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The Cambridge Illustrated History of China Patricia Buckley Ebrey |
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Title Details Binding: Paperback Bibliographic information: 253 x 203 352pp 96 half-tones 116 colour plates 1 graph 28 maps 1 plan ISBN: 0 521 66991 X Publication: c.April 1999 Price: GBP16.95 |
Description In an extraordinary feat of synthesis, Patricia Buckley Ebrey, a leading scholar of China, gives an engaging, full, gloriously illustrated account of over 8000 years of Chinese civilization - from prehistoric times through the rise of Confucianism, Buddhism and the imperial dynasties to the modern communist state. In addition, she explores the different factors and forces, ideas and inventions, events and leaders that have shaped the remarkable Chinese civilization we know today; including the technological advances, the population explosion, and the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution. Everything appears, from the influence of leading Chinese historians, poets, novelists and dramatists to the impact of key philosophical and religious ideas, art forms, family patterns, and the Mongul, Manchu and Western intrusions. What has been said about The Cambridge Illustrated History of China ¡®Patricia Ebrey¡¯s Illustrated History of China is a fine book, sumptuous and
scholarly. With great economy of text, it outlines the major elements and changes in four
millennia of Chinese history and social life; the art work and photographs, skilfully
chosen and admirably reproduced, both illuminate the text and supplement it.¡¯ ¡®The splendid collection of pictures displays painstaking research. But it is the
author¡¯s careful and clear synthesis of China¡¯s long history that is most remarkable.
This book will, in time, I believe, be regarded as a classic.¡¯ Chapter Contents |
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