China : a new cultural history /

An internationally recognized authority on Chinese history and a leading innovator in its telling, the author constructs an original portrait of Chinese culture. Unlike most historians, he resists centering his narrative on China's political evolution, focusing instead on the country's cul...

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Dades bibliogràfiques
Autor principal: Xu, Zhuoyun, 1930- (Autor)
Altres autors: Baker, Timothy Danforth (Traductor), Duke, Michael S. (Traductor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
xinès
Publicat: New York : Columbia University Press, [2012]
Col·lecció:Masters of Chinese studies.
Accés en línia:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=954632
Taula de continguts:
  • Prehistory: China's earliest cultures according to regional archaeology
  • The emergence of Chinese civilization: The sixteenth through third centuries B.C.E.
  • China comes into its own: The third century B.C.E. to the second century C.E.
  • China in East Asia: the second to tenth centuries C.E.
  • China in an Asian multistate system: The tenth to fifteenth centuries C.E.
  • China enters the world system, part 1: the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries
  • China enters the world system, part 2: the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries
  • A century of uncertainty: 1850 to 1950.