If you want to get a general understanding of this process, it has such an ancient historical span. In fact, the easiest thing to understand is that China's 5,000-year history or 24-year history has a translated version or a vernacular version. What else is in the series "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty"? But this series has a strong personal color.
If you want to have a comprehensive understanding of history, know all its aspects. That's even harder and more complicated. You can read historical books such as Twenty-four History and History as a Mirror.