China : a 5,000-year odyssey / Tan Chung.
China : a 5,000-year odyssey / Tan Chung.
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Publisher
New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd, 2018.
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G 2019/0150
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Language
English
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Physical content
xxi, 287 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Foreword / by Wang Gungwu -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Common Geographical Entity of China -- Chapter 2: The Chinese Common Political Entity -- Chapter 3: A Unified Empire Sans Imperialism -- Chapter 4: External Security and Internal Stability -- Chapter 5: The Prosperous Tang Dynasty an...
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Publisher
New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd, 2018.
Date Published
2018.
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Summary
In this endearing book on China, Tan Chung distills tons of information about China's historical evolution and complex vicissitudes in a freewheeling style describing how the third longest river in the world, Yangtze River, and the fifth longest, Yellow River, carved out the contours of China, on the globe millions of years before the arrival of ma...
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China : a 5,000-year odyssey / Tan Chung.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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©2018
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G 2019/0150
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74VKV0vkwqOl
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ISBN
9789352807246 paperback
9352807243 paperback
DDC
951
MMS ID
991024224109602626
