Sunset Glow: Stories of China from 1644 to 1840

Author: Meng Pengxing
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: Fifteen volumes, over 1,500 classic stories, comprehensively showcasing the long and dynamic history of China, highlighting the splendid achievements of the five thousand years of Chinese social civilization. It is an encyclopedic history of China with multiple convenient and practical search functions. In The Story of China, you will see the wonderful combination of images and text. The content of the images is extensive. These images can deeply recreate historical realities, vividly presenting the development and changes in various aspects of social life in each different historical period. Through the stories behind the vivid images, you can appreciate the profound content they embody, truly an holographic image of history and culture. They are closely linked to the narrative text, either as a visual reflection and extension of the text content or as supplementary background information. Images and text complement each other, creating a harmonious whole. At the same time, the images throughout the entire book form independent specialized historical records, such as the history of clothing, medicine, books, customs, military, sports, science, and so on. The presentation of the images is extremely rich. This series fully considers the modern readers' preference for visual content and uses modern means to appear in multiple forms, collecting over 3,000 images, including photographs of cultural relics, reconstructed historical sites, perspective drawings, and photographs of scientific archaeological excavation sites. With concise and refined stories and diversified images, readers gain a dual harvest from both the visuals and the text. This book, as a publication aimed at the general public, creates a brand-new reading environment: transforming the traditional textual descriptions of images, revealing the information behind the images, and allowing readers to gain new insights and discoveries after reading the text, leading to a fresh understanding of the images they see. In The Story of China, you will encounter a historical encyclopedia system filled with digital charm. The Story of China is a new-style general history of China, based on the latest achievements of current historical research, archaeological research, and sociological research, presented in a popular storytelling format with a wealth of exquisite photographs of cultural relics. On every page, paired with the images and text, there is a historical and cultural encyclopedia knowledge card, as well as a chronicle of major historical events in China and abroad and historical knowledge questions, forming a massive encyclopedic popular history book. We hope this new combination will build an engaging reading bridge between the general public and serious historical science, leading readers into the grand hall of Chinese history, inspiring minds, enriching knowledge, broadening horizons, facing the future, and improving the cultural quality of the entire nation. The entire book is planned by He Chengwei, advised by Li Xueqin, edited by Liu Xiuming, and by Chen Zuhuai. It was written over six years by a team of over ten scholars and experts, repeated revisions and research. The book is divided into fifteen volumes in chronological order, including: The Creation in the East, The World in the Book of Songs, Giants of the Spring and Autumn Period, Rival States in Conflict, A Song That shook the Mountains and Rivers, The Long Road to Revival, Gathering of the Great Minds, Unprecedented Integration, The Atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty, The Changing World, The Symphony of Literary Brilliance and Tragedy, The March of Steel and Fire, Centralization and Division, The Sunset Glow, Dignity Amidst the of Guns and Cannons.
Features of the Book: The Story of China, as an encyclopedic history of China that combines narrative text reading, exquisite image appreciation, and convenient search functions, contains countless fascinating scenes of Chinese history. These scenes are interwoven and complementary, forming the splendid civilization of the Chinese nation over five thousand years. Feel the charm of history and culture and the ingenuity of editorial design—every page layout fully reflects the book's emphasis on narrative text, showcasing its dense knowledge, integration of images and text, and convenient search functions, allowing readers to feel the charm of history and culture and the ingenuity of editorial design on any page. Guides, paragraph titles, and numbering to better understand the essence of the stories and use them more effectively—To better understand the stories and apply them in real-life learning, this book provides three key elements for readers: story guides, paragraph titles, and story numbering. The story guides summarize the essence of the stories, while the paragraph titles and story numbering help readers better grasp the core of the stories and quickly obtain important information from the text. The story numbering is also linked to the search system. Indexes of characters, allusions, and keywords are highly informative and practical—In each story, there are core elements such as the story's essence, characters, and allusions. This book extracts these three elements, labels them in the upper right corner of each story (along with the source), and compiles them into indexes at the end of the book. The story numbering is linked to the three indexes at the back of the book: "Characters," "Allusions," and "Keywords." The vast information and practicality of the indexes are a major feature of this book. Building a diverse and dense knowledge-based information system forms another important part of the book—With dense information, it compensates for the limitations of insufficient knowledge points in the narrative, achieving a high degree of unity between the emotional impact of the stories and the rational summary of historical knowledge. It allows readers to see both the trees and the forest; to enjoy the aesthetic pleasure borrowed from the stories while also exploring the great wisdom of history. Content from columns such as "Major Events in China," "Major Events in the World," "Historical and Cultural Encyclopedia," "Historical Examination," and image captions are carefully selected knowledge blocks, both the essence of historical knowledge and a wide representation of "living" history, reflecting the social life and ordinary lives of common people at the time. Complementing this is the convenient "Chinese Historical and Cultural Knowledge" search system. A system to recreate historical realities—The content of the images is extensive, capable of deeply recreating historical realities, with delicate and unique visual effects, vividly presenting the development and changes in all aspects of social life in each different historical period. Through the stories behind the vivid images, you can appreciate the profound content they embody, truly an holographic image of history and culture. The Story of China uses exquisite text and images to vividly and vividly portray the most precious national spirit and the ever-renewing cultural traditions of the Chinese nation. After looking at this guide map, you can begin a delightful journey through Chinese historical and cultural heritage.