Humanities Library — Western Modern Civilization

Author: Guo Yubin, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Would compiling an encyclopedia be grounds for criminal charges? Would doctors studying human anatomy have to dig up corpses from graves themselves? And how about the second restriction on car usage being for environmental protection? The Western Modern Civilization takes you back to the challenging yet awe-inspiring prelude to modern civilization. Here you'll find the emerald-green bronze square ding of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the transparent Mayan crystal skull, the mysterious Egyptian golden mask, the cosmic models of ancient scientists, myths, legends, and scientific speculations. Here are emperors, prophets, revolutionaries, and explorers. Here are the small stories within great discoveries and the great figures within small stories. This is a concise history of the development of world civilization. You can read it, contemplate it, touch it with your hands, and understand it with your heart.