The first book: the bottom perspective to see the final fate of the Manchu Qing relics of the old and the young - "The End of the Mandate of Heaven - The Decline and Fall of the Qing Empire" Author: Jin Manlou
This book makes up for the right and wrong of the last fifty years of the Qing Empire. As an Imperial Dynasty series that observes the fall of a dynasty from a specific perspective, this book has a lot of details that are eye-opening.
Judging from the operation of the imperial palace, the first six emperors were too strong, and the life expectancy of Wenzhi martial arts was crushed compared with the last six emperors. On the occasion of the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty, the author lamented that the imperial palace could not hear the cries of birth children for fifty years. There are problems with the survival of incense, how can we let one weak emperor continue the dragon vein of the Qing Dynasty. From the perspective of institutional governance, the Qing Dynasty's "Pai Han" was eaten back, and how thorough the Pai Han was, how strong the rebound was. The slogan of the Xinhai Revolution was "Expulsion of the Tartars, Restoration of China." The "anti-Qing" formed a situation of common hatred and hatred, which stimulated more revolutionary fighting spirit, and the revolutionaries began to liquidate the Manchus, and under the wrapping of resentment and hostility, many innocent Manchus were innocently killed.
Jin Manlou shows the life of the low-level flag people in the late Qing Dynasty from the perspective of civilians, for example, the flag people are usually in the military camp, and they can go home at night and live the life of their wives and children. From the fall of the world on horseback to the life of the city of cockfighting, they retain the last shred of superiority. The final fate makes people sigh, the revolutionary party in the process of liquidating them, listening to the pronunciation can judge the identity, is this not a straw man's life? From these perspectives, there are many things about revolutions that are not perfect.
A group of widows and widows knew that the dynasty had been overthrown, they cried loudly, they were abandoned at the foot of the imperial city, and it was lucky to survive in the end. In the first half of Puyi's autobiography, this group of widows and widows would still come from all over to wish the emperor a happy birthday, and they lived in fantasy until they died.
The second book: Why "feudalism" also has a praiseworthy place - "Political Gains and Losses in Chinese Dynasties" Qian Mu Sanlian Bookstore
This book written by Mr. Qian Mu is a book that both historians and researchers cannot avoid.
This book comes from his classroom lecture notes, analyzing the political organizational structure, financial and economic taxation, military service obligations and other political systems from the major dynasties of the Han, Tang, Song, Ming, and Qing dynasties, and through overall generalization and horizontal comparison, describing the reasons for the evolution of each dynasty due to the revolution, chen pointing out the pros and cons. The author believes that the Han and Tang Dynasties were particularly important for the construction of the Chinese cultural system, and the three dukes and nine secretaries system established by the Han Dynasty, the prime minister divided the authority of the emperor, and he not only had to manage the state affairs, but also managed the royal household affairs. The Ming Dynasty removed the prime minister and let the college students walk in the south study and write on behalf of the emperor. The emperor either worked all night and day, or he was afraid to go to the court for fear of accusations from his courtiers. Worst of all, in the Qing Dynasty, the emperor used military aircraft to strengthen the emperor's authority, reused manchus and despised Han Chinese, and treated the three kanto provinces as forbidden places, strictly prohibiting Chinese intrusion. These are not institutions, but magic, strengthening the emperor's dictatorship. The continuation of the system is a temporary measure to save the shortcomings, and if the system is not innovated, it will soon fall into the root of the disease. The author made a popular analogy: just like a certain drug cures a certain disease, it does not need to be taken again when the disease is healed. Otherwise, medicine can cure the disease and can also cause illness. The Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty were to take too much medicine and then be harmed by drugs. From the whole analogy, the author's favor for the Han and Tang dynasties exceeded that of the Ming and Qing dynasties.
The book has a broad vision, stripping away the advantages and disadvantages of the feudal system and highlighting the advantages of traditional culture. For the inheritance of the Anglo-American system, the author believes that the rooting of the system needs to serve the reality, rather than let the reality serve the system, and Chinese culture has a strong ability to survive, and many places are learning from others. Isn't that cultural confidence? In the context of the time, it was invaluable.
In this pamphlet, the views expressed are concise and concise, and many historical expositions basically quote the author's views. It is precisely because of the speech that the author inserts some popular metaphors when expressing serious topics, which have the precision of finishing touches and help beginners better understand, which can be described as suitable for all ages. After reading it, it can be understood that the "feudal" dynasty can survive for thousands of years, not for nothing.
The third book Find an answer to the key to interpreting the Qin system - "Two Thousand Years of the Qin System" Chen Xubin
Every year, without reading a little of the book list on the annual rankings, I always feel incompatible with the identity of "readers", in fact, many people are afraid of being abandoned by this era. Therefore, combined with many publications such as a certain petal and New Weekly, I chose some books that interested me.
Reading the book "Two Thousand Years of the Qin System", I always think of Wu Si's "Unspoken Rules", Wu Si explores many rules of the historical game, he creates many concepts, and enriches the meaning of these concepts with cases. The main line of "Two Thousand Years of qin system" is relatively clear, the author believes that the operation of the feudal empire is to construct the Qin system from the way of the shang martingale and the art of Han Fei, the core theme is to break up the organizational structure of the people, let them atomize, scatter the sand, lose the power of the crowd, the people can only feed, let them starve to death, can not eat enough, so that they lose the ability to think, behind this the feudal empire with the tax mechanism to continuously squeeze the people, in the case of obtaining absolute resources to expand the territory of the outside world. The author summarizes the operation mechanism of the two-thousand-year-old feudal empire, and breaks the stereotype in the hearts of many people, no matter the prosperous world (Tang, Great Song, Great Qing), the saints (Zhuge Liang) They operate this mechanism, there is nothing worse than that.
The author is the editor-in-chief of a large factory historical public account, reading the pleasure of online articles, citing notes and explanations, slightly wordy. But its "scale" is still a surprise at the moment.
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