Youth Essential Knowledge Illustrated Dictionary. Issue 1: Foreign History Quality Reading Material

Author: Lu Weihong (Editor)
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: In today's ever-changing society, only knowledge and quality are the most reliable wealth. The Essential Knowledge Atlas for Young People selects a batch of essential and critical must-read knowledge from the vast pool of basic knowledge and compiles it into a visually engaging series, becoming an invaluable cultural book set for enhancing personal literacy. The authors are all young scholars from China's two most renowned universities—Peking University and Tsinghua University. They hold doctoral or master's degrees or higher and stand at the forefront of their respective fields. The must-read knowledge they have chosen is either frequently used or crucial for improving personal quality, all tailored to the needs of the current society, demonstrating strong practicality and classicism.
The ancient world is filled with too many mysteries and unsolved enigmas, which makes readers eager to open The Foreign Culture Literacy Reader with curiosity. This book contains numerous historical photographs and recently discovered materials, presenting a comprehensive overview of the vast and profound world culture through vivid and engaging text. As ancient cultures are gradually forgotten in the process of modernization, this book explores many vivid historical folklore and legends that have occurred and are still happening across the world from the perspective of humanities and history. It records those vanishing "sceneries" in words—the past has passed, but the melody of learning continues.