What books about Qing history are worth recommending?

1, Detailed Interpretation of Qing Dynasty

In the form of "talking about history", the author tells the popular and vivid historical events such as the peace war against Russia, the Opium War, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Revolution, the 1898 coup, Eight-Nation Alliance's invasion of China, and other historical figures such as Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, Wu Sangui, Hong Xiuquan, Little Shenyang, Li Hongzhang, Kang Youwei and Cixi.

There are not only vivid stories and true history in the book, but also incisive comments. It also explains historical mysteries such as Shunzhi becoming a monk, Yongzheng's sudden death and Qianlong's life experience. The "detailed formula" adopted in this series is neither as difficult and boring as the official history, nor as fabricated as unofficial history. This is a unique historical work.

2. Talking about the Twelve Emperors of Qing Dynasty

This book tells the story of the last page of China's long feudal society. In the long years of more than 200 years, the Qing Dynasty made great contributions to the Chinese nation, and also left a lot of painful records of failure and humiliation for the Chinese nation.

Described more than 200 years, from Nurhachi to Puyi. Both the wise Emperor Kangxi and the short-lived Emperor Tongzhi had a great influence on it. The twelve emperors of the Qing Dynasty mean the rise and fall of a dynasty and the changes of an era.

3. "Only Say Three Hundred Years of Qing Dynasty"

This book has 14 special topics, aiming at reflecting the main aspects and development of the Qing Dynasty. The part of "Emperor" not only reflects the characters, merits and demerits of emperors in previous dynasties, but also attempts to outline the rise and fall of Qing Dynasty by describing major events in previous dynasties.

The topics such as harem, imperial palace and imperial family forest, royal family, politics, officials, legal system, diplomacy, military affairs, economy, education, imperial examination and culture not only horizontally show the main aspects of the Qing Dynasty, but also vertically reflect its development step by step. The topic of "extinction" is specially used to describe its extinction process.

4. Draft of Qing Dynasty History

The Draft of Qing History is an unfinished version compiled by Beiyang government in the early years of the Republic of China. The book has 536 volumes, centering on biographies, including 25 biographies, 53 forms and 3 biographies. According to the records, it has been 296 years since 16 16, when the Qing Taizu Nurhachi was founded in Hetuala, and 19 12, when the Qing Dynasty perished.

5, "eunuch talk record"

The Book of Eunuchs is a memoir of many eunuchs in the late Qing Dynasty, including three parts: Notes in the Palace (new book), Memoirs of Eunuchs (written by Ma Deqing and others, Zhou Chunhui) and Notes of Eunuchs (written by Geng Jinxi and Zhu Zhu Zhu).

The content is mostly personal experience, personal experience and personal experience, which records the author's eunuch life and related court experiences from different angles.

Although their service time and clients are different, their education level and mindset are limited, and their contents are more or less different from the facts, they can make up for the lack of historical materials on many specific issues because they are all heard by the author. Pieces of details are connected in series, presenting readers with a vivid, delicate and flesh-and-blood history.

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Baidu Encyclopedia-Detailed explanation of Qing Dynasty

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Baidu Encyclopedia-Talking about the Twelve Emperors of Qing Dynasty

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Baidu Encyclopedia-only 300 years of the Qing Dynasty.

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Baidu Encyclopedia-Draft of Qing History

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Baidu Encyclopedia-Eunuch Talk and Record