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"Talk about Red Mansions: The Back Door of the Grand View Garden Leads to Liangshan" is a book that interprets Chinese history and social reality. By interpreting the character and destiny of the characters in "A Dream of Red Mansions", as well as the process and reasons for the decline of Ning and Rong Mansion, the author tries his best to explore and analyze the profound connotation of Chinese society epitomized by "Grand View Garden" and the deep genes of Chinese culture represented by the people in "Red Mansions", in order to observe, think and examine social reality and people in reality through the unchanging basic human nature and the noisy social surface. This book is different from the general interpretation works of "A Dream of Red Mansions" and pays more attention to its social and cultural aspects. It can be said to be a classic text of social history and cultural history. The author uses the perspective of a historical writer and calm and objective thinking to understand and view the people and events in the "Red Mansions", mourning their misfortune and expressing sympathy.

"Family, Country and World: A Profile of the History of the Late Qing Dynasty" is a recent masterpiece written by a famous literary and historical writer who spent ten years chopping wood. Under the framework of the great history of the late Qing Dynasty, this book starts from the two dimensions of family, country and world conditions, and presents many historical details of many civil servants and generals such as Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang, Li Hongzhang, Hu Linyi, Peng Yulin, Liu Kunyi, etc. It also extends to the friends and staff around them to see the history and society at that time, deeply explores the influence and influence of family, country and world conditions on history, and deeply analyzes the fate of the late Qing Dynasty and the historical truth of personal destiny. This book not only writes about the famous officials of the late Qing Dynasty, such as Zeng, Zuo, and Li, but also writes about many "alternative figures" at important moments in the history of the late Qing Dynasty, such as Yu Xian, Lian Wenchong, Qi Ying, etc. These people have more or less feelings about their family and country, but they are unable to save the decline of the dynasty. Some people's inner sense of moral superiority actually harms their family and country. The author focuses on the interpersonal interactions of historical figures, carefully observes and objectively examines those people and things in history, and uses each historical figure and historical event to try to restore the historical path of how the late Qing Dynasty declined step by step, unlocking the root causes and puzzles of the end of the Qing Dynasty.