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Imperial China - The Historical Background to the Modern Age (Hardcover)
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Imperial China - The Historical Background to the Modern Age (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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First published in 1966, Imperial China sets out to explain China's
past histories to non-specialists. Too often the West has
misunderstood the East. China is credited with an excessively long
cultural history; with a continuous line of dynastic succession;
with uniformly practised institutions; or with intellectual
stagnation. Michael Loewe sets out here to dispel some of these
misconceptions, and to mark the stages in the evolution of China's
political forms, social organizations and economic progress that
can be traced from the days of the first empire (from 221 B.C.)
until the dynamic changes of the nineteenth century. He believes
that a full understanding of modern China depends on a more than
perfunctory glance at her past and has tried to provide the general
historical context. The author is well aware that, thanks to the
research of the last fifty years, it is now possible and indeed
requisite to reach a deeper understanding of China's past. This
book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of
Chinese history, Asian history, history in general.
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