Conflict and Fusion: Visualizing the Late Qing World Order

Author: Hu Shaoyang
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
Features: Late Qing history, a painful reflection. A vast ancient nation, a dignified China, once fell into such a state due to accumulated poverty and weakness, stirring deep thought! When people place it in the long river of civilization and on the coordinates of the world, conclusions seem easier to draw. The Late Qing era is not far from our time, with abundant historical materials. This book weaves together historical events and documents, making the context clearer; collects old photographs and exquisite illustrations, allowing the past to be witnessed directly; takes a macro perspective, expanding the vision of observing history; starts with comparison, opening a rational perspective for evaluation; uses prose style, making historical works more readable; breaks through the barriers of time and space, revealing the connections of historical phenomena. All these are done with one thought in mind—to explore a new path in historical writing; and with one purpose—to learn from the past to understand the present, and to look back to open the future. As the saying goes: The West Wind shattered the dream of the Qing Dynasty in its twilight, and the East Pavilion's doors opened, startling a new heaven. Reading old history in a new way reveals its essence, and viewing the flowers from a higher vantage point makes their colors even more vivid.