Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph #: Chinese History Vol. 2 (6th Edition)

Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph #: Chinese History Vol. 2 (6th Edition)
Endymion Wilkinson
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30 Sep 2022 US
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9780674260207
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The sixth edition of Chinese History: A New Manual, revised and expanded to two volumes, includes the latest developments in digital tools and the ancillary disciplines essential for work on Chinese history. Volume 1 covers topics ranging from Language to Technology. Volume 2 presents primary and secondary sources chronologically by period.

Anecdote, Network, Gossip, Performance: Essays on the Shishuo xinyu
Building for Oil: Daqing and the Formation of the Chinese Socialist State
Chinese History Vol. 1
Chinese History Vol. 2
Du Fu Transforms: Tradition and Ethics amid Societal Collapse
Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph #84: Chinese History: A New Manual (3rd Edition)
Lineages Embedded in Temple Networks: Daoism and Local Society in Ming China
Localizing Learning: The Literati Enterprise in Wuzhou, 1100-1600
Making the Gods Speak: The Ritual Production of Revelation in Chinese Religious History
Testing the Literary: Prose and the Aesthetic in Early Modern China

Already the size of a telephone directory by the time of its fifth edition, in 2018, Wilkinson' s perennially popular Chinese History: A New Manual has now expanded still further into two volumes, with newly written introductions to each section, additions throughout, links to much recent scholarship, and new chapters that bring its account forward to the end of the Maoist era. . . An essential reference for even the most casual sinologist, with its pithy explanations of key historical and cultural issues, and extensive bibliographies for those who want to delve deeper. -- Peter Neville-Hadley * South China Morning Post * A magnificent achievement; the most valuable English-language reference book on China anywhere. -- Richard J. Smith Wilkinson displays a mastery of a vast array of topics and subfields. . . No one undertaking serious research about Chinese history. . . should be without it. -- Bruce Rusk * Journal of Asian Studies [regarding the 2017 edition] * A mighty book. . . magnificent. -- Jonathan Mirsky * New York Review of Books blog [regarding the 2015 edition] * The book is in every way absolutely indispensable to work in Chinese history. -- Carla Nappi * New Books in East Asian Studies [regarding the 2013 edition] *
Endymion Wilkinson is a scholar and a diplomat, EU Ambassador to China, 1994-2001.
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ISBN-13: 9780674260207
Published: 30 Sep 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Harvard University Asia Center
Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center
Format: Paperback
Height: 279mm
Width: 216mm
Pages: 1092

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