How to Be a Cat

★Cat Sounds and Cat Colors, a book of stylistic experiments with both text and pictures★A handheld exploration guide for cat lovers★Ingenious cultural surveys and unique spiritual explorations★As irresistible as catnip Cats should look down upon the universe!
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◎People and Animals, Nature and Cities, Men and Women◎Philosophy, Culture, Crime, Psychology◎Wang Min'an, He Ping, Chen Zishan Sincerely recommend
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【Editor's Recommendation】
In Sun Dong's writing, cats are both independent individuals and metaphors for human society. Through her interactions with cats, she reveals many of the perplexities of modern society: human anxiety, loneliness, the desire for order, and the pursuit of freedom. As Roland Barthes observed, reading is a form of exploration, and in How to Be a Cat, readers explore the complexities of human emotion and society through the perspective of a cat.
※ The illustrator Zhu Rui started painting in 2021. Interestingly, Zhu Rui, who loves to paint cats, has no experience of raising cats herself. The elf-like cats in her paintings, as she said, "come from my imagination. As long as I want, they can appear in any corner of the house at any time."
※ The binding is carefully created by Zhou Weiwei, a well-known designer who has repeatedly won the honor of "China's Most Beautiful Book", and comes with an exquisite white card - "A Thought of Humanity".
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【Book Introduction】
This book is a collection of cultural essays illustrated with over fifty exquisite and engaging cat paintings. Through the medium of cats, it blends philosophical, sociological, and psychological perspectives, offering us a new way of looking at the world. Cats exist not only as companions but also as reflections on human lifestyles and psychological states. By using cats as the subject of writing (and painting), observing their behavior and the interactions between humans and cats, this book explores various aspects of contemporary society, as well as the relationships between humans and animals, nature and cities, and men and women. "How to Be a Cat" is more than just a collection of essays; it is an attempt to re-understand the world through the eyes of a cat.
Through this book, we can reflect on the relationship between humans and animals and seek a more harmonious attitude towards life in an ever-changing world. This is exactly what "How to Be a Cat" wants to convey: from the uniqueness of cats, we learn how to accept ourselves and others, and ultimately find a balanced life.
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【Expert Recommendation】
A book of stylistic experimentation, a book neither inside nor outside the academy—a book I believe cats would appreciate being discussed in this way. Rich, introspective, and witty. (Wang Min'an, Professor at Tsinghua University)
This book, covering poetry, film, philosophy, painting, and cultural criticism, is as irresistible as catnip. It offers cutting-edge scholarship, cultural investigation, personal narrative, and spiritual exploration. (He Ping, Professor at Nanjing Normal University)
This is a book about cats, richly illustrated and captioned. Cat lovers, how do you become a cat? This intriguing question will have surprising answers in this book. (Chen Zishan, Professor at East China Normal University)

2025-04-10

南京大学出版社

Nanjing University Press·Watchman

352

9787305284243