Jin Geng Tie Ma (Liaoxi, Xia, Jin, Yuan) A Tale of China (Chinese stories from 916 to 1368)

Author: Cheng Yu, Zhang Hesheng
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Publish Date: 2005-02-01
Features: In the "Story of China" series, you will see a unity of sensibility and rationality with story-based text as the main subject. For modern people, the literary style that can still resonate and evoke excitement is the story—the scenes of joy, sorrow, high spirits, or low moods contained within it. These classic scenes are moving and stirring. Remembering a story is remembering a piece of history. A story is a nation's profound collective memory, easily entering the readers' inner world, so "Story of China" uses story-based text as its main content. At the same time, it breaks the traditional framework of historical books that focus on the rise and fall of dynasties, exploring the development and patterns of Chinese history with a global perspective and the insights of top scholars. It uses dense information to compensate for the limitations of knowledge in story narration, thereby achieving a high degree of unity between the emotional impact of stories and the rational summary of historical knowledge.
In today's society, we have entered the "image-reading era," although this statement is one-sided, it reflects the needs of readers. The images in the "Story of China" series are very different from those typically used for appreciation. These images deeply recreate historical realities, vividly highlighting the development and changes in various aspects of social life in each different historical period, truly serving as holographic images of history and culture. This series also fully considers the modern readers' taste for images, using modern means to appear in multiple forms, gathering over 3,000 images including photographs of cultural relics, redrawn illustrations of historical sites, historical maps and diagrams, perspective drawings, and photographs of scientific archaeological excavation sites.
As a publication aimed at the general public, this book also reformulates the traditional textual descriptions of images, focusing on revealing the information behind them, allowing readers to gain new discoveries and insights after reading the text, and to have a fresh understanding of the images they see. "Story of China" presents a historical encyclopedia knowledge system filled with the charm of digitalization. Digitalization has brought many new changes to our social life, and the innovation of cultural products is no exception. This information-intensive Chinese history encyclopedia extensively uses keyword retrieval methods widely used on computer networks to reveal the core of the stories and retrieve and utilize our story-based text and related information. The informatization, networking, and digitalization of this book fully demonstrate that the Chinese nation not only has an unyielding past but also a dynamic present, and that it also has a promising future.
A story, an image, and a keyword are all representative "points," but this point is not an isolated existence; it is a meaningful narrative unit. It is a highlight of the civilization of the Chinese nation, reflecting the cultural character of our nation. Connecting these highlights will form a "line" of history, and the interweaving of these "lines" will draw the sacred hall of history. The three-dimensional integration of points, lines, and planes construct the grand edifice of the nation's five thousand years of history.