China : a history / John Keay.
An authoritative history of five millennia of Chinese history.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Basic Books,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Rites to writing, pre c.1050 BC
- Sages and heroes, c.1050-c. 250 BC
- The first empire, c. 250-210 BC
- Han ascendant, 210-141 BC
- Within and beyond, 141 BC-AD 1
- Wang Mang and the Han reprise, AD 1-189
- Four hundred years of vicissitude, 189-550
- Sui, Tang and the second empire, 550-650
- High Tang, 650-755
- Reconfiguring the empire, 755-1005
- Caving in, 1005-1235
- By land and sea, 1235-1405
- The rites of Ming, 1405-1620
- The Manchu conquest, 1620-1760
- Death throes of empire, 1760-1880
- Republicans and nationalists, 1880-1950.