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A self-selected collection of Yan Geling's novels, the main work is "Heavenly Bath", a film of the same name starring Li Xiaolu, which won 7 Taiwan Golden Horse Awards and the American Society of Film Critics Award. Li Xiaolu, who was 16 years old at the time, won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress, the Paris International Film Festival and other awards for this film. However, the film was not released in China. This self-selected collection of short stories and short stories mainly tells various stories that happened in special times. The titles include 7 short and medium-length novels, including "Heavenly Bath", "The Falling River", "The Actor", "Ugliness Trial", "The Death of the Second Lieutenant", "The Old Prisoner" and "The Love Dog". The main title "Heavenly Bath" tells the story of Wenxiu, a female educated youth who desperately wants to return to the city, and Lao Jin, a local Tibetan. Wenxiu sold his body just to return to the city, but Wenxiu's sacrifice did not give him the opportunity to return to the city. Lao Jin got angry with Wen Xiu and made a scene, and finally shot Wen Xiu to death in despair and was buried with her.

Walking alone in the desolate streets of post-war London, Kay was dressed in men's clothing and aimless. The heroic spirit of driving an ambulance to save the world has disappeared along with the smoke. In a candle factory for disabled people, Duncan is young and healthy, but his dreams are gone and his life is like a backwater until an unexpected visitor brings him back to the wartime years he spent in prison. On the fire platform on the second floor of the marriage agency, Helen and Viv, who were smoking opposite each other, often wanted to open their hearts, but always hesitated to speak. How did we end up where we are today? This is the story of four Londoners with intertwined destinies, starting from 1947 after the war, going back to 1944, and arriving in 1941 when everything began.

In school, I was punished for various reasons because of my strabismus. They kicked my knees and thighs, stepped on my stomach, and forced me to drink water from the pond and toilet. They said, "Your eyes are so disgusting, I'm going to punish you!" Whenever I do these meaningless things I always see their smiling faces lined up in a row. "As usual, it's no big deal." I comforted myself in my mind and waited for time to pass. I knew that even if I told my parents about this, they wouldn't be able to participate in my world. Even if I told them, things would never get better. But even though I did nothing, the situation got worse. They used the open stapler to press down the staples on my palms, leaving round marks on my palms that throbbed and hurt. They also sealed my head into a football leather and asked me to be kicked by them as a "football man". The blood on my head fell on the floor. Until one day, I received a note saying "We are friends" from Xiaodao, another bullied person in the class. Therefore, correspondence with the island became my only real happiness. At nights when I was troubled by uneasiness and couldn't sleep, when I was worried about the future and going to school but couldn't do anything about it, I would lie down and look at the bookcase, staring at the spine of the dictionary sleeve filled with letters. But what I didn't expect was that the island was dragging me into another level of hell...

Ouyang still has a crush on a boy named Lin Chi; she hates a boy named Gong Ming, who is Lin Chi's good brother. She has never met someone who thinks he is smart, considerate, and funny. But it was him who made her understand that love and secret love are different. Secret love is a lonely show performed by only oneself, while love is a bridge connecting each other and the future...

On the other side of the weak water, she was the sacrifice chosen by God. From then on, she was beyond the three realms and no longer among the five elements. However, she was poisoned by his love and fell into the abyss of the night, trapped for life. Her black and crystal-clear eyes were shining brightly, her complexion was as crystal-clear as jade, and she was as delicate as a rose bud, and all this beauty was waiting for the memorial ceremony of death. From the moment she was born, she had only two choices, either to marry a man she hated, or to become a sacrifice to pray for God's blessings. She would rather sacrifice her body, but could not die, until she met him... He was obviously just a prey. Although he was very brave, he had no power and was very talkative. Although he was 188 centimeters tall and extremely handsome, he liked to strike up conversations when he saw beautiful women... This man in the 21st century evoked her dusty memories. Thousands of years later, in the city, she will have a chance to choose again...

Cheng Lichen is a boy with young bones but mature and somewhat gloomy eyes. He has eyes ranging from those of a teenager to a thirty-year-old man. When you look over, you will only see eyes that are as dark as the night. He is not beautiful enough, he is arrogant, a little indifferent, and hurts people around him wantonly, but in fact he is just a child with a strong aura and a fragile heart. He and a girl named Baili met in lonely time...

Xiao Bing went to Hoh Xil alone, joined the anti-poaching organization "Storm", and fought with the brutal poachers in a bloody battle...

A woman's life should not be spent in fear. When everything seems to be a happy life, a stable job, and a sweet love, and everything goes smoothly and you can take a step forward, the fear deep in your heart surges up... Written for women who are still struggling with fear, be brave and choose the path you want to take. You may have felt sorry for Fang Siqi, been angry for Jin Zhiying, and felt helpless for new mother Risako. At that moment, you definitely don't want to be them. Amélie is the person you admire and want to be like. She lived her life in the face of fear.

My body swayed with the car, and my cheek felt cool against the car window. Kako opened her eyes slightly. Whenever lights flash outside the car, I subconsciously lower my breath. The car is full of people. Mother's breath, father's breath, brother's breath, and Yoshiko's own breath are exhaled, blended, and inhaled again, maintaining survival in this way. How could it not be painful? 17-Year-old girl Kako drove to her grandmother's funeral with her family. With the enclosed space inside the car, the scenery in my memory flashed outside the window, and the past and present of the family gradually became clear...

A caged bird trapped in the tide, an eerie ancient song of silence, a desperate and evil dark ritual... 22-Year-old Miriam possesses a mysterious power. Through touch, she can know how everyone will die! In "Mockingbird Girl", Miriam fights against fate and finally saves Louis' life. But death will not stop, it must end with blood. In this book, Miriam accidentally enters an aristocratic women's college and is warned that the girls in the college will disappear in a bizarre way. What is even more frightening is that there is an unknown and huge force chasing her everywhere... The robin in the dark night keeps repeating the mysterious prophecy that "the river is rising", and if you want to change the direction of a raging river, you will have to wait for a cataclysm.

The characters in "Water Margin" are all kinds of strange - in the wild boar forest, the flower monk Lu Zhishen saves Lin Chong; in the Wulong Courtyard, the timely rain of the Song River kills Yan Poxi. Gao Yang has rewritten two popular stories in "Water Margin" with unique characteristics and charm. The characters are lifelike, the plots are interlocking, the text is smooth and exquisite, and the rhythm is relaxed and relaxed. Lu Zhishen, Lin Chong, Song Jiang... A group of Water Margin heroes, under Gao Yang's pen, appear on the page with more vivid, full and profound characters.

Lu Pheasant fell in love with Liu Bang, and after getting married, he followed his father's philosophy of "fate is a boat, and luck is a hired boatman". He was diligent and frugal in running the house, devoted himself to farming, entertained friends for her husband, and figured out Liu Bang's personal connections. Great cause; in order to motivate Liu Bang, Lu Pheasant cleverly distributed "Liu Family Crowns" and gathered his own "team" for Liu Bang beforehand; Lu Pheasant also joined forces with Xiao He and others to help Liu Bang get rid of the entanglements in lawsuits time and time again and stabilize the situation; before Liu Bang decided to escape Mangdang Mountain, Lu Pheasant took great pains to take the county magistrate's son as a hostage for him, keeping the government from encirclement and suppression, and bought time. Through repeated designs, Lu Pheasant finally helped Liu Bang seize the power of Peixian County, and successfully embarked on the road to overthrow the Qin Dynasty, eliminate Xiang Yu, and dominate the world...

Emperor Liu Ying, who was frail and suffering from internal suffering, finally passed away. Lu Pheasant officially took the throne, and the Han Dynasty entered the era of Empress Lu. As he grew older, Lu Pheasant began to accelerate progress, promote members of the Lu family, break the "White Horse Alliance", and let the "King surnamed Liu" exist in name only. The growing Lu Group has become the core of power that both the government and the public are afraid of, and the Han Dynasty is in danger. At the critical moment, the ministers arranged by Liu Bang secretly gathered strength to launch a final attack on the Lu Group. A battle to defend the Han Dynasty was brewing day and night, with undercurrents surging and tensions rising...

This book draws on novel creation methods, incorporates reasonable imagination, and uses beautiful and poetic sentences to tell readers about Su Xiaoxiao, Liu Rushi, Liang Hongyu, Sai Jinhua, Chen Yuanyuan, Du Qiuniang, Ma Xianglan, Gu Hengbo, Dong Xiaowan, The tortuous and poignant experiences of thirteen ancient brothel women including Ni Baimen, Li Xiangjun, Bian Yujing and Du Shiniang - birth, growth and other events that are remembered by the world, reproduce the tortuous life of talented ancient women. The twists and turns of life, emotions and representative events of these brothel girls are the reason why they attract people's attention.

The original work of the HBO series of the same name, starring Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet. The story begins during the Great Depression in the United States in the mid-1930s. The marital crisis between middle-class housewife Mildred and her husband Bert was aggravated by the sudden strain of the economic situation, and they had to break up sadly. Mildred raised two daughters alone and was almost destitute due to unemployment many times. What supports her is her eldest daughter Veda's beautiful and intelligent talent, extraordinary musical talent and a certain arrogant temperament that seems to transcend her current class. For Veda, Mildred ignited all her energy - whether it was working as a waiter, opening a shop, or using her beauty to seduce men, all in the end to fulfill Veda's ambition. However, Mildred gradually found that she had walked into the trap she had dug. Is Veda an angel in desperate need of a pair of wings, or a poisonous snake that will bite her benefactor when she turns around? Or is she both?

Main content: Yijun is an abandoned baby who was abandoned outside the gate of Shengshou Temple. His adoptive father is a stone carving artist and lives in the hometown of Buddhist art stone carvings in the suburbs of Chongqing. She has been naive since she was a child, and her appearance resembles the Sun and Moon Guanyin. She is upright and sexy. Her paintings and carvings are childish but full of spirituality. After her adoptive father passed away, she came to Chongqing alone to further her studies. She met Hu Xiaodi, a Chengdu poet and prodigal son. She was moved by his talent and chicness, while he was fascinated by her innocence and talent. The two developed a romantic, sincere, and painful love but failed to unite. Yijun later lived with his adopted son and adoptive mother in his hometown, making a living by selling paintings and sculptures. His life was hard but simple and warm. After the land she cultivated was deprived of her, she did not have any jealousy or resentment, but painted a magnificent mural with patience and tears: thousands of green tiles, like dense bodhi leaves, it is the world of Guanyin Bodhisattva looking down from the sky, full of compassion.

After years of waiting and hard work, Zhong Qingdong married the girl he had a crush on from his father's high school. The marriage was not as happy and sweet as he imagined. Just when the relationship between the two became more and more cracked, the woman he had been in love with divorced. As a result, a tragedy inevitably happened...

The novel progresses through 26 short and long stories and scenes. "The story started from a rape case in the 1970s. Wan'er is the most beautiful woman in the Golden Beach area. Her beauty mainly lies in her small nose with two wrinkles when she smiles, followed by two sweet dimples. Her skin is very fair, whiter than the waves, and her body is so tall and trembling, like a bamboo pole blown by the wind. Wan'er is the woman of her third uncle Wang Jihui, who likes to go to the sea. On this day, she carried Little Basket is going to catch the sea again. The sea is calm that day, and the sky is clear and blue, like a blanket covered with vast universe. Some boats are sleeping on the blanket, swaying like drunkards. Like this. Wan'er came to the beach and put on a blindfold to look around. At this time, Boss Wu came over. Boss Wu used to be Wan'er's father-in-law's servant. One time, when Wan'er's father-in-law went to sea, Wan'er's father was overturned by a big wave..."

Three women have completely different but equally bumpy experiences in Japan. Some of them gradually became stronger and finally became independent; some were disheartened and became nuns; some had no regrets and smiled at life. Three Chinese women came to Japan for different purposes; three Chinese women had completely different experiences in Japan; three Chinese women experienced the warmth and warmth of the world in Japan; three Chinese women reopened their lives for the future.

In the era of transformation, how to turn around? Hou Hongbin broke through the maze of public opinion and awakened the troubled people. Will we just inherit poverty? Who did Phoenix Man offend? The nationwide push to get married is to "maintain stability"... Clarify the core of social hot spots and expose the double standards, paradoxes and brainwashing routines of public opinion. Without hating the diversity of lifestyles and refusing to expand the possibilities of life, a society can dilute our modern anxiety precisely because it has a variety of possibilities.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, in order to study Germany under Hitler's rule, young Timothy Garden Ash stayed in East and West Berlin for several years to collect information. Unexpectedly, his whereabouts in East Germany were considered espionage activities, and he was tracked by the secret police and informants, leaving behind a 325-page secret file. After the reunification of the two Germanys, East Germany's secret police files were opened. The author revisited East Germany. Based on the files established for him by the East German Ministry of Security and his own diary, he searched for those who monitored him one by one and reconstructed a memory of his youth. He was surprised to find that people with different perspectives often had completely different or even contradictory memories of the same experience. Therefore, going through the fog of various memories and exploring the truth of the history of which I am a part became the motivation for writing this book, and ultimately contributed to such a touching book. This is a compelling read that perfectly blends personal reminiscence with historical exploration.

The documentary work "Big Aid Construction" is the culmination of the hard work and passionate writing of local literary and art workers in Guangyuan who are working on the front lines of earthquake relief and post-disaster reconstruction. This book panoramicly witnesses and records the major historical event of unprecedented large-scale aid construction, vividly interprets the great spirit of earthquake relief, and profoundly reveals the scientific mechanism and source of power that create miracles in post-disaster reconstruction.

On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded in Ukraine under the former Soviet Union. This was one of the most tragic technological tragedies in human history. Tens of thousands of civilians were infected or fatally affected by radioactive materials for a long time; tens of thousands of acres of land were contaminated, and Chernobyl was turned into a ruined city overnight. The famous journalist Alexievich risked nuclear radiation and went deep into the scene of the accident. Over the course of several years, he interviewed hundreds of civilians affected by the nuclear disaster. The author writes these interviews orally, and each page presents cruel and absurd stories. From the narrator's monologue, it is revealed that the pain caused by this disaster still remains in the bodies of the survivors like nuclear radiation.

A tragic song of troubled times intertwined with family, friendship and love. When a friend comes, there is good wine. If the jackal comes, he will be greeted with a shotgun... The story takes place in northern Shanxi during the Anti-Japanese War. Ordinary Chinese such as Ma Long and Kang Zhengang gradually grew into a group of brave and resourceful national heroes in this unprecedented national crisis. The story has twists and turns and the scenes are shocking. Family, love, and friendship also performed a magnificent song that moved the world in this national struggle.

This is an unusual record that collects four interviews Hemingway conducted with media such as The Paris Review and The Atlantic Monthly. Many of the answers in the interviews are caustic, charming and sincere, just like the interviewees themselves. He single-handedly redefined and rewritten the face of American literature. In order to present a true Hemingway, the interviewer persisted for many years and ran into obstacles many times, leaving behind valuable interview materials. What was Hemingway's state of life in the last few years of his life? What insights does he have on novel writing? What is his daily life like? From his total devotion to his work, you can get a glimpse of a unique Hemingway.

Kindness is a nature, kindness is a choice. Two heart-warming, true stories of rivers and lakes that you are reluctant to read to the end - they may allow you to see the lives you will never experience and meet the people you may never be able to make friends with. They are very ordinary, very small, even running at the bottom of society, but they are very strong, very persistent, very tenacious, they love and they hate, they dare to love and they dare to hate. They have never been blurred by life or swept away their dreams. No matter now, in the past or in the future, they are mavericks in the world, trying to find a balance between living in the world and being in the world.

This issue is about non-fiction writing around the eternal theme of complexity. "One-Way Street 003" adheres to the concept of "recording, exploration, and criticism". "One Way Street 003" offers a sober, unique and dynamic sound. This issue is edited by Guo Yujie, with a special topic: Complexity·Sex. The authors and interviewees include: Xu Zhiyuan, Guan Jinpeng, He Chunrui, Ha Jin, Huang Dan, Sun Ge, etc. The One-Way Street series adheres to the concept of "recording, exploration and criticism". Mainly non-fiction reports, reviews, and photography. Introducing the best works from around the world to China, encouraging a sober, unique and dynamic voice, and attracting more young people to the emotions of books, art and ideas.

In the 1920s and 1930s, the name Jiang Guangci was shining brightly and resoundingly in the Chinese literary world. His novels were popular for a while and were pirated many times. In today's popular terms, Jiang Guangci was an out-and-out best-selling author from the late 1920s to the early 1930s. Main works: Young Wanderer, Lisa's Sorrow, The Moon Breaking Out of the Clouds, On the Yalu River, Brothers' Night Talk.

Hu Yepin (1903.5.4-1931.2.8), Formerly known as Hu Chongxuan, was born in Fuzhou City, Fujian Province in 1903, and his ancestral home is Xinjian, Jiangxi. Chinese writer, member of the Communist Party of China, and one of the Five Martyrs of the Left Alliance. His major works include short story collections "Saints", "Living Beads", "Ghosts and Human Hearts"; drama collections "Where to Go", "Other People's Happiness" and "Four Weeks"; poetry collections include "Poetry Draft", "Wandering", "On the Pasture", etc.

Everyone has a different corner in their heart. At that time, we never thought that such a place abandoned by us would become a haven for loneliness, a quiet place for healing, and the last place of freedom. When we approach those corners, the hustle and bustle of the world will disappear in the distance. The closer we are to those things we have left behind, the closer we are to our own hearts. Even if some past events have turned into dust, you can still see the world you once loved in a speck of dust. Those trivial things that have been forgotten by us are fermented, emit fragrance, and intoxicate our hearts when we look back.

The Nicaraguan poet Rubén Dario is the most influential poet in the modern development of Latin American literature. His poetry not only has a huge influence in Latin America, but also plays a unique role in the innovation and progress of Spanish poetry as a whole. The modernist literary creation he represents is also a watershed in the history of the development of Spanish poetry. He is an indispensable outstanding figure in studying the overall achievements of Latin American literature. This book includes Dario's collection of poems "Songs of Life and Hope" published in 1905. This is his most outstanding collection of poems and a symbol of his transformation from escapism to new cosmopolitanism.

This book contains nearly two hundred of Akhmatova's most representative works in her more than sixty years of creation, carefully selected and translated by the famous contemporary Chinese poets Isha and Lao G. This book is composed of poems from several different periods: the first is Akhmatova's (1904-1925) early poems that are girlish, full of love and emotion; the second is Akhmatova's middle-term poems (1927-1949). Her works in this period are more mature and smart, especially the description of psychological details and the pursuit of love and freedom, which make her writing unique. The third is the writing of the poet's later period (1950-1966). During this period, Akhmatova experienced turmoil and setbacks, and her poems became clear, sharp, and profound because of their persistence over time. The end of the book is the long poem "Requiem" and the follow-up translation by translator Isha. The long lyrical poem "Requiem" is the pinnacle of Akhmatova's poetry creation.

"Kojiki" is the first written classic in Japanese history and one of the earliest extant Japanese literary works. The book is divided into three volumes. The first volume is about the origins and myths and legends of Japanese gods. The middle volume is from Emperor Jimmu to Emperor Ogami. The second volume is from Emperor Nitoku to Emperor Suiko. It combines historical facts and fiction and records royal legends.

A collection of poems by Colombian writer and poet Alvaro Mutis. This book compiles and collects Mutis' poetry from 1947 to 2003 in chronological order. As an adventurer and protagonist in the world of Mutis' series of novels, the character of lookout Maclor was born in Mutis's early poems. These poems are also haunted by a tropical atmosphere like his novels: fading beauty, hot and humid time, unfortunate voyages, absurd work... The collection of poems covers Mutis's long creative career. Wandering and the sea, failure and destruction, words and despair, lust and death, history and night, dreams and time... Are themes throughout.

Akhmatova is a great poet who is good at lyrical poetry and love poetry. "My Nights Are Rhapsody About You: Selected Poems of Akhmatova" selects most of her important lyric poetry collections "Evening", "Rosary", "The White Bunch", "Plantain", "Era of Christ" and "Episode 7", as well as the entire epic poem "Requiem". In her works, there are girls who fall in love for the first time, lovers who are passionately in love, and frustrated people who are abandoned by love, and there are many philosophies of life in them. Nature is a talking elf in her works and the protagonist's closest friend.

"Legends of Guatemala" is an important early work by Guatemalan writer Miguel Ángel Asturias. It is a collection of mythological stories full of magical colors and is known as the pioneering work of Latin American magical realism. It was written by the author based on the Indian myths and legends he heard from his mother in his early years. It was published in Madrid in 1930. The book includes nine magical and poetic folk legends, "Guatemala", "Now I Think of It", "The Legend of the Volcano", "The Legend of the Phantom Beast", "The Legend of the Tattooed Girl", "The Legend of the Man in the Big Hat", "The Legend of the Treasure in the Flower Field", "The Wizard of the Spring Storm" and "Kukulkan the Feathered Serpent". These works present an original, magical and amazing world in front of readers. The author also makes a beautiful description of the unique natural scenery of Guatemala, and the whole book is like a gorgeous and colorful oil painting. These legends directly or indirectly adopt the themes and techniques of the famous Indian mythology "Popol Ou", and are shrouded in a strong magical color.

"Leaves of Grass" was first published in 1855. The author reorganized and added content many times during his lifetime, until the ninth edition, also known as the deathbed edition, from the first twelve poems to the last more than four hundred poems. The book is divided into twelve volumes, plus three supplements. The collection of poems is named after the line "Wherever there is soil, where there is water, and wherever there is grass." After the publication of the collection of poems, the extremely innovative free-verse poetry form and broad themes created a new era of American poetry and influenced poets from all over the world, such as Neruda of Chile, Pessoa of Portugal, Hikmet of Turkey, Dai H. Lawrence of the United Kingdom, etc., And are treasures of world literature.

"Gravity's Rainbow" is a classic work in postmodernist literature. It has a unique position in the history of 20th century world literature and has caused huge controversy. The plot of this masterpiece is complex, and the dream-like fantasy is full of confusing and intricate cross-relationships, various, weird and messy narratives, specious discussions, and descriptions of physics, rocket engineering, advanced mathematics, psychology, international politics, and abnormal sex. The background of the novel is the Second World War. German V-2 rockets frequently attacked London. The British and American intelligence agencies discovered that the place where an American intelligence officer had sex was often the landing point of the rocket. They studied this phenomenon, which attracted and implicated many people and events.

Myth is a product of human childhood and has an everlasting fascination. Greek mythology has been around for a long time because of its relatively complete system and unique literary charm. Greek mythology and biblical mythology have had a comprehensive and profound impact on the religion, philosophy, thought, customs, natural science, literature and art of the entire West and even mankind. When you come into contact with Western culture, you are bound to encounter allusions from Greek mythology. Almost every important classic Western literary work involves characters and plots from Greek mythology, and some are even directly based on Greek mythology. Today, although we do not have to "call everything Greek", a systematic understanding of Greek mythology is necessary for every modern person.

He, the second generation of rich people with an annual income of tens of millions, and she, an ordinary girl from the countryside who went to college. They met each other when they were young, and when they met by chance after sixteen years of separation, she panicked and wanted to run away. He, you have appeared in my life, and I don't want you to withdraw from my world. Later they experienced various growths in life. She: The vast sea of ​​​​people will live up to you. He: ups and downs, be kind to time, be kind to fate.

Once she died, her soul returned to the underworld! Feng Yingying was timid, gentle and quiet when she was alive. Unexpectedly, after her death, not only did her temperament change drastically, but she even became a famous fighting ghost in Fengdu City. Dressed in red, with loose red hair, and a devilishly beautiful face, holding an iron chained soul-chasing stick, leading a hundred thousand bull heads and horses; looking at the entire Youdu, whoever dares to be presumptuous in front of her, beat her up! Beat them all! The son of the Demon King Inugami? She chuckled and stared: "Isn't it just a poodle?!" The fifth palace prince, King Yama? She raised her chin slightly and said with unparalleled arrogance: "Oh~ he's the little kid who practiced magic and became possessed, and finally returned to his youth!" The most beautiful prince in Youdu, who oversees the ten palaces of Yama and the five ghost emperors? Her eyes were filled with stars, and she was fascinated and infatuated: "Aha! Such a beauty, take her back and be your husband!" One day, in the gate of ghosts, Yin and Yang are separated, immortal, let's see how she becomes stronger step by step, composing a prosperous and noble world! [Arrogant and arrogant version]: Huihun Street "Catch the hanged man in front of you who is walking with his legs spread apart and give him a good beating!" Niutou: "Sir, that ghost has never been sneaky or abducted!" Ma Mian: "Sir, if you hit someone casually like this, your superiors will blame you!" Feng Yingying was unhappy: "You have to behave like a ghost. He walks with his legs crossed like this. It's unethical. It's okay, just go ahead and beat him until he can walk with his legs side by side and then let him go!" Hearing this, all the ghosts were speechless! As a result, the news that Lord Rakshasa Ghost did not like walking with his legs crossed spread in Youdu; for a time, a wind of justice blew throughout Fengdu City.

This book is the representative work of the famous British diplomatic historian Robert Balmain Mowert. It tells the whole process of the murder of Richard II, the destruction of the English throne succession system, the century-old fierce battle between the York family and the Lancaster family for the right to inherit the throne, the collapse of the Plantagenet dynasty, and the ascension of Henry VII to the throne to establish the Tudor dynasty. Why did Richard II fail in the coup? Why did the Houses of York and Lancaster gain legal inheritance rights to the throne of England after the death of Richard II? Why is this civil war in England called the "War of the Roses"? Why were the dynasties established by the Yorks and Lancastrians never able to stabilize the political situation? What battle in the War of the Roses determined the fate of both families? Why did Henry Tudor become a beneficiary of the Wars of the Roses? This book will answer it in detail.

This book is the representative work of the British historian and linguist Robert Nisbet Bain. It is a historical masterpiece about the Great Northern War. Why did Sweden become the hegemon of the Baltic Sea during the reign of King Karl XII? Why did Russia lose again and again under the attack of the Swedish army? How did Peter the Great restore order, organize his army, and actively prepare for war after he ascended the throne? During the Great Northern War, how did Karl XII command the Swedish army to victory? Facing a great situation, what fatal mistake did Karl XII make that led to his failure? Why did King Karl XII fail to recover and lose the opportunity to revive Sweden? This book will explain it in depth.

Friedrich Meinecke, the author of "The Holocaust in Germany", is one of the most famous historians in the contemporary West. Gu Zhi called him the most eye-catching figure in German historiography after the First World War; Breisach also called him the chief spokesperson of contemporary German historicism. "The Holocaust of Germany" is divided into two contemporary waves, the German people before and after the establishment of the Second Reich; Hitlerism and Western powers, etc. There are fifteen chapters.

This book is Miyazaki's representative work. By collecting examples scattered in historical records and biographies, Miyazaki Shisei strives to find the correspondence between rural grades and official grades, breaks through the traditional research model, and accurately describes the development and evolution of the Nine-grade Officials Law, a system of official selection that ran through the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and down to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, over more than 300 years, and used this as a line It integrates the official selection system, the official position system and the aristocratic system of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and profoundly reveals the political system of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties and the ups and downs of the medieval aristocracy. It opens up a new situation for the study of the medieval electoral system, and can even be said to have drawn a watershed for the research at that time. After the book was published, it received critical acclaim from the academic community and won Japan's highest academic award, the "Bachelor's Academy Award". It has become a must-read classic for studying the history of China's Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties.

"Queen Eugenie: A History of the Second French Empire" consists of two volumes and is the representative work of Albert Saint-Amand, the founder of academic research on the history of the Second French Empire. It takes the ups and downs and magnificent life of Eugenie, the most beautiful woman in Europe and a queen of the Second French Empire, as the main line. It shows the rise, decline and fall of the Second French Empire in a wide-angle, multi-level and all-round way. It uses detailed historical materials to objectively and in-depth interpret Empress Eugenie's influence on Napoleon III's domestic affairs, foreign affairs and economic decisions. The influence of economic, cultural and military decisions completely changed the "one-sided" trend in the field of historical research on the French Second Empire of attributing the demise of the Second French Empire to Queen Eugenie's involvement in politics. It opened up a new direction for the research on the history of the Second French Empire. It is an academic masterpiece highly recognized by the European historians, especially the French historians.

Cold War, the most gripping nonfiction book of the year, gives us an unprecedented sense of what it was like to be in a world on the verge of destruction. Here's the truth behind all the spy novels you've read: why the United States and the Soviet Union were at a standoff; how close we came to nuclear catastrophe; what contemporary leaders, from Stalin to Mao, Reagan to Gorbachev, had in mind; how intelligence agents plotted, and how East German vacationers contributed to the fall of the Berlin Wall. This is a story about crisis talk, excuses, tyrants and power struggles, and ordinary people changing the course of history.

Exploring the roots and origins, collecting splendid cultures from home and abroad; talking about the past and the present, and acquiring rich knowledge about the past and present. Human civilization is long and distant. If you want to understand its development process, you must not understand history and master necessary historical common sense. Only by mastering the profound heritage behind historical common sense can we improve our interpretation and grasp of history and even reality, and can we keep pace with the times and adapt to social trends in the face of new challenges.

History is an ancient science, but the concepts and methods of historical research are advancing with each passing day. This book is based on the author's lectures at Peking University and other schools in recent years. It elaborates and explains various new trends in historical research since the Second World War: First, breaking through the concept of "writing history with a capital" and using the nation-state as the center of historical research; second, focusing on the "marginal" aspects that previous historians have ignored, and advocating " Research on the new cultural history from "bottom up"; third, advocate "memory research" and incorporate ordinary people's oral memories of the past into historical research; fourth, respond to the challenges of globalization and try to write global history, in order to regain and reconstruct the tradition of historians narrating historical evolution and interpreting historical trends based on new cognition.

Studying the social nature of the Xia, Shang and Western Zhou dynasties is the focus of this book. Experts' research on the periodization of ancient history has made great progress in recent years. This book attempts to elaborate from the front and put forward some different views from the past to demonstrate the social nature of Xia, Shang and Western Zhou Dynasty.