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In forty compulsory courses on love, sociologist and scholar Li Yinhe explains to you the essence of love, marriage and sex. This book is the culmination of Li Yinhe's forty years of research on marriage, family and sexuality. It is a systematic summary of the author's lifelong research accumulation and insights. The book thoroughly discusses topics such as love and sex, mate selection standards, extramarital affairs, sexual minorities, fertility concepts, sex education, female independence and other topics. From Platonic love to more diversified sexual orientations, from the conflict between personal desires and customary norms, to the tension between the fluidity of feelings and the fixity of marriage, the author tells the ins and outs and trends of the changes in Chinese and foreign marriage systems, love concepts, and sexual concepts, giving a glimpse of the love styles of different cultures in the world, broadening the perspective on gender relations, and making extremely detailed observations and interpretations of the practical dilemmas of marriage, love, and sex faced by Chinese people today, as well as related hot social issues. There are no difficult academic theories here. There are many interesting cases here, as well as the author's legendary love experience, to help you solve the confusion in reality, understand love and gender issues more thoroughly, get rid of misunderstandings, break through the pattern of life, and obtain a happier life.

Li Yinhe's first collection of poetic short chapters is light, concise, literary and transcendent. After retirement, Li Yinhe lives by the sea and settles into a quiet life of semi-seclusion. On weekdays he just reads, writes, watches movies and goes for walks on the beach. When she wakes up every morning, she writes down the feelings that naturally come out of her heart. Over the years, she has this collection of short chapters. These thoughts that flow out naturally are the true state of her own existence, and they are also the most real and important thing about her. The book is divided into five chapters: Bird's-eye View, True Colors, Dark Fire, Graffiti, and Return to Zero, which respectively deal with birth, entry into the world, emotions, writing, and miscellaneous feelings. These concise and sparkling words are her reflection on the essence of life based on more than half a century of experience and her unique state of mind.

This book is a newly compiled collection of essays by Li Yinhe, which is the essence of his insights after walking in the world for more than half a century. In this work, Li Yinhe records her thoughts on the meaning of life over the years with straightforward and magnanimous literary writing. As a maverick scholar, Li Yinhe believes that everyone's life has a unique meaning, and living a meaningful life is everyone's pursuit. Life is short, but life is meaningful. Li Yinhe wants to fill it with passion, freedom and beauty. This book can be seen as a sincere confession of a free soul, both to the world and to oneself. She has struggled, been confused, and confused. She has lived, loved, and written. She has turned life into an aesthetic existence and shaped life into a work of art. "At this age, I still have passion, and my vitality is still like boiling water, bubbling, spraying, and making cheerful popping sounds." Li Yinhe completely and vividly demonstrates the background of her soul through this book. She firmly believes that love and life cannot be let down. Since she is lucky enough to live in this precious world, every period of time must be boiled well and slowly boiled.

You and I are just dust, how can we live our lives? Li Yinhe's latest essay after six years. After retiring, Li Yinhe lived in seclusion on the countryside and seaside for six years, concentrating on reading and writing. His focus shifted from social issues to individual spiritual life. It collects her thoughts on the nature of life, the value of self-existence, the way to make friends, passionate love, lifestyle, art and reading, etc., And presents the independent and free spiritual world of a feminist. This spiritual notebook is quiet and beautiful, sober and transparent. It provides readers with a detached but not escapist perspective on life, and presents a unique life experience that is both rational and literary.

From a sociological perspective, this book explores the problems that everyone encounters at different stages of life - financial independence, anxiety about marriage and love, relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and domestic violence. Why are more and more people choosing to be single? Should we consider the other person's family background when dating? How should we view cohabitation before marriage? How should we protect ourselves when facing domestic violence? ... Well-known sociologist Li Yinhe provides an in-depth analysis of 54 hot social topics, aiming to lead readers to break the stereotypes of intimate relationships and help everyone establish a new understanding of love and sex. Let everyone recognize the nature of intimate relationships, fully understand themselves, and better understand others.

When the sun is shining fiercely outside, when the wind is blowing and the rain is pouring, you can lie on the sofa at home and flip through various books at will. If you like it, you can read it, and if it is not good, you can throw it aside; It's a comfortable feeling, and it's impossible to find a more comfortable way of life anywhere in the world. I hope I can spend my life like this - reading interesting books, writing interesting books, listening to beautiful music, looking at beautiful paintings, admiring the refreshing scenery, being with the people I like, and enjoying life as I please. I have never published a book like this. It is completely different from all the books I have written and published. Those books were very heavy, but this book is much lighter by comparison.

For example, the definition of the concept of "female scholar". People will ask based on habitual thinking: Can so-and-so be considered a female scholar? So, what kind of person is considered a "female scholar"? A person with a degree from a study background? Are you a researcher in an institution of higher learning or a scientific research unit? Are you immersed in a certain research field but have no professional title? An academically immersed person who does not pursue any academic pursuits? The answer is very uncertain.

In life, you have to experience pain, big and small. If you hold great pain in your heart, many small pains can be resolved; if you hold great joy in your heart, many small joys can be covered. What's more important is to turn your life into a work of art, live your life in happiness, and don't have to pursue or care about anything else. What's more important is to turn your life into a work of art, live your life in happiness, and don't have to pursue or care about anything else. For ordinary people like us, the best state of life may be nothing else, but to become a happy family.