作品再现日军在侵华战争中，对中国进行的大规模领土侵略、文化侵略、烧杀抢掠和资源掠夺……本书图文并茂，力争退却偏激的感情色彩，理性挖掘从1931年到1945年14年间，日本轻而易举对中国900多座城市功城掠地的内因与外因。书中使用的图片均为作者个人藏品照片，有些购于境外。选材角度新鲜，独特，说服力强，是日本侵华史的有力物证和对“公共记忆”的丰富和补充。

Yuan Longping, the renowned and respected Chinese scientist often taken for a farmer, has found the world a way out of famine. Unde-terred by the prevailing ignorance of heterosis in rice and other self-pollinating plants, he has dedicated himself to research into hybrid rice since the 1960s, and his feats have won him the accolade "father of hybrid rice" and earned him the honor of being made foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences Why is Yuan so obsessed by hybrid rice research? How did he manage with such simple conditions, scarce aterials, backward technol-ogy and insufficient information? What global impacts will Yuan and his team have? This book may give the answers.

The Chinese nation evolevd between two rivers,the Yellow and Yangtze,basins of wheat and rice,giving Chinese people characterstics of thrift and persistence,sirvival and an innate understanding of the forces of change which e with teh revolving seasons and ever harmonious cycles of naure.