A Concise History of China (Volume 3). The Northern and Southern Dynasties

Author: Wang Chunyu, Editor-in-Chief; Liu Jingcheng, Author
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Publish Date: 2003-06-01
Features: This set of A Concise History of China is a reading material designed to popularize Chinese history knowledge among teenagers. I believe that even those who are not teenagers but have an interest in history and literature would benefit from reading this series. Compared to the grand, multi-million-word Comprehensive History of China, each volume in this series only contains about 100,000 words, with a total of eight volumes, adding up to only about 800,000 words, hence the name Concise History. More importantly, this book is not a historical anecdote, nor is it the sensationalized, widely (: spreading like wildfire) historical fiction that is rampant today and will inevitably lead to dire consequences. Instead, it is a serious and rigorous comprehensive history work, simply aiming to be as concise and accessible as possible. Each volume is written by experts and scholars specializing in the respective historical periods, making this series a popular reading material written by experts. I cannot guarantee that every volume is as smooth and eloquent as flowing clouds, but I can guarantee that each author has firmly grasped the historical context, condensed the main content of the period-specific history, and presented it clearly and comprehensively, leaving nothing to the imagination. The facts are accurate. The reader is reading reliable history. The last chapter of each volume provides an overview of the world during the same historical period. If the reader completes the entire series, they will clearly see how our great China, once a powerful nation on the world stage, gradually declined and ultimately collapsed—the fall of the Qing Dynasty.