Zizhi Tongjian (Colorful Illustrations and Text Classic) (Collection of Classics of Chinese Traditional Culture) (Colorful Illustrations and Text Classic)

Author: Sima Guang
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Publish Date: 2003-03-01
Features: This book selects 33 chapters from the "Records of the Grand Historian," which can be divided into three aspects: (1) Regarding social and political issues, there are the legal and political reforms of Shang Yang during the Warring States period, the uprising of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang in the Qin Dynasty, and the great uprising of Huang Chao in the late Tang Dynasty. (2) Regarding internal struggles within the ruling group, there are the two incidents of the Party Confinement in the Eastern Han Dynasty and the An Lushan Rebellion in the middle period of the Tang Dynasty. (3) Regarding ethnic relations and transportation with Central Asia, there are the reforms of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty and Zhang Qian's journey to the West. Each chapter focuses on only one central theme, with relatively concentrated content and a prominent central idea.