On archaeological discovery of excavations in Barus, North Sumatera, Indonesia and its correlation with the history of Barus from 12th to 17th century
There are many more people in the world today who consider themselves Chinese than there are residents of all of Europe and North America combined. How did China as a culture and a state grow to be so large? Why hasn't it broken up like the Roman or Ottoman empires? How has it been possible for a single government to rule so many people? In The Cambridge Illustrated History of China Patricia Eb…
Common Knowledge About Chinese Culture is intended to help the reader understand the breadth of Chinese history and its importance in human civilization, in a straightforward format. The bilingual book is divided into eight parts from The Dawn of Chinese History during the Pre-Qin Period up to the Contemporary Period, highlighting the Beijing 2008 Olympics. This book is a comprehensive and fasc…
A panoramic survey of the course of Chinese civilization from prehistory to 1850, when the old China began to give way to the new