Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 176 pages
- Published by: Stanford University Press
- Edition: 1st Edition June 1, 1978
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0804709580
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0804709583
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Book Dimensions:
7.1 x 4.4 x 0.5 inches
- Weighs: 5.6 ounces
Product Review
“Charles Hucker has written a balanced, precise, and concise overview of China’s evolution until about 1850.”—
Asian Forum“A concise overview of Imperial China—a good place to begin . . . recommended.”—
Focus on Asian Studies“A simplified history of the Chinese and their culture from prehistory to about 1850. The book, which draws heavily from Hucker’s
China’s Imperial Past: An Introduction to Chinese History and Thought, presents a straightforward chronological treatment. . . . This is an great introductory text for high school students beginning to study Chinese history.”—
Kliatt
Product Description
By the author of the highly acclaimed China’s Imperial Past
and written in the same lively style, this is a distillation of what every general reader and beginning student should know about the history of traditional Chinese civilization. It weaves together chronologically all aspects of Chinese life and culture, broadly surveying general history, socioeconomic organization, political institutions, religion and thought, and art and literature.
The author explains how the Chinese empire emerged in antiquity, how it flourished and declined in successive cycles for thousands of years, and how in the end it found itself unprepared for both the domestic and the external challenges of the modern era. The result is a concise overview that is both absorbing in itself and basic to a more detailed study of China’s long and complex evolution.
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