History of Chinese Culture (Volume 1 and 2)

Author: Feng Tianyu, He Xiaoming, et al.
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Publish Date: 2005-12-01
Features: This book is the newly revised edition of "Chinese Culture," which won the First Prize of the China Book Award and the Nomination Award for the First National Book Award. Written primarily by the renowned cultural historian Professor Feng Tian, with the collaboration of the emerging cultural historians He Xiaoming and Zhou Jiming, it presents a grand vision, insightful theories, rich content, and rigorous yet elegant prose, offering a comprehensive portrayal of the formation mechanisms and tumultuous development of Chinese culture. The upper part analyzes the cultural formation mechanisms of the Chinese nation from aspects such as geographical background, economic soil, and social structure, emphasizing theory while supported by abundant historical evidence. The lower part outlines the developmental journey of Chinese culture from ancient times to the founding of the People's Republic of China, depicting its emergence, unification, diversification, prosperity, introspection, integration, decline and renewal, maturity and decline, and transformation. It combines descriptive narrative with concise and insightful summaries. This book serves as an important reference for cultural history researchers and provides an encyclopedic guide for general readers to appreciate the essence of Chinese culture. The book has received the following honors:
5th China Book Award (First Prize, 1991),
th National Book Award Nomination (1994),
th Hubei Provincial Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award (1995),
th National Higher Education Humanities and Social Sciences Research Outstanding Achievement Award (Second Prize, 1995).