The Chronic Disease of Empire: Black and White Qing Dynasty
by Zhang Cheng
About This Novel
The "Chronic Diseases of the Empire" series consists of five volumes, namely "The Wanderings of the Han Dynasty", "The Melancholy of the Tang Dynasty", "Lice on the Beautiful Robes of the Song Dynasty", "The Ming Dynasty on Ice and Fire" and "The Qing Dynasty in Black and White". This series tells the stories of several major dynasties in Chinese history in popular language, revealing the inevitable institutional flaws of the feudal dynasties and drawing lessons from them. This book focuses on more than ten famous cases in the Qing Dynasty, revealing the ups and downs and inherent political shortcomings experienced by the last dynasty of Chinese feudal society in its more than 260 years of history. Among these cases, there are financial cases involving important officials, such as the Jiangzhou deficit case, the Weining Lead Factory case, the Fujian corruption den case, etc., And there are also unjust private cases that are inseparable from the dark political ecology, such as the Hezhou murder case, the Shuntian rural trial case, the Yang Naiwu Xiaobaicai case, etc. The book has a vivid writing style, strong logic, and provides detailed historical information. It is a work worth reading for history lovers.
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