Humanities Building 001 - The Edge of History

Author: Zeng Jixin
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: Is it heroes who create history, or the people? This seemingly settled question is now posed to the readers again. "How many things have risen and fallen through the ages." With a modern consciousness, the author takes a unconventional approach, analyzing history from a unique perspective and telling us: 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 the individuals back into 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 points for major events in Chinese history and selects 11 typical figures who have had a pivotal role and enormous influence on Chinese philosophy, thought, culture, politics, economy, military, and institutions. 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, and Wu Sangui. After reading, we will find that their heavy breaths once influenced the course of Chinese historical changes.