A BRIEF HISTORY OF CHINA
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A comprehensive, yet entertaining look at China's history through a modern lens. For millennia, China was the largest and richest nation on earth. Two centuries ago, however, its economy sank into a depression from which it had not fully recovered until now. China's modern resurgence as the world's largest nation in terms of population and its second-largest economy where 800 million people have been lifted out of poverty in the space of a few decades is the greatest untold story of the 21st century. A Brief History of China tells of the development of a rich and complex civilization where the use of paper, writing, money and gunpowder were widespread in ancient times and where silk, ceramics, tea, metal implements and other products were produced and exported around the globe. It examines the special conditions that allowed a single culture to unify an entire continent spanning 10 billion square kilometers under the rule of a single man and the unbelievably rich artistic, literary and architectural heritage that Chinese culture has bequeathed to the world. Equally fascinating is the story of China's decline in the 19th and early 20th century as Europeans and Americans took center stage and its modern resurgence as an economic powerhouse in recent years. ISBN: 9780804850056 AUTHOR: JONATHAN CLEMENTS
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- ISBN: 9780804850056
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- Format: Paperback
- Publication Date: 2019
- Number of Pages: 356
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- Publisher: TUTTLE PUBLISHER
- Language: English
- Weight: 0.31 g
