Understand Chinese History with Chronology (hand-drawn Illustrated Version)
by Li Guangxin
About This Novel
A minimalist general history of China, the best introductory book "Understanding Chinese History with Chronology" integrates the historical views of Lu Simian, Chen Yinke, Qian Mu, Huang Renyu and others, adopts the epistemology and methodology of the internationally popular new history, and draws on the biographical and chronological methods of traditional Chinese historiography to form a unique and concise general history of China. This book is positioned as a historical reference book suitable for students and the general public. It abandons obscurity and difficulty and strives to be easy to understand. It is a rare introductory historical book. The chronology is read in conjunction with historical events for easy inquiry. This book takes the chronology as the main axis, dating back to ancient times and down to modern times. It connects historical facts, figures, military politics, culture and art in each period, helping readers to understand the historical changes of various dynasties in China simply and quickly. This book also selects more than 300 important events and narrates them concisely so that readers can easily grasp these popular historical allusions. Through the chronology, each event can be easily found and the relevant history before and after its occurrence can be clearly understood. Exquisite hand-drawn illustrations, a combination of pictures and text, easy to read and easy to remember. This book uses hand-drawn illustrations to replace the ubiquitous historical pictures, avoiding the common phenomenon of similar illustrations in historical books, and bringing readers a new high-quality reading experience. The hand-drawn illustrations maintain the unity of style throughout the book, and are no longer a messy patchwork of various types of pictures from different periods. The layout design of the book is more exquisite, the combination of pictures and text is more accurate, and readers will naturally have a deeper understanding of history.
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Official(2)Scraped 11d ago
Easier said than done
History is not that simple. It is good to have more channels, but chronology is not a prerequisite, or a shortcut, to understanding history.
There's not much content, it's just a chronology stating history.
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Community(0)
Official(2)Scraped 11d ago
Easier said than done
History is not that simple. It is good to have more channels, but chronology is not a prerequisite, or a shortcut, to understanding history.
There's not much content, it's just a chronology stating history.
