Hai Guo Tu Zhi

Author: Wei Yuan
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Publish Date: 1999-01-01
Features: The smoke of the Opium War swept away the American sense of superiority, which considered itself the vassal of the Celestial Empire. The of the barbarians stimulated the awakened patriots to consider the way to resist foreign aggression. Wei Yuan, a close friend of Lin Zexu, took up the unfinished work of Lin Zexu, extensively collected and cross-referenced, and finally completed the "Hai Guo Tu Zhi," a groundbreaking world history and geography masterpiece in China and Asia at the time, becoming a valuable classic for the people of Eastern countries to understand the West and resist the West. This book adopts the 100-volume edition of the Guangxu era, selectively edited, and re-punctuated and annotated. To help readers understand the full scope of this book, the editor has provided a detailed preface to the original work, and the appendix includes an overview of the directory of the 100-volume edition of "Hai Guo Tu Zhi," a directory of major research papers on "Hai Guo Tu Zhi," and an outline of the work, among other content.