Outline of Chinese History
by Bo Yang
About This Novel
"Outline of Chinese History" starts from the mythical age of Pangu and ends with the war of aggression against China launched by the Eight-Power Allied Forces in the early 20th century. It uses 100 years (a century) as the chronological unit. It is a masterpiece that covers five thousand years of Chinese history. Bo Yang had no intention of hypocritically praising the emperors and generals. He abandoned all meaningless posthumous titles and honorary titles, pulled them down from the altar, called them by their first names, and judged them as ordinary Chinese. At the same time, Bo Yang also focused on the ordinary Chinese people who were drowned by history. He sympathized with the working people, despised the powerful warlords, and took humanity and human rights as his only foothold. Therefore, "Outline of Chinese History" is a general history of China with attitude and human touch. We can learn from the "Outline of Chinese History" that there are five major turning points that have affected China's national destiny: the three golden ages (the contention of a hundred schools of thought in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the prosperous Tang Dynasty during the Li Shimin period, and the Qing Dynasty established by the Manchus who entered the country) and the Great Split Era ( It was these five major turning points that established China's territory, culture, values, economic structure, social stratification and international status. When reviewing Chinese history through Bo Yang's writings, we can also find that history keeps repeating itself, and China has always learned the same lesson for thousands of years: every dynasty in Chinese history reached a bottleneck period forty or fifty years after its establishment, or when it passed to the second or third generation. When entering the narrow channel of the bottleneck, unless the ruling class has a high degree of wisdom and ability, they cannot avoid encountering a bottleneck crisis that is enough to undo all their previous efforts, that is, to destroy their country and their family. History shows that if you can get through this bottleneck, you can achieve longer-term stability; if you can't get through this bottleneck or remain stuck in this bottleneck, it will inevitably collapse. In the cycle of history, China has gone through thousands of years. Although it has gone through vicissitudes of life, it remains unyielding. As Bo Yang said: China is like a huge cube. It will topple in the waves of water and sea. But after the wave recedes, it still stands there proudly, facing the world from the other side, never disappearing, never sinking. Read "Outline of Chinese History" to understand China's past, and then create our own golden age.
What Readers Think
Rating
Community(0)
Rating
Community(0)
