A Brief History of China (Volume 2). The Qin, Han, and Three Kingdoms Periods

Author: Wang Chunyu (Editor-in-Chief), Wang Ping (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 non-teenagers, such as lovers of history and literature, 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 800,000 to 900,000 words, hence the name Concise History. More importantly, this book is not a historical anecdote, nor is it the sensationalized history that is (: spreading like wildfire) 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. 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'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 a trustworthy history. The last chapter of each volume provides an overview of the world during the same historical period. If readers complete the entire series, they will clearly see how our great China, once a powerful nation on the world stage, gradually declined until the ultimate collapse of the Celestial Empire—the fall of the Qing Dynasty.