The Spirit in the World: Wu Qingyuan's Black and White Century

In 1914, a frail and sickly Chinese teenager came into contact with Go by chance. He never imagined that this nineteen-way chessboard would become his ark through the stormy waves of a century. From Fuzhou to Beijing, from his motherland to Japan, Wu Qingyuan's life is a condensed modern history - he used chess as a sword, used "new layout" to innovate Chinese chess theory for thousands of years, and punished the masters of the entire era one by one on the bloody arena of Shiban chess; he also used chess as a mirror, in the cracks between war, nationality and faith, to pursue the "neutral" state that transcends victory and defeat. This is not a myth about a victorious genius, but a story about how a lonely seeker protected the pure black and white in his heart amidst the torrent of time and the storm of his heart, and finally turned it into a star of human wisdom. Every piece that falls on his chessboard is a struggle and reconciliation with fate.