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It's a very ordinary book that comes from my thoughts. It's also something I've thought about doing for a long time but haven't done yet.

This book mainly introduces the basic framework and research history of public history, aiming to provide introductory guidance for readers who are interested in engaging in or understanding public history research, and also provides theoretical and practical guidance for the establishment and development of public history in China. First, it outlines the basic theories and methods of public history; second, it outlines a concise history of this discipline. As a new branch of history, public history has different development paths and models in different countries, but the main research is still concentrated in English-speaking countries. This book will sort out and review the origin, development, and academic history of public history in major English-speaking countries (the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada); then, it will discuss important topics and key issues in this discipline. Public history is a historical school that emerged in the United States since the 1960s and 1970s. It has now developed into a new field of contemporary American historical research. It refers to historians using the training skills and research results of academic history, with the help of methods from other disciplines, to serve various fields of real society related to history, including government departments, companies, news media, historical sites, museums and other institutions. Public history is oriented to social needs, and the goal of its subject education is to cultivate historians who are adaptable to practical operations.

Wu He (1951-) is an important novelist in contemporary Taiwan. His writing based on his personal life experience is surprising and rich, running through the major transitions and issues of modernity in Taiwanese society since the 1970s. This book travels between the desk of literature and the field of social life, exploring the literary and historical connotations of Wu He's creation and the twists and turns of Taiwan's modernity issues it reflects: including reflections on colonial history, the emergence of a sense of freedom under the martial law system, the rise of local politics and local cultural narratives, rural/urban modern landscapes and criticism, and the utopian imagination of minority cultures, etc. In short, Wu He embodies the aesthetic heights and ideological dilemmas achieved by Taiwan's "baby boomer" generation of writers after the war by integrating "native experience" and "modernism." The second part of the book examines six novels in detail, discussing the novels of the Chinese in Taiwan, Chen Yingzhen, Guo Songfen, Bai Xianyong, Zhang Wenhuan, Lu Heruo, etc., In order to extend the discussion of Taiwan's modernity issues to more aspects, especially the submergence and rebirth of left-wing ideas with modern enlightenment significance in literature since the Japanese occupation era.

The moon in the distance is rising slantingly, bunches of fireflies gradually light up in the endless river of cars, and the whistling wind gathers and rushes away from all directions. It turns out that all love has been brought here by train. I looked at the world head-on with burning eyes. Turning around, I saw my mother leading many people rushing towards me from across the square like crazy, shouting something as they ran. I couldn't hold it back, my eyes turned red, and I no longer felt annoyed or afraid of my mother, so I rushed towards her. On the road alternating between light and dark, all I heard was my voice - "Mom, is my dad okay?"