Imagining Foreign Lands: Notes on Reading the Chinese and Yanxing Documents of the Korean and Han Dynasties of the Li Dynasty
by Ge Zhaoguang
About This Novel
There are many interesting anecdotes and lost history in the Yanxing documents of Chaoshan, many of which are rarely seen in Chinese historical materials. The author was greatly shocked when reading these historical materials, because in the Yanxing documents, for them, "China" was not only a celestial country that was once the source of civilization, but also a place that had become "Huayi metamorphosis" and was full of "smells and odors". In a complicated state of mind, they watched China at close range and recorded various phenomena that they found unusual. Driven by the emotion of imagining the tragedy of a foreign land, Li Daitao stiffly summoned the souls of the Ming Dynasty and searched for all the strange current situations of the Qing Empire. This seems to allow us to re-examine East Asia and China in modern times, re-examine the cultural history of East Asia and China, and rethink issues such as Asia and China, nation and identity, ethnic group and territory, etc.
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Official(3)Scraped 11d ago
When Chinese documents were discovered in East Asia, it was hard not to be surprised. What exactly happened still needs to be explored. There are too many unknown things in this world.
There are many things in history that we don't know, and we can only rely on the documents left behind to trace them. However, the preservation of documents is a big problem, and we don't even know that they are antiques.
The world is connected, and the documents left behind cannot only be the records of one's own country. Other countries also have the same, but the records are not detailed and cannot be studied.
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Official(3)Scraped 11d ago
When Chinese documents were discovered in East Asia, it was hard not to be surprised. What exactly happened still needs to be explored. There are too many unknown things in this world.
There are many things in history that we don't know, and we can only rely on the documents left behind to trace them. However, the preservation of documents is a big problem, and we don't even know that they are antiques.
The world is connected, and the documents left behind cannot only be the records of one's own country. Other countries also have the same, but the records are not detailed and cannot be studied.
