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The Cambridge history of China

Author: Denis Crispin TwitchettJohn King FairbankMichael LoewePaul J SmithHerbert FrankeAll authors
Publisher: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1978-<2009 >
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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International scholars and sinologists discuss culture, economic growth, social change, political processes, and foreign influences in China since the earliest pre-dynastic period.
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Cambridge history of China.
Cambridge [Eng.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1978-<2009>
(OCoLC)662389467
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Denis Crispin Twitchett; John King Fairbank; Michael Loewe; Paul J Smith; Herbert Franke; Frederick W Mote; Willard J Peterson; Kwang-Ching Liu; Albert Feuerwerker; Roderick MacFarquhar
ISBN: 0521214475 9780521214476 9780521214469 0521214467 9780521812481 0521812488 9780521243278 0521243270 9780521243339 0521243335 0521243343 9780521243346 9780521220293 0521220297 0521235413 9780521235419 0521243386 9780521243384 052124336X 9780521243360 0521243378 9780521243377
OCLC Number: 2424772
Notes: Vol. 1. edited by Denis Twitchett and Michael Loewe; vol. 5 edited by Denis Twitchett and Paul Jakov Smith; vol. 6 edited by Herbert Franke and Denis Twitchett; vols. 7-8 edited by Frederick W. Mote and Denis Twitchett; vol. 9. edited by Willard J. Peterson; vol. 11 edited by John F. Fairbank and Kwang-Ching Liu; vol. 13 edited by John K. Fairbank and Albert Feuerwerker; vols. 14-15 edited by Roderick MacFarquhar and John K. Fairbank.
Awards: Winner of Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 2009.
Description: v. <1, 3, 5-15 > ; 24 cm.
Contents: V. 1. The Chʻin and Han Empires, 221 B.C.-A.D. 220 --
v. 3:1. Sui and Tʻang China, 589-906, pt. 1 --
v. 5. The Sung Dynasty and its precursors, 907-1279, pt.1 --
v. 6. Alien regimes and border states, 907-1368 --
v. 7-8. The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644, pt. 1-2 --
v. 9. The Ch'ing Empire to 1800, pt. 1 --
v. 10. Late Chʻing, 1800-1911, pt. 1 --
v. 11. Late Chʻing, 1800-1911, pt. 2 --
v. 12. Republican China, 1912-1949, pt. 1. --
v. 13. Republican China, 1912-1949, pt. 2. --
v. 14. The People's Republic, pt. 1. --
v. 15. The People's Republic, pt. 2: Revolutions within the Chinese Revolution, 1966-1982.
Responsibility: general editors, Denis Twitchett and John K. Fairbank.
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This volume on the Sung Dynasty and its precursors presents the history of China from the fall of the T'ang Dynasty to the Mongol conquest.  Read more...

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