The Last Dynasty and Modern China: Late Qing Dynasty and Republic of China

The author of this volume narrates the period from the mid-19th century to 1936 as an era, and attributes the history of this period to "an attempt to revive China." The author pointed out that there are differences and connections between local cultures in China, and tried to re-understand this era "from the perspective of the wind of the new era blowing from the southern border areas." He believes that the characters in this book, such as Hong Xiuquan, Sun Yat-sen and his successor Chiang Kai-shek, all started from the southern border and later fought in the Northern Expedition. Mao Zedong's border area revolution, which emerged from the rural base areas in the south, also sowed the seeds of a new era all the way to Yan'an on the Loess Plateau. Although the book basically uses the narrative of political history as the main clue, the author still pays special attention to culture and uses more words to describe the cultural exchanges between China and Japan, providing a new reading for us to understand modern Chinese history.