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2020-12-22 07:35:37 GMT2020-12-22 15:35:37(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
BEIJING, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) Four Chinese books and six translated books have been listed as the 10 hottest reads of the year 2020 by Chinese review platform Douban. The Self as Method, co-authored by Xiang Biao, a social anthropology professor at Oxford University, topped the list. It addresses questions that encourage transcending oneself, including thinking about the changes in Chinese society over the past half-century, as well as the community of knowledge, globalization and populism, and anthropological methodology.
The other three Chinese books are a novelette anthology titled Ye Wan De Qian Shui Ting in Chinese, which roughly translates to a submarine at night, by Chen Chuncheng; Out of the Exclusive Truth, a collection of lectures, interviews and opinion pieces from 2007 to 2018 by Chen Jiaying, a contemporary philosopher; and Among the Stans: A Central Asian Journey, a non-fiction b