Author: Jian Wang
Publisher: Shanghai Book Traders
ISBN: 9781606520499
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
As a cradle of human civilization, China has maintained its cohesion and cultural identity for thousands of years. With Chinas historical evolution as a backdrop, this book takes the reader on a visual journey of the most brilliant and significant segments of Chinese civilization over the course of five thousand years.
An Illustrated Record of Chinese Civilization
Author: Jian Wang
Publisher: Shanghai Book Traders
ISBN: 9781606520499
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
As a cradle of human civilization, China has maintained its cohesion and cultural identity for thousands of years. With Chinas historical evolution as a backdrop, this book takes the reader on a visual journey of the most brilliant and significant segments of Chinese civilization over the course of five thousand years.
Publisher: Shanghai Book Traders
ISBN: 9781606520499
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
As a cradle of human civilization, China has maintained its cohesion and cultural identity for thousands of years. With Chinas historical evolution as a backdrop, this book takes the reader on a visual journey of the most brilliant and significant segments of Chinese civilization over the course of five thousand years.
A History of Chinese Civilization
Author: Jacques Gernet
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521497817
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
When published in 1982, this translation of Professor Jacques Gernet's masterly survey of the history and culture of China was immediately welcomed by critics and readers. This revised and updated edition makes it more useful for students and for the general reader concerned with the broad sweep of China's past.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521497817
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
When published in 1982, this translation of Professor Jacques Gernet's masterly survey of the history and culture of China was immediately welcomed by critics and readers. This revised and updated edition makes it more useful for students and for the general reader concerned with the broad sweep of China's past.
The Cambridge Illustrated History of China
Author: Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521669917
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
A look at the over eight thousand year history and civilization of China.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521669917
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
A look at the over eight thousand year history and civilization of China.
Chinese Civilization
Author: Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Chinese Civilization sets the standard for supplementary texts in Chinese history courses. With newly expanded material, personal documents, social records, laws, and documents that historians mistakenly ignore, the sixth edition is even more useful than its classic predecessor. A complete and thorough introduction to Chinese history and culture. Chinese Civilization sets the standard for supplementary texts in Chinese history courses. With newly expanded material, personal documents, social records, laws, and documents that historians mistakenly ignore, the sixth edition is even more useful than its classic predecessor. A complete and thorough introduction to Chinese history and culture.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Chinese Civilization sets the standard for supplementary texts in Chinese history courses. With newly expanded material, personal documents, social records, laws, and documents that historians mistakenly ignore, the sixth edition is even more useful than its classic predecessor. A complete and thorough introduction to Chinese history and culture. Chinese Civilization sets the standard for supplementary texts in Chinese history courses. With newly expanded material, personal documents, social records, laws, and documents that historians mistakenly ignore, the sixth edition is even more useful than its classic predecessor. A complete and thorough introduction to Chinese history and culture.
Foundations of Chinese Civilization
Author: Jing Liu
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
ISBN: 1611729181
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
A fun way to learn about China in a visual, informative comic-style history. Who founded China? Are Chinese people religious? What is Chinese culture and how has it changed over time? The accessible and fun Understanding China Through Comics series answers those questions and more. For all ages, Foundations of Chinese Civilization covers China's early history in comic form, introducing philosophies like Confucianism and Daoism, the story of the Silk Road, famous emperors like Han Wudi, and the process of China's unification. Includes a handy timeline. This is volume one of the Understanding China Through Comics series. Jing Liu is a Beijing native now living in Davis, California. A successful designer and entrepreneur who helped brands tell their stories, Jing currently uses his artistry to tell the story of China.
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
ISBN: 1611729181
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
A fun way to learn about China in a visual, informative comic-style history. Who founded China? Are Chinese people religious? What is Chinese culture and how has it changed over time? The accessible and fun Understanding China Through Comics series answers those questions and more. For all ages, Foundations of Chinese Civilization covers China's early history in comic form, introducing philosophies like Confucianism and Daoism, the story of the Silk Road, famous emperors like Han Wudi, and the process of China's unification. Includes a handy timeline. This is volume one of the Understanding China Through Comics series. Jing Liu is a Beijing native now living in Davis, California. A successful designer and entrepreneur who helped brands tell their stories, Jing currently uses his artistry to tell the story of China.
Chinese Silks
Author: Juanjuan Chen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300111033
Category : Silk
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The first comprehensive history of China's most luxurious textile and its enduring influence on Chinese civilization and art Over the past fifty years, archaeological explorations in China have unearthed a wealth of textile materials, some dating as far back as five thousand years. In this magnificently researched and illustrated book, preeminent Western and Chinese scholars draw upon these spectacular discoveries to provide the most thorough account of the history of silk ever written. Encyclopedic in breadth, the volume presents a chronological history of silk from a variety of perspectives, including archaeological, technological, art historical, and aesthetic. The contributors explore the range of uses for silk, from the everyday to the sublime. By directly connecting recently found textile artifacts to specific references in China's vast historical literature, they illuminate the evolution of silk making and the driving social forces that have inspired the creation of innovative textiles through the millennia. Published in association with the Foreign Languages Press, Beijing
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300111033
Category : Silk
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The first comprehensive history of China's most luxurious textile and its enduring influence on Chinese civilization and art Over the past fifty years, archaeological explorations in China have unearthed a wealth of textile materials, some dating as far back as five thousand years. In this magnificently researched and illustrated book, preeminent Western and Chinese scholars draw upon these spectacular discoveries to provide the most thorough account of the history of silk ever written. Encyclopedic in breadth, the volume presents a chronological history of silk from a variety of perspectives, including archaeological, technological, art historical, and aesthetic. The contributors explore the range of uses for silk, from the everyday to the sublime. By directly connecting recently found textile artifacts to specific references in China's vast historical literature, they illuminate the evolution of silk making and the driving social forces that have inspired the creation of innovative textiles through the millennia. Published in association with the Foreign Languages Press, Beijing
Early China
Author: Li Feng
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521895529
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
A critical new interpretation of the early history of Chinese civilization based on the most recent scholarship and archaeological discoveries.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521895529
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
A critical new interpretation of the early history of Chinese civilization based on the most recent scholarship and archaeological discoveries.
The Cambridge History of Ancient China
Author: Michael Loewe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521470308
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1192
Book Description
The Cambridge History of Ancient China provides a survey of the institutional and cultural history of pre-imperial China.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521470308
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1192
Book Description
The Cambridge History of Ancient China provides a survey of the institutional and cultural history of pre-imperial China.
An Illustrated Brief History of China
Author: Wang Jian
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 1602201692
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
This illustrated Chinese history book takes the reader on a visual journey of the most brilliant and significant segments of Chinese civilization over the course of five thousand years. As a cradle of human civilization, China has maintained its cohesion and cultural identity for thousands of years. With China's historical evolution as a backdrop, each section focuses on the outstanding achievements of the period it covers and sets out the long-established and profound cultural development of the Chinese nation.
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 1602201692
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
This illustrated Chinese history book takes the reader on a visual journey of the most brilliant and significant segments of Chinese civilization over the course of five thousand years. As a cradle of human civilization, China has maintained its cohesion and cultural identity for thousands of years. With China's historical evolution as a backdrop, each section focuses on the outstanding achievements of the period it covers and sets out the long-established and profound cultural development of the Chinese nation.
China
Author: The Editorial Committee of Chinese Civilization: A Source Book, City University of Hong Kong
Publisher: City University of HK Press
ISBN: 9629371405
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 833
Book Description
Written with precision and flair by a host of leading academics from Beijing and Hong Kong, this single volume is a welcome addition to the study of world civilizations, a broad yet detailed chronological sweep through time. Every aspect of Chinese civilization is explained, interpreted, contextualized and brought to life with well-balanced commentary and photographic documentation. Published by City University of Hong Kong Press. 香港城市大學出版社出版。
Publisher: City University of HK Press
ISBN: 9629371405
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 833
Book Description
Written with precision and flair by a host of leading academics from Beijing and Hong Kong, this single volume is a welcome addition to the study of world civilizations, a broad yet detailed chronological sweep through time. Every aspect of Chinese civilization is explained, interpreted, contextualized and brought to life with well-balanced commentary and photographic documentation. Published by City University of Hong Kong Press. 香港城市大學出版社出版。