It summarizes the magnificent history of modern China and shows China's process from decline to rise in modern history. This book is a modern history of China written by the famous historian Jiang Tingfu for ordinary readers. It emphasizes the conflicts and turbulence in history and highlights the complexity and drama of modern history. In extremely simple words, it explains the evolution of China's history, the collision of civilizations, major historical events and key figures in the past hundred years after the Opium War. It is magnificent, transparent and comprehensive, yet concise, smooth and impartial, and has extremely high academic value.
From the Opium War to the Revolution of 1911, from the Westernization Movement to the Hundred Days Reform, from Lin Zexu to Li Hongzhang, from Hong Xiuquan to Sun Yat-sen, this book narrates the historical evolution and character stories in the past hundred years after the Opium War. The historical framework and chronological history system constructed in the book once led the trend of modern history research and were highly praised by later researchers. It is called the pioneering work of modern Chinese history research.
