‘An Upside-Down History of the World’ is the latest epic work by the author of ‘The Paradoxical History of Japan’
In this first volume, ‘The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt and Confucian China’, Izawa examines one of the biggest mysteries in ancient history: what purpose did the pyramids serve and why was the technology used to build structures of such gigantic proportions lost for centuries to follow? Furthermore, why did the Chinese Empire, the most advanced nation in the 15th century, stagnate for 600 years? The answer, he suggests, may lie in an analysis of the mystery of ‘Confucian philosophy’.