"History Should Be Learned This Way" is a history book specially written for teenagers by Zhao Lijian, a history teacher at Beijing No. 4 Middle School. It is suitable for senior elementary school students to junior high school students aged 8 to 16 years old.
The author uses historical textbooks as an outline and follows the timeline from China's early legendary era to the eve of the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. It integrates rich historical materials, vivid characters, and vivid stories to provide readers with ways to learn history, so that readers can bid farewell to rote memorization, effectively accumulate historical knowledge in daily study, and become interested in history, thereby forming historical thinking and improving subject abilities.
This volume tells the historical changes from the first Opium War in 1840 to the eve of the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. Readers can see: why the Beiyang Navy was completely wiped out, why the Reform Movement of 1898 only lasted 103 days, a revolution that buried more than 2,000 years of monarchy, the three stages of the Anti-Japanese War, the War of Liberation, etc., And learn about the Opium War, the Westernization Movement, the Reform Movement of 1898, the New Culture Movement, the Anti-Japanese War, and the Liberation War.