series (4 volumes), as well as Dandu 09: Patience and Dandu 08: The Wanderer. These works suggest that his focus is on translating and introducing foreign literary interviews and essays, and on editing humanities journals. The subjects cover writers' reflections on craft, literary ideas and observations on contemporary culture, and are commonly classified under essays and miscellaneous writings and classic works. His editorial and translation work gives Chinese readers access to the voices of important contemporary writers and offers readable texts for the spread of the essay and interview forms.

衷声 Author

Public information about Zhong Sheng is limited. At present, only one work is known to be associated with the author: Single Read 10: The Age of Anxiety, which is often classified under politics. Centered on the theme of "the age of anxiety," the book likely presents, in the form of essays or commentary, the connection between the psychological state of contemporary people amid social change and public issues, reflecting an observation of the mood of the times. Zhong Sheng's writing tends toward reflection and commentary, paying attention to entering a broader social context from personal feelings, so that readers can re-examine their own situation while reading. Because information such as the author's biography, nationality, and dates of birth and death is not found in the library records, it is difficult to describe the author's background and creative trajectory in detail; based only on the existing work, Zhong Sheng is a writer who pays attention to reality and responds to the problems of the times through writing.