Zhang Zhidong (complete Works)

Zhang Zhidong (complete Works)

by Tang Haoming

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Zhang Zhidong, the "Governor of Huguang", was an important minister and academic official in the late Qing Dynasty. He took the imperial examination route and was re-employed by the imperial court. He was a rumor official in Beijing and remained loyal to the emperor and diligent in government when he was abroad. He yearned for Western science and technology and civilization, started an industry, and made the country rich and strong. In an era where the old and the new alternate, old consciousness and new ideas are intricately intertwined in him. His proposition of "Chinese learning as the essence and Western learning as the application" has been often said for more than a hundred years. "Zhang Zhidong" in the "Trilogy of the Late Qing Dynasty" is majestic, detailed and dense. It is a long historical scroll of the vicissitudes of the late Qing Dynasty and the survival of the nation. This book won the 2nd Yao Xueyin Historical Novel Award and the 9th "Five One Project" Selected Works Award of the Central Propaganda Department.

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