Although China's great empire lasted for longer than any other, no
country has suffered so great an imbalance between the fame of its
art and obscurity of its history. The names of the great dynasties
are familiar, yet who can actually locate a T'ang horse or a Ming
vase in its social or cultural context?;By focusing on the key
colourful characters of the eight major dynasties, Bamber Gascoigne
brings to life 3500 years of Chinese civilization. His bird's-eye
view starts on the borders of myth. It moves swiftly on to the
greatest achievements of language and thought, the cultural
treasures and imperial palaces, wars won and lands lost to the
Mongols, finally to arrive at the 1912 Revolution, which contained
within it the seeds of Communism that ensured the overthrow of the
last emperor. Via this portrait of an empire and its peoples he has
opened the door to a world for too long inaccessible to the West.
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