For example, what books can you read to learn about Chinese and foreign history? I sincerely promote
History of Science "A Brief History of Everything"
In May 2003, Bilbu Lawson of the United States published a wonderful book A Brief History of Everything. This is an easy-to-understand and fascinating book about the development history of modern science. With clear and humorous brushwork, the author put many interesting stories from BIGBANG to the development of human civilization into his pen. Surprise and exclamation make up this book, and vivid things in the world make up this book, which is helpful for people to understand the infinite mystery of the world and master the development context of everything.
This ambitious book connects science with the widest possible audience in a wise and understandable way.
Robert Winston
"A Brief History Trilogy" Series of Human History
In 20 14, A Brief History of Mankind: From Animals to God was published by yuval Harari, an Israeli historian, anthropologist, biologist, sociologist, geneticist and doctor of history at Oxford University, and became an instant hit. This book is the opening work of the trilogy "A Brief History".
A hundred thousand years ago, there were at least six races on the earth, but why are we the only ones left today? /kloc-0.0 million years ago, Homo sapiens was just an obscure ethnic group in a corner of Africa, and its impact on the earth's ecosystem was not much different from that of fireflies, orangutans or jellyfish. Why did this species finally become the master of the earth? How did Homo sapiens lead to the extinction of other races and giant mammals? Where did money and religion come from and why did they come into being? Why does the empire created by human beings decline and rise again? Why can ethnic minorities rule far more than their own ethnic groups? Why does almost every society on earth have the idea that men are superior to women? Why has monotheism become the most widely accepted religion? How did science and capitalism become the most important creeds in modern times? Do we really know ourselves? Are we happier?
In the book, the author not only wrote a macro brief history of mankind, but also kept learning from small to large, allowing you to sort out the important context in the process of human development and re-examine ourselves!
A Brief History of the Future is a history book of science and technology theory written by yuval harari in 20 16, and it is a sequel to A Brief History of Human Beings: From Animals to God. This book mainly tells the story that after entering the 2 1 century, plagues, famines and wars that have long threatened the survival and development of mankind have been conquered, and Homo sapiens is faced with a new task to deal with: eternal life, happiness and becoming a "sacred" human being.
For thousands of years, mankind has been faced with three important survival topics-famine, plague and war, and these topics have shown a tendency to disappear in the new century. Nowadays, there are no more natural famines in the world. In most parts of the world, even if a person loses his job and all his property, he is unlikely to starve to death alive. With the development of medicine and technology, human beings have overcome most plagues, because it is a small probability event that infectious diseases cause large-scale human deaths. The war is disappearing. In the past, the main source of wealth was material assets, such as gold mines, wheat fields and oil wells, but now the main source of wealth is knowledge. Although waging war can seize oil fields, it can't occupy knowledge, and the motive force of war is dying.
With the disappearance of these crises, many concepts put forward by human beings to solve these crises have actually died out or are dying out, such as religion and state concepts. After these obstacles are broken, mankind will pursue the goals repeatedly mentioned in the past thousands of years-eternal life, happiness and incarnation as a god in the new century.
A Brief History of Today was written by yuval Harari and published on 20 18. A Brief History of Today focuses on the present and faces the problems and challenges related to the fate of each of us today. The main reason why Homo sapiens can rise to be the master of the earth is his ability to make up stories. However, in such a divided world, we have lost confidence in the old stories and are far from understanding the new ones. At present, human society is facing three major challenges: technological subversion, ecological collapse and nuclear war. The status of "country" is not enough to meet today's challenges, and no country can solve global problems independently. Artificial intelligence and biotechnology are subverting the original social structure and distribution model, and data has become the most important resource.
When data giants know themselves better than we do, "online" has become a way of life. How to standardize the ownership of data? Can we build a global society to defend human freedom and equality? Artificial intelligence and biotechnology have enabled human beings to master the ability to reshape and redesign their lives. How can we use this ability to stage another brand-new drama?
In a world where information explodes but is mostly useless, a clear view becomes a force. Yuval Harari did not give a simple answer to all kinds of questions related to human destiny in A Brief History Today, but caused us to think further.
history of the world
The global history of world history
A general history of the world: from prehistory to 2 1 century is a world history book written by American historian Lefen Stavros Stavri Anoos, which was first published in 1970.
The content of this book began with the origin of human beings and ended with the confrontation in the multipolar world in the 1970s, which lasted for hundreds of thousands of years. The book is novel in materials and covers a wide range, involving not only politics and economy, but also military affairs, culture, education, religion, science and technology, population, immigration, ethnic relations, morality and fashion, ideology and other aspects.
The author focuses on historical movements and events that have a great influence on the course of human history, and their interrelations and interactions, trying to reflect the opposition and interaction between the part and the whole.
Judging from the contents of the book, the author chose the complicated historical materials properly, simplified various historical events, and discussed them while narrating, with vivid words; From the perspective of writing skills, there is a concise summary in front of each chapter, which is a link between the preceding and the following, easy to grasp the clues, clear in organization and complete in structure.
Because the author adopts a brand-new historical viewpoint and method in this book, that is, he regards the whole world as an inseparable organic unity, examines the emergence and development of human civilization in various regions of the world from a global perspective rather than from a country or a region, and focuses on historical movements and events that have a great impact on the historical process of mankind, trying to reflect the opposition between the local and the whole and the interaction between them. So once this book was published, it was immediately translated into many kinds.
The official history of China and the general history of China.
Official history includes Historical Records, History of Han, History of Later Han, History of the Three Kingdoms, Book of Jin, Book of Song, Book of Southern Qi, Liang Shu, Book of Chen, Book of Wei, Book of Northern Qi, Book of Zhou, Sui Shu and Book of Zhou. Among them, the New Yuan History and the Draft of Qing History do not belong to the twenty-four histories.
The General History of China, completed in 1939, consists of two volumes. The first volume contains eighteen chapters, which describe the development of social and economic system, political system, culture and academic in China, including marriage, ethnic system, political power, class, property, official system, election, taxation, military system, criminal law, industry, currency, food, clothing, housing and transportation, etc. The second volume, Chapter 36, describes the political changes in China in chronological order, edited by Lv Simian.
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