Most of the Taiping Rebellion War in our memory only mentions Hong Xiuquan, Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang and other figures in history textbooks. In just a few sentences, we simply take this war with heavy casualties in Chinese history. Tobie Meyer-Fong, a professor of history at Johns Hopkins University in the United States, in the book "The Restless Soul" , jumped away from the research angle of the general public's habits and focused on suffering due to war.
of the people, to listen to the voice of the dead. “Ultimately, this book is about mass violence and how historical memory can be used in politics. This book is about the devastation people go through, and about those who are most remove background from image affected – parents and children, couples and places Community - how to understand and bear this kind of devastation." At the moment when Melching wrote the preface to the book in April this year, the world is suffering from the epidemic. "I hope I'm wrong, but I feel like we're heading into turbulent times. I can't predict how difficult times like this will look. I want to see a familiar future, but only to see the good that builds on the past. The cornerstone of time is crumbling.
Maybe this book about suffering, read today, can teach us how to face it all with tenacity?" Melqing wrote in the Chinese version of the preface, maybe we will all have a new perspective through this book. , try to find a place where you can put yourself. Q: In the past education, we remember only the main figures of the two camps in the various wars in history. In this book, we turn our attention to the impact of the civil war on the common people and the lives of the little people, and some of them we have never known. What was the reason for deciding to write this book? Why did you decide to feature so many little-known little people as historical protagonists? A: When history books focus on the progress of a country, it is easy to forget the tragic human cost behind