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Surveys the history, people, daily life, arts, religion and inventions of ancient China, from 1500 B.C. to 907 A.D.Tags
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Ancient China is another area of historical study that does not rank among my favorites, but the good people of Time-Life are adept at pushing past my reluctance and making me appreciate a bit more a complex people and history. Roughly from 2000 b.c. to 907 a.d.
A good over-all history of the great civilization. From the Time-Life series Great Ages of Man.
i didn't like this as much as the others. it seemed disorganized. no maps. lots of poetry and art
Time Life series Great Ages of Man looks at Ancient China.
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Edward H. Schafer was Agassiz Professor of Oriental Languages at the University of California, Berkeley. His scholarship was devoted to the Tang dynasty, from the 8th to the 10th centuries, which saw the greatest cultural flowering in Chinese history.
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- Canonical title*
- Het oude China
- Original publication date
- 1967
- Important places
- China
- First words
- In 481 B.C. the lord Szu-ma Niu was driven by rival barons from his fief, one of the many walled towns of northern China, and he set forth on a long journey to the south in search of a new landholding.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)In reality Chinese culture had become increasingly receptive to the outer world. And the simpler, classical world of Szu-ma Niu, although it continued to be honored in thought and writing, had vanished beyond the possibility of recovery.
- Original language
- English
- Disambiguation notice
- The author of THE GREAT AGES OF MAN volume Ancient China is Edward H. Schafer, rather than Douglas B. Graham (the production editor).
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