Jianghu
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Summary
A single book that teaches you how to conduct yourself, guard against others, and lead them. "Those who walk the jianghu value three kinds of hardness: a hard backer in official circles, hard connections on the road, and hard skills in oneself." — Guo Degang, Jianghu. To walk the jianghu, what depth, cunning, and vision do you need? Watch Guo Degang discuss history over wine, as a jianghu boss holds forth on the jianghu, distilling the underlying logic of Chinese-style relationship society from official histories, anecdotes, and folk tales! "Waves surging within, spring colors on the face—this is the jianghu."
Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Cultural observers interested in the human relations and unspoken rules of traditional Chinese society
- Readers who want a non-academic perspective on the underlying logic of how Chinese society works
- Fans who admire Guo Degang's language art and want to understand his intellectual world more deeply through his writing
- Professionals in sales, management, public relations, and other fields requiring frequent interpersonal interaction
Not a good fit for
- Readers expecting a conventionally plotted full-length novel
- Those who reject street-level culture and seek purely refined, highbrow literary experience
Reading tips
- Best treated as a collection of social and cultural essays; read by chapter, pausing to reflect on what you have seen yourself
- Set aside modern value assumptions for a while and try entering the "jianghu" perspective described in the book
- Most cases come from the traditional performing-arts world; read them as a slice of a particular cultural circle
About the publisher
Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House is a publisher known for its literary titles, with a catalogue spanning foreign literature, world classics, classical Chinese literature, essays and miscellaneous writings, and mystery and detective fiction. Judging from the more than 1,100 books in the database, the press publishes foreign classics such as Crime and Punishment, Snow Country, The Complete Sherlock Holmes and Letter from an Unknown Woman, as well as Chinese classical and modern literary works including Lu Xun's Wandering and A Madman's Diary and Wu Jingzi's The Scholars. In terms of translators and authors, translations by Cao Guowei and Tan Jinghua appear in its foreign literature titles, and the authors involved include Dostoevsky, Kawabata Yasunari, Conan Doyle and Zweig. Its publishing character lies in introducing Chinese and foreign literary classics side by side, balancing popular and serious works and attending to both readability and literary value. Public information is limited; the above is a brief overview based solely on the books in the database.
Contents
- 版权信息
- 我有故事，你有酒吗？
- 01 合吾一声镖车走，半年江湖平安回
- 02 护镖法则：镖局业务的套路与反套路
- 03 镖师信条：只要我的镖，不要你的人
- 04 刺配：洗不掉的“文身”，抹不去的耻辱
- 05 中国古代酷刑：带你见识地狱级痛苦
- 06 古代皇帝们弄巧成拙的“谣言扑灭大作战”
- 07 历代选妃记：秀女的素质，决定后宫的架势
- 08 谁说只有“红颜”才能做祸水？
- 09 武则天的皇帝老公李治：窝囊这黑锅，我不背！
- 10 李治和武则天：皇帝和小后妈的恩怨情仇
- 11 御用美男子的诞生：深宫“面首”二三事
- 12 武皇的面首不认输：爱你，也爱你的江山
- 13 清帝：听说你们羡慕朕的御膳？其实朕只想好好吃个饭！
- 14 那些让朕忘不掉也放不下的厨子和美食
- 15 在脸上花的心思，古人不输现代
- 16 国民“瘾”品：专注喝茶两千年
- 17 陈世美：千古渣男标签“撕是不撕”？
- 18 大宋人民的现代化生活
- 19 宋朝百姓的“小资生活”：宋人度闲余 ——“逛吃，夜嗨，吸猫”
- 20 叶天士：我的一生只想救人，不想当“神”
- 21 中国富豪榜：四位大佬站了三千多年的“C位”
- 22 民族英雄：你所不知道的嚯嚯嚯嚯霍元甲
- 23 你们这些皇上：负了美人，也负了才子（一）
- 24 你们这些皇上：负了美人，也负了才子（二）
- 25 你们这些皇上：负了美人，也负了才子（三）
FAQ
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About the author
Guo Degang, born in Tianjin in 1973, is a Chinese crosstalk performer, film and television actor, and host, as well as the founder of the Deyunshe troupe. He began learning traditional storytelling at the age of eight and later turned to crosstalk, studying under Hou Yaowen. In 1996 he founded Deyunshe and has long devoted himself to performing and promoting crosstalk on stage, helping this traditional folk art form regain wide attention; in 2013 he appeared for the first time on CCTV's Spring Festival Gala. Beyond performing, he is an active writer, with 19 works in the collection, spanning biography, essays and miscellaneous writings, history, and folk literature. His writing draws on stage experience, reading, and observations of human affairs, with a humorous, brisk style steeped in colloquial speech and the flavor of storytelling, making it easy and rewarding to read and giving him considerable influence among both crosstalk fans and general readers.
