The Cambridge Illustrated History of China
ISBN: 9780521124331 | 0521124336
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 1/25/2010
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In this sumptuously illustrated single-volume history, now in its second edition, noted historian Patricia Buckley Ebrey traces the origins of Chinese culture from prehistoric times to the present. Both a comprehensive introduction to an extraordinary civilization and an expert exploration of the continuities and disjunctures of Chinese history, Professor Ebrey's book has become an indispensable guide to China past and present.
More populous than any other country on earth, China also occupies a unique place in our... MORE
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| Foreword | |
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| The origins of Chinese civilization: Neolithic period to the Western Zhou dynasty (animal and human imagery in bronze vessels) | |
| Philosophical foundations: the Eastern Zhou period | |
| The creation of the bureaucratic empire: the Qin and Han dynasties | |
| Buddhism, aristocracy, and alien rulers: the age of division (early Buddhist art) | |
| A cosmopolitan empire: the Tang dynasty | |
| Shifting south: the Song dynasty (landscape painting) | |
| Alien rule: the Liao, Jin, and Yuan dynasties (drama and the performing arts) | |
| The limits of autocracy: the Ming dynasty (the kilns at Jingdezhen) | |
| Manchus and imperialism: the Qing dynasty (working for a living) | |
| Taking action: the early twentieth century (modern Chinese painting) | |
| Radical reunification: the People's Republic (the cult of Mao) | |
| Opening to the world: China since 1976 (Tibet) | |
| Epilogue | |
| Chronology | |
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