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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Timothy Brook; Mark Edward Lewis; Dieter Kuhn; William T Rowe |
ISBN: | 9780674024779 067402477X 9780674026056 0674026055 9780674033061 067403306X 9780674031463 0674031466 9780674036123 0674036123 9780674046023 0674046021 |
OCLC Number: | 716571561 |
Awards: | Nominated for John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History 2009 |
Description: | 6 volumes : illustrations, cartes |
Contents: | Vol. 1 : The early Chinese empires : Qin and Han / Mark Edward Lewis. -- 321 p. Vol. 3 : China between empires : the Northern and Southern dynasties / Mark Edward Lewis. -- 340 p. Vol. 4 : China's cosmopolitan empire : the Tang dynasty / Mark Edward Lewis. -- 356 p. Vol. 5 : The age of Confucian rule : the Song transformation of China / Dieter Kuhn. -- 356 p. Vol. 6 : China's last empire : the great Qing / William T. Rowe. -- 360 p. Vol. 2 : The troubled empire : China in the Yuan and Ming dynasties / Timothy Brook. -- 329 p. |
Responsibility: | Timothy Brook general ed. |
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"This opening volume by Lewis foretells that the series will become the new gold standard, as the author explains in clear and telling detail how the Qin dynasty ruthlessly defeated a succession of rivals to unify briefly what we now call China in 221 BCE." - Library Journal" Read more...
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