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View Rights PortalChina, with its thousands of years of civilization, occupies an important place in the history of world civilization. But when did the splendid civilization originate? In order to answer questions like “Who are we?” “Where do we come from?”, the book focuses on the literature and archaeological materials and supplemented by the documentation, shares memories of the birth and childhood of Chinese civilization with pictures and texts from the primitive society to the Western Zhou Dynasty.
Shi Ji (The Records of the Great Historian) is the first biographical historical book in China, compiled by Sima Qian from 104 BC to 90 BC. This book contains records from the Yellow Emperor (the forefather of Chinese in legend) to Han Emperor Wudi, covering the history of more than 3,000 years. To help today's children better appreciate such a great work, the famous children's literature writer Zhang Jiahua created this set of books Shi Ji for Teenagers. In this book series, there are 60 pieces of writing, which have been composed based on outstanding figures selected from Shi Ji, including emperors, generals, sons of notable families, counselors, educators, warriors, philosophers, and assassins. Upon publication, this book series has just captured reader's interest with vivid story telling. It has been sold for more than 5 millions of copies and won more than 10 awards, including the "China Excellent Publication Award."
This is a collection of Shi Tiesheng’s important representative novelettes, short stories and prose essays, many of which have already been incorporated into primary and secondary school textbooks. These highly successful works, full of philosophy and humor, attempt to combine realism with symbolism in expression and to absorb modern fiction techniques while realistically reflecting life. Their contents and formal technique are exquisitely simple and unadorned.
Qin Shi Huang is a four-volume historical fiction, telling stories from the War of Changping, which leads to a series of changes in the imperial court of Qin State, unfolding the history from Qin Shi Huang’s becoming king of the state of Qin to his conquest of the remaining six states and the unification of the whole country.
The manuscript is a collection of Shi Zhongshan's short stories and short stories, including Shi Zhongshan's representative works "The Passionate Years" (formerly known as "Father Entering the City"), "Happiness is Like a Flower", "Beijing Story", "The Last Soldier", etc. . The protagonist Shi Guangrong in "The Passion Burning Years" is brave and tenacious in the face of the enemy, loyal and bold in the face of comrades, and harsh and harsh in the face of his relatives. He has an innate spirit of desperation, gratitude and perseverance. It gives readers a strong sense of touch, and is a classic character in literary works; Du Juan, the protagonist of "Happiness is like a flower", a female soldier of the Cultural Works Troupe, is obsessed with dance, but she doesn't want the son of the army chief, Bai Yang, and the young secretary of the Ministry of Culture. Lin Bin launched a fierce love attack on her at the same time. The fate of the three changed with the changes of the times. The work vividly reproduces the simple and warm innocent age experienced by the protagonist in the 1980s, and delicately depicts the joys and sorrows in the green barracks. "The Last Soldier" shows Wang Qinggui’s peculiar life of ups and downs, sadness and depression, and portrays the protagonist who is the only survivor of a war’s kind, beautiful, simple and noble human virtues that are loyal to the friendship and justice of the war. The images of real soldiers and special veterans who have gone from war to a heavy life...These works have true feelings in popular, compassion in plain, far-reaching sustenance, rich writing ability, and accurately and profoundly depict the transformation of the past thirty years from a unique perspective. The image of Chinese soldiers truly reproduces the spiritual outlook of contemporary Chinese soldiers.
Du Juan, a female soldier of the Cultural and Art Corps, is obsessed with her dance career. She never believed that happiness would come to her until she received two letters of courtship, which were from two excellent men: the son of the army’s head, Bai Yang and Lin Bin from the cultural Ministry. Du Juan couldn't make a choice at the moment, but she didn't want to give up either of them. She had to try two roads at the same time.What kind of happiness will Du Juan harvest in the pure love atmosphere? Will her happiness bloom like a flower?“Happiness Is Like a Flower” is a masterpiece of the famous screenwriter Shi Zhongshan. It was once adapted into TV series. This book also includes Shi Zhongshan's "Happiness" series of short stories: How Far Is Happiness, The Perfection of Happiness, Happiness Like Flowers and Grass, etc. Most of them have been adapted into popular TV series, affecting the love concept of a generation.
As the hostess of Travel Channel, Linzi wrote down all the beautiful and mystical places around the world she has been which witness her thoughts and growing-up.
This Book focuses on the history of textbooks in modern and contemporary China and divides it into the Volume I and II by textbooks in modern China and contemporary China. This Book not only lists textbooks in modern and contemporary China based on historical periods, but also analyzes the various phenomena in the history of textbooks and their causes in combination with the social and historical conditions at that time. This Book is the precious historical data, and also provides useful insights into the editing and production of our textbooks today.
Based on the research content of the 2012 National Social Science Fund Project "Study on the Basic Role of Chinese Textbooks in Cultural Inheritance and Innovation in the Past Century", and relying on more than 10,000 textbooks and a large amount of historical materials, this book, under the influence of the cultural background of textbook compilers, social and cultural trends, key cultural events and other factors in different historical periods over the past century, makes a purposeful choice and transfer of knowledge, carries out the studies on cultural inheritance and innovation, explores the cultural selections of textbooks in the past century and their reciprocal causation relationship with social culture indicated, and reveals the cultural picture of Chinese textbooks in the past century, thus forming the scientific attitude and value vision regarding the cultural mission and function of textbooks.
In 1978, with bringing order out of chaos, textbooks for primary and secondary schools were rewritten in China, and have been rewritten for six times by now. The history of textbooks is a reflection of the spirit of the times that changes in the spirit of the times have profoundly affected the writing of textbooks, and the textbooks, in return, have also shaped the spiritual outlook of Chinese people of different times. The evolution of textbooks in the past 40 years reflects the course of China's stepping towards an opening and modern nation in the same period.
A long satirical novel depicting a group of intellectuals. It depicts the absurdities and hypocrisies of the Confucian scholars who were poisoned by the Eight Sticks, deprecates and satirises the fake Confucian scholars and famous scholars, and criticises the corrupt worldly atmosphere of the time. It is an example of ancient Chinese satire, pioneering the use of fiction as a direct commentary on real life.
The novel tells the story of the heroine Yan Xiaochen from the campus to the city's life and emotional experience. About people's attitudes and choices in the face of pain and frustration.
This book examines and demonstrates some part of The Books of Songs, and presents the author's personal perspective in a clear way. It is divided into 10 chapters: Chapter 1 Research on the movement Da Wu composed in the Western Zhou Dynasty and its evolution Chapter 2 Study on The Song of Zhou and the corresponding rituals Chapter 3 Ode to the Success of King of the Age—— A Study of the Theme of the Three Ode in The Book of Songs Chapter 4 Discussion on characteristics of the times reflecting from The Song of Zhou ......
This book is a selection of works from the ‘Shi Shuo Xin Yu’ series created by artist Wang Bingfu. ‘Shi Shuo Xin Yu’ is a classic Chinese historical masterpiece. It records the talks and anecdotes of characters in the late Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms, and the Jin Dynasty. More than 160 selections of this book are accompanied by illustrations and annotations to show China through traditional Chinese pen and ink. The story, the brushwork is simple, and the essence, the characters in each scene are lively, the characters are outstanding, the scenes are different, and they are full of historical and vivid feelings. Sharing images and texts allows readers to better experience Chinese culture.