Ancient Chinese History

Author: Xia Zengyou
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Publish Date: 2009-06-14
Features: Xia Zengyou's A History of Ancient China states: "Chinese education was established after Confucius; Chinese governance was implemented after Qin Shi Huang; Chinese territory was consolidated after Emperor Wu of Han. These three are what make China Chinese." This is an unfinished "classic." The author passed away while writing it up to the Sui Dynasty. Therefore, in the second edition, the title was changed from "Chinese History" to "A History of Ancient China." This book is widely recognized as "the first successful new-style comprehensive history of China." The entire work comprehensively organizes the developmental threads and stage characteristics of Chinese history from the perspective of Western "theory of evolution." "Chinese history" is no longer just a simple chronicle of dynasties and emperors, but rather a "holistic history" of society's gradual evolution. The text is fluent, the narration concise, and the reasoning and emotions balanced. Scholars praised it as "the best at the time, surpassing the works of Liu Shipei, Liu Yiyi, and other teachers at the Capital University." This book has been hailed as "a masterpiece of Chinese historiography in the 20th century."