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This book is a collection of the author's papers on Yan Fu's military, political and mass-science thoughts in recent years. It mainly consists of three parts. There are two papers in the "Military Thoughts" section, which for the first time conduct a relatively systematic discussion of Yan Fu's thoughts on naval construction and sea power, military strategic thoughts and their characteristics. There are 6 papers in the "Political Thought" section, which respectively analyze the context of Yan Fu's "Pi Han" and its relationship with the changes in Taoism in the late Qing Dynasty, Yan Fu's nationalism, Yan Fu's understanding of Russia and Sino-Russian relations, the connections and differences between Yan Fu and the "conservatism" of the British thinker Burke, Yan Fu's conception of the founding of the country in his later years and the similarities and differences with Sun Yat-sen's founding thought.

There are wise people who regulate the heaven and earth, resemble the sun and the moon, identify the stars, obey the yin and yang, distinguish the four seasons, and be in harmony with the Tao from ancient times. They can also prolong life and have the best time. Saint? Perfect person? Real person?

This book focuses on the study of the correlation between institutional changes and structural changes in rural society. It not only focuses on the vertical development of historical changes and strives to grasp the basic trajectory and development context of rural social evolution caused by institutional changes in the early 20th century as a whole, but also focuses on the horizontal development from a regional perspective to reveal the role and significance of different social and cultural factors in rural changes. At the same time, in a relatively comparative sense, it strives to reveal the underlying co-trends and universal characteristics through regional differences in society, economy, and culture, and to present the homogeneous significance of the overall historical process through the unevenness of regional evolution.