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Understanding China through Comics, Volume 2
Understanding China through Comics Volume 2 Author:Jing Liu Post-70s Chinese artist and entrepreneur, Liu Jing, continues his comic series of China?s 5,000-year history in Understanding China through Comics. — This second volume paints a vivid picture in answer to such questions as: — ? What are the origins of the ethnic Chinese? — ? Are Chinese people religious? — ? What are the major Chinese cultural herit... more »ages and how were they created?
? What was China like when a centralized government fell and the empire was divided among several regional states?
? When people talk about ?China?s great restoration? and China reclaiming its place as a world superpower, what are they referring to?
? Why is there such a strong drinking tradition at Chinese business banquets?
Understanding China through Comics Vol. 2 begins with the massive wars during China?s Age of Division and continues through the end of the Tang Dynasty -- a period in which different races, religions and philosophies come together. They fight and learn from each other, sparking new ideas and creating a new culture which continues to define the Chinese today.
New perspectives on Chinese history help explain complicated chains-of-events and uncover the driving forces behind the critical changes that shaped China. Research spans classic Chinese texts and contemporary historical works, including: ?Records of the Grand Historian? by Sima Qian, the father of Chinese history; ?History of China? by pre-liberation historian Wang Tongling; ?The General History of China? by his contemporary Lü Simian; ?The Analects? of Confucius; and historical information embedded in ancient Chinese paintings.
Understanding China through Comics includes three volumes:
Volume One: The Yellow Emperor through the Han Dynasty (ca. 2697 BC - 220 AD)
Volume Two: The Three Kingdoms through the Tang Dynasty (220 - 907)
Volume Three: The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms through the Qing Dynasty (907 - 1911)« less