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    Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
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    gbv_1859349544
    Format: 1 online resource (454 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9781118473443
    Series Statement: New York Academy of Sciences Series
    Content: Intro -- A History of China -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- List of Maps -- A Note on Romanization -- Part I China among "Barbarians" -- 1 Early History, to 1027 BCE -- Land and Settlement -- Early Mankind -- Agricultural Revolution in the Neolithic Era -- Xia: The First Dynasty? -- The Shang and the Origins of Chinese Civilization -- Oracle Bones -- Ritual Objects as Historical Sources -- Shang Society -- Notes -- Further Reading -- 2 Classical China, 1027-256 BCE -- "Feudalism"? -- Changes in Social Structure -- Political Instability in the Eastern Zhou -- Transformations in the Economy -- Hundred Schools of Thought -- Daoism -- Popular Religions -- Confucianism -- Mohism -- Legalism -- Book of Odes and Book of Documents -- Secularization of Arts -- Notes -- Further Reading -- 3 The First Chinese Empires, 221 BCE-220 CE -- Development of the Qin State -- Qin Achievements -- Failures of the Qin -- Han and New Institutions -- Han Foreign Relations -- Emperor Wu's Domestic Policies and Their Ramifications -- Wang Mang: Reformer or Usurper? -- Restoration of a Weaker Han Dynasty -- Spiritual and Philosophical Developments in the Han -- Han Literature and Art -- Further Reading -- 4 Chaos and Religious and Political Responses, 220-581 -- Three Kingdoms -- Rise of South China -- Foreigners and North China -- Northern Wei -- Spiritual Developments, Post-Han -- Buddhism Enters China -- Literature, Science, and the Arts in a Period of Division -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Part II China among Equals -- 5 Restoration of Empire under Sui and Tang, 581-907 -- Sui: First Step in Restoration -- Disastrous Foreign Campaigns -- Origins of the Tang -- Taizong: The Greatest Tang Emperor -- Tang Expansionism -- Irregular Successions and the Empress Wu -- Tang Cosmopolitanism.
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    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781557860781
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781557860781
    Language: English
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