This book introduces Chinese culture in its various aspects, including China¡¯s territory, history, nationalities, landscapes, writing system, language, idea, belief, education and technology, medical science, books, literature, painting, music, architecture, calligraphy, crafts, customs, cuisines, cloths, entertainment, cultural exchange, and so on.
  

This book includes the author¡¯s most important works in recent years. It not only contains many classic history readings, but also adds new book comments and articles never been published before. This book discusses the wisdom of reading, thinking, and studying, as well as the wisdom in daily life and social communication.

The unique value of this book is based on the fact that it is one of the earliest books to study Chinese classical poetry from the perspective of linguistics. As highlighted by the author, classical poetry has an independent language system. Therefore, the author elaborates on the overall characteristics and dynamics of the language system from macroscopical view instead of analyzing a particular poem at the micro level.

This little but interesting book is for the beginners to have a general information of the Chinese classical poems and essays.

"Shiji" (Records of the Grand Historian) is a monumental history of ancient China and the world ended around 94 BC by the Han dynasty official Sima Qian. The work covers the world as it was then known to the Chinese and a 2500-year period from the age of the legendary Yellow Emperor to the reign of Emperor Wu of Han in the author's own time. The Records has been called a ""foundational text in Chinese civilization"". Sima Qian is considered as one of the creators of Imperial China by providing definitive biographies and also considered as one of the most prominent and influential historians and litterateur in China. This book offers a peek into the great man¡¯s life and how he created the masterpiece with solid facts and vivid language.

The first edition of this book was published twenty-seven years ago and had sold more than a hundred thousand copies. With the revolutionary change in writing tools of Chinese characters and the growing popularity of Chinese calligraphy to the world, we launched the revised edition. This book introduces Chinese calligraphy as a unique traditional art, guides readers to learn and understand Chinese calligraphy theoretically, and eventually helps learners to overview the history of Chinese civilization from a new height by improving their craft of Chinese calligraphy.