What books are good to read to understand history? Want to know what books to read for beginners in

Updated on history 2024-04-17
18 answers
  1. Anonymous users2024-02-07

    Hello, if you want to know history, subjectively speaking, I recommend you the Twenty-Four History, which is an official history with high credibility and a more detailed explanation. If you don't have that much time to study one by one, I suggest you read the Historical Records and the Zizhi Tongjian, which are the best of the best. Of course, if you think that simple classical Chinese or simple history seems too boring, you can choose some books about history in later generations to read, which have a lot of similar books.

    For example, "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty", "Bai Yang Pin Qin Sui". Hope it helps.

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-06

    The General History of the World personally recommends Stavrianos, the information is very complete, but there are many books and they are very thick, and this set of books is better if you have a comprehensive understanding of history.

    The credibility of China's history is the official history of each dynasty, the "Twenty-four History", which describes it more vividly than the "Actual Records" of each dynasty. It's just a classical Chinese version, which is relatively boring, but there are many translation books of the 24th history on the market.

    If you want to go deeper into the history of the world, you have to understand the language habits of each country, but if you want to understand it, you can refer to the official history of each country.

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-05

    If you have a simple understanding, I recommend "Five Thousand Years of China". The text is concise and easy to understand, and the story is vivid May not be suitable for professional research I hope it can be helpful to you!

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-04

    The language of "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" is vivid and interesting, and it is relatively acceptable.

  5. Anonymous users2024-02-03

    Five Thousand Years of China", "Historical Records".

  6. Anonymous users2024-02-02

    In order to understand history, beginners should read the following books: "Outline of National History", "General History of China", "A Brief History of Anthropology", "A Brief History of the Universe", and "Zizhi Tongjian".

    1. "Outline of National History": A general historical treatise written by Qian Mu, a modern Chinese historian, written during the Anti-Japanese War.

    2. "General History of China": It strives to reach a new height in terms of authenticity, interest and inspiration, and interprets history in an all-round, new perspective and multi-faceted way through scientific style and innovative forms.

    3. A Brief History of Anthropology: Using contemporary research results in biology, psychology, and anthropology, it emphasizes that human behavior is determined by its biological attributes, and constantly conflicts with the culture it creates.

    4. "A Brief History of the Universe": It is a work on the universe by the British physicist Stephen Hawking. The book discusses the history and future of the universe, the nature of time and space, black holes, and the origin and destiny of the universe.

    5. "Zizhi Tongjian": Mainly based on time and events, it was written from the twenty-third year of King Weilie of Zhou to the sixth year of Zhou Shizong's expedition to Huainan five generations later.

  7. Anonymous users2024-02-01

    Bai Yang's famous book "Outline of the History of the Chinese" represents a height from which writers write history and a height from which civilians govern history. No one has been able to surpass it in terms of writing history brilliantly and beautifully, and there is no one who can even say that there is not even a qualified contender for the Chinese history program.

    Stylistically, this book has at least the following outstanding features:

    Free and easy, easy expression. The author often goes straight to the point and hits the nail on the head to enter the most important events and the most crucial figures in history, analyzes and outlines, and with just a few strokes, the old events and characters in history are suddenly refreshed, and the rules and truths hidden under the dust of history are also revealed.

    The section "Eastern and Western Worlds" at the end of each chapter is unique in ingenuity and vision. After the Song and Ming dynasties, especially since the 16th century, the breakthrough development of Western political civilization and the rise of the light of science and technology led to the divergence of the development of China and the West, and finally led to the unmanageability of Chinese society after the 19th century. Today's people, in addition to sighing, should also understand how necessary and meaningful it is to look at China's history not only from China, but also from China's future development from China's history.

    The book's unique practice of dividing chapters into centuries and subsections by questions, using the universal Gregorian calendar algorithm instead of imperial chronology, and dividing a century into ten epochs to represent them separately all make the whole book clear and the key themes clear at a glance, which greatly facilitates reading.

    The vernacular text rich in literary brilliance, which can be seen from the few translations of ancient poems in the "Outline of History", its subtlety and precision of words can definitely make the author among the first-class vernacular masters.

    A large number of ** is used to replace the lengthy narrative, which is not only concise and clear, but also greatly increases the pleasure of reading.

  8. Anonymous users2024-01-31

    Buy a set of General History of China, the vernacular kind. Now Beijing happens to be a book market, now go for a discount.

  9. Anonymous users2024-01-30

    Read a history textbook or buy some biographies of celebrities. For example, "Speaking of the Queen Mother".

    Up and down for 5,000 years? is the best book. or a series of books such as "Illustrating the World".

  10. Anonymous users2024-01-29

    Lü's Spring and Autumn Twenty-four History, Zuo Chuan, and the Ram are all good.

  11. Anonymous users2024-01-28

    Five thousand years of China, twenty-four histories,

  12. Anonymous users2024-01-27

    Twenty-four History, Fifteen Years of Wanli, and Outline of the History of the Chinese.

  13. Anonymous users2024-01-26

    I think the "Outline of the History of the Chinese" is good, starting from the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, which is simple and easy to understand.

  14. Anonymous users2024-01-25

    Look at the Chinese part of a high school history textbook...

  15. Anonymous users2024-01-24

    Up and down 5,000 years, 24 histories.

  16. Anonymous users2024-01-23

    General History of China, 5,000 Years and 25 History.

  17. Anonymous users2024-01-22

    History books really should be read. Expos are needed.

  18. Anonymous users2024-01-21

    "Historical Records" from the legendary Three Emperors and Five Emperors to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, "Zizhi Tongjian" from the Warring States Period (Three Families of Jin) to Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and "General History of China" are relatively simple, these books are the most formal and complete, you can read the translated vernacular. Or if you want to be simple, you can also watch "Five Thousand Years of China" and so on.

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