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Books by 端木赐香
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This Time, We Got Beaten Again: A Comprehensive Look at the Second Opium War Between China and Britain 这一次，我们又挨打了：中英第二次鸦片战争全景解读
This book offers a comprehensive interpretation of the Second Opium War, revealing the balance of power in the mid-19th-century world. It provides a detailed account of the comparative strength of China and Britain, their preparations for war, the course of the conflict, and its outcome and consequences, giving readers a thorough, multifaceted understanding of the Second Opium War. Through this panoramic analysis, the author depicts how Western nations were rapidly advancing toward modern civili
25Reads8.4Score—Shelves
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Rereading Sixty Years of the Late Qing 重读晚清六十年
How should people in modern China understand Empress Dowager Cixi and the late Qing Dynasty? In 1860, after 3,000 years of historical cycles in ancient China, Xianfeng, the tenth emperor of the Qing Dynasty, died. His consort Cixi joined forces with Prince Gong, Yixin, to crush the Eight Regents led by Sushun, beginning her fifty-year career of holding China together through a time of crisis. "Ignorant and conservative" seems to be the fixed impression people have of Cixi. Yet during the Self-St
10Reads8.3Score—Shelves
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That Time We Were Beaten: A Panoramic Look at the First Opium War Between China and Britain 那一次，我们挨打了:中英第一次鸦片战争全景解读
This book offers a panoramic interpretation of the Second Opium War between China and Britain from 1840 to 1842. Placing the war in its broader international context, it presents the balance of power as seen through the wide-angle lens of the mid-nineteenth-century world. It provides a detailed account of the relative strength of China and Britain, their preparations before the war, the course of the conflict, and its aftermath and impact, giving readers a comprehensive, multifaceted understandi
6Reads8.7Score—Shelves
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Dark Fragrance: The Strange and Shadowy Side of History 暗香袭人：历史的吊诡与幽昧
When reading history, flashes of inspiration sometimes come to mind. Unless I put these little sprites down on paper, they will not let me rest. Of course, they are unlike the conventional grand narratives of traditional historians, and even less like the oversimplified, cookie-cutter accounts of history that rely on labels. As everyone knows, some passages in the long corridor of our history have been covered up, and we are not free to discuss them. Other passages may be discussed, but not just
2Reads8.3Score—Shelves