Long March Rockets
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Editor's review
Its reading value lies in successfully balancing hardcore technology with readability. Readers can learn about rocket subsystem composition, launch procedures, orbital calculations, and other professional knowledge, while also experiencing through concrete personal stories and major events (such as the launch of the Dongfanghong-1 satellite, the manned spaceflight program, and the Chang'e lunar exploration project) the epic of China's space industry growing from nothing to strength. The candid description of failures and setbacks (such as early launch failures) is particularly valuable, revealing the high risks of spaceflight and the true face of unremitting exploration, making the interpretation of the "Long March spirit" fuller and more three-dimensional.
For editors, the book's uniqueness lies in its origin from a children's press yet its substantial content that benefits adult readers as well. It avoids oversimplified child-oriented treatment and the dryness of a pure technical manual; its narrative is grand while its details are solid, making it an excellent introductory and general-readership work on China's space program for a broad national audience. It not only disseminates knowledge but also provides profound edification on innovation, perseverance, and love of country.
Who it's for
A good fit for
- General readers interested in the history of China's space program and technological development
- Space enthusiasts seeking a systematic understanding of the technical evolution of the Long March rocket family
- Young readers (middle school and above recommended) looking for quality reading that combines science and humanity
- Science communicators or educators needing basic general-reference material on China's space sector
Not a good fit for
- Professional researchers seeking advanced papers on cutting-edge rocket technology or the latest unpublished data
- Readers of picture books for very young children expecting comics or extensive illustrations
Reading tips
- Read alongside a China space timeline or documentary to build a more three-dimensional framework of time and events.
- Focus on the historical context and decision-making logic behind each rocket model's development to understand the choice of technical paths.
- Technical descriptions may be skimmed, but chapters on people and key events are worth close reading to appreciate the spiritual core.
About the publisher
Liaoning Children's Publishing House focuses on children's books while also publishing teaching-aid materials and children's periodicals. Its 40 titles in the catalog span inspirational growth, folk literature, parenting, industrial technology and biography. They include the translated work Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse, as well as titles by Yang Qian, Zhou Rui, Zheng Jun and Pang Zhihao. Particularly notable is the "Interesting Peking Opera" series, comprising six volumes such as The Empty City Stratagem, Farewell My Concubine, The White Snake and Wu Song Beats the Tiger, which introduce classic Peking Opera plays to children through pictures and text. This reflects the publisher's strength in adapting traditional culture for young readers. Owing to limited public information, this profile concentrates on the directions shown by the catalog and covers nothing else.
Contents
- 版权信息
- AR使用说明
- 丛书编委会
- 主编简介
- 序
- 第一章 飞天之梦
- 第一节 火箭，从中国起步
- 第二节 现代运载火箭
- 第二章 初试牛刀
- 第一节 长征二号
- 第二节 长征三号
- 第三章 硕果累累
- 第一节 迈入先进行列
- 第二节 回顾辉煌节点
- 第四章 新的长征
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About the author
Zheng Jun, born in Shanghai in 1969, is a science fiction writer, critic and futurist. He graduated from the Department of Education at Tianjin Normal University in 1990 and began publishing science fiction in 1997. His work spans both fiction and critical research, including Disaster Islands, The Web of Life, Human-Shaped Weapons and Critical: High-Tech Crime Investigation. He has received the Global Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Award and has long studied the history and theory of science fiction. Beyond science fiction, he has written popular science and children's books, such as the titles on the Tiangong space station, the Chang'e lunar missions and the Long March rockets in the AR Panorama: Pillars of the Nation series, introducing China's space achievements through combined text and images. His works in the library also cover biographies of military figures, artists and scientists, as well as medicine and parenting, reflecting a broad range of subjects.
Wang Jianbin: public information is limited, and all that is currently known is that he has two works in circulation, covering the fields of science popularization and management, namely Long March Rockets and Folk Wisdom on Management. Judging from his choice of subjects, his writing interests span the natural sciences and practical management, and are aimed at general readers rather than specialists, with a clear orientation toward popularizing knowledge. Long March Rockets falls in the area of aerospace popular science and focuses on launch vehicles as a subject of modern technology; Folk Wisdom on Management turns to management ideas drawn from local experience. One is technical and the other practical, showing an attempt to move between different branches of knowledge. Because there are no reliable records of his life, career, or identity, it is difficult to trace the full course of his writing; based only on these two works, one can say that his style emphasizes introducing knowledge and sorting out experience, with language that strives to be accessible, while his influence awaits further material for clarification.
Zhang Jie is an author with a notably broad range, though public information about him is limited: his nationality, dates of birth and death, and educational background are not clearly recorded, and the library holds 26 of his works. His subjects span art, literature, programming and medicine. They include the five-volume translation Modern Painters, the scholarly survey A History of Twentieth-Century Russian and Soviet Literary Criticism, and compiled or translated classics such as Shakespeare's Classic Stories and Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood. In technical writing he has produced professional guides to data visualization with R, while his medical titles touch on JCI hospital management and the collected clinical experience of Wang Lingxiao. Overall, Zhang Jie comes across as a compiler and writer who moves between the humanities and practical fields, addressing both general readers and specialists with an emphasis on accessible knowledge and readable texts rather than elaborate rhetoric.
