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"The Art of Being Governed" is based on the coastal guard station of the Ming Dynasty. It analyzes the interaction between military households and the government under the Ming Dynasty's hereditary military household system. It focuses on describing and summarizing how military households with military service obligations seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and develop various strategies to optimize their own situation. They neither blatantly defied authority nor obeyed, but operated in the "middle zone" between resistance and obedience in order to minimize the costs and maximize the benefits. This book is divided into three parts, telling the lives of Fujian military households in their hometown, guard station and military camp respectively. A major feature of this book is that it uses a large number of family trees, local chronicles, oral histories and other folk materials to tell many interesting stories that happened in the lives of military households. Real and vivid cases, supplemented by rigorous and detailed examination, constitute this social history book that tells the history of the people themselves. "The House of the Dead: The Siberian Exile System during the Tsarist Rule" Siberia was known as the "Great Prison without a Roof." From the early 19th century until the Russian Revolution, the tsarist regime exiled more than 1 million prisoners and their families to Siberia east of the Ural Mountains. This book vividly portrays the history of common criminals and political radicals, the victims of serfdom and village politics, the wives and children who followed their husbands and fathers, and the history of fugitives and bounty hunters. Drawing on a wealth of previously unknown primary sources from European Russian and Siberian archives, this book tells the story of Tsarist Russia's struggle to govern its horrific penal colonies and Siberia's significant influence on political power in the modern world.