This compelling text explores the development of China through its art, religion, literature, and thought as well as through their economic, political, andsocial history. INDICE: PART I: THE CLASSICAL CIVILIZATION OF CHINA. 1. "China" in Antiquity. 2. Turbulent Times and Classical Thought. 3. The Early Imperial Period. PART II: CHINA IN A BUDDHIST AGE. 4. China during the Period of Disunity. 5. TheCosmopolitan Civilization of the Sui and Tang: 584-907. PART III: LATE IMPERIAL/EARLY MODERN. 6. China during the Song: 960 -1279. 7. The Mongol Empire andthe Yuan Dynasty. 8. The Ming Dynasty: 1368 -1644. 9. East Asia and Modern Europe: First Encounters. 10. The Qing Dynasty. PART IV: CHINA IN THE MODERN WORLD. 11. China: Internal Crises and Western Intrusion. 12. China: Endings and Beginnings, 1894 -1927. PART V: BUILDING A NEW CHINA. 13. China under the Nationalists. 14. China under Mao. 15. The Chinese World since Mao.
- ISBN: 978-0-495-91323-8
- Editorial: Wadsworth
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 448
- Fecha Publicación: 31/01/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés