China to 1850: A Short History - Softcover

Hucker, Charles O.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804709580 ISBN 13: 9780804709583

Publisher: Stanford University Press, 1978

Synopsis

By the author of the highly acclaimed China's Imperial Past and written in the same lively style, this is a distillation of what every general reader and beginning student should know about the history of traditional Chinese civilization. It weaves together chronologically all aspects of Chinese life and culture, broadly surveying general history, socioeconomic organization, political institutions, religion and thought, and art and literature. The author explains how the Chinese empire emerged in antiquity, how it flourished and declined in successive cycles for thousands of years, and how in the end it found itself unprepared for both the domestic and the external challenges of the modern era. The result is a concise overview that is both absorbing in itself and basic to a more detailed study of China's long and complex evolution. I

About this title

From the Back Cover:

“Charles Hucker has written a balanced, precise, and concise overview of China’s evolution until about 1850.”—Asian Forum
“A concise overview of Imperial China—a good place to begin . . . recommended.”—Focus on Asian Studies

About the Author:

Charles O. Hucker was Professor of Chinese and of History at the University of Michigan. He was regarded as one of the foremost historians of Imperial China and a leading figure in the promotion of academic programs in Asian Studies during the 1950s and 1960s.

About this edition

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0804709580
• ISBN 13: 9780804709583
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176