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From the beginnings of Chinese prehistory right through to internet censorship, a comprehensive introduction to the sprawling history of this enormous country
An absorbing introduction to more than 4,000 years of Chinese history, this book tells the stories of the tyrants, despots, femmes fatales, artists, warriors, and philosophers who have shaped this fascinating and complex nation. It describes the amazing technological advances that China's scientists and inventors made many hundreds of years before similar discoveries in Europe. It also investigates the Chinese view of the world and examines the movements, aspirations, and philosophies that molded it and, in so doing, created the Chinese nation. Finally, the book examines the dramatic changes of the last few decades and the emergence of China as an economic and industrial 21st-century superpower.
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Gordon Kerr is the author of A Short History of Africa and A Short History of Europe.
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John Keay’s China: A History (2009) compressed the country’s past. Kerr’s version of the one-volume history condenses it further. Structured like Keay’s on the succession of dynasties, its opening describes China’s geography, which is one of relative isolation from the world, bounded as the country is by mountains, deserts, and ocean. Kerr then pitches into the history of the earliest Chinese states that jostled against each other and notes their fortunes alongside his presentation of the development of distinctive elements in China’s historical culture, such as Confucianism and Taoism. With the unification of China in 221 BCE under the Qin dynasty, Kerr embarks on the emblematic theme of Chinese history: the flourishing of dynasties, their forfeitures of the mandate of heaven, and the subsequent interludes of social and political chaos, each followed by the establishment of a new dynasty. In Kerr’s narrative, the Song dynasty (960–1279) coincided with China’s zenith in prosperity, artistic excellence, and stability, the ensuing centuries representing a slow decline toward the extinction of the imperial era in 1912. Factual and even-handed, Kerr presents a fair-minded introduction of basic Chinese history. --Gilbert Taylor
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