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Zheng Lun and Chang Yan
Zhonghua Book Company · 2014
Zheng Lun and Chang Yan are two landmark works of the Masters (zi) literature from the middle and late Eastern Han, written by Cui Shi (c. 103–c. 170)…
The French Style: The Political Culture of the Revolution (Expanded Edition)
Beijing Normal University Press · 2013
The French Revolution of 1789 is generally regarded as one of the most influential political events of the modern world. In this book, Gao Yi introduc…
Qin Unites the World
Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House · 2016
This volume belongs to "The First Empire," the second part of Yi Zhongtian's History of China, and is the seventh volume of the whole series, focusing…
Everyone's Little Library: Two Thousand Years (Hardcover)
Beijing Publishing House · 2016
A slim little book, yet it dares to dissect more than two thousand years, from Qin to Qing, as a single whole. Hu Sheng does not tell the stories of e…
The Tudor Dynasty: 1485-1547 (Huawen Global History)
Sino-Culture Press · 2020
Vividly recreates the history of England during the golden age of absolute monarchy. What background did the development of European absolutism provid…
The Book of Lord Shang
Liaohai Publishing House · 2025
The Book of Lord Shang, also known as Lord Shang or Master Shang, is a composite work by Shang Yang and his later followers from the Warring States pe…
Modern Chinese Version: Waiting for the Dawn
· 2025
Huang Zongxi, also known as Old Man Lizhou, was an enlightenment thinker of distinctive stature in the late Ming and early Qing. Building on Mencius's…
Three Hundred Years of the Rise and Fall of the Great Ming
China Overseas Publishing House · 2021
Why did the Ming founder establish his capital at Nanjing? How did the Ming dynasty's Imperial Bodyguard and the Eastern and Western Depots come into …
A Study of the Hu Weiyong Conspiracy Case
· 2026
The Hu Weiyong Incident was a major affair of the early Ming dynasty. The factional purge and its connected prosecutions spanned fourteen years and, i…
Louis XIV.
Project Gutenberg · 2019
Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
The Story of Civilization 8: The Age of Louis XIV
TIANDI PRESS · 2021
The Age of Louis XIV is Volume 8 of The Story of Civilization in the “Imaginist Classics” series. It opens with the signing of the Peace of Westphalia…
The Last Four Hundred Days of the Pahlavi Dynasty
Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press · 2018
The four hundred days from January 8, 1978, to February 11, 1979, marked a turning point in Iranian history. The Iranian Islamic Revolution was also o…
The Society Guarded by the Great Wall in the Ming Dynasty
· 2017
Under the Ming dynasty, imperial power reached unprecedented concentration: the emperor held supreme authority and directly controlled the reins of go…
Zheng Lun (Discourse on Government) and Chang Yan (Candid Words) — Chinese Classics Series: Complete Texts with Full Annotations and Translations
Zhonghua Book Company · 2021
Cui Shi's Zheng Lun (Discourse on Government) and Zhong Changtong's Chang Yan (Words of Counsel) are celebrated works of Han-dynasty political thought…