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- modern urban readers seeking inner peace and emotional management
- readers interested in Eastern philosophy or spiritual cultivation
- lovers of essayistic, contemplative literature
- people who feel anxious or stressed in a fast-paced life and need spiritual solace
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Adhering to the publishing purpose of "broad education," East China Normal University Press extends beyond its three main areas of textbooks, academic works and general-interest books, and its catalogue clearly reflects a vision that bridges Chinese and foreign humanities and social sciences. In foreign literature it offers classics such as Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country and The Old Capital (translated by Chen Dewen), Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, and Rilke's annotated edition of The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (translated by Chen Zao); in architecture, Chen Congzhou's two-volume Appreciation Dictionary of Chinese Gardens; in social psychology, The Social Animal: 12th Edition; and it also includes philosophy titles, traditional-culture works such as the six-volume Paintings for the Protection of Life, and education books. Its authors include renowned Chinese and foreign writers and skilled translators, showing a publishing profile that balances classic translation, scholarly accumulation and public reading. Public information is limited; the above is based only on the books in the catalogue.
Contents
- 版权信息
- 宁静是一种高贵的态度
- 辑一 永远的山 永远的树
- 春节礼赞
- 人生不老水长流
- 永远的山 永远的树
- 平静
- 两个女孩
- 辑二 宁静境界
- 永不厌倦的优美的歌
- 在日常生活的审美中安放身心
- 独处
- 小康与休闲
- 辑三 丽娃河畔
- 丽娃河畔逸事
- 许杰先生
- 率真的人
- 钱谷融的文学情怀、识见和格调
- 何日重现高校作家群
- 校风：高校的“首席教授”
- 虚拟我的大学校园
- 辑四 白如霜雪 坚似磐石
- 诗人瞿秋白
- “现实”与“浪漫”的冲突
- 对革命者人性的深刻表达
- 白如霜雪 坚似磐石
- 认死理
- 迟到的祭奠
- 辑五 人性的探索
- 关于《我的财富在澳洲》的通信
- 贵族精神与平民意识
- 内心生活
- 不要无所畏惧
- 农民的风格与自由的个性
- 难见本色
- 辑六 始终如一的启蒙主义
- 始终如一的启蒙主义、平民情怀和自审意识
- 鲁迅的魅力
- 相通相契的心灵档案
- 中学语文教材中不能没有鲁迅的作品
- 身体力行“五四”精神
- 辑七 文学的力量
- 文学：对现实生存的精神超越
- 文学的社会性与写作的个性化
- 有我与有人
- 两本书支撑我走过半个世纪
- 大学人文精神谈片
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About the author
Wang Tiexian is an author about whom limited public information is available. The only confirmed work is Calm (Pingjing), which is classified under essays and miscellaneous writings. Judging from this work and its category, the writing tends toward the personal essay, observing everyday experience and inner feeling in a plain style; the title Calm also suggests a quiet, restrained emotional tone. Because only one work is held in the collection, nothing can be verified about the author's nationality, dates of birth and death, education, or writing career, and this introduction makes no guesses about them. On the available evidence, Wang Tiexian's profile as a writer remains incomplete; readers wishing to understand the style may begin with Calm and see how it handles the details of life and states of mind within the framework of the personal essay.
