| Description |
xxii., 310 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Contents -- Foreword by Professor Wing-tsit Chan 000 -- Acknowledgments 000 -- A Note on Spelling and Pronunciation 000 -- Introduction 000 -- 1??The Land and the People of China 000 -- 2??Origins and Early History 000 -- 3??The Formative Period 000 -- Zhou Dynasty: 1027?221 B.C. 000 -- 4??Religion and Philosophy 000 -- 5??Unification and Expansion 000 -- Qin Dynasty: 221?206 B.C. 000 -- Han Dynasty: 206 B.C.?A.D. 221 000 -- 6??Outsiders, Generals, and Eccentrics 000 -- The Six Dynasties Period: A.D. 222?589 000 -- 7??The Flowering of Chinese Civilization 000 -- Sui Dynasty: 589?618 000 -- Tang Dynasty: 618?907 000 -- 8??The Chinese Enter on Their Modern Times 000 -- Five Dynasties: 907?960, North China 000 -- Ten Kingdoms: 907?970, South China 000 -- Song Dynasty: 960?1126 000 -- Jin Dynasty (J?rchen): 1126?1234, North China 000 -- Southern Song Dynasty: 1127?1279, South China 000 -- 9??The Mongol Interruption 000 -- Yuan Dynasty: 1280?1368 000 -- 10??The Restoration and Consolidation of Chinese Rule 000 -- Ming Dynasty: 1368?1644 000 -- 11??The Manzhou: Summit and Decline of the Empire 000 -- Qing Dynasty: 1644?1911 000 -- 12??The Impact of the West in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 000 -- 13??The Republican Revolution 1900?1949 000 -- 14??The Communist Revolution 1949?1965 000 -- 15??The Cultural Revolution and its aftermath 1966?1978 000 -- 16??Deng Xiaoping and the Reform Era. 1978?1992 000 -- 17??The Party, Greater China, and the Wider World, 1993?2003 000 -- 18??A Changing Society 000 -- Chronology 000 -- Selected Bibliography 000 -- Index 000 -- Illustrations -- Bactrian horse, Tang dynasty 000 -- The Yangzi River gorges 000 -- Neolithic pottery jar 000 -- Bronze wine vessel, Shang dynasty 000 -- Bronze grain vessel, Late Zhou dynasty 000 -- Yin-Yang circle 000 -- The Great Wall 000 -- Jade Suit for burial, Han dynasty 000 -- Farmhouse, Han dynasty 000 -- Scenes from a Wu family shrine carving, Later Han dynasty 000 -- Scythian winged horse, first century A.D. 000 -- Maitreya Buddha, Northern Wei dynasty 000 -- Lady playing polo, Tang dynasty 000 -- Asian dancer, Sui dynasty 000 -- Bronze mirror, Tang dynasty 000 -- Examination cells, Canton 000 -- Official, Tang dynasty 000 -- Khorezmian merchant, Tang dynasty 000 -- ?Buddhist Temple in the Hills? by Li Cheng 000 -- ?Fishing in a Mountain Stream? by Xu Daoning 000 -- ?Li Bo the Poet? by Liang Kai 000 -- ?Five-colored Parakeet? by the emperor Hui Zong 000 -- ?Patriarchs of the Chan Sect? by Liang Kai 000 -- ?Monk Riding a Mule? 000 -- Calligraphy by Yeluchucai 000 -- ?Fisherman? by Wu Zhen 000 -- The Forbidden City, Beijing 000 -- Rice paddies and tea shrubs, Jiangxi 000 -- ?Foochow: Pagoda Anchorage? by Allen Bronson 000 -- ?Newchuang, China: Costum House? by Allen Bronson 000 -- A back street in Beijing, 1860 000 -- Meridian Gate of the Forbidden City 000 -- Sun Yat-sen 000 -- Jiang Jieshi 000 -- Mao Zedong 000 -- Zhou Enlai 000 -- Hua Guofeng, Ye Jianying, and Deng Xiaoping 000 -- Deng Xiaoping with Jimmy Carter 000 -- Rice paddies 000 -- Wheatfields 000 -- Smiling schoolchild 000 -- Figures from The Rent Collection Courtyard, 1968 000 -- Yangzi Gorges by Zhong Ming 000 -- Horse 000 |
| Summary |
"This concise study traces China's history and culture from Neolithic times to the present in an integrated narrative that covers centuries of warfare and politics, science and technology, economics and commerce, religion, philosophy, and the arts. Most valuable of all, the authors illuminate the underlying psychology of the people and the society they created. They give equal treatment to all premodern periods, as each has its importance in the evolving history of the Chinese experience, and illustrate their work with photographs, maps, paintings, and drawings." "Newly updated and revised, China: Its History and Culture also carefully examines the crucial social and economic changes that have taken place in China over the last decade."--BOOK JACKET |
| Analysis |
China - History |
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China - Civilization |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography : pages 295-298 |
| SUBJECT |
China -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024032
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China -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85023992
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Author |
Lewis, Charlton M., 1930-
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| LC no. |
2004012714 |
| ISBN |
0071412794 paperback alkaline paper |
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