A Great Wind Resonates Through the Mountains and Rivers (Chinese Stories from 221 BC to AD 8)

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Features: In the "Story of China" series, you will see a unification of emotion and reason primarily through narrative-style texts. For modern readers, the literary form that can still evoke resonance and excitement is the story—the scenes of joy, sorrow, high spirits, or melancholy embedded within it. These classic scenes are deeply moving and stirring. Remembering a story is like remembering a piece of history. A story is a nation's profound collective memory, easily entering the reader's inner world, which is why "Story of China" uses narrative texts as its main focus. At the same time, it breaks the traditional framework of historical reading that emphasizes the rise and fall of dynasties, exploring the development and patterns of Chinese history with a global perspective and the insights of top scholars. It uses dense information to compensate for the limitations of knowledge in narrative storytelling, thereby achieving a high degree of unity between the emotional impact of stories and the rational summary of historical knowledge.
In today's society, we have entered the "era of visual reading," although this statement is one-sided, it reflects the needs of readers. The images in the "Story of China" series are very different from the typical images that focus on appreciation. These images deeply recreate historical realities, vividly showcasing the development and changes in various aspects of social life in each different historical period, truly serving as a holographic image of historical culture.
This series also fully considers the modern readers' preference for visual content, using modern means to appear in multiple forms, gathering over 3,000 images, including photographs of cultural relics, reconstructed illustrations of historical sites, historical maps and diagrams, perspective drawings, and photographs of scientific archaeological excavation sites. As a publication aimed at the general public, this book also reformulates the traditional textual descriptions of images, focusing on revealing the information behind them, allowing readers to gain new discoveries and insights after reading the accompanying text.
"Story of China" presents a historical encyclopedia system filled with the charm of digitalization. Digitalization has brought many new changes to our social life, and the innovation of cultural products is no exception. This information-intensive Chinese history encyclopedia extensively uses keyword retrieval methods widely used on computer networks to reveal the core of stories, thereby retrieving and utilizing our narrative texts and related knowledge. The informatization, networking, and digitalization of this book fully demonstrate that the Chinese nation not only has an indomitable past but also an advancing present and a hopeful future.
A story, an image, and a keyword are all representative "points," but this point is not an isolated existence; it is a meaningful narrative unit. It is a highlight of the Chinese nation's civilization, reflecting our cultural character. Connecting these highlights will form a "line" of history, and the interweaving of "lines" will draw the sacred hall of history. The three-dimensional integration of points, lines, and planes constructs the grand edifice of the nation's five thousand years of history.