The Cambridge Illustrated History of China (Cambridge Illustrated Histories)
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To compress 8,000 years of a civilization's life into a single volume is a daunting task, but University of Illinois historian Patricia Ebrey does the job with authority and considerable flair. Writing with an eye to explaining recurring themes in Chinese history, she discusses ideas of order and statecraft, resource allocation and use, imperialism and population growth. Along the way she makes interesting asides, noting, among other things, that the Mongol conquerors of China monopolized the bamboo trade because they did not want the ethnic Chinese to make weapons, and she gives stimulating overviews of such matters as the manufacture of silk, hardwood furniture, and ceramics.
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'Patricia Ebrey's Illustrated History of China is a fine book, sumptuous and scholarly. With great economy of text, it outlines the major elements and changes in four millennia of Chinese history and social life; the art work and photographs, skilfully chosen and admirably reproduced, both illuminate the text and supplement it.' Jonathan Spence, Yale University
'The splendid collection of pictures displays painstaking research. But it is the author's careful and clear synthesis of China's long history that is most remarkable. This book will, in time, I believe, be regarded as a classic.' Kwang-Ching Liu, Davis
The Cambridge Illustrated History of China (Cambridge Illustrated Histories)
The Cambridge Illustrated History of China (Cambridge Illustrated Histories),Patricia Buckley Ebrey,Kwang-ching Liu,Cambridge University Press,052166991X,Asia - China,China,China - History,Civilization,Far East,History,History - General History,History: World,World - General,Asian / Middle Eastern history,History / World
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