Modern Chinese History (Let's Talk)

From the Opium War to the Revolution of 1911, from the Westernization Movement to the Hundred Days Reform, from Zeng Guofan to Kang Youwei, from Li Hongzhang to Sun Yat-sen, this book narrates the evolution and characters of nearly a hundred years. There is no boring textual research and no accumulation of historical materials, but it fully shows the future of the country, the destiny of the nation and the development trend of society. This book takes China's modernization as a clue and believes that "whether the Chinese can modernize will determine the rise or fall of the country." It mainly explains the efforts made by modern people to strengthen themselves in the face of "great changes unseen in thousands of years" and the reasons for their failure. It then proposes that "modern national defense requires not only modern communication. Communication, education, economy, and modernized politics and people, half-new and half-old are useless. The historical framework and chronological history system constructed by this book once led the trend of modern history research and were praised by later researchers. It is called the pioneering work of modern Chinese history research.