Records of Phoenix Power

1. First follow the shifts in Qin Liangyu's motivation, from her determination to join the army to her infiltration of the military, then track the several points where she and Ma Qiancheng save each other.
2. While reading, note the tension created by the secret of her male disguise and treat it as a key thread driving the character relationships.
3. Readers interested in Ming history can look up background on the Wanli era after finishing, to distinguish fictional invention from historical fact.
4. To keep track of the romance, take simple notes by stage: first meeting, discovery of her true identity, mutual rescue in peril, and fighting side by side.

China Overseas Publishing House focuses on philosophy, history, world classics and mystery and detective fiction, with a secondary interest in foreign literature and folk literature. Its catalogue of roughly 960 titles includes Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Jiang Tingfu's Modern Chinese History, Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, Arthur Conan Doyle's Complete Sherlock Holmes, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince, as well as Classic Collected Edition of Greek Myths and a beautifully illustrated edition of Zhuangzi, giving it a publishing profile centred on classic translations and traditional Chinese culture. Its authors and translators range from Wittgenstein, Jiang Tingfu, Mitchell, Conan Doyle and Saint-Exupéry to Huang Min, Fu Donghua and Liu Shijie. Public information about its editorial philosophy and series system is limited.