Description: Brand new paperback book. Details: Although China's great empire lasted for longer than any other, no country has suffered so great an imbalance between the fame of its art and obscurity of its history. The names of the great dynasties are familiar, yet who can actually locate a T'ang horse or a Ming vase in its social or cultural context?By focusing on the key colourful characters of the eight major dynasties, Bamber Gascoigne brings to life 3500 years of Chinese civilization. His bird's-eye view starts on the borders of myth. It moves swiftly on to the greatest achievements of language and thought, the cultural treasures and imperial palaces, wars won and lands lost to the Mongols, finally to arrive at the 1912 Revolution, which contained within it the seeds of Communism that ensured the overthrow of the last emperor. Via this portrait of an empire and its peoples he has opened the door to a world for too long inaccessible to the West.
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Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Subject Area: Chinese History, China
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: A Brief History of the Dynasties of China
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Publication Year: 2003
Subject: History
Item Height: 194 mm
Item Weight: 180 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Bamber Gascoigne
Series: Brief Histories
Item Width: 130 mm
Format: Paperback
