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The book is sometimes described as a condensed version of Zizhi Tongjian, but it's in fact historical criticism containing copious didactic and ideological rhetoric. The book was later translated into Manchu as the Tung Giyan G'ang Mu (ᡨᡠᠩ ᡤᡳᠶᠠᠨ ᡬᠠᠩ ᠮᡠ) upon the request of the Kangxi Emperor of the Qing.
Origins of the Chinese Revolution, 1915–1949 (French: Les Origines de la révolution chinoise 1915–1949) is a French-language non-fiction book by Lucien Bianco, published in 1967, [1] by Editions Gallimard. It was published in English in 1971, with Muriel Bell as the translator, by Stanford University Press.
Sima Guang. The principal text of the Zizhi Tongjian comprises a year-by-year narrative of the history of China over 294 scrolls, sweeping through many Chinese historical periods (Warring States, Qin, Han, Three Kingdoms, Jin and the Sixteen Kingdoms, Southern and Northern dynasties, Sui, Tang, and Five Dynasties), supplemented with two sections of 30 scrolls each—'tables' (目錄; mùlù ...
The Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China is known as the Gujin Tushu Jicheng (traditional Chinese: 古今圖書集成; simplified Chinese: 古今图书集成; pinyin: Gǔjīn Túshū Jíchéng; Wade–Giles: Ku-chin t'u-shu chi-ch'eng; lit. 'complete collection of illustrations and books from the earliest period to the present') or Qinding Gujin Tushu Jicheng (Chinese ...
The book provides a history of Chinese intelligence services, with an emphasis on the origins of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and contemporary operations of the United Front Work Department and Ministry of State Security under CCP General Secretary, which the book refers to primarily by its transliterated Chinese abbreviation, "Guoanbu."
The Twenty-Four Histories, also known as the Orthodox Histories (正史; Zhèngshǐ), are a collection of official histories detailing the dynasties of China, from the legendary Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors in the 4th millennium BC to the Ming dynasty in the 17th century.
The book has since been translated into other languages and published in France, the Netherlands, China, and Taiwan. An updated edition was published in 2009 by Rider, a part of Random House. Frank Ching is knowledgeable about Chinese history and has conducted extensive research. [1] "Qin" is the standard pinyin romanization of Frank Ching's ...
Commissioned in 1772 and completed in 1782, the Siku quanshu is the largest collection of books in imperial Chinese history, comprising 36,381 volumes, 79,337 manuscript rolls, 2.3 million pages, and about 997 million words. [2]