China Imperial Consorts Manuscript

Author: Lan Dai
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: From ancient Greece to today, the joys and sorrows of human history are almost encompassed in our textbooks. However, it must be noted that these historical facts preserved in textbooks are inevitably torturous for every reader due to their cold, solemn, and grand narratives, making people's desire to read far less steadfast than their desire to forget. As Braudel said, they form a particularly failed landscape in our pursuit of distant pasts. Fortunately, apart from those who compile textbooks while immersed in piles of old papers, there are also eyewitnesses, targets, and later followers who love history—among whom are scholars, authors, common people; journalists, generals, and soldiers.