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The Pattern of the Chinese Past
A satisfactory comprehensive history of the social and economic development of pre-modern China, the largest country in the world in terms of population, and with a documentary …
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Catholic Trivia
Commerce and Society in Sung China
The World in the Year 1000
This volume is a collection of papers originally delivered by an international group of researchers at a conference organized in April 2000 by Dr. F. J. Brüggemeier and Dr. …
The Call to Hospitality
Windows on the Chinese World
Each chapter of this collection addresses a problem in Chinese history that is both interesting and important, as well as offering new ideas and interpretations, plus a …
The Retreat of the Elephants
This landmark account of China’s environmental history, written by an internationally pre-eminent China specialist, "should stand for decades to come as a unique statement on …
Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 7, The Social Background, Part 2, General Conclusions and Reflections
It would be difficult to overstate the importance of Joseph Needham's Science and Civilisation in China series. For nearly fifty years, Needham and his collaborators have revealed …
Sediments of Time
This collection of essays is the first relatively comprehensive survey of the environmental history of China. Written by some of the world’s leading Western and Chinese experts, …
Changing Stories in the Chinese World
This book is an innovative attempt to convey something of how it has felt since the early nineteenth century to be Chinese. It is based on the assumption that people live their …
Retreat of the Elephants
The eminent China scholar delivers a landmark study of Chinese culture’s relationship to the natural environment across thousands of years of history. Spanning the three millennia …