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Books by Jiang Zhongzhe
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Five Thousand Years of Chinese History (Collector's Edition, Complete in Four Volumes) 中华上下五千年（珍藏版）（全套四册）
This book chronicles 5,000 years of Chinese history, from ancient times to the end of the Qing dynasty. Drawing on historical sources, it uses time as its framework and significant historical events and figures as its threads, organizing and adapting the material in accessible modern language. It covers politics, economics, culture, and other fields, presenting the development of the Chinese nation in an orderly, comprehensive way while combining knowledge, insight, and entertainment. From ancie
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Five Thousand Years of Chinese History, Volume One 中华上下五千年·第一卷
History is a mirror. Every country and people places importance on using its history to educate and inspire its citizens, especially the young. History itself is full of life, and many expressions in modern Chinese, particularly idioms and allusions, come from historical texts. Yet today’s children are easily “formatted” by the rich forms of modern Western civilization and become resistant to learning history. This is bound to worry parents who care about their children’s growth and hope they wi
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The 100 Greatest Disasters That Threaten the World’s Survival (Part One) 影响世界生存的100大灾难（上）
This book covers topics including the destruction of Pompeii: the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 63 AD; famine and survival of the fittest: the great famine in Egypt in 1199; eight centuries of suffering in Sicily: the Italian Mafia's reign of terror since 1282; the worst plague in human history: the spread of the Black Death in Europe from 1348 to 1451; and the water demon that ravaged China for a century: the great floods of the 14th century.
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The 100 Wars That Shaped World History, Part Two 影响世界历史的100大战争（下）
This book covers the wars that brought down Burma’s feudal autocracy, the Anglo-Burmese Wars of 1824–1885; a new chapter in the Zulu struggle against colonialism, the Zulu Wars of 1837–1879; the flag of independence raised at the cost of countless lives, the Afghan resistance against Britain from 1839 to 1919; and the beginning of China’s history of humiliation, the First Opium War of 1840–1842, among other topics.
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100 Events That Shaped World Civilization, Part One 影响世界文明的100大事件（上）
This book covers the birth of a global medium for cultural exchange: the invention of alphabetic writing around 4000 BCE; the dawn of civilization in Mesopotamia: the emergence of Sumerian city-states around 3500 BCE; and the foremost of the “Seven Wonders of the World”: the pyramids built in ancient Egypt around 3000 BCE, among other topics.
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