Books by Van Loon The Story of the Pacific

Author: (American) Hans Brinker translated by Sun Liang, Xiao Ming
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Publishing Date: 2004-01-01
Features: The psychological climate of China in the 1990s had transitioned from the fervent atmosphere of the 1980s, where emotions and ideals intertwined, to a pragmatic and ambitious era. Reading trends leaned towards knowledge and entertainment. In 1996, the translations of Hans Brinker's The Arts of Man, Conversations with Great Men of the World, and The Life of Bach were published, instantly sparking a sales frenzy. As the planner of this series, I was deeply inspired. The readers praised the books enthusiastically, with reviews focusing on two main points: one was the nostalgia for Hans Brinker, recalling the of reading his works in the 1980s; the other was the intellectual pleasure and light reading enjoyment brought by the new translations of his works. Looking back, another publisher had published The Arts of Man by Hans Brinker in the late 1980s, but it sold almost no copies. The stark contrast between the two publications etches the traces of readers' evolving reading tastes on the annals of time.