Dignity Amidst the Roar of Guns and Cannons – China's Story from 1840 to 1911 (Story of China)

Author: Tang Renze
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: Fifteen volumes, over 1,500 classic stories, comprehensively showcasing the long and dynamic history of China, highlighting the splendid achievements of five thousand years of Chinese social civilization. It is an encyclopedic reference book on Chinese history with multiple convenient and practical search functions. In The Story of China, you will see a wonderful combination of images and text. The content of the images is extensive. These images vividly recreate historical realities, three-dimensionally depicting the development and changes in various aspects of social life in each different historical period. Through the stories in the vivid images, you can appreciate the profound content they embody, making them a holographic image of historical culture. They are closely related to the narrative text, either as a visual reflection and extension of the text content or as a supplementary background to the text. The images and text complement each other perfectly. At the same time, the images throughout the entire set of books form independent specialized visual histories, such as the history of clothing, medicine, books, customs, military, sports, science, and more. The presentation of the images is extremely rich. This series fully considers the modern readers' preference for visual content, using modern means to appear in various forms, gathering over 3,000 images including photographs of cultural relics, reconstructions of historical sites, perspective views, and photographs of scientific archaeological excavation sites. With concise and succinct stories and diversified images, readers gain a dual harvest from the combination of images and text. This book, as a publication aimed at the general public, creates a brand-new reading environment: transforming our traditional textual descriptions of images, revealing the information behind the images, and allowing readers to have a leap in their understanding after reading the text, leading to new discoveries and insights about the images they see. In The Story of China, you will encounter a digitalized and enchanting system of historical encyclopedic knowledge.