Since its serialization, "The Rise of Great Powers" has been highly praised by the intellectuals of the Republic of China for its systematic, comprehensive and organized writings. Although many of its views are controversial, they are generally recognized, and Zhou Hexuan is also known as "World historical research authority".
This authority is recognized and is not a mindless tout.
The development of Western historical research has roughly gone through four stages:
First, classical history.
Second, medieval historiography.
Third, Renaissance historiography.
Fourth, modern history.
Modern history emerged after the First World War, and scholars began to include economic, social, cultural, mass and other factors into the scope of historical research. Before that, the objects of historical research had always been upper-class rulers and elites, as well as their behavioral activities.
In other words, it has only been ten years since the birth of modern history. Even Western historians are still gradually exploring it at this time, and modern historical theory has not yet been developed and perfected.
China's historical research lags even further behind.
It was not until the late Qing Dynasty that Liang Qichao, under the influence of Japanese scholars, took the lead in proposing new history in China. This so-called "new history" is actually the Western "Renaissance history", which advocates development, progress, rationality and science.
About four years ago, Liang Qichao published "Chinese History Research Methods", and the Chinese history circle finally entered the stage of "modern history".
In other words, modern history was born no more than 10 years ago in the West, and only four years in China. And "The Rise of Great Powers" explains the history of various countries, all based on the theoretical analysis of modern history. How can it not be amazing?
As far away as Western Europe, when the articles of "The Rise of Great Powers" were passed on, scholars there were like treasures, which had already caused a sensation in the European history circle. However, due to distance and communication reasons, the Chinese academic circles were not aware of this matter, otherwise Zhou Hexuan's reputation will be so great that it scares people to death.
Lucien Favre, the famous French historian and founder of the Annales School (not yet established), told students during his lecture last month: "You should read "The Rise of the Great Powers", which is a study of world history. It is a classic work of research that students of history must not miss.”
Arnold Joseph Toynbee, a famous British scholar and later known as "the greatest historian of modern times", also wrote in the first volume of his ongoing masterpiece "A Study of History": "The Rise of the Great Powers has given me It’s so inspiring that it’s hard to believe it was written by a Chinese scholar. I’m deeply fascinated by its historical discussion of technology and culture.”
Both France's Favre and Britain's Toynbee were scholars who made outstanding contributions to the development of modern history. However, although they were very famous at this time, their respective classic works had not yet been produced. It is conceivable that Today's modern historical research is still far behind.
Zhou Hexuan's "The Rise of the Great Powers" is one of the foundational works of "modern history" even in the world.
Especially in major universities in China, students have regarded this series of articles as an important window to understand the world.
Because of this, so many publishing houses came to us, hoping to publish and distribute this book. In addition to Beijing New Bookstore and Commercial Press, there are also New China Press, Kaiming Bookstore, Yadong Library, Jinghua Bookstore, Modern Bookstore... ...many publishing houses have sent people to contact me one after another.
Even Lili Book Company, which publishes popular books, wanted to build connections (it published "The Legend of the Condor Heroes") and hoped that Zhou Hexuan could hand over the publishing of "The Rise of the Great Powers" to them.
Zhou Hexuan was not in a hurry, and it took him a full week before he finally reached an agreement with the Commercial Press: "The Rise of Great Powers" would be published and distributed by the Commercial Press, with a 40% royalty rate and a copyright term of 20 years. Overseas copyrights were not included.
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In the blink of an eye, July came, and students were already on vacation, and many teachers from Peking went south, including Mr. Lu Xun. They really couldn't stand Zhang Zuolin's high-pressure cultural rule, and chose to join the more enlightened southern government after the semester.
Yes, today's Kuomintang still belongs to a progressive group and is widely recognized by scholars and intellectuals.
On July 4th, the Kuomintang issued a declaration of the National Revolutionary Army's Northern Expedition, and immediately conquered Zhuzhou, Changsha and other places. The war was urgent, but a large number of Wu Peifu's troops were dragged to the north by Feng Yuxiang. They were really being attacked from both sides and felt very uncomfortable.
Feng Yuxiang was still very capable, single-handedly carrying the Feng, Zhi, Jin, and Shandong coalition forces and fighting vigorously. Historically, he held off the Beiyang coalition forces for three full months, creating favorable conditions for the southern revolutionary army, which led to the Northern Expedition.
Early victories.
However, these have nothing to do with Zhou Hexuan. His main energy is devoted to newspapers and foundations.
The China Hope Education Foundation has been fully prepared. In addition to a president and three vice presidents, a committee and secretariat have also been established.
The committee is composed of wealthy businessmen with the largest donations, well-known scholars, and officials from the Ministry of Education. It is responsible for the coordination, supervision, and publicity of the foundation. Most of the members of the secretariat are Zhang Xueliang’s people, especially the permanent secretary-general, who is responsible for the foundation’s work.
Daily management work is handled full-time by Zhang Xueliang’s English secretary Ji Chengdong.
In late July, the serialization of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" has come to an end, and the publishing business is still handed over to Lili Book Company. The first batch of 30 Hope Primary Schools in the Zhili area have also been selected, but the principals, teachers, etc.
Personnel arrangements are still being established.
Zhou Hexuan was finally able to take the time to go to Peking. During his trip, he wanted to visit two people, one was Ren Kecheng, the director-general of education, and the other was the famous scholar Liang Qichao.
There is a railway from Tianjin to Peiping, called Jinlu Railway, which connects Tianjin to Marco Polo Bridge.
Since the late Qing Dynasty, this railway has left many legendary stories. In the past, Yuan Shikai often went to Beijing to see Cixi, and after finishing his work, he had to go back to Tianjin to work, so he would walk on this railway every now and then. In the Republic of China, the people who took power
After the Beiyang warlords lost power and fell from power, they also used this railway to escape and live in apartments in the Tianjin Concession.
On the trains of this line, you can meet celebrities anytime and anywhere.
Zhou Hexuan met one during this trip. He took the Sun brothers in a regular carriage. As soon as he placed his luggage, a young man in his 30s came over.
This man is tall and thin, wears glasses, and looks like a scholar. He has four large boxes of belongings, and I don’t know how he loaded them into the car. At this moment, he is dragging box after box here.
"Yong Zhen, Yong Hao, go and help!" Zhou Hexuan ordered.
"okay!"
The Sun brothers were good at working hard. They rushed over and left, dragging two boxes each and placing the boxes on the shelf.
"Thank you for your help," the young man said, clasping his fists. "I'm going to give you Liang Suming, whose name is Shouming."
