The Rats And The Cats

The Rats and The Cats

Two delightful children's stories told beautifully in poetic rhyme to add joy to the reading and excitement of the content... The Rats and the Cats story as two hero's Ronnie and Donny the Rats who with bravery not only save themselves and other rats but the gentle village cats too who are also in danger of the ferocious wild cats that come to run in their village...The second story is about a little Cherub that accidentally gets his wings torn...landing into the woods where he is befriended and finally helped by the woodland creatures...Both stories have beautiful happy endings to leave any child feeling good and hopefully wanting another book to read......

Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes

History has many untold stories. In Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes the author provides glimpses into China’s hidden past through the native’s point of view. Rather than simply writing about ordinary people, this book is written from the perspective of ordinary people, how they told their own stories about themselves, their communities, and their pasts. The author examines historical consciousness as revealed in people’s everyday lives and as expressed through customary rituals, sociocultural conventions, language, and the complex symbolism of common human experiences. The focus is on ethnic groups and individuals who have been routinely discriminated against in mainstream society and treated by officials as rogues and criminals. They were denizens of the underworld of “rivers and lakes” (jianghu), a sociocultural category that includes bandits, sorcerers, conmen, and prostitutes. To get at their silent history the author spent decades conducting field research in rural areas of southern China, collecting rarely used unconventional sources—folklore, legends, myths, rumors, and hearsay—that reveal nuggets of new information and insights not found in the conventional sources in libraries and archives. This book challenges many commonplace assumptions about how academics write history by offering alternative possibilities for China’s past.

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