The Setting Sun: a Snapshot of Qing Dynasty History
by Xu Hongxing
About This Novel
The Qing Dynasty was the last centralized autocratic monarchy in Chinese history. It laid the territorial foundation of modern China. It was also during the Qing Dynasty that China was dragged into the global whirlpool of modernization and began the modern process of coexistence of humiliation and resistance. At this time, China is like an old man staggering into the last stage of his journey after a long period of time. This is an era of rapid changes: dynasty-changing wars, talented and ambitious emperors, unprecedented territories, the "prosperity" of killing hearts and minds, the suppression of ideology and culture, the ugliness of corrupt officials, the invasion of Western powers, the flames of peasant wars, the self-rescue of enlightened scholars, the spread of foreign cultures to the east, attempts at reform and reform, revolutions that overthrew the monarchy... All of these have left us with too many thought-provoking stories.
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