What Makes China China: An Overview of the Central Plains Around 2000 B.C.

ISBN-13: 9781636673486 / Angielski

Xu Hong

Opis

This book retraces the origins of China. It provides readers with a timeline, and tells the stories that happened in the central plain (the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River) around 2000 B.C. The author presents his opinion about the birth of the Xia Dynasty, which was the first dynasty of China.

Spis treści

Contents: Preface - The Rise and Fall of Taosi Material Culture - The Rise of Cultures around Mount Song - The Genesis of Xinzhai - The Great Capital - Erlitou - The Central Plain and China - Conclusion

O autorze

Xu Hong, who was born in July 1963, is now a researcher of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and director of Chinese Archaeological Society. His masterpieces include East Asian Bronze in the Pre-Oracle Period, Dynamic Interpretation of Early Cities in Ancient China, The Earliest China: The Rise of Erlitou Civilization, and so on.