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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..."

"Quite Early One Morning" collects some of Dylan Thomas's works in the last ten years of his life. The book is divided into two parts, the first part is prose and stories, and the second part is comments and miscellaneous thoughts.

Things in the world are unpredictable and changeful, and there are many things that we are powerless to do. However, it is always good to have a good heart and pursue a good life attitude. When your heart is good, you don't have to worry about how to make a living. As long as you know what you desire and whether you dare to pursue your dreams. You need to know whether you can withstand loneliness and whether you truly love being alone when you are empty. When dealing with people in the world, do good things whenever you think about them, and good things will never be far away from you. I hope you can find beauty in the ordinary details of every day and see the meaning of your life. May you move upward, toward goodness, toward beauty. The good things in the world can really be obtained by those who believe.

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.

On October 7, 1967, Che Guevara wrote in his diary: "Today is the eleventh month anniversary of the establishment of the guerrilla armed forces. The morning was relaxed and leisurely, just like enjoying pastoral life, without any trouble." He did not know that this would be his last diary entry. During the battle in the Yuro Valley the next day, Che was wounded and captured, falling into the hands of Bolivian government forces. He was executed without trial the next day, and his body was hidden by the authorities. The diary was found in his backpack. "Bolivia Diary" is the most original and important material that witnesses the last stage of Che Guevara's life. After being translated quickly and without modification, it has been widely circulated around the world. It meticulously reproduces the thrilling guerrilla warfare experience in the mountains of Bolivia, from entering Bolivia in secret disguise, to surveying the terrain, developing underground workers, as well as fierce battles in dense forests, valleys, and river mouths, encounters with enemies, and sacrifices of teammates... It can be called a guerrilla warfare textbook. It also includes more than 30 rare photos that have never been published publicly in China, showing the daily life and battle scenes of the guerrillas. Here readers can see Guevara's disguised fake passport, guerrillas watching on the treetops, Guevara organizing his rifles by the river, etc. The film "Che Guevara: Part Two" directed by Spielberg is based on the history described in "Bolivia Diary". Deltero, who played Guevara in the film, won the Best Actor at Cannes for this film.

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.

A talented woman of a generation, a peerless beauty... She has a good foundation in classical Chinese, and the quatrains she writes in old poems are fresh and pretty, with the characteristics of Ming and Qing poetry;

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.

"Faust" is Goethe's representative work, a poetic tragedy. It was created based on a folk legend in the 16th century. It is a masterpiece that Goethe devoted his whole life to writing. It describes the protagonist Faust's painful experience of searching for truth throughout his life, reflects the history of the entire Europe from the Renaissance to the early 19th century, and reveals the constant struggle between the two forces of light and darkness, progress and backwardness, and science and superstition. Goethe used Faust's ambition and pursuit to express his own lofty and beautiful ideals for the future of mankind. The book consists of a series of narrative poems, lyric poems, dramas, operas and dance dramas, covering theology, mythology, philosophy, science, aesthetics, literature, music and political economy.

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.

This book "I Know How to Love: Selected Poems of Akhmatova" contains the best poems of Russia's most famous female poet Akhmatova from almost her entire life. The entire collection of poems is composed of four parts: the first volume is the early works of the poetess (1904-1925); the second volume is the poems of Akhmatova's middle period (1927-1949); the third volume summarizes the poet's later writings (1950-1966); the fourth volume is the long poem "Requiem", this long lyrical poem is a pinnacle of Akhmatova's poetry creation.

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.

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 representative works "Blue", "Secular Hymn", "First Melody", "Tribulus", "Autumn Sound", etc.

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.

This book starts with Lomonosov, the founder of Moscow State University, and selects 138 love poems from 107 famous poets in the three hundred years of Russian literary history. There are poets familiar to Chinese readers such as Pushkin and Lermontov, as well as unfamiliar names such as Sumarokov and Polonsky. There are also poets from the golden age such as Tyuchev and Fet, as well as Yesenin and Akhma. Poets of the Silver Age such as Tova, and even contemporary poets such as Sedakova, Nikolenkova, and Isayeva, their works cover classicism, sentimentalism, romanticism, realism, citizen poetry school, pure art school, symbolism, Acme school, imagism school, loud voice school, whisper school and other schools. The themes include admiration, first love, passionate love, lost love, unrequited love, etc. Bitter love, secret love and other kinds of love, the style may be lingering, unrestrained, reserved, cheerful, euphemistic, playful, simple, gorgeous, quiet, charming, pathos or ecstasy. It is a veritable essence of love poetry.

"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.

"Faust" is Goethe's representative work, a poetic tragedy. It was created based on a folk legend in the 16th century. It is a masterpiece that Goethe devoted his whole life to writing. It describes the protagonist Faust's painful experience of searching for truth throughout his life, and reflects the history of the entire Europe from the Renaissance to the early 19th century. The book consists of a series of narrative poems, lyric poems, dramas, operas and dance dramas, covering theology, mythology, philosophy, science, aesthetics, literature, music and political economy.

The purpose of writing this book is to review the extraordinary thousand years that Mexico has just experienced at the beginning of the new millennium. Novels, essays, plays: the voices that can be heard in the book, although the tonality is different, all arise from a confusion, which is also the center of the book, that is, when, where and how the individual and the history intersect, when, where and how the individual path and the collective path intersect. Hopefully this anthology will help stir our memories, our imaginations, and our questions about ourselves. This Mexican notebook could probably be inscribed with this inscription: Imagine the past. Keep the future in mind. The great thing about Mexico is that its past is still very much alive. Yes, we outlive the calendar.

This collection of works by Elias Canetti includes the following two works: "Crowds and Power" explores the dynamic relationship between the masses and groups, and how and why the masses obey the power of their rulers. Human history in the 20th century was filled with devastating disasters such as collective persecution, group fanaticism, and world wars, which prompted Canetti to think about the relationship between the masses and power. "The Territory of Man" is a collection of four notebooks by Elias Canetti, the winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Literature, including "The Territory of Man", "The Secret Heart of the Clock", "The Pain of the Fly" and "Hampstead Supplement". The creation time spans from 1942 to 1985. It is an important supplement to Canetti's novels, political commentaries, memoirs and dramas. It is the crystallization of an independent reflection process that lasted for half a century. It can be called the ideological map of this literary master, showing the origin, formation and transformation of his thoughts, and testifying to the history of the 20th century.

In the tavern deep in the alley, the best "drinking dish" is none other than the venomous tongue of Takeshi Kitano! Sometimes it is a hilarious and clever talk, sometimes it is a jaw-dropping frankness, sometimes it is a serious argument that makes people sigh... Japanese director Takeshi Kitano sharply self-analyzes the first half of his life, "The car accident was the turning point of my life. From then on, I lost interest in living", "In order to succeed like me, thousands of people fell." The rare genius Kitano Takeshi uncovers various diseases of modern society from five aspects: life and death, education, interpersonal relationships, rules, and movies, and awakens the public to think in reverse.

"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.

Sun Tzu said: "Know yourself and the enemy, and you can fight a hundred battles without danger." We must not understand or understand these changes in Japan's military equipment. Only by fully understanding Japan's military strength and trends can China have enough confidence and ability to take countermeasures; only by fully understanding Japan's military strength can China avoid impulsiveness and choose rationality; avoid blindness and choose prudence; avoid fanaticism and choose calmness.

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.

For hundreds of years, Venice created a maritime commercial empire in the eastern Mediterranean, while the Turks gradually encroached on the territory of this maritime giant through their powerful land and sea power. "City of Fortune" presents a brief history of the Republic of Venice, focusing on its diplomacy and wars in the Mediterranean world. Especially its unique role in the "Fourth Crusade" and as a shield of Christendom against the Ottoman Empire. Drawing on first-hand accounts of crusaders, captains and merchants, as well as extensive national archives, this work is a saga of commerce and empire, navigation and piracy.

In "1840: The Great War (Telling You About the Dual Character of the Qing Empire)", Duanmu Cixiang writes the extraordinary history of the Qing Dynasty and the past of the empire in its decline in a woman's style. This book tells us: To revive China, the spirit of the entire nation must be reborn! Ah Q's method of spiritual victory can only lead to the final outcome of still being unable to complete the circle in his heart on the guillotine. When we read "1840: The Great War (Telling You About the Qing Empire with Dual Characters)", we will read between the lines: lessons are far more valuable than experience. The Opium War made us see the "smallness" of the Chinese dynasty; we saw that a nation that cannot revive its spirit will never have a chance to become a powerful country. The Chinese nation must reflect on history with an unwavering, unswerving, and unyielding attitude, learn from the painful experience, and seek to become strong in the true sense.

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.

"A Brief History of Japan" takes the evolution of the ruling body as the main line, clearly outlines Japan's political evolution process from the origin of history and culture, the legal state, the military regime, pre-modern society, the Meiji Restoration, foreign aggression and expansion, change and war, occupation and post-war system, economic power, reforms in transitional periods, etc., As well as cultural achievements, economic development, popular mentality in different periods, etc., And clearly and completely draws a bird's-eye view of Japanese history. "A Brief History of Japan (Updated Edition)" has won the "Beijing Higher Education Quality Textbook Award". In addition to absorbing the latest research results in the academic world, the new edition also adds a large number of illustrations, original historical materials, further reading lists, chronology of major events, etc. To help readers better grasp the clues and context of Japanese history.

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.

"The Master of All Time" was published in the United States and the United Kingdom in 1934. The response was enthusiastic, and James became a best-selling author. The novel tells the life of a beloved teacher in a way full of memories. Mr. Chips, whose real name is Chipping, taught for forty-three years at Brookfield Grammar School, a fictional public boarding school for boys. During this period, he met the love of his life, Catherine, and with her help, he worked hard to overcome his shortcomings of being rigid, serious, and shy, and finally became a mature, humorous, and beloved teacher by his students, and an inspiring educator in Brookfield.

Hardcover collector's edition of Alder (qī) King of Wood! A literary master respected by Wang Xiaobo! Our destiny and destination are all written in the fable of "The Alder King"! An ancient corpse that had been sleeping for thousands of years was dug up from the swamp of the alder forest. People called it the name of the devil in Goethe's poem: the Alder King. A man-eating devil haunts the dark night of time. I am Duverge, a French auto repair shop owner. People call me a "cannibal devil," but I'm just an innocent person hiding among the masses. I am full of tenderness, but the world is evil and treacherous. Have you seen the omnipresent evil behind the meaningful signs? In this era dominated by the devil, everything is "wrong". But people still don't know that the root of human disaster lies in each of them...

Betty was a woman with a free and extreme personality. She could not be restrained, could not bear the deception and insult of her beloved, and her talents were not valued. When Sanger took her in, her personality was so sharp that it made people breathless, and she almost pursued perfectionistic love crazily. When she discovered that Sanger was a talented writer, she resolutely typed his novel manuscript word by word day and night and handed it over to the publisher. However, no one was willing to accept it, and despair spread in Betty's body bit by bit. She has no scruples in hurting those who hurt herself and Sanger, is paranoid and cannot tolerate the dirt in her eyes, and finally goes crazy... This contemporary French classic novel has been adapted into a movie of the same name, and is highly sought after by literary and artistic youths.

"Yixiu Pu" is a classic Chinese novel. Two sisters, Pang Fengniang and Yanniang, were born in a wealthy family in Fuzhou Prefecture. After Feng Niang married into the Lin family, she gave birth to three girls in succession, and she never gave birth to any more girls. It is a custom in Fujian that the first-born girl is less likely to give birth to a boy and is more likely to drown. However, Feng Niang is not like this. Instead, she regards her daughter as the apple of her eye and advises her husband to take a concubine to continue the fireworks. Later, her husband's concubine gave birth to a boy, named Lin Ding. Yan Niang married into the Gong family and gave birth to a girl for the first time. Yan Niang drowned the baby girl in order to give birth to a boy. The second baby gave birth to twin girls. Yan Niang still drowned the two girls. The third baby finally gave birth to a boy named Shouchun. The fourth child gave birth to a baby girl. Yan Niang still wanted to drown the baby, so she asked her servant Zhou Cai to take the baby girl and drown her. Zhou Cai couldn't bear it, so he wrapped the baby girl with the picture of the Seven Sages embroidered by Yan Niang when she was not married and placed it by the river. The baby girl was picked up by fisherman Bao Liang that day and named Gui'e. When Gui'e grew up to nine years old, she was taken in by Mei Hanlin and raised in the mansion. Later, she married Lin Ding as his wife.