Main character and supporting character

Author: Fu Guoyong
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: History is a grand stage where the stage, script, and characters are inseparable. Main characters, supporting characters, and the masses are interdependent, restrictive, and transformative. This book observes the most typical and influential figures during the second major transformation of modern Chinese society before and after the Xinhai Revolution from a new perspective of role awareness. Through numerous details on and off stage, it presents vivid historical scenes and evolutionary trajectories. Due to the author's novel perspective, extensive research, and rich illustrations, the struggles between the reformers and revolutionaries in the late Qing and early Republican era, as well as the revolutionary "orthodoxy" debates between the Restoration Society and the Tongmenghui, are revealed more authentically. The portrayal of Yuan Shikai, a traditional protagonist, is vividly depicted; Liang Qichao's awkward role between advancement and retreat is skillfully written; Huang Xing and Sun Yat-sen as the best supporting and main characters, Song Jiaoren as an outstanding representative of a sound sense of role awareness, and Cai E as a sunny figure who competes for character rather than status—all are presented in lifelike detail, evoking endless sighs, reflections, and admiration.