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This book makes an insightful investigation of historical agrotechnical geography in West China in the Qing Dynasty from the perspective of historical geography and the history of agricultural technology. This study first divides West China into four regions, i.e., the Loess Plateau, Northwest China except the Loess Plateau, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and Southwest China. Based on a systematic analysis of the geographical factors, such as heat, moisture, topography, soil, this study discusses the distribution and differentiation of the major technology types in these regions, ranging from the most primitive shifting cultivation and extensive cultivation to the most intensive cultivation, which are manifested in the crop structure and distribution, planting technology, water conservancy, tools, etc., as well as various combinations of these technologies. The diverse types and forms of technology and their specific combinations in different geographical spaces are mainly determined bythe diverse environmental conditions, which embodies the multi-factor correlation between technology mode and geographical environment and the internal unity of regional agricultural technology mode. In addition to the relationship between agricultural technology and geographical factors, it also takes social-economic, religious, and other cultural factors as important parameters, which were unique in West China, and significantly influence the trend of agrotechnological development. Through this study, it constructs the basic theoretical framework of historical agrotechnical geography and enlarges the scope of historical geography studies. And, since the author chose West China in the Qing Dynasty as the research subject, which was characterized by significant diversity and complexity in terms of natural geographical factors and socio-economic circumstances like religion and customs, this study provides a typical case for in-depth understanding of West China, so it is still of great academic value and important practical significance for the development of West China today.

她充滿傳奇的諜報生涯，世界四大情報組織間的危險遊戲，重返二戰現場，揭秘消失的琥珀屋，蘇聯一段不為人知的歷史。 從蒙疆到歐陸，自上海到紐約；從二戰到國共內戰，美蘇冷戰到商場雲湧；在國與國的博弈中，她是諜戰史上最出乎意外的篇章。 創作歷時 20年，聞人悅閱親自走訪哈密、唐努烏梁海、新疆、紐約、臺灣等地，84萬字大河諜報小說、長篇鉅獻！

全書集結作者對早期生活的體驗與觀察、人物的回憶及心境的變化，流暢的文筆，細膩的敘述，將作者所見所聞表露無疑，讓人彷彿也跟著作者一起身在其中。

韓復榘是民國史上最有爭議的人物之一。他是道地的中國北方漢子，身高一百八十公分左右，略瘦，卻很健壯。他是名優秀的軍人，帶兵打仗是他的天職，曾是馮玉祥、蔣中正的愛將。他的悲劇在於沒有把握好自己的角色，在許多時候顯得驕傲、剛愎自用，最後引起蔣中正下令暗殺，從此結束他戎馬倥傯、戰績輝煌的一生。 本書作者為韓復榘之孫，他以史實為依據、拋開任何意識形態，純粹以人性的視角再現韓復渠先生「不怕死，不愛錢」─率性自由、不屑隨波逐流的獨立人格，並推翻在民間以訛傳訛的笑話及錯誤的史料記載，逐步重建更真實、更有血有肉的韓復榘。

The Labrang Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in Amdo and its extended support community are one of the largest and most famous in Tibetan history. This crucially important and little-studied community is on the northeast corner of the Tibetan Plateau in modern Gansu Province, in close proximity to Chinese, Mongol, and Muslim communities. It is Tibetan but located in China; it was founded by Mongols, and associated with Muslims. Its wide-ranging Tibetan religious institutions are well established and serve as the foundations for the community's social and political infrastructures. The Labrang community's borderlands location, the prominence of its religious institutions, and the resilience and identity of its nomadic and semi-nomadic cultures were factors in the growth and survival of the monastery and its enormous estate. This book tells the story of the status and function of the Tibetan Buddhist religion in its fully developed monastic and public dimensions. It is an interdisciplinary project that examines the history of social and political conflict and compromise between the different local ethnic groups. The book presents new perspectives on Qing Dynasty and Republican-era Chinese politics, with far-reaching implications for contemporary China. It brings a new understanding of Sino-Tibetan-Mongol-Muslim histories and societies. This volume will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate student majors in Tibetan and Buddhist studies, in Chinese and Mongol studies, and to scholars of Asian social and political studies.