China Imperial Concubines' Secret Manual

Author: Lan Dai
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: From ancient Greece to today, almost all the joys and sorrows in human history are included in our textbooks. However, it must be noted that these historical facts preserved in textbooks are inevitably brought a tedious torment to every reader due to their indifferent, solemn, and grand narrative, 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 past. Fortunately, apart from those scholars who compile textbooks sitting among piles of old papers, there are also witnesses, targets, and later lovers of history—among whom are scholars, authors, common people; journalists, generals, and soldiers.