Half-Hour Comics: Chinese History, From Ancient Times to the Xia, Shang, and Zhou

Read comics for half an hour, and master five thousand years of history! The best-selling history comic series of all time! 500 illustrations completely redrawn, with a major upgrade to the historical content! 45 mind maps lay out the framework of middle school history! Hilarious memory tricks really do stick better than classroom lessons. Using nothing but hand-drawn comics and jokes, Chen Lei (pen name: Hunzi Ge) and the Half-Hour Comics team have mapped out the history from the origins of humanity to the Zhou Dynasty: The dragon had nine sons, but why did none of them look like a dragon? The history of the Shang Dynasty was like the life of a bird! It’s much easier to understand if you imagine the Eastern Zhou’s rival states as one classroom! … Peeling back the confusing surface of history and skipping the trivial details, every page is packed with historical jokes, making you laugh every three seconds. Open this book and you’ll absorb historical knowledge without even realizing it, all while laughing out loud.