Culture: Limited culture

List of works in this issue:
music
First year: "Northern School" - Huizi/Baldy 2z
Super Brother: Tin Lover The Paper Kites
Starlight: Shanghai at Night - Zhou Xuan
film
Brother Chao: There's Tomorrow
Starlight: Top Secret Recipe
First year: French Hotpot, Interest Area
TV play
Starlight: Shogun
Freshman: Days Related to Youth
Brother Chao: Essays on Fortress Besieged
book
First year: The End of the Long Day - Ishiguro
Super Brother: How to Be a Father - Michael J. Diamond
Starlight: Cui Yutao's Childcare Encyclopedia - Cui Yutao
Episode: Indigo Factory
Trailer: Northern School
Anchor: Starlight/Super Brother/freshman

In this program, we read the mystery novel No One Lives, written by Agatha Christie.
No One Lives, published in 1939, is a mystery novel of Agatha Christie, a famous British writer, and one of the most famous works in her career. It is considered to be one of the most successful mystery novels in history. In the first edition, the title of the book was Ten Little Blacks. Later, it was renamed Ten Little Indians and finally changed to its current name. "No one survived" is one of the representative works of the "Storm Villa" and "Children's Ballad Killing" models. Since its inception, it has been adapted into film and television, drama, animation, games and other art forms, and is widely loved and respected by readers.
Agatha Christie (1890-1976) is known as the queen of detective stories. In her lifetime, she wrote 80 detective stories and short story collections, 19 plays, and 6 romantic love novels published under the pseudonym "Mary Westmcourt". According to statistics, Agatha Christie is the best-selling writer in human history, whose total sales volume is second only to the Bible and Shakespeare's works.
Her most famous play, The Mousetrap, was put on the stage in 1952 and has been performed continuously since then, setting the record for the longest consecutive performance in the history of world drama. In 1971, Agatha Christie was knighted by the Queen of England.
You will hear:
1. The outline of the story and the adaptation of No One Lives.
2. The life of Agatha Christie.
3. Reading experience, compared with other detective mystery novels.
4. How to treat the evaluation of "imprecision" and "hard injury"?
5. Share wonderful clips.
6. Is the arrangement of the dead in the story related to their identity? What are the inspirations after reading this book? Is it meaningful to read mystery novels?
Opening song: Xiangtang
And Then There We None
Anchor: Starlight/Super Brother/freshman

In this program, we read the novel "Beautiful New World" by Aldous Huxley.
"Beautiful New World" is as famous as "1984" and "We". It is one of the "representative works of dystopian novels". It was published in 1932, 16 years earlier than "1984". The story of the novel is set around the 26th century AD. In this new world in the future, the "human" nature has disappeared. Under the control of advanced and rigorous scientific means, human beings are forced to obey the life that has been predestined from birth to death. Social strata, jobs, life patterns, interests, hobbies, emotional thinking and even physiological instincts are strictly controlled and do not need literature, art Science, history, sexual morality without mutual responsibility become legitimate entertainment to paralyze oneself, and emotional problems are solved with hallucinogens. Human relations such as "family", "love", "parents" and so on have become historical terms. The motto of the new world society is "society, identity, stability".
The Beautiful New World shows Huxley's vision of the future of human society: through the most effective scientific and psychological engineering, human beings have become completely tame machines, personality and freedom have been strangled, and literature and art are on the verge of destruction. It is a question whether to choose pain or happiness.
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), an outstanding British novelist, poet, essayist, critic and playwright, is a famous humanist. He is famous for his novels and a large number of prose works. He also publishes travel notes, film stories and plays. In his novels and essays, Huxley acted as an interrogator of social morality, standards and ideals, ranking among the most outstanding intellectuals at that time.
You will hear:
1. The story setting, plot and characters of Beautiful New World.
2. A brief introduction to the life of the author, Aldous Huxley.
3. What are the similarities and differences between comparative reading and 1984?
4. Share wonderful clips.
5. How to understand the ending of John the Savage? What science fiction settings are being experienced or may be encountered in the future?
6. What is happiness?
Opening song: Bai Xi
Trailer: Iron Maiden - Brave New World (2015 Remaster)
Anchor: freshman/super brother/star

In this program, we read the novel 1984 by George Orwell.
1984, written in 1948, is a great political allegory and social science fiction, as well as one of the three representative anti Utopian novels. It depicts a suffocating, terrifying, despairing and painful totalitarian society with the ultimate goal of chasing power. It suppresses people's thoughts and instincts by extreme means such as changing history, creating language, breaking family structure, using lies and high-tech monitoring, and maintains social operation by worshiping leaders and hating domestic and foreign enemies. Through the life details of ordinary people living in it, the evil essence of totalitarianism, the deprived humanity and the high alienation of people are projected. Since its inception, it has had a profound impact on the language, literature, political system, thought, business and other fields in the real world, and has also been listed as prohibited books in many countries.
George Orwell (1903-1950), whose real name is Eric Arthur Blair, is a British writer, journalist and social critic. His works are characterized by sharp social criticism and opposition to totalitarianism. Animal Manor and 1984 are Orwell's masterpieces handed down from generation to generation. He satirizes the totalitarian society and power seekers who have lost human nature with his acrimonious brushwork. The allegory of totalitarianism in the novel has also been verified with the real historical facts since its publication. In addition, he also created works including literary criticism, poetry and satirical news.
You will hear:
1. The story outline, setting and creation background of 1984.
2. George Orwell's life.
3. What can be read beyond satirizing and criticizing the totalitarian system?
4. Why does a fictional novel give people a real feeling of intense suffocation, terror and despair?
5. Share wonderful clips.
6. How to understand whether the leading character at the end said, "I love Big Brother", it was a surrender or a temporary compromise? "Are closed-circuit television, the Internet and mobile phones the new big brothers?" Is it possible for us to get rid of the ending predicted by the novel? Is the future of mankind pessimistic or optimistic?
Opening song: Bai Xi
Trailer: David Bowie - Big Brother (2016 Remaster)
Anchor: Super Brother/Starlight/freshman

In this program, we read the novel "Sunlight Flowing Time" by Yan Lianke.
Sunlight Liunian, published in 1998, tells a story of struggling to survive for decades: there is a small village in the deep of Palou Mountain, where Sima, Du and Lan families live, so it is called Sanxing Village. There is a strange thing in this village. Everyone will not live to be 40 years old. Before that, they will die of "throat blockage". This village can't be found on the map, and most people don't know there is such a village. The biggest dream of the three surnamed villagers is to live beyond the age of 40. In order to achieve this goal, the four generations of village leaders with Sima Lan as the clue led the villagers to make successive struggles, bitter and futile efforts and sacrifices. This is a journey covered with blood, leaving many bones, tears and sweat along the way, but still unable to get rid of the fatalistic death.
Yan Lianke (1958 -), a Chinese writer, is a professor at the School of Literature, Renmin University of China. Since his creation in 1979, some of his works have been translated into nearly 30 languages and widely read around the world. Because he is one of the most controversial writers in China, some of his novels, essays and speeches are banned in mainland China. He has won the 2014 Kafka Award, and is the second Asian writer to win this award after Haruki Murakami. His representative works include Shou Huo, Ding Zhuang Meng, Bang San Zhi, etc.
You will hear:
1. What keywords do you think of when talking about rural areas? What works have you seen that "shaped the concept of China's rural areas"?
2. Introduction to works and authors.
3. This book has a very obvious "Yan Lianke flavor". What is the experience of reading it? What's the difference with Mo Yan's works?
4. Share wonderful clips.
5. What attitude should I use to read the works of "one of the most controversial writers in China"? How to view these disputes?
Opening song: Bai Xi
Trailer: Xiangtang
Anchor: Starlight/Super Brother/freshman

In this program, we read the science fiction novel The Eternal End, written by Isaac Asimov.
The End of Eternity, completed in 1955, is an excellent text about time travel. In the setting of this story, human beings invented the time force field in the 24th century, mastered the time travel technology in the 27th century, and established an organization called "Eternal Time and Space" to silently guard the development of human society behind each century through "eternal people". Eternal space and time monitor, analyze, calculate and implement social changes as needed for general space and time, correct past mistakes, nip all possible disasters in the bud, so as to avoid harm to future human society, and thus human beings have a safe future. But is this "absolute safety" really good for human beings? Will the emergence and closure of the causal chain swallow up the fate of all mankind?
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992), born in Soviet Russia, is an American Jewish popular science writer, science fiction novelist, and professor of biochemistry. The world's top science fiction writer, one of the representatives of the golden age of American science fiction. Hugo Award, the highest honor in science fiction, and "Master Award" for Xingyun Lifetime Achievement. Together with Robert Heinlein and Arthur Clark, they are called the "Big Three" of science fiction. Representative works include "Base Series", "Galaxy Empire Series", "Robot Series", etc.
You will hear:
1. How to view the "science fiction fever" in recent years?
2. A brief introduction to Asimov's life and works.
3. Which setting in this book is impressed?
4. What is the difference from other time travel works? Some people say that it is a love story in the second grade. Do you agree?
5. Share wonderful clips.
6. Recommend science fiction works talked about in the program to friends who are not science fiction fans.
Episode: Indigo Factory
Trailer: Xiangtang
Anchor: freshman/super brother/star