Summary of "I am China"
This book is a historical epic novel that vindicates the name of the founder of Chinese civilization. It uses the innovative historical view of "the merits outweigh the faults" to reshape Qin Shihuang's great talent, strategy and historical responsibility as the only emperor through the ages.
The work is composed of four volumes, showing the magnificent life of Ying Zheng: the first volume, "Casting the Ding", starts from his experience of questioning Zhao, depicting his personal pain of the broken mountains and rivers, and establishing the belief that "unification is the greatest kindness"; the second volume, "Quenching", focuses on the implementation of institutional innovations such as the county system, the same text of books, and the same track of cars after unification, showing his far-sightedness in creating a Chinese civilization community; the third volume, "Original Edition" Faced with historical controversies, it is revealed that book burning is to eradicate separatist ideas, to suppress Confucianism is to punish the country's liars, and all radical methods are to consolidate the new unified regime; the fourth volume "Eternal Solid" shows its grand pattern of "the sustainability of China is higher than the continuity of imperial power" through the management of Baiyue and the construction of the Great Wall in the north.
The novel is based on archaeological discoveries such as "Sleeping Tiger Land Qin Bamboo Slips" and uses an original poetry system of "currency poems - name-correcting poems - contract poems" to build an aesthetic world where history and literature blend. In the end, the image of a civilized pioneer who is willing to bear eternal infamy but also cast the "unity" gene into the blood of China forever is portrayed, profoundly interpreting the eternal theme of "I can perish, but China cannot be divided".
The work takes "I would rather the imperial power of the surname Ying collapse, but also build a Chinese nation that will never be divided" as the core concept. Through ups and downs of narrative and profound philosophical thinking, the work restores a true, three-dimensional and great Qin Shihuang.
