( 1) Twenty-Five Histories (Full Color Illustration Version with Hard Cover and 1 CD Included)

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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Exquisite and unique bronze artifacts, vivid and lifelike portraits of emperors and officials, majestic and magnificent Terracotta Army, Dunhuang Mogao Caves, solemn and grand Forbidden City. Learn the spirit of founding emperors who devoted their lives to achieving great deeds, the grand ambitions of loyal ministers and generals who served their countries with dedication, the virtue of ancient sages and Confucian scholars, and the rigorous and realistic academic attitudes of literary and artistic masters. Discover how the 600-li-long Palace of Fragrance was destroyed and where its ruins stand today, why the King of Chu had no face to return to his homeland, why Zhuge Liang did not usurp Liu Shan, why Li Shimin, who loved the people like a father, killed his brother and forced his father to abdicate, and the true reasons behind the Qing Dynasty's devastating defeat in the Opium War. From the legendary Three Emperors and Five Sovereigns to the collapse of feudal society, this book comprehensively records the development process of the Chinese nation over thousands of years. Accompanied by over 1,500 stunning images and rigorous, eloquent historical narratives, it presents to you a historical panorama of the Chinese nation and the rise and fall of a great civilization.