Jin Manlou 
Careful Reading of Seventy Years of the Late Qing Dynasty 

Today, fast-paced life makes time become scarce, but blindly fragmented or shallow reading can also be tiresome. The author insists on exploring history by careful reading and presents in-depth articles for readers. The late Qing Dynasty was the period of decline of the last feudal dynasty in China. At that time, Chinese and foreign, and old and new forces intertwined. There are many wonderful stories worth reading and reading carefully. After browsing archives, memoirs, and Draft History of Qing, the author explains it in simple and relaxing language, makes comments with onlooker’s sober and tells about the various figures and major historical events that emerged in the turbulent period from 1840 to 1911 from different aspects such as politics, military affairs and culture, so as to dig out fresh and valuable things in the boring historical materials and inspire readers to think and analyze.