Titlebook: China in World History; S. A. M. Adshead Book 20003rd edition Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2000 bibliogr

Herbivorous

Biomarker

World Apart: China in Antiquity, 200 BC to 400 AD, the Chou and the Shang and the post-imperial future of the San-kuo and the Chin. Its argument is that though Han China shared in the common foundations of civilized humanity laid down in the early Pleistocene epoch and extended in the Neolithic, it built on them in such an original fashion and with

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World Centre: China in Late Antiquity, 400 to 1000,lden’ T’ang down to the great rebellion of An Lu-shan in 755, though sidelong glances will be taken at the periods of the Northern Wei and Sui which preceded and of the ‘Silver’ T’ang, Five Dynasties and early Sung which followed. Its argument is that in this period, which we will call late antiquit

Leaven

World Axis: China in the Middle Ages, 1000 to 1350,ynasties — was doubly important. First, in the outside world in the sense of the other primary civilizations, 1000 to 1350 saw the emergence in Latin Christendom of a unique, radically new form of society which was eventually to make western Europe and its prolongation in America, the centre of the

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犬儒主義者

Postscript,a, Black Africa and pre-Columbian America. It assumed too that, whatever the previous originality of Southeast Asia and the subsequent leadership of Japan and the Lesser Tigers, China had usually been the dominant nucleus of East Asia. It sought to explore both the relations between China and the ot

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World Axis: China in the Middle Ages, 1000 to 1350,nce — territorial states, capitalist cities, supranational church, parliamentary government, the conjugal family, a high level of education — and one finds its origin in the middle ages. An outer part of China’s environment had therefore undergone a major mutation.

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Misgiving

Postscript,at world order itself was not fully intelligible. Finally, it was hoped that these perspectives would, for both Chinese and non-Chinese, enlarge the imaginative horizons within which historical enquiry is conducted.