" A Great Wind Resonates Through the Mountains and Rivers: Stories of China from 221 BC to AD 8: Stories of China from 221 BC to AD 8

Author: Cheng Nianqi
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: In the "Story of China" series, you will see a unification of (emotion) and (reason) through the main narrative text. For modern readers, the literary style that can still evoke resonance and excitement is the story—the scenes of joy, sorrow, high spirits, or melancholy embedded within it. These classic scenes are moving and stirring, leaving a profound impression. Remembering a story is remembering a piece of history. A story is a nation's deep collective memory, easily entering the reader's inner world, which is why "Story of China" uses narrative text as its main focus. At the same time, it breaks the traditional framework of historical reading that emphasizes the rise and fall of dynasties, exploring the development and patterns of Chinese history with a global perspective and the insights of top scholars. It uses dense information to compensate for the limitations of knowledge in narrative storytelling, thereby achieving a high degree of unity between the emotional impact of stories and the rational summary of historical knowledge.
In today's society, we have entered the "image-reading era," although this statement is one-sided, it reflects the needs of readers. The images in the "Story of China" series are very different from the typical images that focus on appreciation. These images deeply recreate historical realities, vividly highlighting the development and changes in various aspects of social life in each different historical period, truly serving as a holographic image of historical culture.
This series also fully considers the modern readers' preference for images, using modern means to appear in multiple forms, gathering over 3,000 images, including photographs of cultural relics, redrawn illustrations of historical sites, historical maps and diagrams, perspective drawings, and photographs of scientific archaeological excavation sites. As a publication aimed at the general public, this book also reformulates the traditional textual descriptions of images, focusing on revealing the information behind them, allowing readers to gain new discoveries and insights after reading the accompanying text.
"Story of China" presents a historical encyclopedia system filled with the charm of digitalization. Digitalization has brought many new changes to our social life, and the innovation of cultural products is no exception. This information-intensive encyclopedia of Chinese history extensively uses keyword retrieval methods widely used on computer networks to reveal the core of stories, thereby retrieving and utilizing our narrative texts and related information. The informatization, networking, and digitalization of this book fully demonstrate that the Chinese nation not only has an unyielding past but also a dynamic present, and a promising future.
A story, an image, and a keyword are all representative "points," but these points are not isolated; they are meaningful narrative units. They are highlights of the civilization of the Chinese nation, reflecting the cultural character of our people. Connecting these highlights will form a "line" of history, and the interweaving of these "lines" will draw the sacred hall of history. The three-dimensional integration of points, lines, and planes the national mansion of five thousand years of history.