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In 1920, Fang Long wrote an enlightenment version of general history "The Story of Mankind" for young readers. After its publication, this book won the first "Newbery" Gold Medal, swept the world, was translated into nearly 30 languages, and sold more than 10 million copies. In 1925, it was quickly translated into Chinese and became a popular enlightenment book on world history in the cultural circles of the Republic of China. From the 1990s to the present, with the publication of a new Chinese translation, this book has become a standard for intellectual youth, inspiring people to re-understand human history from ancient times to the present with a wise and broad vision. "The Story of Mankind" overlooks the entire development process of civilization from a position at the top of history. Unlike ordinary history books, this book does not contain boring historical terms. It is more like an exciting journey of exploration. From the earliest "human-like" ancestors to the decline of the ancient city of Babylon, from the birth of Greek civilization to the rise of the Roman Empire, from religious disputes in the Middle Ages to the First World War, the book not only depicts important nodes in the process of civilization, but also clarifies the key context of world evolution.

In this book, Fanglong uses vivid and smooth words to present thousands of years of civilization development history in front of readers. It is the best human history textbook. Whether you are a person who knows nothing about history or an expert who has read through vast tomes, you can get a lot of inspiration and reading pleasure from this classic and popular history of mankind.

This book is a geography book dedicated to Fanglong and different from the traditional meaning. It breaks the conventional way of writing geography books, closely adheres to the concept of "people", elevates human activities and importance to the first place, and focuses on the "pure human" side from beginning to end - science, art, business, religion and politics. It explains the relationship between people, geography and the earth from a historical perspective, and vividly interprets the concept of "human geography".

This is a popular history book that describes the development of human thought and has been best-selling for nearly a hundred years. It is Fang Long's most famous work. Starting from the standpoint of humanism, Fang Long searched for the deep roots behind the conflicts between different religious sects, revealed scenes of tragedies caused by stubbornness, and outlined a magnificent history of human ideological liberation. The author focuses on the most essential issues of human survival and development, challenges human ignorance and prejudice, and popularizes knowledge and truth into common sense in simple and easy-to-understand terms. People benefit a lot from his wise words and insights.

"A Brief History of Mankind" is one of Van Loon's representative works. The author uses images and smooth words to let readers see the history of human civilization development for thousands of years. The story begins in ancient times, then tells the origins of the Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations, the brilliance of the Greek and Roman eras, and then follows the clue of the origin of religion to tell the development of medieval society... It can be said that this is a classic book that has been best-selling around the world and has provided spiritual food to many readers.

This book tells the origin and development of oil painting in human history, the stories of those oil painting masters, and the history and knowledge contained in oil painting. Through oil paintings one after another, knowledge is no longer boring, history becomes more vivid, and begins to flow vividly in front of readers' eyes.

In "A General History of the World for Everyone", Fang Long shows readers a magnificent picture of human civilization: Millions of years ago, our first "humanoid" ancestors appeared on the wild earth, making stone tools, learning to plant, and following the flow of time into the origin of civilization - the Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations. Then, the pace of human history suddenly accelerated, from the Mesopotamia to the Mediterranean coast, from the glory of ancient Greece and Rome to the rise of religion, from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, from the geographical discovery to the first industrial revolution, from Napoleon to Hitler, from the past Going to the future... This is a grand brief history of mankind. Reading it will make you sigh, be excited, and think deeply; it is a historical drama with flesh and blood. You can overlook the endless flow of the river of history, and you can also observe the wonder and beauty of each wave.

This book describes the history of the development of human civilization in a popular way. The author uses a straightforward narrative method, humorous language, playful and wise writing, and original ideas to show readers the majestic history of mankind from the stage of human history, prehistoric humans, hieroglyphics, the Nile River Basin, ancient Greek city-states, the Roman Empire, the Crusades, Buddha and Confucius, the Renaissance, to the modern American War of Independence and even the scientific era. When we read "The Story of Mankind", we must not only understand the truth contained in history, but also try to understand, think, and understand the destiny of mankind, and ultimately understand our own mission.

The translator of "The Lord of the Rings" and Taiwanese translator Deng Jiawan has made a precise and concise translation. After Deng Jiawan concentrated on polishing "The Story of Humanity", he couldn't help but sigh: "I gave 7 months of my life to this book." For the first time, it was included in the final chapter (Chapter 66) written by Fang Long 17 years after the first edition. This article is like a spiritual torch, inspiring future generations of readers to overcome ignorance and cowardice, and face change bravely. The book has 18,438 words of detailed annotations, allowing readers to appreciate the interest of history without any obstacles. Fang Long's 56 hand-drawn map illustrations are retained as they are, vividly reproducing the style of the original work. Proper nouns are retained in English to facilitate student readers' inquiry.

"Tolerance" is a popular history book that has been best-selling for nearly a hundred years. The author Fang Long uses his profound humanistic care and the spirit of advocating freedom of thought to analyze the arduous process that mankind has gone through in seeking the right to think, and outlines a magnificent history of human ideological liberation. With the help of Van Loon's extremely famous "eye of tolerance", let us rediscover and gain a deeper understanding of the tortuous development history of politics, religion, culture, and society over thousands of years and the long process of human beings seeking their own liberation.

Fang Long's "Tolerance" starts from the standpoint of humanism and explores the root causes of "intolerance" in the human spirit for thousands of years. The book records the horrific and cruel crimes caused by spiritual dictatorship, which shows that the progress of human beings is actually very slow, and destructive movements often bring new intolerance. Vansaurus reminds us that tolerance is still a luxury and that we are still not that far removed from the cave tribesmen. Intolerance is a way for mobs to defend themselves. To be tolerant, humans first need to overcome fear.

In this book, Fanglong uses his profound knowledge and concise and smooth writing to describe the changes in the North American continent from Columbus's discovery of the New World to the 1930s. The formation, birth and development of the United States of America are described in great detail. It has detailed descriptions of historical events, the impact of Western civilization, scientific and technological inventions on human life, and American political life. It is rich in content, informative, wide-ranging, and has a large amount of knowledge, which is beyond the reach of ordinary American history books.

This is not an ordinary geography book. It breaks the writing method of conventional geography books, closely adheres to the concept of "people", elevates human activities and importance to the first place, and focuses on the "pure human" side from beginning to end. It explains the relationship between people, geography and the earth from a historical perspective, and vividly interprets the concept of "human geography".

This book is a book about the latitude and longitude of American history. It describes the changes in the North American continent from Columbus's discovery of the New World to World War II. Describes in detail the birth and development of the United States of America. He has profound and unique insights into historical events, Western civilization, scientific and technological inventions, and American political life.

This book tells the story of how human beings moved from land to sea, conquered the ocean, and achieved the magnificent process of geographical discovery, as well as the sea life of sailors, how navigation technology was improved, etc. In this process, humans have shown great courage and heroic spirit in conquering nature.

Van Loon's book "A Brief History of the United States" is divided into 53 chapters, which covers the magnificent history of hundreds of years of changes in the North American continent from Columbus's discovery of the New World to the 1930s. This book is the most important work in Van Loon's life. It sold 200,000 copies in just 3 months after its publication in 1927. It has been selling well all over the world for 88 years and has influenced generations of Americans.

"Tolerance" is a popular history book that has been best-selling for nearly a hundred years. The author Fang Long uses his profound humanistic care and the spirit of advocating freedom of thought to analyze the arduous process that mankind has gone through in seeking the right to think, and outlines a magnificent history of human ideological liberation. With the help of Van Loon's extremely famous "eye of tolerance", let us rediscover and gain a deeper understanding of the tortuous development history of politics, religion, culture, and society over thousands of years and the long process of human beings seeking their own liberation.

When I was only twelve or thirteen years old, my first teacher, my uncle, made me fall in love with books and pictures. He promised to take me on an adventure, an adventure that was unbearable. He took me to the top of the tower of the old St. Lawrence Church in Rotterdam. We chose a sunny day, and the sexton of the church held a huge key and opened the mysterious door to the top of the tower for us.

In "Tolerance", Fang Long reflects on human ignorance and paranoia from the historical origins from a humanistic standpoint. He finds that fear of dissidents is the cause of all intolerance. Due to differences in beliefs, morals, customs, etc., Humans have formed different interest groups. Each group resists the outside world and influences from the outside in a fortified castle of paranoia and stubbornness. Paranoia and stubbornness have brought many tragedies to mankind. Many characters who pursued freedom and new knowledge died trying to break through this barrier.

Ships are one of the great inventions in the history of human development. They have evolved into modern ships through multiple stages of development, including rafts, canoes, wooden boats, wooden sailing ships and machine-propelled ships. This book is Fanglong's vivid description of the development history of ships and the magnificent process of human beings conquering the ocean.

This book mainly tells the life stories of Jefferson, the American democracy fighter, and Bolivar, one of the most outstanding leaders of the Latin American independence movement in the 19th century. They pursued freedom, democracy, and independence throughout their lives, and fought hard to win the independence of their nation. They are worth learning from the world.

"A Brief History of the World" is one of Fang Long's classic works. It breaks the traditional writing method of listing data in geography books and uses vivid literary language to integrate nature and humanities. He tells how humans living in different geographical environments adapt to the natural environment, and how they try to change the environment to achieve happiness. This is a popular science book that is easy to understand and also a history of the development of different countries and nations. "History is the fourth dimension of geography, which gives geography time and meaning" is reflected in this work, which is the history of human existence with history as the longitude and geography as the latitude.

This book is Fang Long's last work. It is a record of his life and an unfinished posthumous work. Van Saurus does not trace his school life in the book, but rather tells some stories about human beings, such as the history of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, and the terrible blows that human beings have suffered in the past 500 years.

This book tells the historical process of the Swedish people establishing an independent country under the leadership of Gustav Vasa, the founder of the Vasa dynasty, and the tenacious spirit of the Swedish people who did not want to become a slave and fought for independence. This is not only a thrilling work, but also a profound work full of connotations.

This book publishes the representative work "Tolerance" by American scholar Fang Long in English and Chinese bilingual form. The book also contains a large number of black and white illustrations hand-drawn by the author. This is a popular history book that has been best-selling for nearly a hundred years and has been translated into dozens of languages. Starting from the standpoint of humanism, Fang Long explored the root causes of "intolerance" in the human spirit with vivid and wise language, analyzed the arduous process that mankind has gone through in seeking the right to think, and outlined a magnificent history of the liberation of human thought. It uses major events and important figures in history as clues, uses the tolerance of society and characters as a yardstick, reveals the truth in a relaxed and humorous way, advocates tolerance and peace, and advocates ideological emancipation. It is a classic work on tolerance and free thinking. The truth that Fang Long wants to say in the book is very simple. He said: "Everyone who fights for tolerance, no matter how different they are, has one thing in common: their beliefs are always accompanied by doubts; they honestly believe that they are right, but they can never transform their doubts into solid and guaranteed beliefs." Both ordinary readers and experts and scholars can get inspiration and reading pleasure from this book. Currently, among the top varieties of similar books, they are mainly Chinese editions, with only a few English-Chinese bilingual editions. This book is published in English-Chinese bilingual format, allowing readers to improve their English reading skills while reading classic works.

Van Loon's classic trilogy includes three representative works of Van Loon, including "The Story of Man", "The Story of the Bible" and "Tolerance". In Fang Long's writings, history is no longer a boring "tofu account" of "era + events", nor is it a "cultural relics exhibition" listing various human civilizations, but an unconventional classic masterpiece full of humanistic sentiments written in popular techniques. "The Story of Mankind" was first published in 1922. Fang Long uses vivid and smooth words to present the history of human civilization development for thousands of years in front of readers. The story begins in ancient times, telling the origins of Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations, telling the glory of the Greek and Roman eras, following the clues of the rise of religion to the development and evolution of medieval society, from the rise of cities, the Renaissance, to world-wide changes and revolutions in various countries. In this book, Fang Long unfolds an extremely grand historical picture, asking readers to stand on a high tower and overlook the endless river of history. "Stories from the Bible" was first published in 1923. The Bible is a great literary heritage that has made incomparable contributions to European culture and human culture. Fang Long interpreted this great work with simple and beautiful writing. The diverse characters, profound doctrines, and frequent wars all become clear and charming under Fang Long's eloquent narrative.

This book is the story of Sir John, a charismatic elephant who travels around the world and learns how humans live. He has exciting adventures, and so do his friends, Noodles the dachshund and Diogenes the cat. At the end of the story, you will learn the real reason why the elephant decided to continue being an elephant.

"The Story of Mankind" is one of Van Loon's most representative works. In this work, Fang Long uses smart and smooth words to present the history of human civilization development for thousands of years in front of readers. The story begins in ancient times, from the disputes in the ancient lands of the East, to the disputes between Athens and Sparta, Rome and Carthage, to the collision between Christianity and Islam, to the rise of constitutional states, to the colonization movement, and until the First World War.

"The Story of Mankind" is a masterpiece that describes the history of human civilization in a popular way. As soon as it was published in 1921, it won Van Loon a worldwide reputation. The book was once selected as a history textbook in American middle schools. It also won the Newbery Medal, the most famous children's literature award in the United States, and has a great influence in the world. With his straightforward narration, humorous language, playful and wise writing, and original ideas, Van Loon shows us the mighty history of mankind from the time humans entered the historical stage, prehistoric humans, the earliest writing, the Nile Valley, the story of Greece, the Roman Empire, the Crusades, the Renaissance, to the modern American Revolution and even the scientific age. There are fast-paced "big history" narratives, and there are also events and details that truly affect the process of human civilization.

With the theme of "Searching in Travel, Discovery in Verification", this book introduces the customs and customs of various parts of the world in detail. Readers can get a glimpse of the author's thought and writing process of searching for the footprints of human civilization, and discover the magnificence of the natural world and the richness of the humanistic world.

This book contains a total of 40 short articles, speeches, sermons, and talks, which is a true record of the content of Fang Long's talk show. In the program, Fang Long told the audience various stories and history of mankind, evaluated various historical heroes, and his many years of thinking.

Fang Long uses his rich imagination, regardless of time and space constraints, and uses the form of dialogue between ancient and modern times to vividly highlight the life stories, ideas, living habits and character traits of these characters by describing the situations in which historical figures were invited to attend dinner parties and exchange experiences and thoughts.

In "The Story of America", the author uses his profound knowledge and concise and smooth writing to describe the changes in the North American continent from Columbus's discovery of the New World to the 1930s. The formation, birth and development of the United States of America are described in great detail. There are detailed descriptions of historical events, the impact of Western civilization, scientific and technological inventions on human life, and American political life. It is rich in content, informative, wide-ranging, and has a large amount of knowledge, which is beyond the reach of ordinary American history books. The writing style of this book is vivid and lively, and the people and stories are vividly written. There are many wonderful words and witty words, which makes it interesting to read.

The book "Listen to Fanglong Tells the Story of Humanity: A Brief History of Humanity" has 64 chapters in total. The author tells it from the beginning of Hongmeng to the end of World War I. He narrates in detail any events and details that really affect the process of human civilization, recreating the majestic history of human development. The author uses concise and concise language to show the grand history of mankind, describes history from the perspective of human nature, and uses vivid and interesting language and hand-drawn illustrations to tell the difficult and difficult history of human development, making the book easy to understand and full of interest. Both ordinary readers and experts and scholars can get inspiration and pleasure from this book. This book was published in 1921 and has been reprinted many times. It is also the author's famous work.

Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going? Hendrik Wilhelm Van Loon uses humorous and smooth writing style to narrate the complicated human history into an ups and downs and soul-stirring "human growth story". Its story starts from ancient times, telling the origins of Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations, telling the glory of the Greek and Roman eras, following the clues of the rise of religion to the development and evolution of medieval society, from the rise of cities, the Renaissance, to world-wide changes and revolutions in various countries... It shows readers the long history of human development. This book is a history of human growth with a strong sense of reality, and it is also the first work of popular history writing. It is not only a history of human growth with a strong sense of reality, but also closes the lens to local and specific heroes or ordinary people. It is both fascinating and makes people gain knowledge and broaden their horizons after reading it. Since the book was written, it has been translated into more than 30 languages ​​and has become a pillow book for hundreds of millions of people to read general history.

"Tolerance" is a classic work on the history of world philosophy by Fang Long, a famous historical scholar and humanistic enlightenment writer. It was selected by Amazon China as one of the "100 Must-Read Books in Life". This book was first published in 1925 and has since been translated into many languages ​​and published worldwide. Yu Dafu, a master of modern literature, once praised Fang Long's pen as having "a kind of magic power". "When he writes about dry and tasteless scientific knowledge, everyone who reads his books, whether adults or children, will feel fascinated and forgetful." In "Tolerance", Fang Long tells the long history of the development of human thought in vivid and wise language. Based on major events and important figures in history, and whether society and people are tolerant as a yardstick, he reveals the truth in a relaxed way, advocates tolerance and peace, and advocates ideological emancipation.

"The Classic Quartet of Van Saurus" includes four representative works of Van Saurus, "Geography of Van Saurus", "Tolerance", "The Story of Humanity" and "The Art of Humanity". Fang Long's works are popular readings on the history of human civilization and can be called encyclopedia-style general education readings. Among them, "Fanglong Geography" is a popular science book that can be explained in simple terms, and it is also a history of the development of different countries and nations. Fang Long broke the traditional writing method of listing data in geography books, and integrated physical geography and human geography with vivid and emotional literary language.

This book introduces dozens of important figures in human history to readers in a unique form of dialogue between ancient and modern times. The author uses the form of weekend dinners to resurrect long-dead characters and invite them to attend this strange dinner. A total of 21 dinners were held, and guests present included Erasmus, William the Silent, George Washington, Thomas More... The growth process and thoughts of the great men were slowly revealed in these conversations.

"Tolerance" is a history of human "intolerance", a history of human sorrow, and a history of human struggle. Through a series of tragic experiences of famous historical figures who have influenced the world for more than 2,000 years, Fang Long analyzes the tragic journey that mankind has gone through in pursuit of the right to think, and reveals a truth that countless people have paid the price of blood and tears - only by tolerating different ideas can mankind achieve progress and liberation. From ancient Greece, the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, Fanglong took great pains to write a history of European "ideological liberation" into a history of the struggle between tolerance and tyranny.