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Three Kingdoms (4-Volume Boxed Set)
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Vol. 1 of 2 (chapter 1-60)
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The Golden Days (The Story of the Stone #1)
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China: A History
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China: A New History
John King Fairbank Was The West's Doyen On China, And This Book Is The Full And Final Expression Of His Lifelong Engagement With This Vast Ancient Civilization. It Remains A Masterwork Without Paralle...l. The Distinguished Historian Merle Goldman Brings The Book Up To Date, Covering Reforms In The Post-mao Period Through The Early Years Of The Twenty-first Century, Including The Leadership Of Hu Jintao. She Also Provides An Epilogue Discussing The Changes In Contemporary China That Will Shape The Nation In The Years To Come. Introduction. Approaches To Understanding China's History -- Pt. 1. Rise And Decline Of The Imperial Autocracy -- 1. Origins : The Discoveries Of Archaeology -- 2. The First Unification : Imperial Confucianism -- 3. Reunification In The Buddhist Age -- 4. China's Greatest Age : Northern And Southern Song -- 5. The Paradox Of Song China And Inner Asia -- 6. Government In The Ming Dynasty -- 7. The Qing Success Story -- Pt. 2. Late Imperial China, 1600-1911 -- 8. The Paradox Of Growth Without Development -- 9. Frontier Unrest And The Opening Of China -- 10. Rebellion And Restoration -- 11. Early Modernization And The Decline Of Qing Power -- 12. The Republican Revolution, 1901-1916 -- Pt. 3. The Republic Of China, 1912-1949 -- 13. The Quest For A Chinese Civil Society -- 14. The Nationalist Revolution And The Nanjing Government -- 15. The Second Coming Of The Chinese Communist Party -- 16. China's War Of Resistance, 1937-1945 -- 17. The Civil War And The Nationalists On Taiwan -- Pt. 4. The People's Republic Of China -- 18. Establishing Control Of State And Countryside -- 19. The Great Leap Forward, 1958-1960 -- 20. The Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 -- 21. The Post-mao Reform Era / By Merle Goldman -- Epilogue. China At The Start Of The Twenty-first Century / By Merle Goldman. John King Fairbank And Merle Goldman. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 473-528) And Indexes.
The Book and the Sword
By Louis Cha ; Translated By Graham Earnshaw ; Edited By Rachel May And John Minford.
The Cambridge Illustrated History of China
There Are Many More People In The World Today Who Consider Themselves Chinese Than There Are Residents Of All Of Europe And North America Combined. How Did China As A Culture And A State Grow To Be So... Large? Why Hasn't It Broken Up Like The Roman Or Ottoman Empires? How Has It Been Possible For A Single Government To Rule So Many People? In The Cambridge Illustrated History Of China Patricia Ebrey Pursues These And Other Basic Questions About The Shaping Of Chinese. Civilization. Her Scope Is Phenomenal, Embracing All Aspects Of Chinese Arts, Culture, Economics And Society, As Well As China's Treatment Of Women, Foreign Policy, Emigrations And Politics. However, Key Emphasis Is Placed Throughout On The Major Social And Cultural Developments And On The Way In Which These Wider Forces Impinged On The Lives Of Ordinary People. Aware That Hers Is An Outsider's Interpretation, Professor Ebrey Compensates By Referring Wherever Possible To. Traditional Chinese Interpretations Of Events And Developments. Both A Comprehensive Introduction To This Extraordinary Civilization, And A Detailed Exploration Of The Continuities And Disjunctures Of Chinese History, This Book Is Essential Reading For All Those Interested In China, Its Society And Culture. 1. The Origins Of Chinese Civilization: Neolithic Period To The Western Zhou Dynasty. Animal And Human Imagery In Bronze Vessels -- 2. Philosophical Foundations: The Eastern Zhou Period -- 3. The Creation Of The Bureaucratic Empire: The Qin And Han Dynasties -- 4. Buddhism, Aristocracy, And Alien Rulers: The Age Of Division. Early Buddhist Art -- 5. A Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty -- 6. Shifting South: The Song Dynasty. Landscape Painting -- 7. Alien Rule: The Liao, Jin, And Yuan Dynasties. Drama And The Performing Arts -- 8. The Limits Of Autocracy: The Ming Dynasty. The Kilns At Jingdezhen -- 9. Manchus And Imperialism: The Qing Dynasty. Working For A Living -- 10. Taking Action: The Early Twentieth Century. Modern Chinese Painting -- 11. Radical Reunification: The People's Republic. Patricia Buckley Ebrey. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 341-345) And Index.
A Short History of China: From Ancient Dynasties to Economic Powerhouse
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Romance of Three Kingdoms ( Volume 1/2)
Compiled during the Ming dynasty the Romance of the Three Kingdoms has for centuries been one of China's greatest classical novels. The story takes place after the collapse of the Han Dynasty and port...rays a vast canvas of stories about peasants, soldiers, kings and scholars. Compiled during the Ming dynasty the Romance of the Three Kingdoms has for centuries been one of China’s greatest classical novels. The story takes place after the collapse of the Han Dynasty and portrays a vast canvas of stories about peasants, soldiers, kings and scholars.
The Dynasties of China: A History
Shang, Chou, Han, T'ang, Sung, Yuan, Ming, Ch'ing — for most Westerners, they stand only as adjectives to describe a lacquer, a bronze, a silk, a watercolor. And for all the familiarity a blue and whi...te porcelain vase from the Ming dynasty or the bright and sturdy pottery figures of horses and grooms from the T'ang may now have acquired, the history of the civilization that produced them remains obscure. So do the names of the potters and artists and philosophers and emperors and generals — except perhaps for those of Kublai Khan, who was not Chinese, and K'ung Fu Tzu — known as Confucius — who flourished a century before Socrates. Focusing upon the incidents and personalities that epitomize most vividly each of the dynasties, this lucidly narrated volume, beautifully illustrated by a lavish selection of color photographs, places in their historical context the images that came to define imperial China from its origins in 1600 B.C. to the revolution of Sun Yat-sen in October 1911. It provides a background to China's turbulent twentieth century, which is surveyed in an informative postscript, highlighting such events as the troubled presidency of Chiang Kai-shek, Mao Tse-tung's ruthless Cultural Revolution, and the 1989 student protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
