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The Broken Candle of Jinling: the Emperor's Desire in the Embers of the Forbidden City
In 1645, the reverberations of Chongzhen's suicide still lingered, and the lights of Nanjing's Ming Palace were still swaying in a state of ecstasy. Emperor Hongguang was obsessed with the draft, and Ma Shiying, Qian Qianyi and others pursued their own interests and used the four towns in Jiangbei and the safety of the people as bargaining chips. Only the blood on the city walls of Yangzhou and the perseverance in the alleys of Jiangyin sustained a trace of strength in the troubled times. Chen W
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Jiangyin Beacon Fire: the Unyielding Sound in the Bloodshed of Mountains and Rivers
"On the 81st of the Jiangyin War, one hundred thousand people died with one heart and one mind." This is not only a story of military resistance, but also a tragic song of cultural dignity. When the order of the old dynasty collapsed, a group of small people spontaneously took up the moral banner of Chinese civilization. Their choices defined what "human" dignity is. This book unfolds from the perspective of an ordinary person in Jiangyin City in the late Ming Dynasty, telling the story of Jiang
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