Bai Yang's Outline of the People's History of China can meet your requirements, and it is quite interesting to read.

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An Outline of the People's History of China is one of the most important works of Mr. Bai Yang, a writer in Taiwan Province, and the most outstanding representative work of modern writers in China. Completed in prison, this book tells and comments on the whole history of China from the mythical era of Pangu's creation to Eight-Nation Alliance's invasion of Beijing in the first year of the 20th century with nearly 800,000 words. The text of the book stretches beautifully, like running water; The comments are sharp and profound, but faint.

Bai Yang's representative work "Outline of China People's History" represents a height of writers' writing history and also a height of civilian administration of history. So far, no one can surpass it and write a wonderful and beautiful history without lack of profound insights. It can even be said that there is not even a qualified competitor.

Stylistically, this book has at least the following outstanding features: free and easy expression. Authors often come straight to the point and enter the most important events and key figures in history. After analysis and sketching, a few strokes will make those old things and people in history look vivid, and also make the laws and truth hidden under the dust of history obvious.

At the end of each chapter, the "East-West World" section has unique creativity and vision. After the Song and Ming Dynasties, especially since the16th century, the western political civilization developed in a breakthrough, and the light of science and technology rose, so the development of China and the West parted ways, which eventually led to the out of control of China society after the19th century. Today's people, while sighing, should realize how necessary and significant it is to look at the future development of China not only from the perspective of China, but also from the perspective of China.

The book's unique methods, such as dividing the century into chapters and problems, replacing the emperor's year number with the general Gregorian calendar algorithm, and dividing a century into ten years, make the book clear in context and clear in key themes, which greatly facilitates reading.

Rich literary vernacular writing, from the few translations of ancient poems in The Outline of History, can be seen that with its wonderful and accurate words, the author can definitely rank among the first-class vernacular writers.

Replacing lengthy narration with a large number of tables is not only concise and clear, but also greatly increases the pleasure of reading.