"Live, Love, Write" Author: Li Yinhe Producer: New Classics Amber Subtitle: Li Yinhe's Autobiography

★The new autobiography of sociologist Li Yinhe - a life story of a feminist, open-minded, independent, brave, and free, who seeks nothing but love and beauty in her life.

Born in the 1950s, Li Yinhe experienced the Cultural Revolution, going to the countryside, being a worker-peasant-soldier student, and being sponsored to study abroad. The depression and confusion during her growth and the turning points of her fate bear a distinct mark of the times. She is the epitome of that generation of intellectuals who went from idealistic fanaticism to independent thinking and then to social progress. Growth, love, and academics occupy an important position in Li Yinhe's life. In these three dimensions of life, she "collects only the most essential parts like a bee collecting honey."

★For the first time, Li Yinhe deeply and completely recalls her love journey with Wang Xiaobo, presenting the story behind "Loving You is Like Loving Life".

Wang Xiaobo is a significant figure in Li Yinhe's life. She recorded her love story with Wang Xiaobo in great detail, which is very moving to read, as if the couple is still alive. From the handwritten novel "Green Haired Water Monster" to the exchange of love letters when they were in love, to studying abroad after marriage and taking the opportunity to travel around Europe and the United States, to returning to China to live together, the sweet, romantic, humorous and interesting story presents a more lifelike daily life of Wang Xiaobo and his spiritual partner.

★Through Li Yinhe’s recollections, we can get a glimpse into the changes and transformations in the concepts of marriage, family, gender and sexuality in Chinese society over the past three decades.

As the first female scholar in China to study sexuality, Li Yinhe has revealed the Chinese people's ideas about marriage, family, and sex and their cultural roots through her own research and investigation. She has also actively spoken out for sexual minorities in Chinese society and is committed to expanding society's acceptance and recognition of sexual minorities. Her recollections and review of her academic career clearly reflect the changes in Chinese society's ideas in the above areas over the past three decades, as well as the similarities and differences with the general cognition of Western society.

★Li Yinhe personally revised the book, adding 50,000 words. It includes more than 40 selected photos, and exposes many precious life photos for the first time.

A special chapter was added to interact with young readers, selecting questions that young people are generally concerned about regarding marriage, family, and sex, and answering them one by one.

The carefully selected forty-odd photos link together Li Yinhe's life experiences: spending her childhood in Beijing, joining the Inner Mongolia Military Corps, attending the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University, studying in the United States, falling in love with Wang Xiaobo and studying abroad together, spending her later years with the hero, and so on.

★The writing is candid and frank. In the eyes of the public, Li Yinhe is a maverick, but in her own words, she is just an ordinary person who lives out everything she believes in.

Whether it is material life, spiritual life, or emotional life, I only want that little bit of essence, the most beautiful, the most comfortable, the most poetic, and the most suitable for me. When I am alive, I enjoy all these feelings; when I die, I say goodbye to all these feelings. This is the whole meaning of my life. - Li Yinhe

★Designed by a well-known designer, the binding style is novel and avant-garde, with color illustrations and fine paper.

Brief introduction: Born in the 1950s, Li Yinhe's life's twists and turns, depression and confusion, bear a distinct mark of the times, and are the epitome of that generation's idealistic fanaticism, independent thinking, and commitment to social progress. What is different is that she has been firmly pursuing her true self and freedom throughout her life: she fell in love with Wang Xiaobo regardless of everything, devoted herself to the study of Chinese marriage, sex and family, broke prejudices through academic practice, and spoke for minority groups... In the book, Li Yinhe looks back on the past seventy years, writing frankly and innocently. She is seen as a maverick in people's eyes, but after removing all the labels, she is just a sensitive, pure person who lives for love and beauty.

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