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Electric walkers wandering on high-voltage power lines in the countryside, smugglers in fishing villages, spiritualists in the mountains, corpse-layers whose profession is death, street performers in dark alleys in Taipei... Twelve stories, twelve aspects of life, a strange story about Taiwan's countryside in the mist and rain. The protagonists of the story are all marginalized people in modern society. The author uses the perspective of a child to narrate the lives of his father and mother. Although each story has a clear rural location, it is not limited to rural stories or rural legends. These locations can be substituted for any time and space in ancient and modern times, or east and west. Moreover, the modernist techniques and existential thinking in it also give the novel a depth that is not found in ordinary rural novels.

The political thoughts of the Sima family and the etiquette scholars of the Wei and Jin Dynasties had a profound influence on the official Confucianism of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, but few people paid attention to it in the study of ancient Chinese intellectual history. This book systematically analyzes the political thoughts of this interest group from three levels: ideological concepts, system construction, and political struggles. It points out that Confucianism, which is a mixture of Taoism and Legalism, dominates their ideological characteristics in political practice, thereby more comprehensively revealing the theoretical characteristics, evolution process, and historical significance of official Confucianism in this period.