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 perspective, the author takes a unique approach to analyzing history, revealing that history loves to play tricks on people. Eliminating the "sense of distance from history" is the best way for us to reflect on it. Analyzing the "truth of history" and repositioning individuals in the long historical river and vast historical space is a unique process of observing the vivid human nature within history. This book ingeniously finds the golden entry points of major events in Chinese history, selecting 11 typical figures who have had a pivotal role and enormous influence on Chinese philosophy, thought, culture, politics, economy, military, and systems. With an transcendent perspective and a new rational historical view, it comprehensively repositions these historical individuals: Zhou Wenwang, Lü Buwei, Qin Shi Huang, Liu Bang, Dong Zhongshu, Cao Cao, Tuoba Hong, Li Shimin, Zhao Kuangyin, Zhu Yuanzhang, and Wu Sangui. After reading, we will find that their heavy breaths once influenced the course of Chinese historical changes.