A Comprehensive History of the Byzantine Empire

This book studies all major topics involving Byzantium, especially the ecological environment, resource development and material production, economic development trends and basic structures that determine the historical direction of the Byzantine Empire, the political system with the emperor's autocratic core as the core, the centralized bureaucracy, and social classes. We have formed independent opinions and a series of research results that are characterized by historical materialism and have reliable basis on issues such as social strata and people's life, Byzantine cultural thought, military system and mercenary system, the integration of multiple cultures and the formation of the core of Byzantine culture, and cultural exchanges between Byzantium and China. This book forms the discourse system of Chinese scholars on the historical development and cultural evolution of Byzantium, which includes views on the ups and downs of Byzantine history, the development model of Byzantine society, and the evolution of Byzantine culture.