The Talk Show "Open A New World in Books" has already been held for three years. Online live broadcast was adopted for the first time this year.
In this Talk Show, experts from various fields such as literature, film, art, media and others interpreted the relationship between life and reading though speeches, so as to promote reading awareness among people and build a literary society.
Qin Yuan, host of the talk show
Thousands of people watched this Talk Show online through live-broadcasting platforms. This online event presented the in-depth promotion of the reading awareness among all people and the warm moments of smooth communication.
Dancing Dream Millennium
At the request from the majority of the netizens, experts who were invited to the Talk Show were:
Fang Xiangming: Director of Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, the first person who draw line-pictures for cultural relics in Zhejiang province. He participated in the archaeological excavations of many important sites, compiled and published many archaeological reports and academic books as well.
Fang Xiangming, Director of Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology
Zhang Jing: Professor of the School of Literature of Nankai University, deputy director of the Institute of Chinese Poetry and Classical Culture of Nankai University, academic adviser and co-producer of the 33rd Golden Rooster Awards for the best documentary/science and education film The Moon in Hand.
Zhang Jing, Professor of the School of Literature of Nankai University
Jiang Zhenning: Ph.D. of Beijing Normal University, teacher of School of Literature and Journalism of Sichuan University, and one of the first special experts of China Science Fiction Research Center. His work won the Silver Award for Best Non-Fiction at the 11th Chinese Nebula Awards.
Jiang Zhenning, teacher of School of Literature and Journalism of Sichuan University
Jiao Weixin：Professor of the School of Earth and Space Sciences of Peking University, Deputy Director of the Space Exploration Professional Committee of the Chinese Society of Space Research, and member of the speech group which is consisted of "old scientists" from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Jiao Weixin：Professor of the School of Earth and Space Sciences of Peking University
Chen Danyan：Writer, Winner of the UNESCO Literature of Tolerance gold prize, recipient of Special government allowances of the State Council.
Chen Danyan, writer
Ye Zhaoyan：Vice Chairman of Jiangsu Writers Association, Chairman of Nanjing Writers Association.
Ye Zhaoyan, writer
These experts comes from Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Nanjing, Chengdu and Hangzhou. They voiced in different sounds and from different cities, from the origin of the civilization to the culture of poetry, from the science fiction world to the future of science and technology.
Traditional Instrument Playing: A Night of Flowers and Moonlight by the Spring River
With the boundless of the Internet, this Talk Show resonated with the media in the region of the Yangtze River Delta and the six major cities across the country.
Post of the Talk Show
Six experts shared their reading list about their professional fields with the audiences, which led other experts to share books impressing themselves in 2021 as well.
Singing: May We all be Blessed with Longevity
The extraction of "Lucky Dog" is a reserved part of the Talk Show, so there would not be exception this year. An audience whose screen name is “Very Good” got 2022 yuan book coupons this year.
Reading is a relatively private act, but also related to social progress. Our footsteps are temporarily stagnant, but the space and the expression are infinite, so are the curiosity and imagination of the future.
Taking reading as a belief and books as a ritual, the distance between people and people, people and books, people and the world would be decreased into the minimum.
