" The Hidden History of China's Shame (Complete 12 Volumes) "

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Features: Unveiling the falsehoods of official history, correcting the absurdities of folk history, refining the flaws of lurid history, filling the gaps of extracurricular history, uncovering the hidden truths of secret history, revealing the concealed aspects of private history, restoring the genuine nature of history.
1. Shockingly authentic content: Completely abandoning the "face-saving, shame-afraid" mindset of Ah Q, without concealing, exaggerating, or fabricating, with a sharp gaze and a clear awareness, directly confronting historical truths and restoring history to its original form.
2. Impressive grand structure: Encompassing 42 volumes, spanning a five-thousand-year historical panorama from the Republic of China to the present, covering officialdom, social customs, and non-mainstream groups, regarded as the complete record of China's "ugly history."
3. Exquisite historical analysis: With historical facts supported by arguments, emphasizing both history and commentary. The true significance of "ugly history" lies not in merely listing various ugly historical phenomena but in examining, analyzing, summarizing, and identifying the underlying patterns—meaning not just knowing "what is," but also understanding "why it is." This helps us avoid repeating past mistakes.
4. Priceless images: Collecting historical materials for "ugly history" is far more challenging than official history, and gathering images is even harder. The reason lies in the subjective awareness of Chinese people to "hide family shame," combined with the objective rarity of such images. The 2,000 images selected for this book, more than half of which come from overseas Chinese historians and Harbin enthusiasts, are truly invaluable.
5. When I flipped through this history and checked, there were no dates, and the pages were filled with the words "benevolence, righteousness, morality." I couldn’t sleep straight, but after carefully reviewing it half the night, I finally saw through the gaps in the text—the entire book was just two words: "ugliness."
6. For scholars skilled in words, one must set aside its self-praise and grand pronouncements to uncover its true face.
7. Face is important: A person needs dignity, trees need bark, and some people suffer in life just to maintain it. But in certain situations, one can also show their true colors or even be shameless.
Communication barriers: Suspicion is necessary, but too much leads to misunderstandings, mutual distrust, broken promises, and refusal to cooperate.
- "Each of us is a dragon alone, but together we are mere insects."
- Change is unpredictable: When a person leaves, feelings cool like tea.
- Work style: Avoiding failure but not striving for success, sticking to tradition, lacking ambition.
- Survival state: Apathy, indifference to time, detachment from the people, contentment with what is.
- Distorted psychology: Women think all men are scoundrels, and men believe all beautiful women are whores.
Four revolting things:
- Women’s small feet, men’s genitalia, brothels at home, and in-laws fucking.
- Four ideals:
- The big wife is kind, the little wife is beautiful, actors are skillful singers, and whores are excellent in bed.
- Four brutalities:
- Brothers fighting for power, being chopped into nine parts and the whole family executed, trafficking women into slavery, eating children to survive famine.
- Four scenes:
- Beggars lining the streets, con artists robbing, thugs ruling the countryside, and hearing the national curse everywhere.
- Four troubles:
- Imperial harem seeking power, the crown prince being stupid, the people suffering famine, and feudal lords rebelling.
- Four leisure pursuits:
- The emperor’s concubines, corrupt officials’ wealth, the people’s granaries, and scholars’ endless talks.
- Four failures:
- Flattery ending up in the foot, corruption leading to exposure, gambling debts with frequent explosions, and wives cheating.
- Four playboys:
- Emperors enjoying women as "romantic emperors," officials as "gentlemen who enjoy women," scholars as "flirty rogues," and commoners as "."
- Four oddities:
- Renting wives, selling children, scholars playing with boy toys, and maids and maids-in-law marrying together.
- Four dark groups:
- Triads, eunuchs, executioners, and tomb raiders.
Ten vices: Drinking, gambling, and having affairs, cheating, swindling, stealing.