Ancient Sichuan And The Unification Of China

Author : Steven F. Sage
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438418469
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Sichuan and the Unification of China written by Steven F. Sage and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1992-08-17 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent archaeological finds in China have made possible a reconstruction of the ancient history of Sichuan, the country's most populous province. Excavated artifacts and new recovered texts now supplement traditional textual materials. Together, these data show how Sichuan matured from peripheral obscurity to attain central importance in the Chinese empire during the first millennium B.C.

Author : Robert B. Marks
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442212772
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China written by Robert B. Marks and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2011-12-16 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This deeply informed and beautifully written book provides a comprehensive and comprehensible history of China from prehistory to the present. Focusing on the interaction of humans and their environment, Robert B. Marks traces changes in the physical and cultural world that is home to a quarter of humankind. Through both word and image, this work illuminates the chaos and paradox inherent in China’s environmental narrative, demonstrating how historically sustainable practices can, in fact, be profoundly ecologically unsound. The author also reevaluates China’s traditional “heroic” storyline, highlighting the marginalization of nature that followed the spread of Chinese civilization while examining the development of a distinctly Chinese way of relating to and altering the environment. Unmatched in his ability to synthesize a complex subject clearly and cogently, Marks has written an accessible yet nuanced history for any reader interested in China, past or present. Indeed he argues successfully that all of humanity has a stake in China’s environmental future.

Author : David Goodman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134712715
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China's Provinces in Reform written by David Goodman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the impact of social and political change on China's provinces during the reform era. Offering an in-depth comparative anaysis of a number of major provinces, it challenges generalizations over the nature of change in China

Author : Erica Brindley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107084784
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient China and the Yue written by Erica Brindley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly empirical discussion of ethnic identity formation in the ancient world, presenting the peoples of China's southern frontier.

Author : Hans Beck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108485774
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rulers and Ruled in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China written by Hans Beck and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparative study of the ancient Mediterranean and Han China, seen through the lens of political culture.

Author : Chen Shen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anyang and Sanxingdui written by Chen Shen and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Maxim Korolkov
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000474836
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Imperial Network in Ancient China written by Maxim Korolkov and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the emergence of imperial state in East Asia during the period ca. 400 BCE–200 CE as a network-based process, showing how the geography of early interregional contacts south of the Yangzi River informed the directions of Sinitic state expansion. Drawing from an extensive collection of sources including transmitted textual records, archaeological evidence, excavated legal manuscripts, and archival documents from Liye, this book demonstrates the breadth of human and material resources available to the empire builders of an early imperial network throughout southern East Asia – from institutions and infrastructures, to the relationships that facilitated circulation. This network is shown to have been essential to the consolidation of Sinitic imperial rule in the sub-tropical zone south of the Yangzi against formidable environmental, epidemiological, and logistical odds. This is also the first study to explore how the interplay between an imperial network and alternative frameworks of long-distance interaction in ancient East Asia shaped the political-economic trajectory of the Sinitic world and its involvement in Eurasian globalization. Contributing to debates around imperial state formation, the applicability of world-system models and the comparative study of empires, The Imperial Network in Ancient China will be of significant interest to students and scholars of East Asian studies, archaeology and history.

Author : Mu-chou Poo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107021170
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daily Life in Ancient China written by Mu-chou Poo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book employs textual and archaeological material to reconstruct the various features of daily life in ancient China.

Author : Harold Miles Tanner
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0872209156
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China: A History written by Harold Miles Tanner and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-13 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deep and rigorous, yet eminently accessible introduction to the political, social, and cultural development of imperial Chinese civilisation, this volume develops a number of important themes -- such as the ethnic diversity of the early empires -- that other editions omit entirely or discuss only minimally. Includes a general introduction, chronology, bibliography, illustrations, maps, and an index.

Author : Harold M. Tanner
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603845631
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China: A History (Volume 1) written by Harold M. Tanner and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available in one or two volumes, this accessible, yet rigorous, introduction to the political, social, and cultural history of China provides a balanced and thoughtful account of the development of Chinese civilization from its beginnings to the present day. Each volume includes ample illustrations, a full complement of maps, a chronological table, extensive notes, recommendations for further reading and an index. Volume 1: From Neolithic Cultures through the Great Qing Empire (10,000 BCE—1799). Volume 2: From the Great Qing Empire through the People's Republic of China (1644—2009).