Personal Experience of History - A Rough Draft

Author: Lan Dai
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: This book is part of the "Time's Wheel Series." From ancient Greece to today, almost all the joys and sorrows of human history are included in our textbooks. However, it must be noted that these historical facts preserved in textbooks are inevitably tedious for every reader due to their cold, solemn, and grand narration, making people's desire to read far less firm 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 sitting among dusty archives, there are still eyewitnesses, participants, and later lovers of history—among whom are scholars, writers, commoners; journalists, generals, and soldiers. It is this group of people, with their pens, who, through their warm, concise, and perceptive words, have written down one heart-stirring moment after another, allowing us to see another vivid landscape and a fresh face of human history amidst the gaps of classic culture. Reading these words becomes a delightful journey for us, a warm visit, and brings history and the present together.