Amazing Everyday Successes: Chinese Society and People through a Micro-Historical Lens
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Wang Di's Amazing Everyday Successes provides a unique "micro-historical" view of Chinese society by looking at the lives of regular people instead of emperors or dynasties. The first volume looks at people, everyday life, and cultural practices, while the second volume looks at families, social groups, and the legal system. Wang recreates the texture of historical reality through vivid case studies and detailed storytelling, including food and clothing, rituals and education, beliefs and law. The book shows how the choices and actions of regular people affected China's larger social evolution by focusing on small histories instead of big stories. This book is both easy to read and scholarly. It gives readers a look at the lives of ordinary people and makes them think about how history should be written.
