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"The 15th Year of Wanli" Author: Huang Renyu Publisher: Life·Reading·New Knowledge Sanlian Bookstore Series: Middle School Library Collection
"The 15th Year of Wanli" Author: Huang Renyu Publisher: Life·Reading·New Knowledge Sanlian Bookstore Series: Middle School Library Collection
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Introduction · · · · · ·
"The 15th Year of Wanli" is the famous work of Chinese-American historian Huang Renyu and one of his representative works.
The fifteenth year of the Wanli reign of the Ming Dynasty, that is, 1587 AD, was originally an extremely ordinary year in Chinese history. The author focuses on the historical events around that year and the people who lived in that era, unravels the various problems existing in the management level of traditional Chinese society, and on this basis explores the experience and lessons that modern China should learn. The author is famous for his "big history" view, and this concept first emerged in this book. "The narrative may be detailed, but the conclusion should look far and not near." Since the book was published in mainland China in the early 1980s, it has received rave reviews and has had a wide influence in the academic and cultural circles. This book, "The Fifteenth Year of the Wanli Reign", is intended to explain the traditional historical background of Chinese society in the 16th century, that is, the side view before it conflicted with the world trend. With such a great historical failure, it can be guaranteed that once the conflict begins, it is impossible to restore the old state, thus leaving China with an opportunity to completely change and create history.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Huang Renyu was born in Changsha, Hunan in 1918. He dropped out of Nankai University in Tianjin (1936-1938). During and after the Anti-Japanese War, he served as a junior officer in the Nationalist Army for ten years. After graduating from the Central Military Academy in Chengdu (1940), he served as a platoon leader and acting company commander of the 14th Army Division. In 1943, he joined the Indian Army and served as a captain staff officer of the New First Army. In May 1944, he was wounded in Myitkyina, Burma, and was awarded the First Class Medal of the Army, Navy and Air Force. After the end of the Anti-Japanese War, he served as a major staff officer in the headquarters of the Third Front and the Northeast Security Commander. After taking the national examination in 1946, he was recommended to enter the United States Army Staff College; after graduation (1947), he served as a staff officer of the Ministry of National Defense. In 1950, he retired as a major member of the Chinese delegation to Japan. He went to the United States again to study history at the University of Michigan and received a doctorate (1964). He taught at Southern Illinois University, was a professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz from 1968 to 1980, and was a visiting associate professor at Columbia University and a researcher at the Harvard University East Asian Institute. He died of illness in a hospital in upstate New York on January 8, 2000 at the age of 82.
