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China : a history / John Keay.

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New York : Basic Books, 2011.

China -- History.

9780465025183 (paperback) :

0465025188 (paperback) :

xix, 578 pages, [24] pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm

Paperback edition.

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.

Many nations define themselves in terms of territory or people. China defines itself in terms of history. Taking into account the country's voluminous tradition of history writing, John Keay has composed an illuminating overview of the nation's complex and vivid past. Keay's history examines 5,000 years in China, from the time of the Three Dynasties through Chairman Mao and the current economic transformation of the country.

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