The Legacy of the First Emperor: the Qin-han Empire
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About This Novel
This book is the "Qin and Han Empire" volume in the "History of China" series published by Kodansha in Japan. This volume is written by Kazuyuki Tsuruma, an expert in this research field in Japanese academic circles. The author reconstructs the four hundred years of the rise and fall of the Qin and Han Dynasties through document analysis and field investigation, and analyzes the historical process of the Qin and Han Dynasties developing and growing through conflicts with other regional groups, annexing other countries, and ultimately creating the Qin and Han empires. This book particularly focuses on the perspectives of China and Japan in East Asia. Compared with China, the Japanese archipelago society during the Qin and Han Dynasties was quite backward. This was a fact at the time. However, even so, the author believes that it is undesirable to take China as the center and view the border as barbarians from a Chinese perspective. Therefore, we can see that the narrative in this book is not centered on Huayi thought, but pays attention to regional diversity and attempts to understand Chinese history from the perspective of ancient world history.
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Official(1)Scraped 6d ago
Simple and beautiful
The picture arrangement and section content descriptions are concise and easy to read, making it an excellent introduction to general history.
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Official(1)Scraped 6d ago
Simple and beautiful
The picture arrangement and section content descriptions are concise and easy to read, making it an excellent introduction to general history.
