Color Illustrated Edition Mao Zedong's Commentaries on the Twenty-Four Histories (Complete 4 Volumes) (Color Illustrated Edition)

Author: Wang Quanle
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Publish Date: 2002-03-01
Features: The five thousand years of civilization of the Chinese nation has been tempered in the river of history. A long history and legendary life have left behind so much space for to learn and think. The "Twenty-Four Histories" tells the story of the history of thousands of years. Mao Zedong, a great statesman, thinker, revolutionary, and military strategist, favored the "Twenty-Four Histories" and spent the last years of his life accompanied by them. This busy leader of the founding of the nation read through 40 million words of the "Twenty-Four Histories" in twenty-four years. While studying the "Twenty-Four Histories," he used different colored pens to mark important points and make annotations. These markings and annotations reveal the emotional and intellectual spontaneity of this great leader. From them, we can appreciate the mindset, flying thoughts, and unique historical perspective of Mao Zedong when he read history. Mao Zedong's comments on the "Twenty-Four Histories" are not just ordinary critiques. They carry the distinct style of Mao Zedong—critiquing history from the perspective of a statesman, focusing on the rise and fall of dynasties, the success and failure of major political strategies in history, and evaluating historical figures based on their political achievements and shortcomings, using history as a mirror. This book is divided into four volumes and over 500,000 words, genuinely recording Mao Zedong's important critiques of over a hundred historical figures and providing insightful analyses. The book also includes over 2,000 exquisite images, featuring both Mao Zedong's authentic handwritten critiques of the "Twenty-Four Histories" and precious photographs that vividly depict the important events and contemporary historical scenes of the "Twenty-Four Histories."