Chinese Cultural Calamity History

Author: Hu Qiguang
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Publish Date: 2006-10-01
Features: This book is one of the "Special History Series." Based on the organization and study of a large number of historical documents and materials, it narrates the literary disasters of the Zhou, Qin, Han, Tang, Song, Ming, and Qing dynasties, following the trajectory of prelude, beginning, development, and climax. Among them, there are both well-known "literarycases" and lesser-known "cases of suffering due to writing." Using historical materialism and traditional linguistics ("Xiaoxue"), it reveals the various "bloody literary tricks" created by rulers of all dynasties to maintain their power through superstitions about writing and reverence for imperial authority—tragedies and atrocities of cultural authoritarianism.