Western Sage Manuscript

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 in human history are included in our textbooks. However, it must be noted that these historical facts preserved in textbooks are inevitably brought to every reader a tedious torment 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 past. Fortunately, apart from those who compile textbooks sitting among dusty archives, there are still eyewitnesses, participants, and later followers who love history—among them scholars, writers, common people; journalists, generals, and soldiers. It is this group of people, with their pens, with their warm, concise, and sharp words, who 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 cultural archives. Reading these words becomes a surprising journey for us, a warm visit, and brings history and the present together.