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"In Troubled Times, Poor Times" is a legendary work written over the course of a lifetime by Jiang Shumei, a legendary grandmother who only started to become literate at the age of sixty, got rid of her illiterate status, and started learning to write at the age of seventy. It is a unique civilian history in Chinese history, and the first history of troubled and impoverished China written by grassroots people and ordinary people! The irreproducibility of the text makes this book destined to attract intense attention. It tells the story of the Republic of China period, the Anti-Japanese War period, and the "era of chaos and poverty" after the founding of New China that the author personally witnessed over the past hundred years. "Bitter Cauliflower, Sugarcane Sprouts" is Jiang Shumei's second work, a companion piece to "In Troubled Times, Poor Times". It continues the writing style of the first part. The language is popular and concise, with a strong local flavor. It records the stories of the Chinese people that the author has personally heard.

Jiang Shumei's first two books, "Times of Chaos, Times of Poverty" and "Bitter Cauliflower, Sugar Cane Sprouts", both deal with family and state affairs and review China's suffering history in the past century. They are relatively personal memoirs. This book is a pure story book told by an old man. It contains wonderful legends, wonderful folk tales, and all kinds of strange stories, such as talking about foxes and ghosts. It is an authentic collection of folk tales.

"In Troubled Times, Poor Times" is a legendary work written over the course of a lifetime by Jiang Shumei, a legendary grandmother who only started to become literate at the age of sixty, got rid of her illiterate status, and started learning to write at the age of seventy. It is a unique civilian history in Chinese history, and the first history of troubled and impoverished China written by grassroots people and ordinary people! The irreproducibility of the text makes this book destined to attract intense attention. The book is divided into three parts: "Chaos Times", "Poverty Times" and "Family People", which tells the story of the "Chaos and Poverty Era" that the author personally experienced over the past hundred years during the Republic of China, the Anti-Japanese War, and after the founding of New China. The language of the whole book is popular and concise, with a strong local flavor. It is very easy to read, each chapter is wonderful and vivid, and each chapter is thrilling!

After the first book "Chaotic Times, Poor Times" came out, a reader meeting was held in Beijing. There was a girl who wanted to ask me something. She called her grandma and started crying. She cried and said something, but I didn't hear what she said clearly. She was so sad, and I felt sorry for her, so I said, "Child, don't cry when reading my book. Don't shed tears. Everything is over. If there hadn't been so much suffering, I wouldn't have been able to write this book." In my life, I am like a hammer, thick at the ends and thin in the middle. I have experienced too many things.