The Long Email from Boston: America's Political Growth and Universal History Author: Liu Xiaofeng Shanghai People's Publishing House

This book is the latest work of philosopher Liu Xiaofeng. It explores the many issues of cultural and political differences between China and the United States with a literary touch. The author explains the different political systems of China and the United States, and analyzes the founding policies and national political system of the United States from a deep historical and philosophical perspective. Why is the United States so full of contradictions and minefields in domestic and international politics after 300 years of establishment? Why is the essence of American ideas to achieve the "universal" appeal through the expansion of the empire? The purpose of Liu Xiaofeng's writing this book is to review the foreign policy of the United States since its founding and the background of the American political system, and to deeply reveal the spiritual quality and civilization background of the American political system from a theoretical perspective.

Liu Xiaofeng (born in 1956 in Chongqing) is a first-class professor at the School of Literature of Renmin University of China and the director of the Center for the Study of Classical Civilization. In his early years, he became famous in the academic world for his works Poetic Philosophy (1986) and Salvation and Freedom (1988). He has been writing books since then, covering the history of European religious thought, social theory, political philosophy, classical philology, literary criticism and political history. He is the editor-in-chief of the large-scale library "Classics and Interpretation". His recent representative works include: Classics and the Dispute between Ancient and Modern Times, Republic and Economy, Heidegger and China, Beauty as a Mirror, Pioneers of Embracing the Comet: Towards Political History, Proclaiming the Subtle: Interpretation of Ancient Greek Poetry and Prose, and translation of The Four Books of Plato.