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• Publisher: Berkshire Education
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN: 9781933782768
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Art

This Is China: The First 5, 000 Years contains, in brief, everything we need to know about 5, 000 years of history, 30 years of "e;opening, "e; and a future that promises to shape the 21st century for all of us. Drawn from the vast resources of the Berkshire Encyclopedia of China, this concise 120-page book is recommended for classroom use, curriculum development, and student review."e;It is hard to imagine that such a short book can cover such a vast span of time and space. This Is China: The First 5, 000 Years will help teachers, students, and general readers alike, as they seek for a preliminary guide to the contexts and complexities of Chinese culture."e;

Table of contents

• Praise for This Is China
• Editorial Board
• Publisher’s Note
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Background—The Land and the People
• Physical Geography
• Human Geography
• Chapter 2: From Prehistory to the End of the Empire
• Xia Dynasty: Real or Legendary?
• Shang Dynasty: Ancestor Worship and Oracle Bones
• Zhou Dynasty: Bronze, Jade, and Confucius
• Qin Dynasty: Terracotta Soldiers
• Han Dynasty: Paper, Porcelain, and the Silk Roads
• Southern and Northern Dynasties
• Sui Dynasty: China United
• Tang Dynasty: Poetry and Literature
• Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms
• Song Dynasty
• Jurchen Jin Dynasty
• Yuan Dynasty: Mongol Rule
• Ming Dynasty: Building the Great Wall
• Qing Dynasty: Manchu Rule
• Chapter 3: A Century of Change—From 1912 to Today
• China as a Republic
• The War with Japan and the Chinese Civil War
• Communists in Power: The Early Years
• The Cultural Revolution
• China After Mao
• Chapter 4: China Today
• Resources
• Index