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China: Its History and Culture
China: Its History and Culture
China: Its History and Culture
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“A wonderful job! So lucid, beautfully written, with greatrange and insight. This will set a new standard for shortgeneral histories of China.”

—Michael Gasster,professor emeritus of history at Rutgers University

Newly updated and revised, China: Its History and Culture,Fourth Edition, incorporates the crucial social and economicchanges that have taken place in China over the last decade.Through rich detail and engaging illustrations, the book tracesChina’s history from Neolithic times to the present day.

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Release dateSep 21, 2004
ISBN9780071465267
China: Its History and Culture

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    When I picked up this slim volume, I had expected a traveler's history, something insubstantial. Instead, I found W. Scott Morton's writing to be graceful. His understanding of China refined. I gleaned more about the deeper nature and philosphy of China from this than from academic tomes. He is especially clear on the tough era following the Three Kingdoms. Belle Yang, author of "Baba: A Return to China Upon My Father's Shoulders"

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