Understanding China through Comics (Volume 1) (Paperback)

Understanding China through Comics (Volume 1) (Paperback)
By Jing Liu

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Post-70s Chinese entrepreneur, Jing Liu, simplifies China’s 5000-year history into a unique, easy-to-read comic book format – a must for anyone doing business in China, or seeking to understand how it is changing the world.

Scouring pre-liberation historical accounts, the author takes readers deep into the world of mythical ancestors, influence brokers, emperors and individuals whose ideas resonate among the Chinese elite today.

This book seeks to answer questions posed by old China hands and newcomers alike:

• Why do so many Chinese think that foreigners are in China for dubious reasons?
• Are Chinese people religious, and if not, why?
• Why do Chinese appear genetically wired to think there should be a single, unified China?
• How have the Chinese people and their culture evolved and changed (or not changed) over the millennia?
• What makes the Chinese ‘Chinese’?

The first of a three volume set, Understanding China through Comics Vol.1 begins with the Yellow Emperor and the birth of Chinese civilization and continues through the end of the Han Dynasty - which set the course for the culture, philosophies, and politics that still dominate China 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 and 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 (2697 BC - 220 AD)
Volume Two: The Three Kingdoms through the Yuan Dynasty of Mongol Rule (220 - 1368)
Volume Three: The Ming Dynasty through the Qing Dynasty (1368 - 1911) Read more

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