WULOLIFE
"The Great Changes in History" Author: Gong Pengcheng Publisher: Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House
"The Great Changes in History" Author: Gong Pengcheng Publisher: Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House
Couldn't load pickup availability
Description
★China's history has changed its destiny because of these articles
These articles not only record history, but also explain history. They also directly shaped China and are direct testimony to historical changes.
★Sister volume of "Chinese Spiritual Reader"
Each article has an annotation translation, explaining the main points of the article, the writing background and the impact it caused.
★A special Chinese history book
★ Comprehensively display the development trajectory of Chinese history
★The language is clear and easy to understand, allowing you to read history easily
————————【Brief Introduction】————————
"Great Historical Changes: Shaping China for Three Thousand Years" is a special Chinese history textbook edited by Professor Gong Pengcheng of Peking University. The book contains 139 classic articles from past dynasties. It comprehensively presents the development trajectory of Chinese history in the form of an origin in vertical chronological order.
The 139 articles included in the book, starting from the Yao and Shun periods and ending in the late Qing Dynasty, can be divided into articles that changed history and articles that marked historical changes.
Articles that changed history mean that the fate of Chinese history was changed because of these articles, or it can be said that these articles shaped Chinese history. If there was no "Remonstrance Against Expelling Foreigners" by Li Si, the Qin State might have driven all the scholars from various countries, including Li Si, back to their hometowns, and then Qin might not have been able to unify the world later; for example, if there was no "Strangeness of the So-called National System Issue" by Liang Qichao, which triggered the anti-Yuan trend, no one could have predicted how Yuan Shikai's claim to the throne would end. Therefore, this type of article specifically affected the development of Chinese history.
Articles that mark historical changes are direct testimonies of historical changes, such as Emperor Wen of Han's "Edict on the Abolition of Corporal Punishment" in terms of political affairs and "On Welcoming the Buddha's Bones" in terms of academics. They either represent the emergence of a new concept and a new era, or announce the formation of a change.
Of course, some articles actually have both functions and cannot be clearly divided into either type, but the combination of the two undoubtedly directly explains Chinese history. The explanatory role of original documents is undoubtedly the greatest, which is why the book uses original documents as the basis for its argument.
The book analyzes relevant articles in five major sections: introduction, origin, translation, background description, and influence. It explains 3,000 years of Chinese history in a clear and easy-to-understand language, making reading history less burdensome.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Gong Pengcheng was born in Taiwan, China in 1956. He was the president of Nanhua University and Fo Guang University in Taiwan. He is a distinguished professor at Peking University and Beijing Normal University, and a chair professor at Nanjing Normal University. He has written more than 160 books, and has hosted many academic societies, academies, research centers, and academic journals, integrating knowledge and practice. He is currently the president of the Gong Pengcheng Foundation in the United States and a chair professor at Shandong University.
