Lu Baoshan comments on Yuan Shikai's correspondence

Author: Luo Baoshan
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: This book selects and comments on the letters and telegrams of the Yuan family and their associates, fully reflecting Yuan Shikai's official career and the major events of the late Qing Dynasty he experienced. It examines his inner world of contradictions and frustrations in political choices and family changes, revealing his cunning and political tactics. It also aims to clarify some historical misunderstandings, restore historical truth, and explain some social phenomena. Yuan Shikai is a figure familiar to the public through textbooks, novels, legends, and other channels. However, achievements are not always facts. The book presents different, lesser-known aspects of Yuan Shikai from various periods. The author's portrayal of Yuan Shikai is not speculative, fabricated, cartoonish, glorified, demonized, or deified—it is a historical person.