Twelve Lectures on the Sino-Japanese War

Twelve Lectures on the Sino-Japanese War concentrated what Ma Yong learned from the study on the history of the late Qing Dynasty over the past 30 years, and was constituted by collating his lectures in various places, which is popular and friendly. The author, transcending the narrow position, regarding the historian's warmth to history, on basis of the evolution from eastern and western civilization to the 19th century, the institutional differences between the traditional clans and the modern states, the inner impulse and restraining of the capital, the political and national psychology of the states involved in this war, as well as many historical details that had been neglected, reconstructed the historical scene of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, and demonstrated new points of view and new understandings never existed in textbooks.