Questioning History: Challenging and Subverting Historical Common Knowledge

Author: Liu Xingyu
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: This book is another powerful work reflecting on Chinese history following Huang Renyu's Fifteen Years of the Ming Dynasty, Mao Haijian's The Collapse of the Celestial Empire, Wu Si's Unwritten Rules and The Law of Blood Compensation. It is a collection of historical essays with the creative concept of questioning and subverting common historical knowledge. The articles include nearly 100 pieces such as "Gossiping about Records of the Grand Historian", "A Letter from Qin Shi Huang to Scholars," "Why Didn't Liu Bang Fear Corruption?" and more.