Main Chinese Lives: The People Who Made a Civilization

Chinese Lives: The People Who Made a Civilization

Name: Chinese Lives: The People Who Made a Civilization
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ISBN: 9780500251928

Victor H. Mair; Sanping Chen; Frances Wood

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China is the most populous country on earth, with the longest history of any modern nation. Here, the full range of Chinese cultural and scientific achievements, as well as its military conquests, wars, rebellions, and political and philosophical movements, are told through the eyes of real people who created or were involved in them.The subjects include emperors and empresses, concubines, officials and political figures, rebels, exiles, philosophers, writers and poets, artists, musicians, scientists, military leaders, and committed pacifists. From Fu Hao, an early warrior lady of the thirteenth century BC, to the late twentieth-century leader Deng Xiaoping, their careers, achievements, misdeeds, disasters, punishments, ideas and love stories make this an unforgettable read.Illustrated with portraits, paintings, written documents, bronzes, sculptures, and location maps, and written in an authoritative yet accessible style, Chinese Lives provides the perfect introduction to China's history and her peoples.

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Year:

2013

Edition:

Hardcover

Publisher:

Thames Hudson

Language:

English

Pages:

232