Goddess of Rumors

Author: Neubauer
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
Features: Rumors are like humans—they don’t just "spring out of cracks in rocks." They are also the result of complex creation, originating from history, influencing history, and even interpreting history. Whether moving from foreign to center or from center to foreign, rumors always provoke panic and persecution, bringing fear of war or a sense of triumph. In other words, it is rumors that are manufacturing history. What this book aims to tell is history’s response to rumors. This is a pioneering work where the author follows the strange and mysterious traces in the "kingdom of hearsay" to complete an exploration of rumors, adding a valuable contribution to the study of rumors. Through the analysis and research of a vast amount of historical events, myths, famous works, and cultural phenomena, he portrays the "image" of rumors, reveals the mechanisms of their production and development, their "behavior patterns," and the profound and undeniable influence they exert on people’s lives, on society as a whole, on history, and on the progress of human civilization.