A Set of General Cultural Histories of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (3 Volumes in Total)

This book is a three-volume academic monograph. It provides the first systematic and comprehensive summary of the characteristics of cultural development and achievements in the Ming and Qing Dynasties for more than 500 years. It proposes that the Ming and Qing Dynasties were a critical period in the transformation of ancient traditional society into modern times in Chinese history. Its culture has four characteristics: summarizing ancient Chinese culture, further innovating, bringing the originally quite developed Chinese culture to a new stage of modernization, and enriching the Chinese national culture.