History of Chinese Cultural Calamities: Series of Thematic History Books

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 Based on the sorting and research of a large number of historical documents and materials, it narrates the literary disasters of the Zhou, Qin, Han, Tang, Song, Ming, and Qing dynasties in the order of prelude, beginning, development, and climax. Among them, there are both well-known "literary cases" that are known to all, and rarely known "cases of suffering due to writing" that are strange. Using historical materialism and traditional linguistics ("Xiaoxue"), it reveals the various "bloody literary tricks" created by successive rulers to maintain their sovereignty through the use of writing superstition and imperial worship—tragedies and atrocities of cultural authoritarianism.