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The so-called "gaze within and outside the border" has two meanings. First, serious literature has "boundaries", which is a concept that needs to be reflected on, but does exist. When popular literature, film and television, animation, and games form a kind of "encirclement" around serious literature, today's literary research especially needs a perspective that can be both inside and outside. It is not only to find ways to dialogue with the times, but also to further "revitalize" today's serious literature and make it more leafy and colorful. The second is the cultural life of an era, which can be divided into center and periphery. When we stand within the "border" of serious literature and talk endlessly, what we say may be relatively close to the edge of the entire cultural life. There is nothing wrong with this, but as a literary researcher, you should have a clear understanding of this, and only then can you choose to pursue further specialization, historicization, or reflect from the margins and return to the center. This book is divided into four volumes. The first two volumes systematically review the history of contemporary literature from the perspective of "cities" such as Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuhan, Guangzhou, and Taipei, as well as the spectrum of "characters" such as new people, old people, teenagers, intellectuals, women, and villains. This perspective or genealogy transcends the distinction between serious and popular. The latter two series look for the key to explaining literary issues and the path to connect the inside and outside of literature from the perspective of academic history, history of ideological trends, literary imagination, writers' works and other special topics.

In the early 1930s, the situation in the Far East suddenly changed. The intelligence work of the Communist International was repeatedly frustrated. A silver coin containing top-secret information accidentally fell into the hands of the puppet Manchukuo intelligence agency. Genius violinist and top agent Gao Shiheng was assigned to return to his familiar hometown of Harbin from Moscow to carry out covert work. On the speeding train, a series of bloody murders made Gao Shiheng aware of the undercurrent of multiple forces behind the mission. In Harbin, the battle of secret electricity at the cost of the life of a mathematician, the blasting of Japan's new fighter planes, the air battle with his immediate boss... In the test of ice and fire, Gao Shiheng gradually grew into a real warrior. At the same time, he was accidentally involved in a mysterious battle for gold. After his former comrade-in-arms died, Gao Shiheng decided to fight to the death, but found himself trapped in another larger political whirlpool...