1, fifteen years of Wanli

Author: [America] Huang Renyu

Introduction: Fifteen Years of Wanli is a famous work of Huang Renyu and one of his representative works. This book combines his decades of life experience and academic experience. It is the first time to analyze the crux of Ming society with the "grand view of history" and observe the origin of modern China, which gives people a lot of inspiration. English has been adopted as a teaching material by many American universities since it came out, and it has been nominated for excellent history books in the American Book Award twice.

2. Outline of China People's History

Author: Bai Yang

Introduction: The Outline of China People's History is one of the most important works of Bai Yang, a writer in Taiwan Province, and the most outstanding representative work of modern writers in China. Completed in prison, this book tells and comments on the whole history of China from the mythical era of Pangu's creation to Eight-Nation Alliance's invasion of Beijing in the first year of the 20th century with nearly 800,000 words. The text of the book stretches beautifully, like running water; The comments are sharp and profound, but faint.

3. General history of the world

Author: American Times Life Editorial Department

Introduction: A General History of the World (a set of 24 volumes) was jointly created by historians from Cambridge University, Oxford University and famous universities all over the world. It describes the major events in global history in a panoramic view, and fully demonstrates the world's long history and splendid civilization.

4. What happened in the Ming Dynasty

Author: the bright moon this year

Brief introduction: The Things of Ming Dynasty began when Zhu Yuanzhang was born and ended when Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself in Ming Dynasty. On the basis of historical data, this paper, with time and specific characters as the main line and the brushwork of the novel, shows the fate of the seventeenth emperor of the Ming Dynasty and other princes, dignitaries and small people in a panoramic way, especially the officialdom politics, war and imperial mentality, which adds to the romance of the political and economic system and ethics at that time.

5. Zhang Chuan

Author: Zhu Dongrun

Zhang was an outstanding politician in the late Ming Dynasty and one of the most famous reformers in the history of China. He started from an ordinary family in Jingzhou, and through unremitting efforts, he became the first record of Wanli, the teacher of Zongshen and the founder of Zhongxing in Ming Dynasty.

After reading this book, readers will have a deeper understanding and sympathy for Zhang, a famous reformer of autocratic dynasty, and a clearer understanding and reflection on the times in which missionaries lived. This book not only has outstanding academic achievements and research value, but also has very important practical guiding significance and practical value.

6. Purple Tongzhi scissors

Author: Sima Guang

Brief introduction: Zi Tong Zhi Jian is a chronological history book compiled by Sima Guang and his assistants Liu Ban, Liu Nu and Fan Zuyu based on a large number of historical materials, which records the history of 1362 years from 403 BC, the last martyr of Zhou Wei, to 959 AD, the last year of Zhou Shizong's virtuous deeds.

The book describes the historical development from strategy to the Five Dynasties, discusses the reasons for the rise and fall of the unified dynasties such as Qin, Han, Jin, Sui and Tang Dynasties, and dozens of regimes such as the Seven Heroes in the Warring States, the Three Kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu, the Sixteen Countries in the Five Lakes, the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the Ten Countries in the Five Dynasties, and vividly depicts the way emperors treat people as political countries, as well as their joys and sorrows in life and death in the historical whirlpool.

7. China's political gains and losses in past dynasties.

Author: Qian Mu

Introduction: China's Political Gains and Losses in Past Dynasties is a collection of the author's special speeches, which summarizes and compares various political systems in China in Han, Tang, Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties, such as government organization, official power, examination supervision, finance and taxation, and military service obligations. , and describes the evolution of the political reform, alluding to Chen's gains and losses.

It not only summarizes the essence of China's history and politics, but also points out the misunderstanding of traditional culture and spirit by modern China people. Concise and focused, it is a concise history of China's political system.

8. The story of mankind

Author: [America] Hendrik Willem Van Loon

Introduction: Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going? Up and down for five thousand years, tens of thousands of miles. Long Fang talked about the development history of human civilization for thousands of years, the reappearance of wonderful historical scenes and the brief comments on historical figures.

Long Fang gave us a pair of eyes to watch the magnificent history-rationality, wisdom and tolerance. The history professor of Yale University went on to write about all kinds of achievements made by mankind in the past half century-medicine, science and technology, and expressed all kinds of anxieties and worries about the future of mankind.

9. The collapse of China

Author: Mao Haijian

Introduction: The Collapse of China is the result of the author's systematic study of the Opium War for more than ten years. The author investigated a series of important historical facts related to the war in detail, trying to understand the history with the moral concept, mode of thinking and code of conduct at that time, so that many absurd phenomena seen by modern people showed their "rationality" in the environment at that time.

At the same time, through the analysis of relevant figures and their words and deeds, we can observe what the Qing Dynasty did at the historical turning point and reveal the contingency and inevitability in the historical process. The Opium War had a great influence on the modern history of China, and many related works have been published. The research of this book is innovative, and the author's series of unique opinions may cause controversy in academic circles. I believe this debate will help deepen the study of China's modern history.

10, Politics in Eastern Jin Dynasty

Author: Tian Yuqing

Brief introduction: With rich historical materials and detailed textual research and analysis, this book re-discusses the gate politics in China's medieval history, and holds that Chinese and foreign scholars used to call it the gate politics in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, but it actually only existed in the Eastern Jin Dynasty; Door-door politics is the abnormal condition of imperial power politics under certain historical conditions, which is temporary and transitional, and its existing form is that the door-door gentry and imperial power co-govern.

This book does not belong to the stereotype of the gentry, and it provides insights on this important issue in the political history of China in the Middle Ages, which is of high academic value.