A Brief History of China (Volume 4). Sui, Tang, and Five Dynasties

Author: Wang Chunyu, Editor-in-Chief, Gong Jiuliang, 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 think that even if it's not for teenagers, history and literature enthusiasts might as well read 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 history that is (flooding the market) and will bring endless consequences—rather, it is a serious and rigorous comprehensive history work, simply aiming to be as concise and accessible as possible. The authors of each volume are experts and scholars in their respective eras, and this series can be considered popular reading written by experts. I cannot guarantee that every volume's text is as smooth as flowing clouds and as brilliant as a flowing pen. But I can guarantee that each author firmly grasps the historical context, highly condenses the main content of the period-specific history, and presents it clearly and comprehensively, leaving nothing to the imagination, with accurate historical facts. The readers are reading reliable history. The last chapter of each volume is a general overview of the world during the same historical period. If readers can finish the entire series, they will clearly see how our great China, once a strong nation on the world stage, gradually declined until the ultimate collapse of the Celestial Empire—the fall of the Qing Dynasty.