New Edition of the Twenty-Five Histories - Late Qing History

Author: Chen Jiong
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Publish Date: 1997-11-01
Features: The six decades of the late Qing Dynasty were extremely brief yet highly significant in the long history of China, spanning thousands of years. In terms of time, they marked the division between ancient and modern Chinese history; in terms of space, they brought an independent and isolated China into extensive connections with the Western capitalist world. During these six decades, the unpredictability of events and the rapid pace of change were unprecedented in history. The author of this book adopts the traditional biographical and historical writing style of the dynastic chronicles, using biographies as the main framework, supplemented by records and tables, to present a multi-dimensional, comprehensive, and in-depth portrayal of the late Qing era. In the selection of subjects for biographies, the choice of historical sources, the expression of content, and the evaluation of the subjects, modern perspectives and ideas are incorporated.