"A great way to learn about China's vast history "--Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club

Excels at clarifying the often-confusing transitional periods between dynasties... An excellent introduction to the large trends of early Chinese history."--School Library Journal

"The lucid, economical text makes one eager for the successive volumes."--Booklist

"The combination of silhouettes--often threatening, martial ones--with open-faced, expressively individualized figures of many social classes adds dramatic...

"An excellent introduction to the large trends of early Chinese history; ideal for those new to the subject."--School Library Journal

The authors deeply interweave complex networks and evolutionary computing, using evolutionary computation to discover community structure, while also using network analysis techniques to analyze the performance of evolutionary algorithms.