Huang Renyu 
Year of No Significance (40th Anniversary Edition) 

The 15th year of Wanli, that is, 1587 A.D., was the year before the Spanish fleet was sent to Britain in the history of Western Europe. In China, in this ordinary year, there have been a number of events that historians tend to ignore. These events, although seemingly like terminal sections, are actually the crux of major events in the past and the opportunity to cause waves in the future. In the eyes of historian Huang Renyu, the relationship between cause and effect is just the focus of history, and our great historical journey has begun since then……A Year of No Significance is a famous work of the Chinese American historian Mr. Huang Renyu, and it is also one of his representative works, which integrates the author’s decades of life experience and scholarly experience. It is the first time to analyze the crux of the Ming Dynasty society with the "grand historical view" and observe the origin of modern China, which is thought-provoking.