The Edge of History - Analyzing 11 Key Figures Who Influenced Chinese History

Author: Zeng Jixin
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: Is it heroes who create history, or the people who create history? This seemingly settled question is now posed to the readers again. "How many things have happened in the rise and fall of ages." Using a modern consciousness, the author takes a unique perspective to analyze history and tells us: history loves to play tricks on people. Eliminating the "sense of distance from history" is the best way for us to reflect on history. Analyzing the "truth of history" and repositioning the individuals in the long historical river and vast historical space is a unique process of observing the vivid human nature in history. This book ingeniously finds the golden entry point for major events in Chinese history and selects 11 typical figures who have had a pivotal role and a huge impact on Chinese philosophy, thought, culture, politics, economy, military, and systems. With an transcendent perspective and a new rational historical view, it comprehensively and inclusively repositions the following historical individuals: Zhou Wenwang, Lü Buwei, Qin Shi Huang, Liu Bang, Dong Zhongshu, Cao Cao, Tuoba Hong, Li Shimin, Zhao Kuangyin, Zhu Yuanzhang, Wu Sangui. After reading, we will find that their heavy breaths once influenced the changes in the course of Chinese history.