ISBN: 191308325X
Godina izdanja: 2022
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Linda Jaivin - The Shortest History Of China
Old Street Publishing, 2022
278 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

From ancient times to Xi Jinping, COVID-19 and the `wolf warriors`, here is the vast, complex history of China, distilled into just 250 pages. Jaivin dismantles the idea of a monolithic China, revealing instead a nation of startling diversity. And she gives China`s women, from ancient warriors, inventors and rebels to their 21st-century counterparts, long overdue attention.

Contents:
Introduction
1. Origins: An Egg Hatches and a Civilisation Is Born
2. The Zhou: From Ideal Rule to Warring States
3. The Qin: Unification, Tyranny and All Under Heaven
4. The Han: Intrigue, Innovation and a Brief Interregnum
5. The Great Disunity: Three Kingdoms, Two Women Warriors, Seven Sages and a Five-Mineral Powder
6. The Tang: From Golden Age to Everlasting Sorrow
7. The Song: Proto-Socialists, Neo-Confucians and Urban Living
8. The Mongol Yuan: From `Glorious Slaughter` to the Splendid City 9. The Ming: Splendour and Decay
10. The Manchu Qing: The Rocky Road to Modernity
11. The Republic: High Hopes and Vicious Betrayals
12. Japanese Invasion and Civil War: The Republic Disintegrates
13. The Mao Years: Continuous Revolution
14. The Reform Era: Prosperity and Its Discontents
15. The New Era of Xi Jinping: Rise of the Wolf Warriors
Acknowledgements
Further Reading
Notes
List of Images
Index

`Modern China is at once an economic powerhouse and authoritarian state, an increasingly assertive superpower and an icon of modernity. Chinese history is no less contradictory. ... Jaivin distills this vast, complex story into a vivid narrative, from ancient times to Xi Jinping the Covid-19 pandemic and the rise of teh `wolf warriors`. She dismantles ideas of a monolithic China, revealing a nation of startling diversity. And she gives China`s women, from ancient warriors, inventors and rebels to their 21st century counterparts, long overude attention.` -- Dust jacket


Nonfiction, History, 191308325X, Istorija Kine, Kina