由Judith Farquhar（冯珠娣）和张其成合著的英文著作Ten Thousand Things: Nurturing Life in Contemporary Beijing中文版《万物·生命——当代北京的养生》已由生活·读书·新知三联书店出版发行。

2019年5月30日，芝加哥大学北京中心将举行中文版新书发布会。

养生不仅是身心投入，而且是完全参与。养生不仅连接着中国文化，还连接着生命生活。欢迎大家前来听取两位作者，人类学家冯珠娣和中医哲学家张其成对《万物》一书的介绍，谈论他们关于养生、关于当代北京生活的认识与体会。

2019年5月30日（周四）17:30

芝加哥大学北京中心

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议程

17:30

三联出版社售书

冯珠娣、张其成两位作者签名

18:30 – 19:30

新书发布会

招待会

《万物·生命——当代北京的养生》从多方面论及当代北京养生这个庞大、多样态的现象。该书强调养生活动充实和改变城市空间的方法，触及一些推动养生运动持续形成的大众文学，也述及最拥护养生的后革命一代的日常生活和价值。该书同时提供了一些让养生现象更具持久意义的哲学资源以供人思考。通篇来说，该书的目的是让大家听到在北京的大街上和公园里回荡着的声音——那个与变化多端的古老形而上学相符的现代积极分子的声音；品读当代都市中国人的各种喜好、快乐和自律。这本书的主题是生活，但不是生活本身——而是现代的生活，中国人的生活，公园的生活，社会和政治的生活，心灵的生活，精神的活力，健康或疾病的身体的生活，家庭的生活，养生的生活。正如养生文献不断对我们说的那样，万物的形状和变化数以万计：生生化化。任何事物的意义——只要它以相当的运气、技巧和决心持续着——都聚集、集中、和谐于万物之道。

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Ten Thousand Things: Nurturing Life in Contemporary Beijing takes a variety of routes into the large and diverse phenomenon that is life nurturing, or yangsheng, in contemporary Beijing. It emphasizes the ways in which yangsheng activity fills and transforms the space of the city.  It reads some of the popular literature that has given shape to an ongoing yangsheng movement.  It makes acquaintance with the daily lives and values of the postrevolutionary generation that most enthusiastically embraces life nurturance.  And it offers reflection some of the philosophical resources and challenges that make more lasting sense of yangsheng phenomena.  Throughout, the aim is to hear, echoing through the streets and parks of Beijing, the voice of a distinctly modern activism chartered by a protean ancient metaphysics; to read the tastes, pleasures, and disciplines of contemporary urbanities as deliberate and deliberative; and to allow cultured Chinese bodies to resonate with concerns of human embodiment anywhere.  The theme is life, but not life itself-rather, it is modern life, Chinese life, park life, social and political life, the life of the mind, spirited liveliness, the life of healthy or ailing bodies, family life, lives well nurtured.  As the life-nurturing literature keeps telling us, the shapes and currents of the myriad things number then thousand upon ten thousand: birth upon birth, transformation upon transformation.  The meaning of any particular thing – as long as it lasts, and with considerable luck, skill, and determination – is gathered, centered, and harmonized with the Way things go. 

The Chinese translation of Ten Thousand Things: Nurturing Life in Contemporary Beijing by Judith Farquhar and Qicheng Zhang was recently published by San Lian with the title of 《万物·生命——当代北京的养生》.

On May 30, 2019, a special book launch event will be held at the University of Chicago Center in Beijing. 

Yangsheng is not just a mental or bodily commitment, but a total participation; it is a form of attachment – not just to Chinese culture, but to the living of life.  Come to join anthropologist Judith Farquhar and traditional Chinese medicine scholar and philosopher Qicheng Zhang for their introduction to the book and sharing their understanding of yangsheng and modern life in Beijing. 

17:30, Thursday, May 30, 2019

University of Chicago Center in Beijing

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Agenda

17:30

Book sale by San Lian and signing by the two authors

18:30 – 19:30

Book launch

Reception