Understanding Chinese Classical Novels

Author: Zhang Jinchi
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Publish Date: 2000-01-01
Features: Evaluating history from an economic and material perspective naturally garners more support; indeed, the level of economic and material development is indeed the scale that most historians use to judge the level of human civilization. This point can be verified by opening any history book. However, in China today, 20 years after 1978, I would prefer to evaluate history from a different perspective—this perspective is: the thoughts and realm of human beings.