Once Upon a Time in China 1905-1949 (set of Four Volumes)

About This Novel

"Once Upon a Time in China" is a series of works by Zhao Botian that retells the modern history of China from the perspective of the transformation of modernity. It consists of three volumes and four volumes, namely: "The Weather of the Early Republic of China: Violence, Conspiracy and Love in the Year of Troubles", "The Moon Shines on the Moss: A Short History of the Life of Southern Literati in the 20th Century", and "Guns and Currency: The Rise and Fall of Financiers in the Republic of China". The author has been working hard for ten years to write the memory of a country in public oblivion. The "China Past" series is his positive writing of modern revolution and cultural themes. It tells the stories of outstanding souls in that changing era: revolutionaries, politicians, intellectuals, scholars, businessmen, Jianghu, grassroots and working class. "Weather in the Early Republic of China: Violence, Conspiracy and Love in the Year of Troubles" is the first book in the "China's Past" series. The story of this book is from 1905, when the Qing court started to prepare for the establishment of a constitution, to 1919, when the May 4th Movement broke out. It vividly re-displays and examines many people and events in the adolescent Republic of China against a broad historical background. In the investigation of Duan Fang, Lu Zhengxiang, Gu Weijun, Chen Duxiu, Cai Yuanpei, Zhang Taiyan, Lu Xun, Su Manshu, Liu Shipei, He Zhen and other figures, we are committed to writing about the relationship between individuals and the times, revealing how they adapted to the world, used it, and even rebelled against it. The ones who were especially missed were the standard-bearers and pioneers of the New Culture Movement. Under the noisy and doubtful mood of the early Republic of China, the dense atmosphere and open pattern heralded many possibilities for China in the future. "The Moon Shines on the Moss: A Short History of the Life of Southern Literati in the 20th Century" is a discovery-style account of the southern literati after the May Fourth Movement from the perspective of daily life. With the patience of a historical archaeologist, the author reconstructs and outlines the life, death, love and desire of Jiang Menglin, Shao Xunmei, Chen Brai, Shen Congwen, Su Qing, Mu Shiying, Rou Shi, Yin Fu, Ying Xiuren, Zhang Shouyong, Wu Jingxiong, Xu Xu and others, picking up the "bits and pieces of broken shadows" that the moonlight fell on the moss through the dense leaves. This book is the author's initial work that has focused on the transformation of China's modernity for more than ten years. By rewriting this life for these southern literati, it presents a hard, generous, more material and modern South. "Guns and Money: The Rise and Fall of Financiers in the Republic of China" is a Republic of China version of "The Biography of Money". This book starts from the relationship between politics and business, and combs through the vast sea of modern Chinese financial historical materials and bankers' diaries, letters, and correspondence. Focusing on Zhang Jiayao, Chen Guangfu, Li Ming, Qian Xinzhi, Wu Dingchang and other financial elites from the north and south who were involved in the whirlpool of money politics, it tells the story of industrialists and bankers that began during the Great Revolution and ended in 1949. This is also the story of a generation that failed in its ambition amid the opposition, dependence, conflict, and entanglement between capital and power. After the rapid changes, the world changed secretly, and a new era began: war, the collapse of the old system and the final liberation. The grand historical knowledge and the melancholy and solid narrative aesthetics directly point to the world and people's hearts behind the great era. The story of money more than half a century ago has lessons for China today.

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