Quitting Drinking

1. Read in a relatively quiet environment so as to fully appreciate the characters' psychological changes
2. Pay some attention to contemporary Korean social context, which helps in understanding the work's social setting
3. While reading, consider the multiple meanings of “dependence,” beyond alcohol itself

Founded in 1986, Hebei Education Press takes education and academic and cultural publishing as an important direction, with books covering history, theory, literary appreciation and biography. Judging from the 35 titles in the database, the press attends both to in-depth interpretations of Chinese history and literature—such as Wu Liyu's Salt and the Tang Empire: Salt Law, Finance and National Revival in the Tang Dynasty and Liu Yiqing's Sitting and Watching the Water and Clouds: A Biographical Sketch of Shen Congwen—and to systematically introducing the collections of art museums around the world, including the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, the National Gallery in London, the Pushkin Museum in Moscow and the Galleria Nazionale di Parma. Its authors include Gao Jin, Wu Yundi, Liu Yuchen, Li Min, Lin Ziming and Song Yutian. Public information is limited, so its series planning and publishing features cannot yet be further described.