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9 books in this section — 5 with a full summary so far

101Han So Tranh Hung (The Chu-Han Contention)— Mong Binh Son (compiler/translator)
Han So Tranh Hung retells one of the most famous periods in Chinese history — the Chu-Han Contention, the roughly four-year civil war (206-202 BCE) that followed the collapse of the short-lived Qin dynasty, fought between Xiang Yu, the powerful and militarily brilliant…
152Mandela: The Authorised Biography— Anthony Sampson
Anthony Sampson, a journalist who first knew Nelson Mandela in the 1950s and was later given direct access to Mandela's private papers and closest colleagues for this authorized project, sets out to correct two competing distortions of Mandela's public image: the flattened…
166Mưu Trí Thời Chiến Quốc Thất Hùng— Đường Nhạn Sinh, Chu Chính Như, Bạo Thúc Diễm (biên soạn); Ông Văn Tùng (dịch)
HCM) devoted to collecting and retelling the stratagems, anecdotes, and political maneuvers of a single dynastic period — in this case, the Warring States era of the "Seven Powers" (Chiến Quốc Thất Hùng: Tề, Sở, Yên, Hàn, Triệu, Ngụy, Tần). It sits alongside sibling volumes in…
186Những Tư Tưởng Gia Vĩ Đại Phương Đông (Great Thinkers of the Eastern World)— Ian P. McGreal (editor)
Great Thinkers of the Eastern World is a large reference anthology, edited by Ian P. McGreal, that gathers short scholarly essays profiling major philosophers, religious founders, and intellectual figures from across the traditions of South Asia, China, Japan, and the broader…
237Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji)— Sima Qian
Records of the Grand Historian, known in Chinese as the Shiji, is the founding work of Chinese historiography — a monumental attempt, compiled by the Han-dynasty court historian Sima Qian around the late second and early first centuries BCE, to record the entire arc of Chinese…

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