Zizhi Tongjian Stories

Author: Wan Li (Editor)
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Publish Date: 2004-10-01
Features: This book takes China's comprehensive chronological history—Zizhi Tongjian—as its blueprint, recording the successes and struggles of emperors and officials from the 23rd year of King Wu of Zhou (403 BC) to the 6th year of Xingde in the Later Zhou Dynasty (959 AD). Based on faithfulness to the original text, it weaves stories as a thread, selecting complete stories and plots from the vast and fragmented narrative of the original work, such as "Surrounding Wei to Rescue Zhao," "Xiang Yu's Defeat at Gaoli," "Cao Zhi's Seven Steps to Poetry," "The Battle of Feishui between Qin and Jin," "The Fall of Emperor Chen of Chen," and "Wencheng Princess's Marriage to Tibet." Presented in language suitable for teenagers, the book includes phonetic annotations for rare characters, as well as excerpts from the original text and numerous illustrations. It is an outstanding historical storybook that every teenager should read.