New Titles Tuesday, September 17

Here is a selection of print books recently added to the collection – including a sample of Chinese language titles from our Chinese Collection.

 Gently to Nagasaki /Joy Kogawa. Gently to Nagasaki is a spiritual pilgrimage, an exploration both communal and intensely personal. Set in Vancouver and Toronto, the outposts of Slocan and Coaldale, the streets of Nagasaki and the high mountains of Shikoku, Japan, it is also an account of a remarkable life. Interweaving the events of her own life with catastrophes like the bombing of Nagasaki and the massacre by the Japanese imperial army at Nanking, she wrestles with essential questions like good and evil, love and hate, rage and forgiveness, determined above all to arrive at her own truths. Poetic and unflinching, this is a long awaited memoir from one of Canada’s most distinguished literary elders.

 The next age of uncertainty: how the world can adapt to a riskier future /Stephen Poloz. Former Governor of the Bank of Canada, Poloz, demonstrates, using examples from previous cycles of boom and bust,  that major crises occur when several forces converge, like tectonic plates. When the built-up energy is released, the result is an economic crisis. Whether we are barreling towards another financial crisis depends on how the current stresses are handled. Using examples from the last 150 years of economic history, Poloz explains ideas sophisticated enough for institutional investors and policymakers in language accessible enough for general readers who are just worried about renewing their mortgages in a climate of fluctuating interest rates. Highly readable and from an acclaimed economist, The Next Age of Uncertainty will be an indispensable guide to the turbulent decades ahead.

Recent publications in the Chinese Collection

Ao gu si ding = On Augustine / Sha lun M. kai (Sharon M. Kay), Bao luo Tang mu sen (Paul Thomson) 

 Bu kuan rong de xin yang?: Jidu jiao yu duo yuan zhu yi de dui hua = Intolerance of tolerance /Ka sen (D.A. Carson).

By Faith They Did It: Beijing Christian Student Association and Chinese Christian Evangelistic Band. The Beijing Christian Students’ Union and the Chinese Christian Missionary Society are two different Christian groups. They both were established in 1947, formed spontaneously by believers and were not affiliated with any missionary organizations or sectarian denominational. They both experienced the turmoil by the transfer of power and both ended in 1955 under the political persecution because they refused to participate in the Three-self Movement. Studying these two Christian groups can help us to understand concretely how the Chinese government used the church reformers as an excuse to completely suppress and transform Christianity in the early days of liberation and how brutally persecuted  were those who refused to submit.

Huo she: La Mei xin jiao de ju bian = Tongues of fire  : the explosion of Protestantism in Latin America / Dawei Mading (David Martin) Zhu; Liang Xinxin . 

Qiu gao zhu ming: he hu sheng jing de dao gao shen xue = Calling on the name of the Lord /Gairui Mile (J. Gary Millar)