Yuan Ling's work "History of Qin City" is a manuscript with a unique perspective, solid content, and vivid narration. Taking the CCP's first political prison, Qincheng Prison, as a landmark, this book sharply reveals the CCP's totalitarian ecology and historical secrets through in-depth and meticulous interviews and the combing of rich historical materials, and has the effect of dissecting and thoroughly investigating its dictatorship model.
The author combines oral history and documentary research, interviewing dozens of people involved in the past decade, and sorting out and correcting a large amount of historical materials, which corroborate each other, and makes a detailed and complete investigation of the historical evolution, internal operation, and character stories of Qincheng Prison, clearly and meticulously outlining the history of this political prison from its birth to the present, involving many important historical figures and time nodes, from the "Gao-Rao case", "Anti-Rightist", "Cultural Revolution", "June Fourth" to today's "Anti-Corruption", with Qincheng as the focus, reflecting the entire contemporary national history.
