A Thousand-Year Sigh – Success Born of Family Bonds, Failure Also Born of Family Bonds

Author: Xu Xianghong
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: This book reinterprets the remnants of familial culture in Chinese history from the perspective of the author's decade-long research on familial culture theory. Naturally, the process of interpretation also becomes a process of critique. During the critique, the waves that rise in the author's heart are not just a "sigh"—what else can describe them? The historical facts selected in this book mostly come from the so-called "official histories" such as Records of the Grand Historian and Comprehensive Mirror to Aid in Government. While these "official histories" may not offer as much intrigue as secret texts or folk histories, once the deeply hidden familial culture within them is deciphered, along with its influence on Chinese politics, economy, history, and culture, the impact it has on readers is something beyond ordinary imagination!