In the World/世界之中

This book focuses on ten little-known but far-reaching historical episodes in China from ancient times to the late Qing Dynasty, including Taosi and Shimao of the pre-Xia period, the political sacredness of Qin Shihuang and the Greek civilization of Central Asia, the messianic characteristics of Taoism, the Xiongnu's reference to the Qin system, the Sogdians and the shift of the Tang Empire, Luo Fangbo's overseas republic, and Sun Yat-sen's teacher's advocacy of establishing a modern financial state.

本书重点讲述了包括先夏的陶寺与石峁、秦始皇的政治神圣性与中亚希腊文明、道教的弥赛亚特征、匈奴对秦制的借鉴、粟特人与唐帝国的转向、罗芳伯的海外共和国、孙中山的老师建立现代财政国家的主张等中国从远古到清末十个鲜为人知又影响深远的历史片段。