World Culture Famous Person Stamp Appreciation Great Illustrated Dictionary. Nobel Prize Winners

Author: Xue Dade, Zhao Xuanwei
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Features: Stamp collecting is a cultural, recreational activity with broad popular appeal. I am not a professional stamp collector, although I am already in my eightieth year and still undertake heavy compilation tasks, with numerous social engagements, I still enjoy stamp collecting. Stamp collecting has indeed brought me much joy in my leisure time, and through interactions with other stamp enthusiasts, I have continuously acquired new knowledge and methods in stamp collecting, further enhancing my interest and proficiency. Recently, the elderly stamp collector Mr. Xue Dade from Shanghai wrote to me, saying that he and four other stamp collectors had co-authored a comprehensive stamp appreciation atlas on world cultural figures, and asked me to write a preface. I have long been engaged in cultural work and am also concerned about the development of stamp culture, so I could not refuse and thus took the liberty of writing a few words here. This stamp appreciation atlas is grand in scale, rich in content, and comprehensive in its categories. Collecting such a large number of stamps, first-day covers, and mailed covers, as well as introducing related knowledge, requires extensive research, a significant investment of time and effort, and considerable financial resources—truly no easy feat. It is an outstanding work in both content and form, serving as both a popular and professional reference; it is both a stamp collecting guide and an excellent resource for art, culture, and history education, making it worthy of recommendation to a broad readership, particularly to fellow stamp enthusiasts and, especially, to young friends. Of course, this atlas primarily uses stamps to help readers gain a certain understanding of world cultural figures. Its role is merely that of a signpost, guiding readers to approach these individuals. To truly delve into their life stories and artistic achievements, one must directly read their works and authoritative biographies and research studies on them to truly enter their inner world, understand their significant role in the history of human civilization, and appreciate their brilliance and greatness. If this atlas can inspire readers to make such attempts, then its achievement would be immense!
This atlas includes nearly three thousand renowned cultural figures from around the world, primarily comprising five major categories: artists, musicians, writers, dramatists and filmmakers, and Nobel Prize laureates (in five volumes), covering important humanities and prominent natural sciences. It combines knowledge with artistic appreciation, not only providing concise introductions to the lives and achievements of cultural figures in text but also, guided by the culture of stamp collecting, showcasing their portraits, works, and other images through rich postage stamp illustrations and relatively rare first-day covers, postal stamps, and maximum cards, making it a visually engaging and informative work.
The arrangement of figures in this atlas follows the geographical order of continents and countries, with adjustments made based on their historical contributions to world civilization. Within the same country, figures are listed in chronological order according to the era in which they lived. In the fifth volume, Nobel Prize laureates are arranged by their award years due to their unique circumstances. For easy reference to the countries, regions, and issuance dates of stamps, this atlas uniformly labels relevant reference text in the upper corners of the stamps. The names of countries are marked according to the names used at the time of issuance. The national affiliations of cultural figures are categorized based on their primary activity periods. World cultural figures are listed with both Chinese translations and their foreign names, while Chinese cultural figures are generally labeled using Pinyin.