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Destruction and Rectification: a Study on the Changes in Official Administration in Yunnan During the Yongzong and Qianlong Periods (1726-1799)

Sun Xiao

145K0

This book takes five cases of corruption among Yunnan border officials from 1726 to 1799 as the object of observation. It explores the impact of the reform of the land and the return of local officials on Yunnan during the Yongzheng and Qian Dynasties, as well as the ruling thoughts of the monarchs in the Yongzheng and Qian dynasties. It forms the following core viewpoints: First, the reform of the land and the return of local officials during the Yongzheng period was an important node in the integration process of Yunnan and the mainland in the early Qing Dynasty, and it was used as a benchmark. Yunnan has undergone major changes in politics and culture. It is no longer a border province with marginalized political status, but has gradually transformed into an inland province with a high degree of integration with the Central Plains. Secondly, while political integration has brought rapid development opportunities to Yunnan, it has also had many impacts on the local social culture and official structure.

The Game Starts with a Chase

Sun Xiao

346K0

Bow strings rang continuously, thousands of arrows were fired, countless soldiers squatted on the ground, and kept firing arrows at the wall. The man jumped down from the wall, waved his cloak, and swung the flying arrows away. He roared, raised his sword to kill the crowd, an officer raised his sword to block, and with a sudden sound, the officer and his sword were chopped into two pieces. The officials were frightened and gradually retreated.

Past Stories on Chung Ying Street: the "special Zone" Within Special Zones

Sun Xiao

106K0

Sino-British Street is not only a microcosm of China's century-old modern history, but also a historical witness of China's reform and opening up, Hong Kong's return to the motherland, and the Chinese people's hard work. "The Past on Chung Ying Street: The "Special Zone" in the Special Administrative Region" will lead readers to recall this period of history, in order to be prepared for danger in times of peace, learn from history, remember lessons, and face the future. The whole book accompanies readers into this small street that is 250 meters long and three to four meters wide. Relive the vicissitudes of the small street, experience the Hakka customs, listen to the late fishermen's songs, recall the "shopping paradise", and understand the story of the honor and disgrace of China's famous historical and cultural street - Zhongying Street and the feelings of family and country.

Liberty's Sail at Walden Pond: a Study of Thoreau's Prose Poetics

Sun Xiao

146K01

This book explains Thoreau's poetics of freedom from the perspectives of romantic poetics, realist poetics and transcendentalist poetics. The author believes that Thoreau explored the realm of life and spirit freedom in the freedom in the wilderness world, the freedom in moral society, and the freedom in religious experience, and formed his unique view of freedom in the natural system. Thoreau's poetics of freedom is a product of the romantic era and the result of his poetic philosophical thinking, with a strong utopian color. Thoreau used poetic wisdom to describe an eternally free "Walden Pond", constructing a spiritual home for human beings to live in poetically in this "absurd" world.