The horseman rides across the vast desert under the north wind.

Author: Gao Jianqun
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: In this book, the renowned contemporary writer Gao Jianqun, famous for The Last Xiongnu, uses a sharp and talented pen to dance gracefully between the realms of history and reality. He vividly recreates the final journey of the Xiongnu people, the rise and fall of the Loulan dynasty, the fate of the Western Xia dynasty, the sweeping conquests of Genghis Khan's cavalry, and the majestic landscapes of Central and Western Asia. Through these narratives, he naturally concludes that "A history of the Chinese nation's civilization is, in fact, a five-thousand-year history shaped by the mutual conflict and fusion of agrarian and nomadic cultures."
Standing outside the Great Wall, gazing at the Central Plains, you will realize that the views of the twenty-four histories, which historians often praise, are completely overturned here. From this perspective, the five-thousand-year civilization of the Chinese nation exists in a different form. This is that whenever the Chinese civilization, dominated by agrarian culture, reaches a crossroads and struggles to sustain itself, the thundering hooves of nomadic tribes cross the Great Wall and sweep in with a roar, injecting new "blood of the barbarian Huns" into the stagnant civilization. This is perhaps the entire mystery behind why the ancient Chinese civilization did not disappear from the annals of history like some other ancient civilizations in the world.