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This book describes ancient Westerners' understanding and preliminary knowledge of China and Chinese culture. In the ancient Greek and Roman times, Westerners had a vague impression of distant China based only on the legends of Chinese silk and fragments. In the 13th and 14th centuries, the Mongolian Empire achieved great communication between the East and the West, and travelers such as Marco Polo reported their personal experiences and impressions in China to Westerners. The great voyages and the booming Sino-European trade that began after the 16th century finally brought China into the eyes of Europeans and became an area of ​​knowledge they strived to explore.

Since the beginning of mankind, the struggle between mankind and plague has never stopped, and plague has always been accompanied by plague in the history of human civilization. Every plague pandemic is accompanied by an improvement in human understanding of nature. Plague has participated in our history and the creation of our civilization. In a sense, the plague is a culture. In the context of the recent Wuhan pneumonia, this book records the harm of great plagues in world history, the power of people in plagues, and the impact of plagues on human civilization through vivid and detailed examples and data. From the perspective of global history, this book tells the story of mankind's response to plagues. From praying and isolating to coexisting with the cognitive and coping process, and then reflecting on the symbiosis between human beings and plagues in the nirvana of life and death, it enlightens readers to think about the way to live in harmony with nature, and believes that plagues can be recognized and defeated.

This book describes the arrival of a large number of European missionaries in China in the 17th and 18th centuries. They went deep into Beijing and other cities in China, had close contact with the Chinese scholar-bureaucrat class, and gained a relatively in-depth understanding of Chinese culture. They wrote a large number of letters, reports and books, translated Chinese cultural classics, and widely introduced Chinese culture to the West. In particular, their introduction to Confucius's Confucianism greatly inspired the European intellectual community and became an important ideological resource for the ongoing Enlightenment Movement.

This book describes the Sino-European trade from the 16th to the 18th century, when a large number of Chinese goods, represented by silk, tea, and porcelain, came to Europe, improving and enriching people's daily lives. The reports about China by missionaries and travelers, and the contribution of scholars, further stimulated Europeans' enthusiasm for China. The popular Chinese taste in life and the fashion of pursuing Chinese goods formed a widespread "Chinese style", which affected many fields of European society and had a great impact on Europeans' aesthetic taste, arts and crafts, painting art, garden art, etc.

Zhang Jun is a reporter for Hongcheng Evening News. When he was about to get off work that day, he received a strange call on his mobile phone. Zhang Jun's phone number was printed in the Evening News, and readers often called to expose the news, so it was not surprising that the phone number was unfamiliar. But this time, the voice of a child came through the phone, asking like he was reading from a textbook: "Are you Mr. Zhang Jun, a special correspondent of Xinhua News Agency?" Zhang Jun was stunned for a moment. He is indeed the webmaster of Xinhua News Agency in Hongcheng, but readers who expose him usually come because of his status as a reporter for the Evening News, and they rarely ask him if he is from Xinhua News Agency. Zhang Jun answered in the affirmative, and then asked what the child's name was. If it were a child who was playing pranks, he would definitely be frightened and reveal his true colors when asked this question.

Yu Fei is a reporter for Sanjiang Metropolis Daily in the provincial capital. A few days ago, he took the initiative to apply to follow the research team of the Provincial Poverty Alleviation Office to do follow-up reporting in remote poverty-stricken counties. I just came back today and I didn't rest. Cat stayed at home all night to finish the manuscript and didn't go to bed until three in the morning. Yu Fei has been working so hard recently, and his colleagues all thought that he wanted to evaluate the outstanding candidates at the end of the year - this year's end-of-year awards are very valuable, and everyone is jealous of the seven-day trip to Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. In fact, Yu Fei knew in his heart that he was just trying so hard to take the opportunity to leave the provincial capital, separate from his girlfriend Wen Ya for a while, and stop thinking about those messy things. Yu Fei and Wen Ya have been in love for almost a year, and their relationship has always been very good. But since seeing that photo not long ago, Yu Fei felt as uncomfortable as swallowing a fly alive.