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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Kwang-chih Chang; Pingfang Xu; Liancheng Lu; Sarah Allan |
ISBN: | 0300093829 9780300093827 |
OCLC Number: | 49260208 |
Description: | xiv, 363 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 31 cm. |
Contents: | Early humans in China -- The beginning of farming -- The Yangshao period : prosperity and the transformation of prehistoric society -- The formation of civilization : the interaction sphere of the Longshan period -- The rise of kings and the formation of city-states -- Society during the Three dynasties -- The eastern Zhou and the growth of regionalism -- The formation of the empire by the Qin and Han dynasties and the unification of China. |
Series Title: | Culture & civilization of China. |
Responsibility: | Kwang-chih Chang, Xu Pingfang ; Lu Liancheng [and others] ; edited and with an introduction by Sarah Allan ; foreword by Peter J. Ucko. |
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Abstract:
A survey of China's archaeological remains, seeking to rewrite the early history of the world's most enduring civilization. It shows how the evidence proves that Chinese culture did not spread from a single central area, but emerged out of geographically diverse, interacting Neolithic cultures.
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