Sunset Glow (A Chinese Story from 1644 to 1840)

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Features: A fifteen-volume set containing over 1,500 classic stories, comprehensively showcasing the long and dynamic history of China, highlighting the splendid achievements of Chinese social civilization over 5,000 years. It is an encyclopedic history of China with multiple convenient and practical search functions. In The Story of China, you will witness the exquisite combination of text and images. The images cover a wide range of topics, deeply recreating historical realities and vividly presenting the development and changes in various aspects of social life in each different historical period. Through the stories behind the vivid images, you can appreciate the profound content they embody, making them a holographic representation of historical culture. They are closely linked to the narrative text, serving as either a visual reflection and extension of the content or a supplementary background. The text and images complement each other, creating a harmonious whole. At the same time, the images in the entire set form independent specialized historical records, such as the history of clothing, medicine, books, customs, military affairs, sports, and science, among others. The presentation of the images is extremely diverse. This set fully considers the modern readers' preference for visual content and uses modern means to appear in multiple forms, collecting over 3,000 images, including photographs of cultural relics, reconstructed historical sites, perspective drawings, and photographs of scientific archaeological excavation sites. With concise and refined stories paired with diverse images, readers gain a dual harvest from both the text and the visuals. This book, as a publication aimed at the general public, creates a completely new reading environment: transforming the traditional textual descriptions of images, revealing the information behind them, and allowing readers to gain new insights and discoveries after reading the text, sparking a fresh understanding of the images they see. In The Story of China, you will encounter a historical encyclopedia system imbued with the charm of digitalization. The Story of China is a new-style general history of China, based on the latest achievements in historical research, archaeological research, and sociological studies, presented in a popular storytelling format with an abundance of exquisite photographs of cultural relics. On every page, paired with the text and images, there is a historical and cultural encyclopedia card, as well as a chronicle of major historical events in China and abroad, and quiz questions on historical knowledge, forming a massive encyclopedic popular history book. We hope this new combination will serve as an engaging bridge between the general public and serious historical science, leading readers into the grand hall of Chinese history, enlightening minds, expanding knowledge, broadening horizons, facing the future, and improving the cultural literacy of the entire nation. The entire book is planned by He Chengwei, advised by Li Xueqin, edited by Liu Xiuming, and edited by Chen Zuhuai. It was written over six years by a team of over ten scholars and experts, through repeated revisions and research. The book is divided into fifteen volumes in chronological order: The Creation in the East, The World in the Book of Songs, Giants of the Spring and Autumn Period, Rival States in Conflict, A Song That shook the Mountains and Rivers, The Long Road to Reunification, Gathering of the Great Minds, Unprecedented Unity, The Atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty, The World in Flux, A Symphony of Literary Brilliance and Tragedy, Warfare and Conquest, Centralization and Division, The Twilight of the Sun, Dignity Amidst the Gunpowder.
Features of the Book: The Story of China is a Chinese history encyclopedia that integrates narrative text reading, exquisite image appreciation, and convenient search functions. It contains countless captivating scenes of Chinese history, interwoven to form the splendid civilization of the Chinese nation over 5,000 years.
Feel the charm of historical culture and the ingenuity of editorial design—every page of the book fully reflects its focus on narrative text, showcasing the dense knowledge, emphasis on both text and images, and user-friendly search functions, allowing readers to experience the charm of historical culture and the ingenuity of editorial design on any page.
Guides, paragraph titles, and numbering to better understand the essence of the stories and use them more effectively—To better understand and apply the stories in real-life learning, the book provides three key elements: story guides, paragraph titles, and story numbering. The story guides summarize the essence of the stories, helping readers grasp the core ideas and quickly access important information in a convenient manner. The story numbering is linked to the search system.
Indexes of characters, allusions, and keywords with high information content and practicality—Each story contains core content (the story's essence), characters, and allusions. The book extracts these three elements, marks them in the upper right corner of each story (along with the source), and compiles them into indexes at the end. The story numbering is linked to the three indexes at the back: "Characters," "Allusions," and "Keywords." The high information content and practicality of these indexes are a major feature of the book.
Building a diverse and dense knowledge-based information system forms another important part of the book—With dense information, it compensates for the limitations of insufficient knowledge points in the narrative, achieving a harmonious unity between the emotional impact of the stories and the rational summary of historical knowledge. It allows readers to see both the trees and the forest; to enjoy the aesthetic pleasure borrowed from stories while also exploring the great wisdom of history. Content from columns such as "Major Events in China," "Major Events in the World," "Historical and Cultural Encyclopedia," "Historical Examination," and image captions are carefully selected knowledge blocks, both the essence of historical knowledge and a vivid representation of "living history," reflecting the social life and ordinary lives of the common people at the time. Complementing this is the convenient "Chinese Historical and Cultural Knowledge" search system.
Recreating historical realities with the image system—The images cover a wide range, deeply recreating historical realities with delicate and unique visual effects, vividly presenting the development and changes in all aspects of social life in each different historical period. Through the stories behind the vivid images, you can appreciate the profound content they embody, making them a holographic representation of historical culture. The Story of China uses exquisite text and images to vividly andly portray the most precious national spirit and the living cultural traditions of the Chinese nation.
After looking at this guide image, you begin a delightful journey through the history and culture of China.